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‘Thus says the Lord ^[a] God , "The ^(a)gate of the ^(b)inner court facing east shall be ^(c)shut the six ^(d)working days; but it shall be opened on the ^(e)sabbath day and opened on the day of the ^(f)new moon.

The ^(g)prince shall enter by way of the porch of the gate from outside and stand by the ^(h)post 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 ⁽ⁱ⁾shut until the evening.

The ^(j)people of the land shall also worship at the doorway of that gate before the Lord on the sabbaths and on the ^(k)new moons.

The ^(l)burnt offering which the prince shall offer to the Lord on the sabbath day shall be ^(m)six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish;

and the ⁽ⁿ⁾grain offering shall be an ephah ^[b]with the ram, and the grain offering ^[c]with the lambs ^[d]as much as he is ^(o)able to give, and a hin of oil ^[e]with an ephah.

On the day of the ^(p)new moon he shall offer a young bull without blemish, also six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish.

And he shall provide a ^(q)grain offering, an ephah ^[f]with the bull and an ephah ^[g]with the ram, and ^[h]with the lambs as ^[i]much as he is ^(r)able, and a hin of oil ^[j]with an ephah.

When the ^(s)prince enters, he shall go in by way of the porch of the gate and go out ^[k]by the same way.

But when the people of the land come ^(t)before the Lord at the appointed feasts, he who enters by way of the north gate to worship shall go out by way of the south gate. And he who enters by way of the south gate shall go out by way of the north gate. ^[l]No one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered but shall go straight out.

When they go in, the prince shall go in ^(u)among them; and when they go out, ^[m]he shall go out.

"At the ^(v)festivals and the appointed feasts the ^(w)grain offering shall be an ephah ^[n]with a bull and an ephah ^[o]with a ram, and ^[p]with the lambs as ^[q]much as one is able to give, and a hin of oil ^[r]with an ephah.

When the prince provides a ^(x)freewill offering, a burnt offering, or peace offerings as a freewill offering to the Lord , the gate facing east shall be ^(y)opened for him. And he shall provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he does on the ^(z)sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and the gate shall be shut after he goes out.

"And you shall provide a ^(aa)lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to the Lord daily; ^(ab)morning by morning you shall provide it.

Also you shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, a ^(ac)sixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour, a grain offering to the Lord continually by a perpetual ^[s]ordinance.

Thus they shall provide the lamb, the grain offering and the oil, morning by morning, for a ^(ad)continual burnt offering."