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Ezekiel 45:1-46:24 — The Sacred District and Offerings

Ezek.45.1-46.24

¹When you allot the land as an inheritance, you shall set apart a contribution to the LORD, a holy portion from the land: twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand cubits wide. It shall be holy throughout all its surrounding territory. ²From this there shall be for the sanctuary an area five hundred cubits by five hundred, square on every side, with fifty cubits of open land around it. ³From this measured tract you shall measure off twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in width, and in it shall be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place. ⁴It is a holy portion of the land. It shall belong to the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who draw near to minister to the LORD. It shall be a place for their houses and a holy area for the sanctuary. ⁵An area twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand cubits wide shall belong to the Levites, those who minister at the temple, as their possession, for twenty chambers. ⁶You shall assign as the city's property an area five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand cubits long, alongside the holy contribution. It shall belong to the whole house of Israel. ⁷What belongs to the prince shall lie on both sides of the holy contribution and the city's property, adjoining the holy contribution and adjoining the city's property, extending westward from the western side and eastward from the eastern side. Its length shall correspond to one of the tribal portions, from the western border to the eastern border. ⁸This shall be his land as a possession in Israel. Then my princes shall no longer oppress my people, but shall leave the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes. ⁹Thus says the Lord GOD: Enough, princes of Israel! Put away violence and plunder, and practice justice and righteousness. Put away your evictions from my people, declares the Lord GOD. ¹⁰You shall have just scales, a just ephah, and a just bath. ¹¹The ephah and the bath shall be of the same standard quantity, so that the bath is one-tenth of a homer and the ephah is one-tenth of a homer. The homer shall be the standard measure for both. ¹²The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall make up your mina . ¹³This is the contribution that you shall set apart: one-sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and one-sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley. ¹⁴And the prescribed due of oil shall be one-tenth of a bath from each cor of oil; the cor is ten baths, that is, one homer, for ten baths are a homer. ¹⁵And one lamb from every flock of two hundred, from the well-watered pastures of Israel, shall be for the grain offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for them, declares the Lord GOD. ¹⁶All the people of the land shall give this contribution to the prince in Israel. ¹⁷The prince shall be responsible for the burnt offerings, the grain offering, and the drink offering at the festivals, the New Moons, and the Sabbaths, at all the appointed times of the house of Israel. He shall provide the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel. ¹⁸Thus says the Lord GOD: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you shall take a young bull without blemish and purify the sanctuary. ¹⁹The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the altar ledge, and on the doorposts of the gate of the inner court. ²⁰You shall do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who sins unintentionally or through simplicity, and so you shall make atonement for the temple. ²¹In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall observe the Passover, a festival of seven days. Unleavened bread shall be eaten. ²²On that day the prince shall provide, for himself and for all the people of the land, a bull as a sin offering. ²³During the seven days of the festival he shall provide as a burnt offering to the LORD seven bulls and seven rams without blemish each day for the seven days, and each day a male goat as a sin offering. ²⁴He shall provide as a grain offering an ephah with each bull and an ephah with each ram, and a hin of oil with each ephah. ²⁵In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the festival , he shall provide the same for seven days: the same sin offering, the same burnt offering, the same grain offering, and the same oil.

Chapter 46

¹Thus says the Lord GOD: The gate of the inner court that faces east shall be shut during 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 from outside by way of the porch of the gate and stand by the doorpost of the gate. The priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall bow down at the threshold of the gate and then go out. But the gate shall not be shut until evening. ³The people of the land also shall bow down at the entrance of that gate before the LORD on the Sabbaths and on the New Moons. ⁴The burnt offering that the prince shall present to the LORD on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish. ⁵The grain offering shall be an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs such a grain offering as his hand can provide, with a hin of oil to the ephah. ⁶On the day of the New Moon there shall be a young bull without blemish, and six lambs and a ram; they shall be without blemish. ⁷He shall provide as a grain offering an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as his hand can provide, with a hin of oil to the ephah. ⁸When the prince enters, he shall go in by way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go out by the same way. ⁹But when the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed festivals, whoever enters by way of the north gate to bow down shall go out by way of the south gate, and whoever enters by way of the south gate shall go out by way of the north gate. No one shall return by way of the gate through which he entered, but each shall go out straight ahead. ¹⁰The prince shall enter with them when they enter, and when they go out, he shall go out. ¹¹At the festivals and the appointed times, the grain offering shall be an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as his hand can provide, with a hin of oil to the ephah. ¹²When the prince provides a freewill offering to the LORD, whether a burnt offering or peace offerings, the gate that faces east shall be opened for him. He shall offer his burnt offering or his peace offerings just as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he goes out the gate shall be shut. ¹³You shall offer a year-old lamb without blemish as a daily burnt offering to the LORD; morning by morning you shall offer it. ¹⁴And you shall provide with it, morning by morning, a grain offering of one-sixth of an ephah and one-third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour, as a grain offering to the LORD. This is a perpetual statute forever. ¹⁵So they shall offer the lamb, the grain offering, and the oil, morning by morning, as a continual burnt offering. ¹⁶Thus says the Lord GOD: 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 a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince. Only his inheritance belonging to his sons shall remain theirs. ¹⁸The prince shall not take any of the people's inheritance, driving them out of their possession. From his own possession he shall provide an inheritance for his sons, so that none of my people may be scattered from his possession. ¹⁹Then he brought me by the entrance that was at the side of the gate into the holy chambers for the priests, which faced north; and behold, there was a place there at the far western end. ²⁰And he said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them out into the outer court and thereby convey holiness to the people.” ²¹Then he brought me out into the outer court and led me to the four corners of the court, and behold, in each corner of the court there was a court. ²²In the four corners of the court there were enclosed courts, forty cubits long and thirty cubits wide; the four corner courts were all of the same size. ²³There was a row of masonry around them, around all four, with boiling places made beneath the rows all around. ²⁴And he said to me, “These are the boiling rooms , where those who minister at the temple shall boil the people's sacrifice.”

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4/11/2026

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