The Prince’s Offerings
1 “ ‘This is what the Lord God says: The gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut for six working days, but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened. 2 The prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate outside 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 out, but the gate shall not be shut until the evening. 3 The people of the land shall worship at the door of that gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.
4 The burnt offering that the prince shall offer to the Lord shall be on the Sabbath day: six lambs without defect and a ram without defect, 5 and the grain offering shall be an ephah for the ram and the grain offering for the lambs as he is able to give and a hin of oil to an ephah.
6 On the day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without defect and six lambs and a ram. They shall be without defect. 7 He shall prepare a grain offering, an ephah for the bull, and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs according to what he is able, and a hin of oil to an ephah. 8 When the prince enters, he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go out by its way.
9 But when the people of the land come before the Lord in the appointed feasts, he who enters by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate, and he who enters by the way of the south gate shall go out by the way of the north gate. He shall not return by the way of the gate by which he came in, but shall go out straight before him. 10 The prince shall go in with them when they go in. When they go out, he shall go out.
11 In the feasts and in the solemnities the grain offering shall be an ephah for a bull and an ephah for a ram and for the lambs as he is able to give and a hin of oil to an ephah.
12 When the prince prepares a free will offering, a burnt offering, or peace offerings as a free will offering to the Lord, someone shall open for him the gate that looks toward the east; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after his going out someone shall shut the gate.
13 You shall prepare a lamb a year old without defect as a burnt offering to the Lord daily. Morning by morning you shall prepare it. 14 You shall prepare a grain 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 grain offering to the Lord continually by a perpetual ordinance. 15 Thus they shall prepare the lamb, the grain offering, and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt offering.
16 This is what the Lord God says: If the prince gives a gift to any of his sons, it is his inheritance. It shall belong to his sons. It is their property by inheritance. 17 But if he gives 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. 18 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance, to thrust them off of their property. He shall give an inheritance to his sons from his own possession of land, that my people would not all be scattered from their property.’ ”
Courts for Boiling and Baking
19 Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy rooms for the priests, which looked toward the north. There was a place on the back part westward. 20 He said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, that they would not bring them out into the outer court, transmitting holiness to the people.”
21 Then he brought me out into the outer court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court, and in every corner of the court there was another court. 22 In the four corners of the court there were courts enclosed, 70 feet long and 52.5 inches wide. These four in the corners were the same size. 23 There was a wall around in them, around the four, and boiling places were made under and around the walls. 24 Then he said to me, “These are the boiling houses, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.”