The Prince’s Offerings

1“ Thus says the Lord YHWH: ‘The gateway of the inner court facing the east shall be shut for the six days of work; and on the day of the Sabbath it shall be opened, and on the day of the New Moon it shall be opened. 2And the prince shall enter by way of the portico of the gateway from the outside, and stand by the doorpost 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 and go out, and the gate shall not be shut until the evening. 3And the people of the land will bow down at the entrance to that gateway, on the Sabbaths and the New Moons, before YHWH.

4And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer to YHWH on the day of the Sabbath is six lambs unblemished, and a ram unblemished. 5And the grain offering is an ephah† for a ram, and for the lambs the grain offering is a gift of his hand, and a hin of oil for the ephah. 6And on the day of the New Moon it is a bull, a son of the herd, unblemished, and six lambs and a ram—they shall be unblemished. 7And an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, he shall prepare as a grain offering, and for the lambs as that his hand can take, and a hin of oil to an ephah. 8And in the coming in of the prince, he shall come in by way of the portico of the gateway, and the same way he shall go out.

9And in the coming in of the people of the land before YHWH at the appointed feasts, the one coming in by way of the north gate to worship will go out by way of the south gate, and the one coming in by way of the south gate will go out by way of the north gate; he will not return by way of the gate by that he entered, but he will go out straight ahead of him.

10And the prince will be in their midst; at their coming in, he will go in, and at their going out, he will go out. 11And at the festivals, and the appointed feasts the grain offering will be an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs a gift of his hand, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

12When the prince makes a freewill offering—a burnt offering or free-will peace offerings to YHWH—then shall be opened for him the gate facing the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he did on the day of the Sabbath; and he will go out, and the gate will be shut after his going out.

13And a lamb, a son of a year, unblemished, you shall make as a burnt offering day by day to YHWH; morning by morning you shall make it. 14And a grain offering you shall prepare with it, morning by morning, a sixth of an ephah,† and a third of a hin of oil† to moisten the fine flour, as a grain offering to YHWH. This is a statute forever, in perpetuity. 15They shall prepare the lamb, and the grain offering, and the oil, morning by morning, as a continual burnt offering.’

16Thus says the Lord YHWH: ‘If the prince gives a gift to man of his sons as his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance. 17And if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will be unto him until the year of liberty; then it will return to the prince; surely it is his inheritance for his sons; unto them it shall be.

18And the prince shall not take from inheritance of the people by evicting them from their property; from his own property he shall provide an inheritance for his sons, so that My people will not be scattered, a man from his property.’”

The Courts for Boiling and Baking

19And he brought me through the entrance that was at the side of the gate, into the chambers of holiness for the priests, facing toward the north; and behold, there was a place at the extremities of the west. 20And he said to me: “This is the place where the priests shall boil there the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, so as not to bring them out into the outer court to sanctify the people.”

21And he brought me out into the outer court, and he caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and behold, a court in each corner of the court, a court in the corner of the court. 22In the four corners of the court were courts enclosed, forty long and thirty wide,† a single measure for their four corners. 23And a row was all around in them, all around the four of them, and cooking hearths were made under the rows all around.

24And he said to me, “These are the kitchens of those boiling, where the ministers of the temple will boil there the sacrifices of the people.”

Footnotes:

5 An ephah is approximately 20 dry quarts or 22 liters (probably about 38.3 pounds or 17.4 kilograms of grain); also in verses 7 and 11.
14 A sixth of an ephah is approximately 3.3 dry quarts or 3.7 liters (probably about 4.2 pounds or 1.9 kilograms of flour).
14 Or a third of a hin of olive oil; that is, approximately 1.3 quarts or 1.2 liters
22 The enclosed courts were approximately 70 feet long and 52.5 feet wide (21.3 meters long and 16 meters wide).