1 ¶ The Lord GOD says this; The gate of the inner court that faces toward the east will be closed on the six working days; but on the sabbath it will be opened, and on the day of the new moon it will be opened.

2 And the prince will enter from the outside through the gate’s porch, and stand by the gate post, while the priests prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he will worship at the threshold of the gate: and then leave; but the gate will not be shut until the evening.

3 Likewise the people of the land should worship at the door of this gateway before the LORD on the sabbaths and on the new moons.

4 And the burnt offering that the prince offers to the LORD on the sabbath day will be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.

5 And the meal offering will be an ephah for a ram, and the meal offering for the lambs will be whatever one is able to give, and a hin of oil shall be given with each ephah.

6 And on the day of the new moon it will be a young bullock without blemish, six lambs, and a ram: they also will be without blemish.

7 And he will prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs whatever he can give, and a hin of oil with each ephah.

8 And when the prince arrives, he should go in through the porch of that gateway, and he should go out by the same way.

9 But when the people of the land come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he who enters through the north gate to worship will leave through the south gate; and he who enters by through the south gate will leave through the north gate: he should not go back through the gate by which he came in, but go out by the opposite gate.

10 And when the people go in the ruler should be among them; and when they go out, they will go out together.

11 And on the festival days and solemn meetings with God the meal offering will be an ephah with a bull, and an ephah with a ram, and with the lambs what he is able to give, and a hin of oil with an ephah.

12 Now when the prince prepares a voluntary burnt offering or shared offering to the LORD, the gate that faces the east should be opened for him, and he should prepare his burnt offering and shared offering, as it is done on the sabbath day: then he will go out; and after he leaves one will shut the gate.

13 You will daily prepare a burnt offering to the LORD of a lamb of the first year without blemish: you will prepare it every morning.

14 And you will prepare a meal offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour, as a grain offering to the LORD; to be observed regularly as a perpetual ordinance.

15 Thus will they prepare the lamb, and the meal offering, and the oil, every morning as a regular burnt offering.

16 ¶ Thus says the Lord GOD; If the prince gives a gift to any of his sons, out of his inheritance, it will belong to his sons; it will be their property by inheritance.

17 But if he gives a gift out of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it will belong to him until the year of freedom; after that it will go back to the prince: only his sons can inherit his property.

18 Moreover the ruler must not take any of the people’s inheritance by force, thus depriving them of their property; but he will give his sons their inheritance out of his own possessions: so that my people are not separated from their property and scattered.

19 ¶ He then took me through the passage, which was by the side of the gate, into the holy rooms of the priests, which faced toward the north: and there I saw a place at the extreme western end of them.

20 Then he said to me, This is the place where the priests will boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they will bake the meal offering; so that they will not have to bring them into the outer court, and sanctify 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, behold, in each corner of the court there was another court.

22 In each of the four corners of the court there was a closed court forty cubits long and thirty wide: these four corners were of the same size.

23 And there was a stone wall around the four courts, and they were equipped with places for cooking next to the walls all around.

24 Then he said to me, These are the places for those who do the boiling, where the servants of the temple boil the sacrifices of the people.