Ezekiel 46
The Prince's Worship and Offerings
1“‘The Lord GOD says: “The gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
2The prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate; and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.
3The people of the land shall worship at the door of that gate before the LORD on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.
4The burnt offering that the prince shall offer to the LORD shall be on the Sabbath day, six lambs without defect and a ram without defect;
5and the meal offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and the meal offering for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
6On the day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without defect, six lambs, and a ram. They shall be without defect.
7He shall prepare a meal offering: an ephah for the bull, and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs according as he is able, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
8When the prince enters, he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go out by its way.
9“‘“But when the people of the land come before the LORD in the appointed feasts, he who enters by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he who enters by the way of the south gate shall go out by the way of the north gate. He shall not return by the way of the gate by which he came in, but shall go out straight before him.
10The prince shall go in with them when they go in. When they go out, he shall go out.
11“‘“In the feasts and in the appointed holidays, the meal offering shall be an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
12When the prince prepares a free will offering, a burnt offering or peace offerings as a free will offering to the LORD, one shall open for him the gate that looks toward the east; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out; and after his going out one shall shut the gate.
13“‘“You shall prepare a lamb a year old without defect for a burnt offering to the LORD daily. Morning by morning you shall prepare it.
14You shall prepare a meal offering with it morning by morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour; a meal offering to the LORD continually by a perpetual ordinance.
15Thus they shall prepare the lamb, the meal offering, and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt offering.”
The Prince's Inheritance and Temple Kitchens
16“‘The Lord GOD says: “If the prince gives a gift to any of his sons, it is his inheritance. It shall belong to his sons. It is their possession by inheritance.
17But if he gives of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince; but as for his inheritance, it shall be for his sons.
18Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance, to thrust them out of their possession. He shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that my people not each be scattered from his possession.”’”
19Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy rooms for the priests, which looked toward the north. Behold, there was a place on the back part westward.
20He said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the meal offering, that they not bring them out into the outer court, to sanctify the people.”
21Then he brought me out into the outer court and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and behold, in every corner of the court there was a court.
22In the four corners of the court there were courts enclosed, forty cubits long and thirty wide. These four in the corners were the same size.
23There was a wall around in them, around the four, and boiling places were made under the walls all around.
24Then he said to me, “These are the boiling houses, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.”
Ezekiel 46 details the worship regulations for the restored temple, focusing on the prince's role in leading Israel's worship through prescribed offerings and ceremonial procedures. The chapter specifies when temple gates open, what sacrifices the prince must provide on Sabbaths and festivals, and how both prince and people should move through the temple courts. It concludes with inheritance laws preventing the prince from permanently taking land from the people, and describes the temple kitchens where offerings are prepared.
Context
This chapter continues the detailed temple regulations from chapters 44-45, providing the final worship and administrative procedures before Ezekiel's vision concludes with the life-giving river in chapters 47-48.
Key Themes
Outline
- 1-3Gate Opening and Prince's EntryThe east gate opens only on Sabbaths and new moons for the prince's worship while people gather outside
- 4-8Sabbath and New Moon OfferingsSpecific sacrificial requirements for the prince including lambs, rams, bulls, and accompanying meal offerings
- 9-12Festival Worship ProceduresMovement patterns through temple gates during appointed feasts and regulations for voluntary offerings
- 13-15Daily Burnt OfferingsThe perpetual morning sacrifice of a lamb with meal offering and oil to be prepared daily
- 16-18Prince's Inheritance LawsRules governing the prince's gifts to sons versus servants and protection of people's land rights
- 19-24Temple Kitchen ArrangementsDescription of cooking areas where priests and Levites prepare the holy offerings and sacrifices
The Prince's Worship and Offerings
46:1–46:15God provides detailed regulations for the prince's worship and offerings at the temple, including specific requirements for Sabbath and new moon sacrifices. The passage establishes proper procedures for temple worship and the prince's role in leading the people's religious observances.
theme_rarity
Ezekiel's temple vision uniquely intertwines sabbath observance with sacrificial requirements, creating one of only two biblical passages where these themes converge in detailed ritual prescription.
The Prince's Inheritance and Temple Kitchens
46:16–46:24God establishes laws governing the prince's inheritance rights and describes the temple kitchens where priests prepare offerings. The passage ensures justice by preventing the prince from taking people's land and provides practical details about temple food preparation areas.
theme_rarity
Ezekiel uniquely juxtaposes inheritance laws with temple kitchen architecture, linking the prince's temporal stewardship of land to the priests' sacred stewardship of sacrificial meals.
Ezekiel 46:1
Ezekiel 40:32lexicalHe brought me into the inner court toward the east. He measured the gate according to these measurements;
Ezekiel 40:19lexicalThen he measured the width from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred…
Ezekiel 40:23lexicalThere was a gate to the inner court facing the other gate, on the north and on the east. He measured one hundred cubits…
Ezekiel 40:44lexicalOutside of the inner gate were rooms for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate. They f…
Ezekiel 44:1lexicalThen he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks toward the east; and it was shut.
Ezekiel 46:2
2 Chronicles 29:7lexicalAlso they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offe…
Ezekiel 44:3lexicalAs for the prince, he shall sit in it as prince to eat bread before the LORD. He shall enter by the way of the porch of…
Ezekiel 40:40lexicalOn the one side outside, as one goes up to the entry of the gate toward the north, were two tables; and on the other sid…
Ezekiel 40:39lexicalIn the porch of the gate were two tables on this side and two tables on that side, on which to kill the burnt offering,…
Ezekiel 45:17lexicalIt shall be the prince’s part to give the burnt offerings, the meal offerings, and the drink offerings, in the feasts, a…
Ezekiel 46:4
Numbers 6:14lexicaland he shall offer his offering to the LORD: one male lamb a year old without defect for a burnt offering, one ewe lamb…
Numbers 29:13lexicalYou shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD: thirteen young bulls, two r…
Numbers 28:11lexical“‘In the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, seven male l…
Numbers 29:36lexicalbut you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasant aroma to the LORD: one bull, one ram, seven m…
Leviticus 23:18lexicalYou shall present with the bread seven lambs without defect a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be a bu…
Ezekiel 46:5
Ezekiel 45:24lexicalHe shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bull, an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
Numbers 28:5lexicalwith one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.
Numbers 15:6lexical“‘For a ram, you shall prepare for a meal offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the third part of a h…
Numbers 28:14lexicalTheir drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part o…
Exodus 29:40lexicaland with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the…
Ezekiel 46:6
Numbers 28:11lexical“‘In the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, seven male l…
Numbers 29:17lexical“‘On the second day you shall offer twelve young bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
Leviticus 23:18lexicalYou shall present with the bread seven lambs without defect a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be a bu…
Numbers 28:19lexicalbut you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lam…
Numbers 29:2lexicalYou shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old…
Ezekiel 46:7
Ezekiel 45:24lexicalHe shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bull, an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
Numbers 28:5lexicalwith one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.
Numbers 28:14lexicalTheir drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part o…
Numbers 15:6lexical“‘For a ram, you shall prepare for a meal offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the third part of a h…
Leviticus 14:21lexical“If he is poor, and can’t afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make…
Ezekiel 46:9
Joshua 15:7lexicalThe border went up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that faces the ascent of…
Exodus 40:24lexicalHe put the lamp stand in the Tent of Meeting, opposite the table, on the south side of the tabernacle.
Ezekiel 46:11
Ezekiel 45:24lexicalHe shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bull, an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
Numbers 28:5lexicalwith one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.
Numbers 28:14lexicalTheir drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part o…
Numbers 15:6lexical“‘For a ram, you shall prepare for a meal offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the third part of a h…
Leviticus 23:18lexicalYou shall present with the bread seven lambs without defect a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be a bu…
Ezekiel 46:12
Ezekiel 44:1lexicalThen he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks toward the east; and it was shut.
Ezekiel 45:17lexicalIt shall be the prince’s part to give the burnt offerings, the meal offerings, and the drink offerings, in the feasts, a…
Nehemiah 13:19lexicalIt came to pass that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should…
Leviticus 22:21lexicalWhoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD to accomplish a vow, or for a free will offering of the herd o…
Numbers 29:39lexical“‘You shall offer these to the LORD in your set feasts—in addition to your vows and your free will offerings—for your bu…
Ezekiel 46:13
Numbers 29:2lexicalYou shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old…
Leviticus 23:18lexicalYou shall present with the bread seven lambs without defect a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be a bu…
Numbers 28:19lexicalbut you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lam…
Numbers 29:8lexicalbut you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD for a pleasant aroma: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year…
Leviticus 23:12lexicalOn the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb without defect a year old for a burnt offering to the LO…
Ezekiel 46:14
Numbers 28:5lexicalwith one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.
Numbers 15:6lexical“‘For a ram, you shall prepare for a meal offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the third part of a h…
Ezekiel 45:24lexicalHe shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bull, an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
Numbers 15:9lexicalthen he shall offer with the bull a meal offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil…
Leviticus 23:13lexicalThe meal offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the…
Ezekiel 46:15
Numbers 28:13lexicaland one tenth part of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering to every lamb, as a burnt offering of a pleasant aro…
Numbers 28:3lexicalYou shall tell them, ‘This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to the LORD: male lambs a year old without…
Numbers 4:16lexical“The duty of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be the oil for the light, the sweet incense, the continual meal o…
Numbers 28:9lexical“‘On the Sabbath day, you shall offer two male lambs a year old without defect, and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour…
Leviticus 14:21lexical“If he is poor, and can’t afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make…
Ezekiel 46:16
Ezekiel 20:31lexicalWhen you offer your gifts, when you make your sons pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your idols…
Ezekiel 20:39lexical“‘As for you, house of Israel, the Lord GOD says: “Go, everyone serve his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not lis…
Ezekiel 46:18
Ezekiel 45:8lexicalIn the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel. My princes shall no more oppress my people, but they shall gi…
Numbers 35:8lexicalConcerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take man…
Ezekiel 46:19
Ezekiel 40:44lexicalOutside of the inner gate were rooms for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate. They f…
Ezekiel 47:2lexicalThen he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, and led me around by the way outside to the outer gate, by the…
Ezekiel 42:13lexicalThen he said to me, “The north rooms and the south rooms, which are opposite the separate place, are the holy rooms, whe…
Ezekiel 40:40lexicalOn the one side outside, as one goes up to the entry of the gate toward the north, were two tables; and on the other sid…
Joshua 18:12lexicalTheir border on the north quarter was from the Jordan. The border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went…
Ezekiel 46:20
Ezekiel 42:13lexicalThen he said to me, “The north rooms and the south rooms, which are opposite the separate place, are the holy rooms, whe…
Ezekiel 44:19lexicalWhen they go out into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in whi…
Leviticus 7:37lexicalThis is the law of the burnt offering, the meal offering, the sin offering, the trespass offering, the consecration, and…
Ezekiel 44:29lexicalThey shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel sha…
Numbers 18:9lexicalThis shall be yours of the most holy things from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs,…
Ezekiel 46:22
Exodus 36:15lexicalThe length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the width of each curtain. The eleven curtains had one mea…
Exodus 26:8lexicalThe length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall…
Exodus 36:9lexicalThe length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains had one…
Exodus 26:2lexicalThe length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains sha…
1 Kings 7:2lexicalFor he built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was one hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its heig…
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