¹⁷ It will be the duty of the prince to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings and drink offerings at the festivals, the New Moons^(A) and the Sabbaths^(B)—at all the appointed festivals of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings,^[a] grain offerings, burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to make atonement for the Israelites.^(C)

¹⁸ “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: In the first month^(D) on the first day you are to take a young bull without defect^(E) and purify the sanctuary.^{(F) 19} The priest is to take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the upper ledge^(G) of the altar^(H) and on the gateposts of the inner court. ²⁰ You are to do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who sins unintentionally^(I) or through ignorance; so you are to make atonement for the temple.

²¹ “‘In the first month on the fourteenth day you are to observe the Passover,^(J) a festival lasting seven days, during which you shall eat bread made without yeast. ²² On that day the prince is to provide a bull as a sin offering for himself and for all the people of the land.^{(K) 23} Every day during the seven days of the festival he is to provide seven bulls and seven rams^(L) without defect as a burnt offering to the Lord, and a male goat for a sin offering.^{(M) 24} He is to provide as a grain offering^(N) an ephah for each bull and an ephah for each ram, along with a hin^[b] of olive oil for each ephah.^(O)

²⁵ “‘During the seven days of the festival,^(P) which begins in the seventh month on the fifteenth day, he is to make the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings and oil.^(Q)

46 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: The gate of the inner court^(R) facing east^(S) is to be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day and on the day of the New Moon^(T) it is to be opened. ² The prince is to enter from the outside through the portico^(U) of the gateway and stand by the gatepost. The priests are to sacrifice his burnt offering^(V) and his fellowship offerings. He is to bow down in worship at the threshold of the gateway and then go out, but the gate will not be shut until evening.^{(W) 3} On the Sabbaths^(X) and New Moons the people of the land are to worship in the presence of the Lord at the entrance of that gateway.^{(Y) 4} The burnt offering the prince brings to the Lord on the Sabbath day is to be six male lambs and a ram, all without defect. ⁵ The grain offering given with the ram is to be an ephah,^[c] and the grain offering with the lambs is to be as much as he pleases, along with a hin^[d] of olive oil for each ephah.^{(Z) 6} On the day of the New Moon^(AA) he is to offer a young bull, six lambs and a ram, all without defect.^(AB)