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Text -- Ezekiel 46:1-21 (NET)
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The Prince’s Offerings
46:1 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says : The gate of the inner court that faces east will be closed six working days , but on the Sabbath day it will be opened and on the day of the new moon it will be opened .
46:2 The prince will enter by way of the porch of the gate from the outside , and will stand by the doorpost of the gate . The priests will provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings , and he will bow down at the threshold of the gate and then go out . But the gate will not be closed until evening .
46:3 The people of the land will bow down at the entrance of that gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the new moons .
46:4 The burnt offering which the prince will offer to the Lord on the Sabbath day will be six unblemished lambs and one unblemished ram .
46:5 The grain offering will be an ephah with the ram , and the grain offering with the lambs will be as much as he is able to give , and a gallon of olive oil with an ephah .
46:6 On the day of the new moon he will offer an unblemished young bull , and six lambs and a ram , all without blemish .
46:7 He will provide a grain offering : an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram , and with the lambs as much as he wishes , and a gallon of olive oil with each ephah of grain.
46:8 When the prince enters , he will come by way of the porch of the gate and will go out the same way .
46:9 “‘When the people of the land come before the Lord at the appointed feasts , whoever enters by way of the north gate to worship will go out by way of the south gate ; whoever enters by way of the south gate will go out by way of the north gate . No one will return by way of the gate they entered but will go out straight ahead .
46:10 When they come in, the prince will come in with them, and when they go out , he will go out .
46:11 “‘At the festivals and at the appointed feasts the grain offering will be an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram , and with the lambs as much as one is able , and a gallon of olive oil with each ephah of grain.
46:12 When the prince provides a freewill offering , a burnt offering , or peace offerings as a voluntary offering to the Lord , the gate facing east will be opened for him, and he will provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings just as he did on the Sabbath . Then he will go out , and the gate will be closed after he goes out .
46:13 “‘You will provide a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering daily to the Lord ; morning by morning he will provide it.
46:14 And you will provide a grain offering with it morning by morning , a sixth of an ephah , and a third of a gallon of olive oil to moisten the choice flour , as a grain offering to the Lord ; this is a perpetual statute .
46:15 Thus they will provide the lamb , the grain offering , and the olive oil morning by morning , as a perpetual burnt offering .
46:16 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says : If the prince should give a gift to one of his sons as his inheritance , it will belong to his sons , it is their property by inheritance .
46:17 But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants , it will be his until the year of liberty ; then it will revert to the prince . His inheritance will only remain with his sons .
46:18 The prince will not take away any of the people’s inheritance by oppressively removing them from their property . He will give his sons an inheritance from his own possessions so that my people will not be scattered , each from his own property .’”
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 . There I saw a place at the extreme western end.
46:20 He said to me, “This is the place where the priests will boil the guilt offering and the sin offering , and where they will bake the grain offering , so that they do not bring them out to the outer court to transmit holiness to the people .”
46:21 Then he brought me out to the outer court and led me past the four corners of the court , and I noticed that in every corner of the court there was a court .
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Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Temple |
Ezekiel |
Vision |
King |
Sabbath |
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES |
Measure |
Daily Sacrifice |
Offerings |
Inheritance |
Cooking |
PEOPLE |
KING; KINGDOM |
SOLEMN, SOLEMNITY |
Land |
Feasts |
Day |
Jubilee |
NEW MOON |
CORNER |
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NET Notes: Eze 46:5 Heb “a hin of oil.” A hin was about 1/16 of a bath. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:266, and O. R. Sellers, “Weights,” IDB 4...
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NET Notes: Eze 46:6 The phrase “he will offer” is not in the Hebrew text but is warranted from the context.
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NET Notes: Eze 46:7 Heb “ephah.” The words “of grain” are supplied in the translation as a clarification.
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NET Notes: Eze 46:11 Heb “ephah.” The words “of grain” are supplied in the translation as a clarification.
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NET Notes: Eze 46:13 A few Hebrew mss, the LXX, and the Vulgate read the verb as third person singular (referring to the prince), both here and later in the verse.
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NET Notes: Eze 46:14 Heb “a hin of oil.” A hin was about 1/16 of a bath. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:266, and O. R. Sellers, “Weights,” IDB 4...
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NET Notes: Eze 46:19 The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been tr...
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