Ezekiel 46:11-23

11 At the feasts and the appointed festivals, the grain offering is to be an ephah with a bull, an ephah with a ram, and with the lambs as much as he pleases, along with a hin of oil for each ephah.

12 “ ‘When the prince provides a freewill offering to the LORD—whether a burnt offering or fellowship offerings—the gate facing east is to be opened for him. He shall offer his burnt offering or his fellowship offerings as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out, the gate will be shut.

13 “ ‘Every day you are to provide a year-old lamb without defect for a burnt offering to the LORD; morning by morning you shall provide it.

14 You are also to provide with it morning by morning a grain offering, consisting of a sixth of an ephah^[a] with a third of a hin^[b] of oil to moisten the flour. The presenting of this grain offering to the LORD is a lasting ordinance.

15 So the lamb and the grain offering and the oil shall be provided morning by morning for a regular burnt offering.

16 “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: If the prince makes a gift from his inheritance to one of his sons, it will also belong to his descendants; it is to be their property by inheritance.

17 If, however, he makes a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, the servant may keep it until the year of freedom; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs to his sons only; it is theirs.

18 The prince must not take any of the inheritance of the people, driving them off their property. He is to give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that not one of my people will be separated from their property.’ ”

19 Then the man brought me through the entrance at the side of the gate to the sacred rooms facing north, which belonged to the priests, and showed me a place at the western end.

20 He said to me, “This is the place where the priests are to cook the guilt offering and the sin offering^[c] and bake the grain offering, to avoid bringing them into the outer court and consecrating the people.”

21 He then brought me to the outer court and led me around to its four corners, and I saw in each corner another court.

22 In the four corners of the outer court were enclosed^[d] courts, forty cubits long and thirty cubits wide;^[e] each of the courts in the four corners was the same size.

23 Around the inside of each of the four courts was a ledge of stone, with places for fire built all around under the ledge.

Ezekiel 46:11-23 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

• 1. ver 5
• 2. S Ezekiel 45:17
• 3. S Leviticus 7:16
• 4. ver 2
• 5. S Psalms 5:3
• 6. Exodus 29:38; S Numbers 28:3
• 7. Numbers 15:6
• 8. Daniel 8:11
• 9. S Exodus 29:42
• 10. S Exodus 29:38; Numbers 28:5-6
• 11. 2 Chronicles 21:3
• 12. S Leviticus 25:10
• 13. 1 Samuel 8:14
• 14. S Leviticus 25:23; Ezekiel 45:8; Micah 2:1-2
• 15. S Ezekiel 42:9
• 16. Ezekiel 42:4
• 17. S Leviticus 6:27
• 18. ver 24; Zechariah 14:20

Footnotes

• [a]. That is, probably about 6 pounds or about 2.7 kilograms
• [b]. That is, about 1 1/2 quarts or about 1.3 liters
• [c]. Or "purification offering"
• [d]. The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
• [e]. That is, about 70 feet long and 53 feet wide or about 21 meters long and 16 meters wide