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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</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">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">Various Laws for the Ruler and the People</h3><p class="par"><span class="v26_46_1"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.46.1" class="v26_46_1">1</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> said:</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_46_1">The east gate of the inner courtyard must remain closed during the six working days of each week. But on the Sabbath and on the first day of the month, this gate will be opened. </span><span class="v26_46_2"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.46.2" class="v26_46_2">2</span>Israel's ruler will go from the outer courtyard into the entrance room of this gate and stand in the doorway while the priest offers sacrifices to ask my blessing<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.46.2!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and sacrifices to please me.<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.46.2!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> The ruler will bow with his face to the ground to show that he has worshiped me. Then he will leave, and the gate will remain open until evening.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_46_3"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.46.3" class="v26_46_3">3</span>Each Sabbath and on the first day of each month, the people of Israel must also come to the east gate and worship me. </span><span class="v26_46_4"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.46.4" class="v26_46_4">4</span>On the Sabbath, the ruler will bring six lambs and one ram to be offered as sacrifices to please me. There must be nothing wrong with any of these animals. </span><span class="v26_46_5"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.46.5" class="v26_46_5">5</span>With the ram, he is to offer nine kilograms of grain, and with each of the lambs, he can offer as much as he wants. He must also offer three liters of olive oil with every nine kilograms of grain.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_46_6"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.46.6" class="v26_46_6">6</span>The ruler is to bring six lambs, a bull, and a ram to be offered as sacrifices at the New Moon Festival. There must be nothing wrong with any of these animals. </span><span class="v26_46_7"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.46.7" class="v26_46_7">7</span>With the bull and the ram, he is to offer nine kilograms of grain, and with each of the lambs, he can offer as much as he wants. He must also offer three liters of olive oil with every nine kilograms of grain. </span><span class="v26_46_8"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.46.8" class="v26_46_8">8</span>The ruler must come through the entrance room of the east gate and leave the same way.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_46_9"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.46.9" class="v26_46_9">9</span>When my people come to worship me during any festival, they must always leave by the opposite gate from which they came: Those who come in the north gate must leave by the south gate, and those who come in the south gate must leave by the north gate. </span><span class="v26_46_10"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.46.10" class="v26_46_10">10</span>Their ruler will come in at the same time they do and leave at the same time they leave.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_46_11"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.46.11" class="v26_46_11">11</span>At all other festivals and celebrations, nine kilograms of grain will be offered with a bull, and nine kilograms will be offered with a ram. The worshipers can offer as much grain as they want with each lamb. Three liters of olive oil must be offered with every nine kilograms of grain.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_46_12"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.46.12" class="v26_46_12">12</span>If the ruler voluntarily offers a sacrifice to please me or to ask my blessing, the east gate of the inner courtyard will be opened for him. He will offer his sacrifices just as he does on each Sabbath; then he will leave, and the gate will be closed.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_46_13"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.46.13" class="v26_46_13">13</span>Each morning a year-old lamb that has nothing wrong with it must be offered as a sacrifice to please me. </span><span class="v26_46_14"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.46.14" class="v26_46_14">14</span>Along with it, two kilograms of fine flour mixed with a liter of olive oil must be offered as a grain sacrifice. This law will never change— </span><span class="v26_46_15"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.46.15" class="v26_46_15">15</span>the lamb, the flour, and the olive oil will be offered to me every morning for all time.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Laws about the Ruler's Land</h3><p class="par"><span class="v26_46_16"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.46.16" class="v26_46_16">16</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> God said:</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_46_16">If the ruler of Israel gives some of his land to one of his children, it will belong to the ruler's child as part of the family property. </span><span class="v26_46_17"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.46.17" class="v26_46_17">17</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.46.17!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> But if the ruler gives some of his land to one of his servants, the land will belong to the servant until the Year of Celebration, when it will be returned to the ruler.<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.46.17!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> Only the ruler's children can keep what is given to them.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_46_18"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.46.18" class="v26_46_18">18</span>The ruler must never abuse my people by taking land from them. Any land he gives his children must already belong to him.</span></p><h3 class="s1">The Sacred Kitchens</h3><p class="par"><span class="v26_46_19"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.46.19" class="v26_46_19">19</span>The man who was showing me the temple<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.46.19!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> then took me back to the inner courtyard. We walked to the south side of the courtyard and stopped at the door to the sacred rooms that belonged to the priests. He showed me more rooms at the western edge of the courtyard </span><span class="v26_46_20"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.46.20" class="v26_46_20">20</span>and said, “These are the kitchens where the priests must boil the meat to be offered as sacrifices to make things right<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.46.20!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and as sacrifices for sin.<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.46.20!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> They will also bake the grain for sacrifices in these kitchens. That way, these sacred offerings won't have to be carried through the outer courtyard, where someone could accidentally touch them and be harmed.”<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.46.20!f.3" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_46_21"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.46.21" class="v26_46_21">21</span>We went back to the outer courtyard and walked past the four corners. </span><span class="v26_46_22"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.46.22" class="v26_46_22">22</span>At each corner I saw a smaller courtyard, 20 meters long and 15 meters wide. </span><span class="v26_46_23"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.46.23" class="v26_46_23">23</span>Around the inside of these smaller courtyards was a low wall of stones, and against the wall were places to build fires.<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.46.23!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v26_46_24"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.46.24" class="v26_46_24">24</span>The man said, “These are the kitchens where the temple workers will boil the meat that worshipers offer as sacrifices.”</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">46.2 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">sacrifices to ask my blessing: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 43.27.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">46.2 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">sacrifices to please me: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 40.38,39.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">46.17 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the Year of Celebration … to the ruler: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This was a sacred year for Israel, traditionally called the “Year of Jubilee.” During this year, all property had to go back to its original owner (see Leviticus 25.8-34).</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">46.19 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">The man … temple: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See 40.3.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">46.20 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">sacrifices to make things right: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 40.38,39.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">46.20 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">sacrifices for sin: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 40.38,39.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">46.20 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">someone … touch them and be harmed: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 44.19.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">46.23 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">fires: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 23.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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