Ezekiel 46:12-22

12 "When the prince provides a ¹freewill offering, a burnt offering, or peace offerings as a freewill offering to the LORD, the gate facing east shall be ²opened for him. And he shall provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he does on the ³sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and the gate shall be shut after he goes out.

13 "And you shall provide a ⁴lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to the LORD daily; ⁵morning by morning you shall provide it.

14 "Also you shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, a ⁶sixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour, a grain offering to the LORD continually by a perpetual ordinance.

15 "Thus they shall provide the lamb, the grain offering and the oil, morning by morning, for a ⁷continual burnt offering."

16 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "If the prince gives a ⁸gift out of his inheritance to any of his sons, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance.

17 "But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until the ⁹year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince. His inheritance shall be only his sons'; it shall belong to them.

18 "The prince shall ¹⁰not take from the people's inheritance, ¹¹thrusting them out of their possession; he shall give his sons inheritance from his own possession so that My people will not be scattered, anyone from his possession.""'

The Boiling Places

19 Then he brought me through the ¹²entrance, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which faced north; and behold, there was a place at the extreme rear toward the west.

20 He said to me, "This is the place where * the priests shall boil the ¹³guilt offering and the sin offering and where they shall ¹⁴bake the grain offering, in order that they may not bring them out into the outer court to transmit holiness to the people."

21 Then he brought me out into the outer court and led me across to the four corners of the court; and behold, in every corner of the court there was a small court.

22 In the four corners of the court there were enclosed courts, forty cubits long and thirty wide; these four in the corners were the same size.

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Ezekiel 46:12-22 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 14

1. Leviticus 23:38; 2 Chronicles 29:31
2. Ezekiel 44:3; Ezekiel 46:1, 2, 8
3. Ezekiel 45:17
4. Numbers 28:3-5
5. Isaiah 50:4
6. Numbers 28:5
7. Exodus 29:42; Numbers 28:6
8. 2 Chronicles 21:3
9. Leviticus 25:10
10. Ezekiel 45:8
11. 1 Kings 21:19; Ezekiel 22:27; Micah 2:1, 2
12. Ezekiel 42:9; Ezekiel 44:5
13. 2 Chronicles 35:13; Ezekiel 44:29
14. Leviticus 2:4-7

Footnotes 3

[a]. Lit "statute"
[b]. Lit "oppressing"
[c]. Lit "one measure"