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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Ezekiel 46 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ezekiel/46.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ezekiel/46-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Ezekiel 46</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezekiel/45.htm" title="Ezekiel 45">◄</a> Ezekiel 46 <a href="../ezekiel/47.htm" title="Ezekiel 47">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/ezekiel/46.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“ ‘This is what the Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span> says: The gate of the inner court facing east is to be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day and on the day of the New Moon it is to be opened. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The prince is to enter from the outside through the portico of the gateway and stand by the gatepost. The priests are to sacrifice his burnt offering and his fellowship offerings. He is to bow down in worship at the threshold of the gateway and then go out, but the gate will not be shut until evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>On the Sabbaths and New Moons the people of the land are to worship in the presence of the <span class="name">Lord</span> at the entrance of that gateway. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The burnt offering the prince brings to the <span class="name">Lord</span> on the Sabbath day is to be six male lambs and a ram, all without defect. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The grain offering given with the ram is to be an ephah, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, probably about 35 pounds or about 16 kilograms; also in verses 7 and 11">a</a></sup></span> and the grain offering with the lambs is to be as much as he pleases, along with a hin <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, about 1 gallon or about 3.8 liters; also in verses 7 and 11">b</a></sup></span> of olive oil for each ephah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>On the day of the New Moon he is to offer a young bull, six lambs and a ram, all without defect. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He is to provide as a grain offering one ephah with the bull, one ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he wants to give, along with a hin of oil for each ephah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>When the prince enters, he is to go in through the portico of the gateway, and he is to come out the same way.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“ ‘When the people of the land come before the <span class="name">Lord</span> at the appointed festivals, whoever enters by the north gate to worship is to go out the south gate; and whoever enters by the south gate is to go out the north gate. No one is to return through the gate by which they entered, but each is to go out the opposite gate. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The prince is to be among them, going in when they go in and going out when they go out. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>At the feasts and the appointed festivals, the grain offering is to be an ephah with a bull, an ephah with a ram, and with the lambs as much as he pleases, along with a hin of oil for each ephah.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“ ‘When the prince provides a freewill offering to the <span class="name">Lord</span>—whether a burnt offering or fellowship offerings—the gate facing east is to be opened for him. He shall offer his burnt offering or his fellowship offerings as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out, the gate will be shut.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“ ‘Every day you are to provide a year-old lamb without defect for a burnt offering to the <span class="name">Lord</span>; morning by morning you shall provide it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>You are also to provide with it morning by morning a grain offering, consisting of a sixth of an ephah <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, probably about 6 pounds or about 2.7 kilograms">c</a></sup></span> with a third of a hin <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, about 1 1/2 quarts or about 1.3 liters">d</a></sup></span> of oil to moisten the flour. The presenting of this grain offering to the <span class="name">Lord</span> is a lasting ordinance. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So the lamb and the grain offering and the oil shall be provided morning by morning for a regular burnt offering.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“ ‘This is what the Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span> says: If the prince makes a gift from his inheritance to one of his sons, it will also belong to his descendants; it is to be their property by inheritance. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>If, however, he makes a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, the servant may keep it until the year of freedom; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs to his sons only; it is theirs. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The prince must not take any of the inheritance of the people, driving them off their property. He is to give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that not one of my people will be separated from their property.’ ”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then the man brought me through the entrance at the side of the gate to the sacred rooms facing north, which belonged to the priests, and showed me a place at the western end. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He said to me, “This is the place where the priests are to cook the guilt offering and the sin offering <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or purification offering">e</a></sup></span> and bake the grain offering, to avoid bringing them into the outer court and consecrating the people.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>He then brought me to the outer court and led me around to its four corners, and I saw in each corner another court. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>In the four corners of the outer court were enclosed <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.">f</a></sup></span> courts, forty cubits long and thirty cubits wide; <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, about 70 feet long and 53 feet wide or about 21 meters long and 16 meters wide">g</a></sup></span> each of the courts in the four corners was the same size. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Around the inside of each of the four courts was a ledge of stone, with places for fire built all around under the ledge. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>He said to me, “These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple are to cook the sacrifices of the people.”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, probably about 35 pounds or about 16 kilograms; also in verses 7 and 11</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 1 gallon or about 3.8 liters; also in verses 7 and 11</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, probably about 6 pounds or about 2.7 kilograms</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 1 1/2 quarts or about 1.3 liters</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>purification offering</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">22</span> <span class="footnotebot">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">22</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 70 feet long and 53 feet wide or about 21 meters long and 16 meters wide</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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