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offering. He will bow down in worship inside the gateway passage and then
go back out the way he came. The gateway will not be closed until evening.
The common people will bow down and worship the Lord in front of this
gateway on Sabbath days and the days of new moon celebrations.
“Each Sabbath day the prince will present to the Lord a burnt offering
of six lambs and one ram, all with no defects. He will present a grain of
fering of a basket of choice flour to go with the ram and whatever amount
of flour he chooses to go with each lamb, and he is to offer one gallon of
olive oil for each basket of flour. At the new moon celebrations, he will
bring one young bull, six lambs, and one ram, all with no defects. With the
young bull he must bring a basket of choice flour for a grain offering. With
the ram he must bring another basket of flour. And with each lamb he is
to bring whatever amount of flour he chooses to give. With each basket of
flour he must offer one gallon of olive oil.
“The prince must enter the gateway through the entry room, and he
must leave the same way. But when the people come in through the north
gateway to worship the Lord during the religious festivals, they must leave
by the south gateway. And those who entered through the south gateway
must leave by the north gateway. They must never leave by the same gate
way they came in, but must always use the opposite gateway. The prince
will enter and leave with the people on these occasions.
“So at the special feasts and sacred festivals, the grain offering will be a
basket of choice flour with each young bull, another basket of flour with
each ram, and as much flour as the worshiper chooses to give with each
lamb. Give one gallon of olive oil with each basket of flour. When the
prince offers a voluntary burnt offering or peace offering to the Lord, the
east gateway to the inner courtyard will be opened for him, and he will
offer his sacrifices as he does on Sabbath days. Then he will leave, and the
gateway will be shut behind him.
“Each morning you must sacrifice a one-year-old lamb with no defects
as a burnt offering to the Lord. With the lamb, a grain offering must also
be given to the Lord—about three quarts of flour with a third of a gallon
of olive oil to moisten the choice flour. This will be a permanent law for
you. The lamb, the grain offering, and the olive oil must be given as a daily
sacrifice every morning without fail.
“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: If the prince gives a gift of land
to one of his sons as his inheritance, it will belong to him and his descen
dants forever. But if the prince gives a gift of land from his inheritance to
one of his servants, the servant may keep it only until the Year of Jubilee,
which comes every fiftieth year. At that time the land will return to the
prince. But when the prince gives gifts to his sons, those gifts will be per
manent. And the prince may never take anyone’s property by force. If he
