1. “‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “The gate of the inner court that looks towards the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
2. The prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate; and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.
3. The people of the land shall worship at the door of that gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.
4. The burnt offering that the prince shall offer to the Lord shall be on the Sabbath day six lambs without defect and a ram without defect;
5. and the meal offering shall be an efah for the ram, and the meal offering for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an efah.
6. On the day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without defect, and six lambs, and a ram. They shall be without defect.
7. He shall prepare a meal offering, an efah for the bull, and an efah for the ram, and for the lambs according as he is able, and a hin of oil to an efah.
8. When the prince enters, he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go out by its way.
9. “‘“But when the people of the land come before the Lord in the appointed feasts, he who enters by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he who enters by the way of the south gate shall go out by the way of the north gate. He shall not return by the way of the gate by which he came in, but shall go out straight before him.
10. The prince shall go in with them when they go in. When they go out, he shall go out.