Ezekiel 46:13-23

13 1"You shall provide a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to the LORD daily; morning by morning you shall provide it.
14 And 2you shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, one sixth of an ephah, and one third of a hin of oil to moisten the flour, as a grain offering to the LORD. This is a perpetual statute.
15 Thus the lamb and the meal offering and the oil shall be provided, morning by morning, for 3a regular burnt offering.
16 "Thus says the Lord GOD: If the prince makes a gift to any of his sons as his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons. It is their property by inheritance.
17 But if he makes a gift 4out of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his to 5the year of liberty. Then it shall revert to the prince; surely it is his inheritance--it shall belong to his sons.
18 6The prince shall not take any of the inheritance of the people, 7thrusting them out of their property. He shall give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that none of my people shall be 8scattered from his property."

Boiling Places for Offerings

19 Then he brought me through the entrance, which was 9at the side of the gate, to the north row of 10the holy chambers for the priests, and behold, a place was there at the extreme western end of them.
20 And he said to me, "This is the place where the priests 11shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where 12they shall bake the grain offering, in order not to bring them out into the outer court and so 13transmit holiness to the people."
21 Then he brought me out to the outer court and led me around to the four corners of the court. And behold, in each corner of the court there was another court--
22 in the four corners of the court were small[a] courts, forty cubits[b] long and thirty broad; the four were of the same size.
23 On the inside, around each of the four courts was a row of masonry, with hearths made at the bottom of the rows all around.

Ezekiel 46:13-23 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.

Cross References 13

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
  • [b]. A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
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