Dual Panel1“The Lord GOD says: The east gate of the inner court must remain closed during the six working days; it is to be opened only on the sabbath and at new moon.
2When the ruler comes through the porch of the gate from the outside, he is to take his stand by the gatepost, while the priests sacrifice his whole-offering and shared-offerings. At the threshold of the gate he is to bow down in worship and then go out, but the gate is not to be closed until evening.
3On sabbaths and at new moons the people also must bow down before the LORD at the entrance to that gate.
4“On the sabbath the whole-offering which the prince brings to the LORD is to be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish.
5The grain-offering is to be an ephah with the ram and whatever he can give with the lambs, together with a hin of oil to every ephah.
6At the new moon it is to be a young bull without blemish, six lambs and a ram, all without blemish;
7he is to provide as the grain-offering one ephah with the bull and one ephah with the ram, with the lambs whatever he can afford, adding a hin of oil for every ephah.
8“Whenever the ruler comes in, he is to enter through the porch of the gate and go out by the same way.
9When the people come to worship before the LORD on festal days, anyone who enters by the north gate to worship must leave by the south gate, and anyone who enters by the south gate must leave by the north gate. He is not to turn back and go out through the gate by which he came in but to continue in the same direction.
10The ruler will then be among them, going in when they go in and coming out when they come out.
11“At pilgrim-feasts and on festal days the grain-offering is to be an ephah with a bull, an ephah with a ram, and as much as he can afford with a lamb, together with a hin of oil for every ephah.
12“When the ruler provides a whole-offering or shared-offerings as a voluntary sacrifice to the LORD, the east gate is to be opened for him, and he will make his whole-offering and his shared-offerings as he does on the sabbath. When he goes out, the gate must be closed behind him.
13“You must provide a yearling lamb without blemish daily as a whole-offering to the LORD; you are to provide it every morning.
14With it every morning you must provide as a grain-offering one sixth of an ephah with a third of a hin of oil to moisten the flour. The LORD's grain-offering is an observance prescribed for all time.
15Every morning, as a regular whole-offering, a lamb is to be offered with the grain-offering and the oil.
16“The Lord GOD says: If the ruler makes a gift out of his property to any of his sons, it will belong to his sons, since it is part of the family property.
17But when he makes such a gift to one of his slaves, it will belong to the slave only until the year of manumission, when it will revert to the ruler; it is the property of his sons and will belong to them.
18“The ruler must not oppress the people by taking any part of their holdings of land; he is to endow his sons from his own property, so that my people may not be deprived of their holdings.”
19Then the man brought me through the entrance by the side of the gate to the rooms which face north, the rooms set apart for the priests, and, pointing to a place on their west side,
20he said to me, “This is the place where the priests boil the reparation-offering and the purification-offering and bake the grain-offering; they may not take it into the outer court, for fear of transmitting holiness to the people.”
21The man then brought me out into the outer court and led me across to the four corners of the court, at each of which there was a further court.
22These four courts were vaulted and were the same size, forty cubits long by thirty cubits wide.
23Round each of the four was a course of stonework, with fire-places constructed close up against the stones.
24“These are the kitchens”, he said, “where the attendants boil the people's sacrifices.”