Ezekiel 46:1-6

The Prince and the Feasts

1 "Thus says the Lord GOD: ¹The gate of ²the inner court that faces east shall be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and ³on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

2 ⁴The prince shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from outside, and shall take his stand by ⁵the post of the gate. ⁶The priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at ⁷the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening.

3 ⁸The people of the land shall bow down at the entrance of that gate before the LORD on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.

4 ⁹The burnt offering that the prince offers to the LORD ¹⁰on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish.

5 And ¹¹the grain offering with the ram shall be an ephah,^[a] and the grain offering with the lambs shall be ¹²as much as he is able, together with a hin^[b] of oil to each ephah.

6 On the day of the new moon he shall offer a bull from the herd without blemish, and six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish.

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Ezekiel 46:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 46

This chapter treats of the shutting of the eastern gate of the inner court on working days, and opening it on sabbaths and new moons, for the prince and people to worship in, Eze 46:1-3, gives a further account of the sacrifices of both at these seasons, and of their different ways of going in and out, Eze 46:4-15, delivers some rules about the prince's disposing of his gifts to his sons and servants, Eze 46:16-18 and describes the places for the priest's baking and boiling the sacrifices, Eze 46:19-24.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 12

1. Ezekiel 45:19
2. See Ezekiel 8:16
3. [Ezekiel 45:18]
4. See Ezekiel 44:3
5. [Ezekiel 45:19]
6. [Ezekiel 40:38, 39]
7. [Ezekiel 9:3]
8. ver. 9
9. Ezekiel 45:17
10. [Numbers 28:9, 10]
11. ver. 14; Ezekiel 45:24
12. [Deuteronomy 16:17]

Footnotes 2

[a]. An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
[b]. A hin was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters

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