The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Ezekiel 46:6 (NIV)

On the day of the New Moon he is to offer a young bull, six lambs and a ram, all without defect.

 

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Ezekiel 46:7 (NIV)

He is to provide as a grain offering one ephah with the bull, one ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he wants to give, along with a hin of oil for each ephah.

 

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Ezekiel 46:8 (NIV)

When the prince enters, he is to go in through the portico of the gateway, and he is to come out the same way.

 

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Ezekiel 46:9 (NIV)

‘“When the people of the land come before the Lord at the appointed festivals, whoever enters by the north gate to worship is to go out by the south gate; and whoever enters by the south gate is to go out by the north gate. No one is to return through the gate by which they entered, but each is to go out by the opposite gate.

 

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Ezekiel 46:10 (NIV)

The prince is to be among them, going in when they go in and going out when they go out.

 

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Ezekiel 46:11 (NIV)

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.

 

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Ezekiel 46:12 (NIV)

“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.

 

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Ezekiel 46:13 (NIV)

‘“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.

 

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Ezekiel 46:14 (NIV)

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

 

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Ezekiel 46:15 (NIV)

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

 

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Ezekiel 46:16 (NIV)

‘“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.

 

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Ezekiel 46:17 (NIV)

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.

 

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Ezekiel 46:18 (NIV)

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.”’

 

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Ezekiel 46:19 (NIV)

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.

 

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Ezekiel 46:20 (NIV)

He said to me, ‘This is the place where the priests are to cook the guilt offering and the sin offering and bake the grain offering,
to avoid bringing them into the outer court and consecrating the people.’

 

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Ezekiel 46:21 (NIV)

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

 

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Ezekiel 46:22 (NIV)

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

 

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Ezekiel 46:23 (NIV)

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

 

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Ezekiel 46:24 (NIV)

He said to me, ‘These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple are to cook the sacrifices of the people.’

 

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Ezekiel 47:1 (NIV)

The man brought me back to the entrance to the temple, and I saw water coming out from under the threshold of the temple towards the east (for the temple faced east). The water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, south of the altar.