^8 (A)When the prince enters, he shall enter by the vestibule of the gate, and he shall go out by the same way.

^2 (A)The prince shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from outside, and shall take his stand by ^(B)the post of the gate. ^(C)The priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at ^(D)the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening.

¹⁸ And ^(A)he is the head of the body, the church. He is ^(B)the beginning, ^(C)the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.

The Gate for the Prince

44 Then he brought me ^(A)back to the outer gate of the sanctuary, ^(B)which faces east. And it was shut. ² And the Lord said to me, “This gate shall remain shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it, for ^(C)the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered by it. Therefore it shall remain shut. ³ Only ^(D)the prince may sit in it ^(E)to eat bread before the Lord. He ^(F)shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gate, and shall go out by the same way.”