Douay Bible - Ezekiel Chapter 46

Ezekiel 46:1
Thus saith the Lord God: The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east, shall be shut the six days, on which work is done; but on the sabbath day it shall be opened, yea and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

Ezekiel 46:2
And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate from without, and he shall stand at the threshold of the gate: and the priests shall offer his holocaust, and his peace offerings: and he shall adore upon the threshold of the gate, and shall go out: but the gate shall not be shut till the evening.

Ezekiel 46:3
And the people of the land shall adore at the door of that gate before the Lord on the sabbaths, and on the new moons.

Ezekiel 46:4
And the holocaust that the prince shall offer to the Lord on the sabbath day, shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.

Ezekiel 46:5
And the sacrifice of an ephi for a ram: but for the lambs what sacrifice his hand shall allow: and a hin of oil for every ephi.

Ezekiel 46:6
And on the day of the new moon a calf of the herd without blemish: and the six lambs, and the rams shall be without blemish.

Ezekiel 46:7
And he shall offer in sacrifice an ephi for a calf, an ephi also for a ram: but for the lambs, as his hand shall find : and a hin of oil for every ephi.

Ezekiel 46:8
And when the prince is to go in, let him go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and let him go out the same way.

Ezekiel 46:9
But when the people of the land shall go in before the Lord in the solemn feasts, he that goeth in by the north gate to adore, shall go out by the way of the south gate : and he that; goeth in 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 whereby he came in, but shall go out at that over against it.

Ezekiel 46:10
And the prince in the midst of them, shall go in when they go in, and go out when they go out.

Ezekiel 46:11
And in the fairs, and in the solemnities there shall be the sacrifice of an ephi to a calf, and an ephi to a ram: and to the lambs, the sacrifice shall be as his hand shall find: and a hin of oil to every ephi.

Ezekiel 46:12
But when the prince shall offer a voluntary holocaust, or voluntary peace offerings to the Lord : the gate that looketh towards the east shall be opened to him, and he shall offer his holocaust, and his peace offerings, as it is wont to be done on the sabbath day: and he shall go out, and the gate shall be shut after he is gone forth.

Ezekiel 46:13
And he shall offer every day for a holocaust to the Lord, a lamb of the same year without blemish: he shall offer it always in the morning.

Ezekiel 46:14
And he shall offer the sacrifice for it morning by morning, the sixth part of ephi: and the third part of a bin of oil be mingled with the fine hour: a to the Lord by ordinance continual and everlasting.

Ezekiel 46:15
He shall offer the lamb, and the sacrifice, and the oil morning by morning: an everlasting holocaust.

Ezekiel 46:16
Thus saith the Lord God: If the prince give a gift to any of his sons: the inheritance of it shall go to his children, they shall possess it by inheritance.

Ezekiel 46:17
But if he give a legacy out of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until the year of release, and it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall go to his sons.

Ezekiel 46:18
And the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance by violence, nor of their possession : but out of his own possession he shall give an inheritance to his sons: that my people be not dispersed every man from his possession.

Ezekiel 46:19
And he brought me in by the entry that was at the side of the gate, into the chambers of the sanctuary that were for the priests, which looked toward the north. And there was a place bending to the west.

Ezekiel 46:20
And he said to me: This is the place where the priests shall boil the sin offering, and the trespass offering: where they shall dress the sacrifice, that they may not bring it out into the outward court, and the people be sanctified.

Ezekiel 46:21
And he brought me into the outward court, and he led me about by the four corners of the court: and behold there was a little court in the corner of the court, to every corner of the court there was a little court.

Ezekiel 46:22
In the four corners of the court were little courts disposed, forty cubits long, and thirty broad, all the four were of one measure.

Ezekiel 46:23
And there was a wall round about compassing the four little courts, and there were kitchens built under the rows round about.

Ezekiel 46:24
And he said to me: This is the house of the kitchens wherein the ministers of the house of the Lord shall boil the victims of the people.

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