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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 ESV</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><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="../">ESV</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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/ezekiel/46.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Prince and the Feasts</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>: The gate of the inner court that faces east shall be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The prince shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from outside, and shall take his stand by the post of the gate. The priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The people of the land shall bow down at the entrance of that gate before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> on the Sabbaths and on the new moons. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The burnt offering that the prince offers to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the grain offering with the ram shall be an ephah,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters">a</a></sup></span> and the grain offering with the lambs shall be as much as he is able, together with a hin<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A hin was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters">b</a></sup></span> of oil to 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 shall offer a bull from the herd without blemish, and six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>As a grain offering he shall provide an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>When the prince enters, he shall enter by the vestibule of the gate, and he shall go out by the same way.</p> <p class="regular"><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="divine-name">Lord</span> at the appointed feasts, he who enters by the north gate to worship shall go out by the south gate, and he who enters by the south gate shall go out by the north gate: no one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered, but each shall go out straight ahead. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>When they enter, the prince shall enter with them, and when they go out, he shall go out.</p> <p class="regular"><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 with a young bull shall be an ephah, and with a ram an ephah, and with the lambs as much as one is able to give, together with a hin of oil to an ephah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>When the prince provides a freewill offering, either a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the gate facing east shall be opened for him. And he shall offer his burnt offering or his peace offerings as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out the gate shall be shut.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“You shall provide a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> daily; morning by morning you shall provide it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And you shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, one sixth of an ephah, and one third of a hin of oil to moisten the flour, as a grain offering to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. This is a perpetual statute. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Thus the lamb and the meal offering and the oil shall be provided, morning by morning, for a regular burnt offering.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“Thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>: If the prince makes a gift to any of his sons as his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons. It is their property by inheritance. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But if he makes a gift out of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty. Then it shall revert to the prince; surely it is his inheritance—it shall belong to his sons. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The prince shall not take any of the inheritance of the people, thrusting them out of their property. He shall give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that none of my people shall be scattered from his property.”</p> <p class="heading">Boiling Places for Offerings</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, to the north row of the holy chambers for the priests, and behold, a place was there at the extreme western end of them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And he said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, in order not to bring them out into the outer court and so transmit holiness to the people.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then he brought me out to the outer court and led me around to the four corners of the court. And behold, in each corner of the court there was 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 court were small<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain">c</a></sup></span> courts, forty cubits<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters">d</a></sup></span> long and thirty broad; the four were of the same size. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>On the inside, around each of the four courts was a row of masonry, with hearths made at the bottom of the rows all around. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/46-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Then he said to me, “These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple shall boil the sacrifices of the people.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> An <i class="catch-word">ephah</i> was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> A <i class="catch-word">hin</i> was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters<br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">22</span> Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain<br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">22</span> A <i class="catch-word-plural">cubit</i> was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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