Ezekiel 46–48

Chapter 46

The Prince’s Offerings

¹‘Thus says the Lord ¹God, “The ^agate of the ^binner court facing east shall be ^cshut the six ^dworking days; but it shall be opened on the ^esabbath day and opened on the day of the ^fnew moon.

²“The ^aprince shall enter by way of the porch of the gate from outside and stand by the ^bpost of the gate. Then the priests shall provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate and then go out; but the gate shall not be ^cshut until the evening.

³“The ^apeople of the land shall also worship at the doorway of that gate before the Lord on the sabbaths and on the ^bnew moons.

⁴“The ^aburnt offering which the prince shall offer to the Lord on the sabbath day shall be ^bsix lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish;

⁵and the ^agrain offering shall be an ephah ¹with the ram, and the grain offering with the lambs ²as much as he is ^bable to give, and a hin of oil with an ephah.

⁶“On the day of the ^anew moon he shall offer a young bull without blemish, also six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish.

⁷“And he shall provide a ^agrain offering, an ephah ¹with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as ²much as he is ^bable, and a hin of oil with an ephah.

⁸“When the ^aprince enters, he shall go in by way of the porch of the gate and go out ¹by the same way.

⁹“But when the people of the land come ^abefore the Lord at the appointed feasts, he who enters by way of the north gate to worship shall go out by way of the south gate. And he who enters by way of the south gate shall go out by way of the north gate. ¹No one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered but shall go straight out.

¹⁰“When they go in, the prince shall go in ^aamong them; and when they go out, ¹he shall go out.

¹¹“At the ^afestivals and the appointed feasts the ^bgrain offering shall be an ephah ¹with a bull and an ephah with a ram, and with the lambs as ²much as one is able to give, and a hin of oil with an ephah.

¹²“When the prince provides a ^afreewill offering, a burnt offering, or peace offerings as a freewill offering to the Lord, the gate facing east shall be ^bopened for him. And he shall provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he does on the ^csabbath day. Then he shall go out, and the gate shall be shut after he goes out.

¹³“And you shall provide a ^alamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to the Lord daily; ^bmorning by morning you shall provide it.

¹⁴“Also you shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, a ^asixth 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 ¹ordinance.

¹⁵“Thus they shall provide the lamb, the grain offering and the oil, morning by morning, for a ^acontinual burnt offering.”

¹⁶‘Thus says the Lord God, “If the prince gives a ^agift 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 ^ayear 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 ^anot take from the people’s inheritance, ^1bthrusting 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

¹⁹Then he brought me through the ^aentrance, 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.

²⁰He said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the ^aguilt offering and the sin offering and where they shall ^bbake the grain offering, in order that they may not bring them out into the outer court to transmit holiness to the people.”

²¹Then 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.

²²In the four corners of the court there were enclosed courts, forty cubits long and thirty wide; these four in the corners were ¹the same size.

²³There was a row of masonry round about in them, around the four of them, and boiling places were made under the rows round about.

²⁴Then he said to me, “These are the boiling ¹places where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifices of the people.”

Chapter 47

Water from the Temple

¹Then he brought me back to the ^adoor of the house; and behold, ^bwater was flowing from under the threshold of the house toward the east, for the house faced east. And the water was flowing down from under, from the right side of the house, from south of the altar.

²He brought me out by way of the north gate and led me around ¹on the outside to the outer gate by way of the gate that faces east. And behold, water was trickling from the south side.

³When the man went out toward the east with a line in his hand, he measured a thousand cubits, and he led me through the water, water reaching the ankles.

⁴Again he measured a thousand and led me through the water, water reaching the knees. Again he measured a thousand and led me through the water, water reaching the loins.

⁵Again he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not ford, for the water had risen, enough water to swim in, a ^ariver that could not be forded.

⁶He said to me, “Son of man, have you ^aseen this?” Then he brought me ¹back to the bank of the river.

⁷Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river there were very many ^atrees on the one side and on the other.

⁸Then he said to me, “These waters go out toward the eastern region and go down into the ^aArabah; then they go toward the sea, being made to flow into the ^bsea, and the waters of the sea become ¹fresh.

⁹“It will come about that every living creature which swarms in every place where the ¹river goes, will live. And there will be very many fish, for these waters go there and the others ²become fresh; so ^aeverything will live where the river goes.

¹⁰“And it will come about that ^afishermen will stand beside it; from ^bEngedi to Eneglaim there will be a place for the ^cspreading of nets. Their fish will be according to their kinds, like the fish of the ^dGreat Sea, ^every many.

¹¹“But its swamps and marshes will not become ¹fresh; they will be ²left for ^asalt.

¹²“^aBy the river on its bank, on one side and on the other, will grow all kinds of ^btrees for food. Their ^cleaves will not wither and their fruit will not fail. They will bear every month because their water flows from the sanctuary, and their fruit will be for food and their ^dleaves for healing.”

Boundaries and Division of the Land

¹³Thus says the Lord ¹God, “This shall be the ^aboundary by which you shall divide the land for an inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel; Joseph shall have two ^bportions.

¹⁴“You shall divide it for an inheritance, each one ¹equally with the other; for I ^2aswore to give it to your forefathers, and this land shall fall to you ³as an inheritance.

¹⁵“This shall be the boundary of the land: on the ^anorth side, from the Great Sea by the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of ^1bZedad;

^161aHamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of ^bDamascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer-hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.

¹⁷“The boundary shall ¹extend from the sea to ^aHazar-enan at the border of Damascus, and on the north toward the north is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.

¹⁸“The ^aeast side, from between Hauran, Damascus, ^bGilead and the land of Israel, shall be the ^cJordan; from the north border to the eastern sea you shall measure. This is the east side.

¹⁹“The ^asouth side toward the south shall extend from ^bTamar as far as the waters of ^cMeribath-kadesh, to the ^dbrook of Egypt and to the ^eGreat Sea. This is the south side toward the south.

²⁰“The ^awest side shall be the Great Sea, from the south border to a point opposite ^1bLebo-hamath. This is the west side.

²¹“So you shall divide this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Israel.

²²“You shall divide it by ^alot for an inheritance among yourselves and among the ^baliens who stay in your midst, who bring forth sons in your midst. And they shall be to you as the native-born among the sons of Israel; they shall be allotted an ^cinheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

²³“And in the tribe with which the alien stays, there you shall give him his inheritance,” declares the Lord God.

Chapter 48

Division of the Land

¹“Now ^athese are the names of the tribes: from the northern extremity, ¹beside the way of Hethlon to ²Lebo-hamath, as far as Hazar-enan at the border of Damascus, toward the north beside Hamath, ³running from east to west, ^bDan, one portion.

²“Beside the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, ^aAsher, one portion.

³“Beside the border of Asher, from the east side to the west side, ^aNaphtali, one portion.

⁴“Beside the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, ^aManasseh, one portion.

⁵“Beside the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, ^aEphraim, one portion.

⁶“Beside the border of Ephraim, from the east side to the west side, ^aReuben, one portion.

⁷“Beside the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, ^aJudah, one portion.

⁸“And beside the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the ¹allotment which you shall ²set apart, 25,000 ³cubits in width, and in length like one of the portions, from the east side to the west side; and the ^asanctuary shall be in the middle of it.

⁹“The allotment that you shall set apart to the Lord shall be 25,000 cubits in length and 10,000 in width.

Portion for the Priests

¹⁰“The holy allotment shall be for these, namely for the ^apriests, toward the north 25,000 cubits in length, toward the west 10,000 in width, toward the east 10,000 in width, and toward the south 25,000 in length; and…