1Thus saith the Lord Jehovah : The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut 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 . 2And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate without , and shall stand by the post of the gate ; and the priests shall prepare his burnt-offering and his peace-offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate : then he shall go forth ; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening . 3And the people of the land shall worship at the door of that gate before Jehovah on the sabbaths and on the new moons . 4And the burnt-offering that the prince shall offer unto Jehovah shall be on the sabbath day six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish ; 5and the meal-offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and the meal-offering for the lambs as he is able to give , and a hin of oil to an ephah. 6And on the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish , and six lambs , and a ram; they shall be without blemish : 7and he shall prepare a meal-offering, an ephah for the bullock , and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs according as he is able , and a hin of oil to an ephah. 8And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate , and he shall go forth by the way thereof .
The Gates and the Temple
9But when the people of the land shall come before Jehovah in the appointed feasts , he that entereth by the way of the north gate to worship shall go forth by the way of the south gate ; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate : he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in , but shall go forth straight before him . 10And the prince , when they go in , shall go in in the midst of them ; and when they go forth , they shall go forth together . 11And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meal-offering shall be an ephah for a bullock , and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to give , and a hin of oil to an ephah. 12And when the prince shall prepare a freewill-offering, a burnt-offering or peace-offerings as a freewill-offering unto Jehovah , one shall open for him the gate that looketh toward the east ; and he shall prepare his burnt-offering and his peace-offerings, as he doth on the sabbath day : then he shall go forth ; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate .
The Offerings of the People
13And thou shalt prepare a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt-offering unto Jehovah daily : morning by morning shalt thou prepare it . 14And thou shalt prepare a meal-offering with it morning by morning , the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin of oil , to moisten the fine flour ; a meal-offering unto Jehovah continually by a perpetual ordinance . 15Thus shall they prepare the lamb , and the meal-offering, and the oil , morning by morning , for a continual burnt-offering. 16Thus saith the Lord Jehovah : If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons , it is his inheritance , it shall belong to his sons ; it is their possession by inheritance . 17But if he give of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants , it shall be his to the year of liberty ; then it shall return to the prince ; but as for his inheritance , it shall be for his sons . 18Moreover the prince shall not take of the people ’s inheritance , to thrust them out of their possession ; he shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own possession , that my people be not scattered every man from his possession . 19Then he brought me through the entry , which was at the side of the gate , into the holy chambers for the priests , which looked toward the north : and , behold , there was a place on the hinder part westward . 20And he said unto me , This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass-offering and the sin-offering, and where they shall bake the meal-offering; that they bring them not forth into the outer court , to sanctify the people . 21Then he brought me forth into the outer court , and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court ; and , behold , in every corner of the court there was a court . 22In the four corners of the court there were courts inclosed, forty cubits long and thirty broad : these four in the corners were of one measure . 23And there was a wall round about in them , round about the four, and boiling-places were made under the walls round about . 24Then said he unto me , These are the boiling-houses, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people .