46:1 ‘This is what the Lord ①GOD says: “The gate of the inner courtyard facing east shall be shut for the six working days; but it shall be opened on the Sabbath day and opened on the day of the new moon.
▷ ①Heb YHWH, usually rendered LORD, and so throughout the ch
46:2 The prince shall enter by way of the porch of the gate from outside and stand by the post of the gate. Then the priests shall provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate and then go out; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.
46:3 The people of the land shall also worship at the doorway of that gate before the LORD on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.
46:4 The burnt offering which the prince shall offer to the LORD on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish;
46:5 and the grain offering shall be an ①ephah ②with the ram, and the grain offering ③with the lambs ④as much as he is able to give, and a ⑤hin of oil ⑥with an ephah.
▷ ①About 1 cubic foot or 0.03 cubic meters, and so throughout the ch ②Lit for ③Lit for ④Lit a gift of his hand ⑤About 1 gallon or 3.8 liters, and so throughout the ch ⑥Lit for
46:6 On the day of the new moon he shall offer a ①bull without blemish, and six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish.
▷ ①Or young bull
46:7 And he shall provide a grain offering, an ephah ①with the bull and an ephah ②with the ram, and ③with the lambs as ④much as he is able, and a hin of oil ⑤with an ephah.
▷ ①Lit for ②Lit for ③Lit for ④Lit his hand can reach ⑤Lit for
46:8 When the prince enters, he shall go in by way of the porch of the gate, and go out by ①the same way.
▷ ①Lit its way
46:9 But when the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed feasts, one who enters by way of the north gate to worship shall go out by way of the south gate. And one who enters by way of the south gate shall go out by way of the north gate. ①No one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered, but shall go straight out.
▷ ①Lit He shall not
46:10 And when they go in, the prince shall go in among them; and when they go out, ①he shall go out.
▷ ①As in many mss and ancient versions; MT they
46:11 “At the festivals and the appointed feasts, the grain offering shall be an ephah ①with a bull and an ephah ②with a ram, and ③with the lambs as ④much as one is able to give, and a hin of oil ⑤with an ephah.
▷ ①Lit for ②Lit for ③Lit for ④Lit a gift of his hand ⑤Lit for
46:12 And when the prince provides a ①voluntary offering, a burnt offering, or peace offerings as a ②voluntary offering to the LORD, the gate facing east shall be opened for him. And he shall provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and the gate shall be shut after he goes out.
▷ ①Or freewill offering ②Or freewill offering
46:13 “And you shall provide a lamb a year old without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD daily; morning by morning you shall provide it.
46:14 You shall also provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, a sixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour, a grain offering to the LORD continually by ①a permanent ordinance.
▷ ①Lit perpetual statutes
46:15 So they shall provide the lamb, the grain offering, and the oil, morning by morning, as a continual burnt offering.”
46:16 ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: “If the prince gives a gift from his inheritance to any of his sons, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance.
46:17 But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until the year of ①release; then it shall return to the prince. His inheritance shall be only his sons’; it shall belong to them.
▷ ①Or liberty
46:18 And the prince shall not take from the people’s inheritance, ①depriving them of their property; he shall give his sons inheritance from his own property, so that My people will not be scattered, anyone from his property.” ’ ”
▷ ①Lit oppressing
46:19 Then he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which faced north; and behold, a place was there at the extreme rear toward the west.
46:20 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, so that they do not bring them out into the outer courtyard ①and transfer holiness to the people.”
▷ ①Lit to
46:21 Then he brought me out into the outer courtyard and led me across to the four corners of the courtyard; and behold, in every corner of the courtyard there was a small courtyard.
46:22 In the four corners of the courtyard there were enclosed courtyards, forty ①cubits long and thirty wide; these four in the corners were ②the same size.
▷ ①Each of these cubits equals about 21 in. or 53 cm ②Lit one measure
46:23 And there was a row of masonry all around in them, around the four of them, and cooking hearths were made under the rows all around.
46:24 Then he said to me, “These are the cooking ①places where the ministers of the house shall cook the sacrifices of the people.”
▷ ①Lit houses