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Ezekiel 45:9–46:18

Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Enough of this for you, the princes of Israel; put away violence and destruction and do justice and righteousness; revoke your acts of dispossession from upony my people!” declaresz the Lord Yahweh. 10 There shall be for you an honest set of scalesa and an honest ephahb and an honest bath.c 11 The ephah and the bath shall be one unit of measurement;d the tenth part of the homer is the bath, and the tenth of the homer is the ephah; so the homer shall be itse unit of measurement. 12 And the shekel shall weigh twenty gerahs, twenty shekelsf and five and twenty shekelsg and ten and five shekels,h that shall make the mina for you.i

13 This is the contribution offering which you shall present: a sixth of the ephah from aj homer of wheat, and ak sixth of the ephah from al homer of barley. 14 And the quota of the olive oil, the bath of the olive oil, is the tenth part of a bath from a kor, which is ten baths, or a homer—for ten baths are equal to a homer. 15 And onem sheep from the flock from among two hundred from the pastures of Israel will be taken as a grain offering and as a burnt offering and as a fellowship offering to make atonement for them,” declaresn the Lord Yahweh. 16 “All of the people of the land shall join ino to this contribution withp the prince in Israel.

17 “But on the prince shall be the responsibility for the burnt offerings, and the grain offering, and the libation at the feasts, and at the New Moon festivals, and atq the Sabbaths at all of the assemblies of the house of Israel; he shall provide the sin offering, and the grain offering, and the burnt offering, and the fellowship offering to make atonement for the house of Israel. 18 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘On the first month on the first day of the month, you shall take a bull, a calfr without defect, and you shall purify the sanctuary. 19 And the priest shall take from the blood of the sin offering, and he shall put it on the doorframe of the temples and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar and on the doorframe of the gate of the inner courtyard. 20 And so you shall do on the seventh day in the month for anyone doing wrong inadvertently or due to ignorance, and so you must make atonement for the temple.t

21 In the first month, on the fourteenthu day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast lasting for seven days,v when you shall eat unleavened breads. 22 And the prince shall provide on that day for himselfw and for all of the people of the land a bull as a sin offering. 23 And during the seven days of the religious feast he shall provide as a burnt offering to Yahweh seven bulls and seven rams without defect for each of the seven days, and as a sin offering a he-goat for each day. 24 And as a grain offering, an ephah forx the bull and an ephah fory the ram he must provide, and a hin of olive oil for eachz ephah. 25 In the seventh month, on the fifteentha day of the month, during the feast, he shall provide just as he has for these seven days, as he did for the sin offering, as he did for the burnt offering, and as he did for the grain offering, and as he did for the olive oil.’ ”

46 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “The gate of the inner courtyard facing east must be shut ona the six of the days for work, but on the day of the Sabbath it must be opened and on the day of the new moon it must be opened. And the prince shall come by way of the portico of the gate from the outside, and he shall stand at the doorframe of the gate and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his fellowship offerings, and he shall bow down at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be closed until the evening. And the people of the land will bow down at the doorway of that gate on the Sabbaths and on the new moons beforeb Yahweh.

And the burnt offering which the prince will offer to Yahweh on the Sabbath day must be six male lambs without defect and a ram without defect. And the grain offering he will give shall be an ephah for each ram,c and for the male lambs the grain offering shall be as much as he wants to gived and a hin of olive oil for each ephah.e And on the day of the new moon he will offer a bull, a calff without defect and six male lambs and a ram; they must be without defect. And an ephah for each bull and an ephah for the ram he must provide as a grain offering, and also for the male lambs as much as he can affordg and a hin of olive oil for each ephah.

And when the prince comes, onh the way of the portico of the gate he shall come and by thisi way he shall go out. And when the people of the land come beforej Yahweh at the festivals, the one coming by way of the gate of the north to bow downk must go out by the way of the gate of the south, and the one coming by way of the gate of the south must go out by the way of the gate of the north, so he must not return by the way of the gate by which he came,l but before it hem shall go out opposite it. 10 And the prince will be in the midst of them; he will come in when they come in, and when they go out he will go out.

11 And at the festivals and at the appointed times, the grain offering will be an ephah with a bull and an ephah with the ram and with the male lambs, as much as he wants to give,n and a hin of olive oil for each ephah.o 12 And when the prince makes a freewill offering, a burnt offering, or a fellowship offering as a freewill offering to Yahweh, the gate facing east will be open for him. And he must offer his burnt offering and his fellowship offering just asp he does on the day of the Sabbath, and then he must go out and the gate will shut after he goes out.q 13 And a male lamb, a yearlingr without defect, he must provide as a burnt offering dailys for Yahweh; every morningt he must provide it. 14 And a grain offering he must provide in addition to it every morning,u av sixth of anw ephah and a third of a hin of olive oil to moisten the finely milled flour as a grain offering to Yahweh as a perpetual statute.x 15 So they must provide the male lamb and the grain offering and the olive oil every morningy as a regular burnt offering.”z

16 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “If the prince gives a gift to any one from among his sons, it is his inheritance and it will belonga to his sons; it is their possession as an inheritance. 17 And if he give a gift from his inheritance to one from among his servants, then it will belongb to him until the year of release,c and then it will return to the prince. His inheritance with respect to his sons will be only for them. 18 But the prince shall not take from the inheritance of the people to robd them, separating them from their property; from his own property he shall bestow an inheritance on his sons, so that my people will not be driven away, any one, from his property.”

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