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Ezekiel 46:11“‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: The gate of the inner court that faces east will be closed six working days, but on the Sabbath day it will be opened and on the day of the new moon it will be opened.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 66:23Ezek 44:1-2Exod 20:9Ezek 45:17-19Ezek 8:16Ezek 46:6Gen 3:19Heb 4:9-10Luke 13:14
Ezekiel 46:22The prince will enter by way of the porch of the gate from the outside and will stand by the doorpost of the gate. The priests will provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he will bow down at the threshold of the gate and then go out. But the gate will not be closed until evening.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 44:3Ezek 46:81 Chr 17:161 Chr 29:10-121 Kgs 8:22-232 Chr 23:132 Chr 29:292 Chr 34:312 Chr 6:13Col 1:28
Ezekiel 46:33The people of the land will bow down at the entrance of that gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 1:10Heb 10:19-22John 10:9
Ezekiel 46:44The burnt offering that the prince will offer to the Lord on the Sabbath day will be six unblemished lambs and one unblemished ram.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 45:17Num 28:9-10
Ezekiel 46:55The grain offering will be an ephah with the ram, and the grain offering with the lambs will be as much as he is able to give, and a gallon of olive oil with an ephah.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 45:24Ezek 46:7Deut 16:17Num 28:12Ezek 46:11-12Lev 14:21Num 6:21
Ezekiel 46:66On the day of the new moon he will offer an unblemished young bull and six lambs and a ram, all without blemish.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 46:1
Ezekiel 46:77He will provide a grain offering: an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he wishes, and a gallon of olive oil with each ephah of grain.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 46:5
Ezekiel 46:88When the prince enters, he will come by way of the porch of the gate and will go out the same way.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 46:2Col 1:18Ezek 44:1-3
Ezekiel 46:99“‘When the people of the land come before the Lord at the appointed feasts, whoever enters by way of the north gate to worship will go out by way of the south gate; whoever enters by way of the south gate will go out by way of the north gate. No one will return by way of the gate they entered but will go out straight ahead.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 16:162 Pet 2:20-21Exod 23:14-17Exod 34:23Ps 84:7Ezek 1:17Heb 10:38Mal 4:4Phil 3:13-14Ezek 1:12
Ezekiel 46:1010When they come in, the prince will come in with them, and when they go out, he will go out.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 42:41 Chr 29:201 Chr 29:222 Chr 20:27-282 Chr 29:28-292 Chr 34:30-312 Chr 6:2-42 Chr 7:4-52 Sam 6:14-19Heb 3:6
Ezekiel 46:1111“‘At the festivals and at the appointed feasts the grain offering will be an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as one is able, and a gallon of olive oil with each ephah of grain.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 46:5Ezek 46:7Deut 16:1-22Lev 23:1-44Num 15:1-41Num 28:1-29
Ezekiel 46:1212When the prince provides a freewill offering, a burnt offering, or peace offerings as a voluntary offering to the Lord, the gate facing east will be opened for him, and he will provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings just as he did on the Sabbath. Then he will go out, and the gate will be closed after he goes out.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 45:17Ezek 46:1-22 Chr 29:31Ezek 44:3Ezek 46:8Lev 23:381 Chr 29:211 Kgs 3:42 Chr 5:62 Chr 7:5-7
Ezekiel 46:1313“‘You will provide a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering daily to the Lord; morning by morning he will provide it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 50:41 Pet 1:19-20Dan 8:11-13Exod 12:5Exod 29:38-42John 1:29Lev 12:6Num 28:10Num 28:3-8Ps 92:2
Ezekiel 46:1414And you will provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, a sixth of an ephah, and a third of a gallon of olive oil to moisten the choice flour, as a grain offering to the Lord; this is a perpetual statute.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 28:5
Ezekiel 46:1515Thus they will provide the lamb, the grain offering, and the olive oil morning by morning, as a perpetual burnt offering.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 10:1-10Exod 29:42Heb 7:27Heb 9:26Num 28:6
Ezekiel 46:1616“‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: If the prince should give a gift to one of his sons as his inheritance, it will belong to his sons; it is their property by inheritance.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 21:3Gal 4:7Gen 25:5-6John 8:35-36Luke 10:42Matt 25:34Ps 37:18Rom 8:15-17Rom 8:29-32
Ezekiel 46:1717But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will be his until the year of liberty; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance will only remain with his sons.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 25:10Gal 4:30-31Luke 19:25-26Matt 25:14-29
Ezekiel 46:1818The prince will not take away any of the people’s inheritance by oppressively removing them from their property. He will give his sons an inheritance from his own possessions so that my people will not be scattered, each from his own property.’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 45:81 Kgs 21:19Ezek 22:27Eph 4:8Ezek 34:21Ezek 34:3-6Isa 11:3-4Isa 32:1-2Jer 23:5-6John 10:28
Ezekiel 46:1919Then he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which faced north. There I saw a place at the extreme western end.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 42:9Ezek 40:44-46Ezek 44:4-5
Ezekiel 46:2020He said to me, “This is the place where the priests will boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they will bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them out to the outer court to transmit holiness to the people.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 35:13Ezek 44:19Ezek 44:29Lev 2:4-71 Sam 2:13-15Lev 7:1-38
Ezekiel 46:2121Then he brought me out to the outer court and led me past the four corners of the court, and I noticed that in every corner of the court there was a court.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Ezekiel 46:2222In the four corners of the court were small courts, 70 feet in length and 52½ feet in width; the four were all the same size.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Ezekiel 46:2323There was a row of masonry around each of the four courts, and places for boiling offerings were made under the rows all around.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Ezekiel 46:2424Then he said to me, “These are the houses for boiling, where the ministers of the temple boil the sacrifices of the people.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 46:201 Pet 5:2John 21:15-17Matt 24:45
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