Ezekiel 45:18-46:8

English Standard Version

¹⁸“Thus says the Lord God: In the first month, ^(A)on the first day of the month, you shall take a bull from the herd without blemish, and ^(B)purify the sanctuary. ¹⁹^(C)The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it ^(D)on the doorposts of the temple, the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and the posts of the gate of the inner court. ²⁰You shall do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who has sinned through error or ignorance; so you shall make atonement for the temple.

²¹^(E)“In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall celebrate the Feast of the Passover, and for seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten. ²²On that day the prince ^(F)shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a young bull for a sin offering. ²³And on ^(G)the seven days of the festival he shall provide as a burnt offering to the Lord seven young bulls and seven rams without blemish, on each of the seven days; and ^(H)a male goat daily for a sin offering. ²⁴And ^(I)he shall provide as ^(J)a grain offering an ephah for each bull, an ephah for each ram, and a hin^[a] of oil to each ephah. ²⁵^(K)In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month and for the seven days of the feast, ^(L)he shall make the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, and grain offerings, and for the oil.

The Prince and the Feasts

46 “Thus says the Lord God: ^(M)The gate of ^(N)the inner court that faces east shall be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and ^(O)on the day of the new moon it shall be opened. ²^(P)The prince shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from outside, and shall take his stand by ^(Q)the post of the gate. ^(R)The priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at ^(S)the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening. ³^(T)The people of the land shall bow down at the entrance of that gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the new moons. ⁴^(U)The burnt offering that the prince offers to the Lord ^(V)on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish. ⁵And ^(W)the grain offering with the ram shall be an ephah,^[b] and the grain offering with the lambs shall be ^(X)as much as he is able, together with a hin^[c] of oil to each ephah. ⁶On the day of the new moon he shall offer a bull from the herd without blemish, and six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish. ⁷As a grain offering he shall provide an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs ^(Y)as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah. ⁸^(Z)When the prince enters, he shall enter by the vestibule of the gate, and he shall go out by the same way.