Ezekiel Chapter 46

Ordinances for princes and people in worship

46:1 So says Adonaiהָאָדוֹן
 the Lord, Pluralis majestatis taken as singular) is the possessive form of adon (“Lord”), along with the first-person singular pronoun enclitic. As with Elohim, Adonai’s grammatical form is usually explained as a plural of majesty. For more info click here
YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
; The gate of the inner court that looked toward the east shall be closed the six working days; but on the Sabbathהַשַּׁבָּת
Transliteration: haššabāṯ, [ʃa’bat], lit. ’rest’ or ‘cessation’) is Judaism’s day of rest on the seventh day of the week—i.e., Saturday. On this day, religious Jews remember the biblical stories describing the creation of the heavens and earth in six days and the redemption from slavery and the Exodus from Egypt, and look forward to a future Messianic Age. Since the Jewish religious calendar counts days from sunset to sunset, Shabbat begins in the evening of what on the civil calendar is Friday For more info click here
it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
46:2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priestsהַכֹּהֲנִים
Transliteration: hakōhănîm – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Singular Absolute Kohenim = priests, Plural principal officers or chief rulers For more info click here
shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go out; but the gate shall not be closed until the evening.
46:3 Also the people of the land shall worship at the entrance of this gate before YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
on the Sabbathsבַּשַּׁבָּתוֹת
Transliteration: baššabāṯôṯ, lit. ’rest’ or ‘cessation’) is Judaism’s day of rest on the seventh day of the week—i.e., Saturday. On this day, religious Jews remember the biblical stories describing the creation of the heavens and earth in six days and the redemption from slavery and the Exodus from Egypt, and look forward to a future Messianic Age. Since the Jewish religious calendar counts days from sunset to sunset, Shabbat begins in the evening of what on the civil calendar is Friday For more info click here
and on the new moons.
46:4 And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer to YAHWEHלַיהוָה
Transliteration layhvâ, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
on the Sabbathהַשַּׁבָּת
Transliteration: haššabāṯ, [ʃa’bat], lit. ’rest’ or ‘cessation’) is Judaism’s day of rest on the seventh day of the week—i.e., Saturday. On this day, religious Jews remember the biblical stories describing the creation of the heavens and earth in six days and the redemption from slavery and the Exodus from Egypt, and look forward to a future Messianic Age. Since the Jewish religious calendar counts days from sunset to sunset, Shabbat begins in the evening of what on the civil calendar is Friday For more info click here
day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.
46:5 And the meat offering shall be an ephah noun — an ancient Hebrew dry measure equivalent to a bushel (35 l). — ORIGIN — from Hebrew ‘ēp̱āh, probably from Egyptian. for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
46:6 And on the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish.
46:7 And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephahnoun — an ancient Hebrew dry measure equivalent to a bushel (35 l). — ORIGIN — from Hebrew ‘ēp̱āh, probably from Egyptian. for a bullock, and an ephah noun — an ancient Hebrew dry measure equivalent to a bushel (35 l). — ORIGIN — from Hebrew ‘ēp̱āh, probably from Egyptian. for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain to, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
46:8 And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go out by the wayדֶּרֶךְ
Transliteration: dereḵ Pronunciation: deh’-rek way, road, path, route, distance, journey, manner For more info click here
of it.
46:9 But when the people of the land shall come before YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
on the solemn feasts, he that enters in by the wayדֶּרֶךְ
Transliteration: dereḵ Pronunciation: deh’-rek way, road, path, route, distance, journey, manner For more info click here
of the north gate to worship shall go out by the wayדֶּרֶךְ
Transliteration: dereḵ Pronunciation: deh’-rek way, road, path, route, distance, journey, manner For more info click here
of the south gate; and he that enters by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the wayדֶּרֶךְ
Transliteration: dereḵ Pronunciation: deh’-rek way, road, path, route, distance, journey, manner For more info click here
of the gate by which he came in, but shall go forth over against it.
46:10 And the prince in the middle of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth.
46:11 And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering shall be an ephah noun — an ancient Hebrew dry measure equivalent to a bushel (35 l). — ORIGIN — from Hebrew ‘ēp̱āh, probably from Egyptian. to a bullock, and an ephah noun — an ancient Hebrew dry measure equivalent to a bushel (35 l). — ORIGIN — from Hebrew ‘ēp̱āh, probably from Egyptian. to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
46:12 Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily to YAHWEHלַיהוָה
Transliteration layhvâ, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
, one shall then open him the gate that looked toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the Sabbathהַשַּׁבָּת
Transliteration: haššabāṯ, [ʃa’bat], lit. ’rest’ or ‘cessation’) is Judaism’s day of rest on the seventh day of the week—i.e., Saturday. On this day, religious Jews remember the biblical stories describing the creation of the heavens and earth in six days and the redemption from slavery and the Exodus from Egypt, and look forward to a future Messianic Age. Since the Jewish religious calendar counts days from sunset to sunset, Shabbat begins in the evening of what on the civil calendar is Friday For more info click here
day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall closed the gate.
46:13 You shall daily prepare a burnt offering to YAHWEHלַיהוָה
Transliteration layhvâ, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
of a lamb of the first year without blemish: you shall prepare it every morning.
46:14 And you shall prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinanceחֻקּוֹת
Transliteration: ḥuqqôṯ – by a | ordinance – statute, ordinance, limit, enactment, something prescribed For more info click here
to YAHWEHלַיהוָה
Transliteration layhvâ, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
.
46:15 So shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering.
46:16 So says Adonaiהָאָדוֹן
 the Lord, Pluralis majestatis taken as singular) is the possessive form of adon (“Lord”), along with the first-person singular pronoun enclitic. As with Elohim, Adonai’s grammatical form is usually explained as a plural of majesty. For more info click here
YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
; If the prince give a gift to any of his sons, the inheritance of it shall be his sons’; it shall be their possession by inheritance.
46:17 But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons’ for them.
46:18 Then the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.
46:19 After he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holyהַקֹּדֶשׁ
Pronunciation: haqqōḏeš a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity:—consecrated (thing), dedicated (thing), hallowed (thing), holiness, (× most) holy (× day, portion, thing), saint, sanctuary. For more info click here
chambers of the priestsהַכֹּהֲנִים
Transliteration: hakōhănîm – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Singular Absolute Kohenim = priests, Plural principal officers or chief rulers For more info click here
, which looked toward the north: and, see, there was a place on the two sides westward.
46:20 Then said He to me, This is the place where the priestsהַכֹּהֲנִים
Transliteration: hakōhănîm – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Singular Absolute Kohenim = priests, Plural principal officers or chief rulers For more info click here
shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offeringהַחַטָּאת
Transliteration: haḥaṭṭā’ṯ- an offense (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender:—punishment (of sin), purifying(-fication for sin), sin(-ner, offering) – For more info click here
, where they shall bake the meat offering; that they don’t carry [them] out into the outer court, to sanctifyלְקַדֵּשׁ
Transliteration lᵊqadēš; to be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally):—appoint, bid, consecrate, dedicate, defile, hallow, (be, keep) holy(-er, place), keep, prepare, proclaim, purify, sanctify(-ied one, self), × wholly. For more info click here
the people.
46:21 Then he brought me forth into the outer court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, look, in every corner of the court there was a court.
46:22 In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits noun — an ancient measure of length, approximately equal to the length of a forearm. It was typically about 18 inches or 44 cm, though there was a long cubit of about 21 inches or 52 cm. — ORIGIN Middle English : from Latin cubitum ‘elbow, forearm, cubit’. long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure.
46:23 And there was a row of building around in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows around it.
46:24 Then said he to me, These are the places of them that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.

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