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1 This is also what I, Yahweh the Lord, declare: The east gate of the inner courtyard must be shut during the six days in which people work each week, but on the days of rest and on the days when there is a new moon, that gate must remain open.2 The king must enter the courtyard through the entry room of the entrance, and stand alongside the entry post. Then the priests must sacrifice the animal that the king brought to be completely burned on the altar, and also the offering that he brought to maintain fellowship with me. The king must worship me at the entrance of the gateway, and then he must go out. After he leaves, that entryway must not be shut until that evening.3 On the days of rest and on the days when there is a new moon, the people must worship me, Yahweh, at the entrance of the gate.4 The offering that the king brings to be completely burned on the day of rest must be six lambs and one ram, all with no defects.5 The offering that he gives with the ram must be a bushel of grain, and the grain \add that he offers with the lambs should be as much as he desires to offer, along with one gallon of olive oil for each bushel of grain.6 Then each day that there is a new moon, he must offer a young bull, six lambs and a ram, all with no defects.7 He must also provide one bushel of grain with the bull, one bushel of grain with the ram, and as much grain as he wants with the lambs, along with one quart of olive oil with each bushel of grain.8 When the king enters the temple area, he must enter through the entry room of the entrance, and he must go out through the same entry room when he leaves.
9 When the Israeli people come to worship me at the festivals that I have appointed, those who enter the temple area through the north entrance must go out through the south entrance. And those who enter through the south entrance must go out through the north entrance. People must not go out through the entrance through which they entered; they must go out through the opposite entrance. 10 The king must go in when the other people go in, and go out when the other people go out.
11 During the festivals and sacred feasts, the king must present a bushel of grain along with each bull or ram, and as much grain as he wants to, along with the lambs, and one gallon of olive oil with each bushel of grain. 12 When the king gives an offering that is not required, either one to be completely burned on the altar or an offering to maintain fellowship with me, Yahweh, the gate on the east side of the courtyard must be opened for him. Then he must present those offerings like he does on the days of rest. Then he must go out, and after he goes out, the gate must be shut.
13 Every day, during the morning, someone must provide a one year-old lamb with no defects to be an offering to me to be completely burned. 14 Someone must also provide each morning an offering of flour. It must be one sixth of a bushel of flour mixed with one quart of olive oil. You must never stop presenting these offerings of flour and olive oil to me, Yahweh, each day. 15 The lamb and the offering of flour and olive oil must be presented every morning, to be completely burned on the altar.
16 This is what I, Yahweh the Lord, declare: If the king gives some of his land to one of his sons, to belong to him permanently, it will belong to his son's descendants forever. 17 However, if he gives some of his land to one of his servants, the servant will be allowed to keep that land until the Year of Celebration. Then the king will own it again; the king's land must belong to his descendants forever. 18 The king must not take any land that the people own and force them to live somewhere else. The land that he gives to his sons must be from his own property, not from anyone else's property, in order that none of my people will be forced to leave his own property.’ ” 19 Then, in the vision, the man who was showing the temple area to me brought me through the entrance alongside the gateway to the sacred rooms on the north side, the rooms that belonged to the priests, and he showed me a place at the western end of those rooms. 20 He said to me, “This is the place where the priests will cook the meat of the offerings that people make because they failed to do what they promised Yahweh that they would do, and offerings to cause people to become acceptable to God, and where they will bake bread made with the flour brought as offerings. They will cook those things in their rooms in order to avoid bringing them into the outer courtyard to cook them there, lest someone might be punished because of touching them.”
21 Then the man brought me to the outer courtyard and led me around to its four corners. In each corner I saw an enclosed area; 22 each was 70 feet long and 52.5 feet wide. 23 Around the inside of each of these enclosed areas was a stone ledge, with places to make fires all around under the ledge. 24 The man said to me, “These are the kitchens where the descendants of Levi who work in the temple will cook the sacrifices that the people bring.”