Ezekiel 46
New Living Translation
46 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: The east gateway of the inner courtyard will be closed during the six workdays each week, but it will be open on Sabbath days and the days of new moon celebrations. 2 The prince will enter the entry room of the gateway from the outside. Then he will stand by the gatepost while the priest offers his burnt offering and peace offering. He will bow down in worship inside the gateway passage and then go back out the way he came. The gateway will not be closed until evening. 3 The common people will bow down and worship the Lord in front of this gateway on Sabbath days and the days of new moon celebrations.
4 “Each Sabbath day the prince will present to the Lord a burnt offering of six lambs and one ram, all with no defects. 5 He will present a grain offering of a basket of choice flour to go with the ram and whatever amount of flour he chooses to go with each lamb, and he is to offer one gallon of olive oil[a] for each basket of flour. 6 At the new moon celebrations, he will bring one young bull, six lambs, and one ram, all with no defects. 7 With the young bull he must bring a basket of choice flour for a grain offering. With the ram he must bring another basket of flour. And with each lamb he is to bring whatever amount of flour he chooses to give. With each basket of flour he must offer one gallon of olive oil.
8 “The prince must enter the gateway through the entry room, and he must leave the same way. 9 But when the people come in through the north gateway to worship the Lord during the religious festivals, they must leave by the south gateway. And those who entered through the south gateway must leave by the north gateway. They must never leave by the same gateway they came in, but must always use the opposite gateway. 10 The prince will enter and leave with the people on these occasions.
11 “So at the special feasts and sacred festivals, the grain offering will be a basket of choice flour with each young bull, another basket of flour with each ram, and as much flour as the worshiper chooses to give with each lamb. Give one gallon of olive oil with each basket of flour. 12 When the prince offers a voluntary burnt offering or peace offering to the Lord, the east gateway to the inner courtyard will be opened for him, and he will offer his sacrifices as he does on Sabbath days. Then he will leave, and the gateway will be shut behind him.
13 “Each morning you must sacrifice a one-year-old lamb with no defects as a burnt offering to the Lord. 14 With the lamb, a grain offering must also be given to the Lord—about three quarts of flour with a third of a gallon of olive oil[b] to moisten the choice flour. This will be a permanent law for you. 15 The lamb, the grain offering, and the olive oil must be given as a daily sacrifice every morning without fail.
16 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: If the prince gives a gift of land to one of his sons as his inheritance, it will belong to him and his descendants forever. 17 But if the prince gives a gift of land from his inheritance to one of his servants, the servant may keep it only until the Year of Jubilee, which comes every fiftieth year.[c] At that time the land will return to the prince. But when the prince gives gifts to his sons, those gifts will be permanent. 18 And the prince may never take anyone’s property by force. If he gives property to his sons, it must be from his own land, for I do not want any of my people unjustly evicted from their property.”
The Temple Kitchens
19 In my vision, the man brought me through the entrance beside the gateway and led me to the sacred rooms assigned to the priests, which faced toward the north. He showed me a place at the extreme west end of these rooms. 20 He explained, “This is where the priests will cook the meat from the guilt offerings and sin offerings and bake the flour from the grain offerings into bread. They will do it here to avoid carrying the sacrifices through the outer courtyard and endangering the people by transmitting holiness to them.”
21 Then he brought me back to the outer courtyard and led me to each of its four corners. In each corner I saw an enclosure. 22 Each of these enclosures was 70 feet long and 52 1⁄2 feet wide,[d] surrounded by walls. 23 Along the inside of these walls was a ledge of stone with fireplaces under the ledge all the way around. 24 The man said to me, “These are the kitchens to be used by the Temple assistants to boil the sacrifices offered by the people.”
Footnotes
- 46:5 Hebrew an ephah [20 quarts or 22 liters] of choice flour . . . a hin [3.8 liters] of olive oil; similarly in 46:7, 11.
- 46:14 Hebrew 1⁄6 of an ephah [3.7 liters] of flour with 1⁄3 of a hin [1.3 liters] of olive oil.
- 46:17 Hebrew until the Year of Release; see Lev 25:8-17.
- 46:22 Hebrew 40 [cubits] [21.2 meters] long and 30 [cubits] [15.9 meters] wide.
Ezekiel 46
English Standard Version
The Prince and the Feasts
46 “Thus says the Lord God: (A)The gate of (B)the inner court that faces east shall be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and (C)on the day of the new moon it shall be opened. 2 (D)The prince shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from outside, and shall take his stand by (E)the post of the gate. (F)The priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at (G)the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening. 3 (H)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 (I)The burnt offering that the prince offers to the Lord (J)on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish. 5 And (K)the grain offering with the ram shall be an ephah,[a] and the grain offering with the lambs shall be (L)as much as he is able, together with a hin[b] of oil to each ephah. 6 On 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. 7 As a grain offering he shall provide an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs (M)as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah. 8 (N)When the prince enters, he shall enter by the vestibule of the gate, and he shall go out by the same way.
9 (O)“When the people of the land (P)come before the Lord at the appointed feasts, he who enters by the north gate to worship shall go out by the south gate, and he who enters by the south gate shall go out by the north gate: no one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered, but each shall go out straight ahead. 10 When they enter, (Q)the prince shall enter with them, and when they go out, he shall go out.
11 “At the feasts and the appointed festivals, (R)the grain offering with a young bull shall be an ephah, and with a ram an ephah, and with the lambs (S)as much as one is able to give, together with a hin of oil to an ephah. 12 When the prince provides (T)a freewill offering, either a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to the Lord, (U)the gate facing east shall be opened for him. And he shall offer his burnt offering or his peace offerings (V)as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out the gate shall be shut.
13 (W)“You shall provide a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to the Lord daily; morning by morning you shall provide it. 14 And (X)you shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, one sixth of an ephah, and one third of a hin of oil to moisten the flour, as a grain offering to the Lord. This is a perpetual statute. 15 Thus the lamb and the meal offering and the oil shall be provided, morning by morning, for (Y)a regular burnt offering.
16 “Thus says the Lord God: If the prince makes a gift to any of his sons as his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons. It is their property by inheritance. 17 But if he makes a gift (Z)out of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his to (AA)the year of liberty. Then it shall revert to the prince; surely it is his inheritance—it shall belong to his sons. 18 (AB)The prince shall not take any of the inheritance of the people, (AC)thrusting them out of their property. He shall give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that none of my people shall be (AD)scattered from his property.”
Boiling Places for Offerings
19 Then he brought me through the entrance, which was (AE)at the side of the gate, to the north row of (AF)the holy chambers for the priests, and behold, a place was there at the extreme western end of them. 20 And he said to me, “This is the place where the priests (AG)shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where (AH)they shall bake the grain offering, in order not to bring them out into the outer court and so (AI)transmit holiness to the people.”
21 Then he brought me out to the outer court and led me around to the four corners of the court. And behold, in each corner of the court there was another court— 22 in the four corners of the court were small[c] courts, forty cubits[d] long and thirty broad; the four were of the same size. 23 On the inside, around each of the four courts was a row of masonry, with hearths made at the bottom of the rows all around. 24 Then he said to me, “These are the kitchens where those who (AJ)minister at the temple (AK)shall boil the sacrifices of the people.”
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 46:5 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
- Ezekiel 46:5 A hin was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters
- Ezekiel 46:22 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
- Ezekiel 46:22 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters; a long cubit (see 40:5) was about 21 inches or 53 centimeters
Ézéchiel 46
La Bible du Semeur
Les sabbats et les nouvelles lunes
46 Voici ce que déclare le Seigneur, l’Eternel : La porte orientale du parvis intérieur restera fermée les six jours de travail. Mais le sabbat et le jour de la nouvelle lune, elle sera ouverte. 2 Le prince, venant de l’extérieur, entrera par le portique de la porte[a] et se tiendra près du montant de la porte. Les prêtres offriront son holocauste et ses sacrifices de communion. Il se prosternera sur le seuil de la porte, puis se retirera, et la porte ne sera plus refermée avant le soir. 3 Les gens du peuple se prosterneront devant l’Eternel à l’entrée de cette porte, les jours de sabbat et lors des nouvelles lunes.
4 Le sabbat, le prince offrira à l’Eternel en holocauste six agneaux sans défaut et un bélier sans défaut. 5 Il présentera comme offrande quinze kilogrammes de grains avec le bélier, et ce qu’il voudra donner comme offrande accompagnant les agneaux. L’offrande d’huile sera de trois litres et demi par quinze kilogrammes de grains[b]. 6 Le jour de la nouvelle lune, il offrira un jeune taureau sans défaut, six agneaux et un bélier sans défaut. 7 Il joindra comme offrande quinze kilogrammes de grains pour le taureau et autant pour le bélier et, pour les agneaux, ce qu’il aura à disposition, plus trois litres et demi d’huile par quinze kilogrammes de grains[c].
Les règles pour le prince
8 Quand le prince viendra, il entrera par le portique de la porte et sortira par le même chemin. 9 Et quand les gens du peuple viendront devant l’Eternel lors des fêtes cultuelles, ceux qui entreront par la porte nord pour se prosterner, sortiront par la porte sud, et ceux qui entreront par la porte sud, sortiront par la porte nord. On ne repassera pas la porte par laquelle on sera entré, on sortira par la porte opposée. 10 Le prince sera au milieu de son peuple, entrant et sortant en même temps qu’eux.
11 Lors des fêtes et des solennités, l’offrande sera de quinze kilogrammes de grains par taureau et par bélier, et, pour les agneaux, ce qu’il voudra donner ; avec chaque mesure de quinze kilogrammes de grains, on offrira trois litres et demi d’huile[d].
12 Quand le prince offrira à l’Eternel un holocauste ou un sacrifice de communion en offrande volontaire, on lui ouvrira la porte orientale, et il offrira son holocauste et son sacrifice de communion comme il le fait le jour du sabbat. Puis il sortira, et on refermera la porte derrière lui.
13 On offrira chaque jour en holocauste à l’Eternel un agneau d’un an sans défaut. On l’offrira chaque matin. 14 On y ajoutera chaque matin comme offrande deux kilogrammes et demi de fine farine que l’on pétrira avec un bon litre d’huile[e]. C’est une offrande pour l’Eternel. Ce sont les lois fixées pour toujours pour le sacrifice perpétuel. 15 On offrira chaque matin l’agneau, l’offrande et l’huile, c’est l’holocauste perpétuel.
Les droits du prince sur son patrimoine
16 Voici ce que déclare le Seigneur, l’Eternel : Quand le prince fera une donation à l’un de ses fils, elle appartiendra à ce fils et passera comme patrimoine héréditaire à ses enfants. 17 Mais lorsqu’il fera à l’un de ses serviteurs un don pris sur son patrimoine, ce don appartiendra au serviteur jusqu’à l’année de la libération[f] puis il reviendra au prince. Ainsi son patrimoine restera la propriété de ses fils. 18 Le prince ne prendra rien sur le patrimoine du peuple en le dépouillant de ses propriétés ; c’est seulement de son propre domaine qu’il donnera des parts à ses fils, afin que personne de mon peuple ne soit dispersé loin de sa propriété[g].
Les cuisines du Temple
19 Après cela, le personnage me fit pénétrer, par l’entrée qui est à côté de la porte nord, dans les salles saintes réservées aux prêtres. Tout au fond, du côté ouest, il y avait un emplacement 20 et le personnage me dit que les prêtres y feraient cuire la viande des sacrifices de culpabilité et des sacrifices pour le péché, ainsi que les offrandes, afin de ne pas emporter ces aliments sur le parvis extérieur où leur contact pourrait rendre saints des membres du peuple.
21 Puis il me fit sortir vers le parvis extérieur et me fit passer auprès des quatre coins du parvis, et je vis que dans chaque angle du parvis, il y avait une courette 22 fermée[h], de quarante coudées de long sur trente coudées de large. Les quatre courettes avaient les mêmes dimensions. 23 Chacune était entourée d’une enceinte, à la base de laquelle on avait aménagé des fourneaux tout autour. 24 L’homme me dit : Voici les cuisines où les serviteurs du Temple feront cuire la viande des sacrifices offerts par le peuple.
Footnotes
- 46.2 Rituellement purifiée (45.19). De là, le prince pouvait suivre les sacrifices offerts sur le grand autel du parvis intérieur, mais il ne lui était pas permis de pénétrer dans ce parvis.
- 46.5 Littéralement : un épha de grains avec le bélier… un hîn d’huile par épha de grains.
- 46.7 Littéralement : un épha de grains pour le taureau et un épha pour le bélier… plus un hîn d’huile par épha de grains.
- 46.11 Littéralement : un épha par taureau et par bélier… avec chaque épha de grains, on offrira un hîn d’huile.
- 46.14 Littéralement : un sixième d’épha de fine farine et le tiers d’un hîn d’huile pour la mouiller.
- 46.17 Voir Lv 25.8-55.
- 46.18 Comme ce fut le cas pour Achab qui déposséda Naboth de sa vigne (1 R 21.3-16).
- 46.22 fermée: terme hébreu de sens incertain.
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