1 "Thus says the Lord GOD: The gate of the inner court facing east is to stay shut during the six working days, but on the Sabbath day it is to be opened, and on the day of the new moon it is to be opened.
2 The prince is to come in from outside by way of the vestibule of the gate and take his stand at the doorpost of the gate. The priests will offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he will bow down at the threshold of the gate and then go out; but the gate is not to be shut until evening.
3 On the Sabbaths and the new moons the people of the land are to bow down before the LORD at the entrance of that gate.
4 The burnt offering the prince offers to the LORD on the Sabbath day is to be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish.
5 The grain offering with the ram is to be an ephah, and with the lambs whatever he chooses to give, with a hin of oil for each ephah.
6 On the day of the new moon he is to offer a young bull without blemish, and six lambs and a ram, all without blemish.
7 He is to provide a grain offering of an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs whatever he can afford, with a hin of oil for each ephah.
8 When the prince comes in, he is to enter by way of the vestibule of the gate and leave the same way.
9 "When the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed feasts, whoever comes in by the north gate to worship is to leave by the south gate, and whoever comes in by the south gate is to leave by the north gate. No one is to go back through the gate he came in by; each is to go straight out the opposite way.
10 The prince is to be among them, going in when they go in and going out when they go out.
11 "At the feasts and appointed festivals the grain offering is to be an ephah with a bull and an ephah with a ram, and with the lambs whatever one chooses to give, with a hin of oil for each ephah.
12 When the prince provides a freewill offering, whether a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to the LORD, the gate facing east is to be opened for him, and he is to offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings just as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he will go out, and once he has gone out the gate is to be shut.
13 "Every day you are to provide a year-old lamb without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD; you are to provide it morning after morning.
14 With it, morning after morning, you are to provide a grain offering of a sixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour, a grain offering to the LORD; these are perpetual statutes, to be kept continually.
15 So morning after morning they are to provide the lamb, the grain offering and the oil as a continual burnt offering.
16 "Thus says the Lord GOD: If the prince gives a gift out of his inheritance to one of his sons, it will belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance.
17 But if he gives a gift out of his inheritance to one of his servants, it will be the servant's until the year of release and then return to the prince; his inheritance belongs to his sons alone.
18 The prince must not take any of the people's inheritance by forcing them off their possession. He is to give his sons their inheritance from his own possession, so that none of my people is driven away from his possession."
19 Then he brought me through the entrance beside the gate into the holy chambers for the priests that faced north, and I saw a place there at the far western end.
20 He told me, "This is the place where the priests are to boil the guilt offering and the sin offering and bake the grain offering, so that they do not carry them out to the outer court and pass holiness to the people."
21 Then he brought me out to the outer court and led me around its four corners, and in each corner of the court there was another court.
22 In the four corners of the court were enclosed courts, forty cubits long and thirty wide; all four corner courts were the same size.
23 A row of masonry ran around each of the four, with hearths built under the rows all around.
24 He told me, "These are the kitchens where those who serve at the house are to boil the people's sacrifices."