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Ezekiel 46:8-17 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

8. The ruler must come through the entrance room of the east gate and leave the same way.

9. When my people come to worship me during any festival, they must always leave by the opposite gate from which they came: those who come in the north gate must leave by the south gate, and those who come in the south gate must leave by the north gate.

10. Their ruler will come in at the same time they do and leave at the same time they leave.

11. At all other festivals and celebrations, nine kilogrammes of grain will be offered with a bull, and nine kilogrammes will be offered with a ram. The worshippers can offer as much grain as they want with each lamb. Three litres of olive oil must be offered with every nine kilogrammes of grain.

12. If the ruler voluntarily offers a sacrifice to please me or to ask my blessing, the east gate of the inner courtyard will be opened for him. He will offer his sacrifices just as he does on each Sabbath; then he will leave, and the gate will be closed.

13. Each morning a year-old lamb that has nothing wrong with it must be offered as a sacrifice to please me.

14. Along with it, two kilogrammes of fine flour mixed with a litre of olive oil must be offered as a grain sacrifice. This law will never change—

15. the lamb, the flour, and the olive oil will be offered to me every morning for all time.

16. The Lord God said:If the ruler of Israel gives some of his land to one of his children, it will belong to the ruler's child as part of the family property.

17. But if the ruler gives some of his land to one of his servants, the land will belong to the servant until the Year of Celebration, when it will be returned to the ruler. Only the ruler's children can keep what is given to them.

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