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the seventh day of the month for everyone who gate. The prince shall then be in their midst.
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has sinned unintentionally or in ignorance. When they go in, he shall go in; and when they
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Thus you shall make atonement for the temple. go out, he shall go out. At the festivals and the
“In the first month, on the fourteenth day appointed feast days the grain offering shall be
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of the month, you shall observe the Passover, an ephah for a bull, an ephah for a ram, as
a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall much as he wants to give for the lambs, and a
be eaten. And on that day the prince shall hin of oil with every ephah.
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prepare for himself and for all the people of 12 “Now when the prince makes a voluntary
the land a bull for a sin offering. On the seven burnt offering or voluntary peace offering to
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days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offer- the LORD, the gate that faces toward the east
ing to the LORD, seven bulls and seven rams shall then be opened for him; and he shall pre-
without blemish, daily for seven days, and a kid pare his burnt offering and his peace offerings
of the goats daily for a sin offering. And he shall as he did on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go
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prepare a grain offering of one ephah for each out, and after he goes out the gate shall be
bull and one ephah for each ram, together with shut.
a hin of oil for each ephah. 13 “You shall daily make a burnt offering to
“In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day the LORD of a lamb of the first year without
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of the month, at the feast, he shall do likewise blemish; you shall prepare it every morning.
for seven days, according to the sin offering, the 14 And you shall prepare a grain offering with it
burnt offering, the grain offering, and the oil.” every morning, a sixth of an ephah, and a third
‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “The gate- of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour. This
46 way of the inner court that faces grain offering is a perpetual ordinance, to be
toward the east shall be shut the six working made regularly to the LORD. Thus they shall
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days; but on the Sabbath it shall be opened, prepare the lamb, the grain offering, and the
and on the day of the New Moon it shall be oil, as a regular burnt offering every morn-
opened. The prince shall enter by way of the ing.”
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vestibule of the gateway from the outside, and 16 ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “If the prince
stand by the gatepost. The priests shall pre- gives a gift of some of his inheritance to any of
pare his burnt offering and his peace offer- his sons, it shall belong to his sons; it is their
ings. He shall worship at the threshold of the possession by inheritance. But if he gives a
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gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall gift of some of his inheritance to one of his ser-
not be shut until evening. Likewise the peo- vants, it shall be his until the year of liberty,
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ple of the land shall worship at the entrance to after which it shall return to the prince. But
this gateway before the LORD on the Sabbaths his inheritance shall belong to his sons; it shall
and the New Moons. The burnt offering that become theirs. Moreover the prince shall not
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the prince offers to the LORD on the Sabbath take any of the people’s inheritance by evicting
day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a them from their property; he shall provide an
ram without blemish; and the grain offering inheritance for his sons from his own proper-
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shall be one ephah for a ram, and the grain ty, so that none of My people may be scattered
offering for the lambs, as much as he wants to from his property.” ’ ”
give, as well as a hin of oil with every ephah. 19 Now he brought me through the entrance,
On the day of the New Moon it shall be a which was at the side of the gate, into the
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young bull without blemish, six lambs, and a holy chambers of the priests which face toward
ram; they shall be without blemish. He shall the north; and there a place was situated at
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prepare a grain offering of an ephah for a bull, their extreme western end. And he said to
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an ephah for a ram, as much as he wants to me, “This is the place where the priests shall
give for the lambs, and a hin of oil with every boil the trespass offering and the sin offering,
ephah. When the prince enters, he shall go in and where they shall bake the grain offering,
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by way of the vestibule of the gateway, and go so that they do not bring them out into the
out the same way. outer court to sanctify the people.”
“But when the people of the land come Then he brought me out into the outer
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before the LORD on the appointed feast days, court and caused me to pass by the four cor-
whoever enters by way of the north gate to ners of the court; and in fact, in every corner
worship shall go out by way of the south gate; of the court there was another court. In the
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and whoever enters by way of the south gate four corners of the court were enclosed courts,
shall go out by way of the north gate. He shall forty cubits long and thirty wide; all four cor-
not return by way of the gate through which ners were the same size. There was a row of
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he came, but shall go out through the opposite building stones all around in them, all around
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