‘This is what the Lord ¹GOD says: “The ^agate of the ^binner courtyard facing east shall be ^cshut for the six ^dworking days; but it shall be opened on the ^eSabbath day and opened on the day of the ^fnew moon. 2 The ^aprince shall enter by way of the porch of the gate from outside and stand by the ^bpost of the gate. Then the priests shall provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate and then go out; but the gate shall not be ^cshut until the evening. 3 The ^apeople of the land shall also worship at the doorway of that gate before the LORD on the Sabbaths and on the ^bnew moons. 4 The ^aburnt offering which the prince shall offer to the LORD on the Sabbath day shall be ^bsix lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish; 5 and the ^agrain offering shall be an ¹ephah ²with the ram, and the grain offering ³with the lambs ⁴as much as he is ^bable to give, and a ⁵hin of oil ⁶with an ephah. 6 On the day of the ^anew moon he shall offer a ¹bull without blemish, and six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish. 7 And he shall provide a ^agrain offering, an ephah ¹with the bull and an ephah ²with the ram, and ³with the lambs as ⁴much as he is ^bable, and a hin of oil ⁵with an ephah. 8 When the ^aprince enters, he shall go in by way of the porch of the gate, and go out by ¹the same way. 9 But when the people of the land come ^abefore the LORD at the appointed feasts, one who enters by way of the north gate to worship shall go out by way of the south gate. And one who enters by way of the south gate shall go out by way of the north gate. ¹No one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered, but shall go straight out. 10 And when they go in, the prince shall go in ^aamong them; and when they go out, ¹he shall go out.

11 “At the ^afestivals and the appointed feasts, the ^bgrain offering shall be an ephah ¹with a bull and an ephah ²with a ram, and ³with the lambs as ⁴much as one is able to give, and a hin of oil ⁵with an ephah. 12 And when the prince provides a ^1avoluntary offering, a burnt offering, or peace offerings as a ²voluntary offering to the LORD, the gate facing east shall be ^bopened for him. And he shall provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he does on the ^cSabbath day. Then he shall go out, and the gate shall be shut after he goes out.

13 “And you shall provide a ^alamb a year old without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD daily; ^bmorning by morning you shall provide it. 14 You shall also provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, a ^asixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour, a grain offering to the LORD continually by ¹a permanent ordinance. 15 So they shall provide the lamb, the grain offering, and the oil, morning by morning, as a ^acontinual burnt offering.”

16 ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: “If the prince gives a ^agift from his inheritance to any of his sons, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance. 17 But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until the ^ayear of ¹release; then it shall return to the prince. His inheritance shall be only his sons’; it shall belong to them. 18 And the prince shall ^anot take from the people’s inheritance, ^1bdepriving them of their property; he shall give his sons inheritance from his own property, so that My people will not be scattered, anyone from his property.”’”

19 Then he brought me through the ^aentrance, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which faced north; and behold, a place was there at the extreme rear toward the west. 20 And he said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the ^aguilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall ^bbake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them out into the outer courtyard ¹and transfer holiness to the people.”

21 Then he brought me out into the outer courtyard and led me across to the four corners of the courtyard; and behold, in every corner of the courtyard there was a small courtyard. 22 In the four corners of the courtyard there were enclosed courtyards, forty ¹cubits long and thirty wide; these four in the corners were ²the same size. 23 And there was a row of masonry all around in them, around the four of them, and cooking hearths were made under the rows all around. 24 Then he said to me, “These are the cooking ¹places where the ministers of the house shall cook the sacrifices of the people.”