1 ARST This is also what Yahweh the Lord declares:‘The east gateway of the inner courtyard must be shut during the six days you work each week, but on the Sabbath days and on the days when there is a new moon, the gateway must be open. BSB BSB: “This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘The gate of the inner court that faces east must be kept shut during the six days of work, but on the Sabbath day and on the day of the New Moon it shall be opened.
2 ARST The ruler must enter the courtyard through the entry room of the gateway, and stand alongside the gateposts of the inner courtyard. Then the priests must sacrifice the animal that will be completely burned on the altar, and also his offering to promise friendship with me. The ruler must worship me at the entrance of the inner gateway, and then he must leave. But the gate will not be shut until that evening. BSB BSB: The prince is to enter from the outside through the portico of the gateway and stand by the gatepost, while the priests sacrifice his burnt offerings and peace offerings. He is to bow in worship at the threshold of the gate and then depart, but the gate must not be shut until evening.
3 ARST On the Sabbath days and on the days when there is a new moon, the people also must worship me at the entrance of this gate. BSB BSB: On the Sabbaths and New Moons the people of the land are also to bow in worship before the LORD at the entrance to that gateway.
4 ARST The offering that the ruler brings to be completely burned on the Sabbath day must be six male lambs and one ram, all with no defects. BSB BSB: The burnt offering that the prince presents to the LORD on the Sabbath day shall be six unblemished male lambs and an unblemished ram.
5 ARST The offering that he gives with the ram is twenty- two liters of flour, and the flour that he offers with the lambs should be as much as he pleases, along with one liter of olive oil for every twenty- two liters of flour. BSB BSB: The grain offering with the ram shall be one ephah, and the grain offering with the lambs shall be as much as he is able, along with a hin of oil per ephah.
6 ARST Then each day that there is a new moon, he must offer a young bull, six lambs and a ram, all with no defects. BSB BSB: On the day of the New Moon he shall offer a young, unblemished bull, six lambs, and a ram without blemish.
7 ARST He must also provide twenty- two liters of flour with the bull, the same amount of flour with the ram, and as much flour as he wants with the lambs, along with one liter of olive oil with every twenty- two liters of flour. BSB BSB: He is to provide a grain offering of an ephah with the bull, an ephah with the ram, and as much as he is able with the lambs, along with a hin of oil per ephah.
8 ARST When the ruler enters the temple area, he must enter through gate and its entry room, and he must go out by the same way. BSB BSB: When the prince enters, he shall go in through the portico of the gateway, and he shall go out the same way.
9 ARST When the people come to worship me at the festivals that I, Yahweh, have commanded, those who enter the temple area through the north gateway must go out through the south gateway. And those who enter through the south gateway must go out through the north gateway. People must not go out through the gateway through which they entered; they must go out through the opposite gateway. BSB BSB: When the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed feasts, whoever enters by the north gate to worship must go out by the south gate, and whoever enters by the south gate must go out by the north gate. No one is to return through the gate by which he entered, but each must go out by the opposite gate.
10 ARST The ruler must go in when the other people go in, and go out when the people go out. BSB BSB: When the people enter, the prince shall go in with them, and when they leave, he shall leave.
11 ARST During the festivals that you hold for me, the king must present twenty- two liters of flour along with a bull or a ram, and as much flour as he wants to with the lambs, along with one liter of olive oil with every twenty- two liters of flour. BSB BSB: At the festivals and appointed feasts, the grain offering shall be an ephah with a bull, an ephah with a ram, and as much as one is able to give with the lambs, along with a hin of oil per ephah.
12 ARST When the ruler gives an offering that is not required, either one to be completely burned or an offering to celebrate fellowship with me, the gate on the east side must be opened for him. He must then present his offerings like he does on the Sabbath days. Then he will go out, and after he goes out, they must shut the gateway. BSB BSB: When the prince makes a freewill offering to the LORD, whether a burnt offering or a peace offering, the gate facing east must be opened for him. He is to offer his burnt offering or peace offering just as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and the gate must be closed after he goes out.
13 ARST In the morning of every day, someone must provide a one year old lamb with no defects to be an offering to me, one that the priests will completely burn. BSB BSB: And you shall provide an unblemished year-old lamb as a daily burnt offering to the LORD; you are to offer it every morning.
14 ARST Someone must also provide each morning an offering of flour. It must be three and one- half liters of flour mixed with one liter of olive oil. You must never stop presenting these offerings of flour and olive oil to me, Yahweh, each day. BSB BSB: You are also to provide with it every morning a grain offering of a sixth of an ephah with a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour—a grain offering to the LORD. This is a permanent statute.
15 ARST The lamb and the offering of flour and olive oil must be presented to me every morning, to be completely burned on the altar. BSB BSB: Thus they shall provide the lamb, the grain offering, and the oil every morning as a regular burnt offering.’
16 ARST This is what Yahweh the Lord declares: If the ruler gives some of his land to one of his sons, to belong to him permanently, it will then eventually belong to his son’ s descendants. BSB BSB: This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘If the prince gives a gift to any of his sons as an inheritance, it will belong to his descendants. It will become their property by inheritance.
17 ARST However, if he gives some of his land to one of his servants, the servant is allowed to keep that land until the year of the celebration of Jubilee. Then the ruler must take possession of it again. But if the ruler gives land to his sons, that land will belong to them permanently. BSB BSB: But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will belong to that servant until the year of freedom; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs only to his sons; it shall be theirs.
18 ARST The ruler must not take any land that the people own and force them to live somewhere else. The land that he gives to his sons must be from his own property, not from anyone else’ s property, in order that none of my people will be separated from his own property.’” BSB BSB: The prince must not take any of the inheritance of the people by evicting them from their property. He is to provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none of My people will be displaced from his property.’”
19 ARST Then, in the vision, the man brought me through the entrance alongside the gateway to the sacred rooms on the north side, the rooms that belonged to the priests, and he showed me a place at the western end. BSB BSB: Then the man brought me through the entrance at the side of the gate into the holy chambers facing north, which belonged to the priests, and he showed me a place there at the far western end
20 ARST He said to me,“This is the place where the priests will cook the meat of the offerings that people make because they failed to do what they promised Yahweh that they would do, and offerings to cause people to become acceptable to God, and where they will bake bread made with the flour brought as offerings. They will cook those things in their rooms in order to avoid bringing them into the outer courtyard to cook them there, lest someone might be consecrated by touching them.” BSB BSB: and said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them into the outer court and transmit holiness to the people.”
21 ARST Then the man brought me to the outer courtyard and led me around to its four corners. In each corner I saw an enclosed area; BSB BSB: Then he brought me into the outer court and led me around to its four corners, and I saw a separate court in each of its corners.
22 ARST each was twenty- two meters long and sixteen meters wide. BSB BSB: In the four corners of the outer court there were enclosed courts, each forty cubits long and thirty cubits wide. Each of the four corner areas had the same dimensions.
23 ARST Around the inside of each of these enclosed areas was a stone ledge, with places to make fires all around under the ledge. BSB BSB: Around the inside of each of the four courts was a row of masonry with ovens built at the base of the walls on all sides.
24 ARST The man said to me,“These are the kitchens where the descendants of Levi who work in the temple will cook the sacrifices that the people bring.” BSB BSB: And he said to me, “These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple will cook the sacrifices offered by the people.”
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