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Ezekiel 46:21 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Then he brought me out into the outer court and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and behold, in every corner of the court there was a court. "
Ezekiel 46:21
Verse in Context
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19 Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy rooms for the priests, which looked toward the north. Behold, there was a place on the back part westward.
20 He said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the meal offering, that they not bring them out into the outer court, to sanctify the people.”
21 Then he brought me out into the outer court and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and behold, in every corner of the court there was a court.
22 In the four corners of the court there were courts enclosed, forty cubits long and thirty wide. These four in the corners were the same size.
23 There was a wall around in them, around the four, and boiling places were made under the walls all around.
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Ezekiel 46:1
"“‘The Lord GOD says: “The gate of the inner court that looks toward 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."
Ezekiel 46:2
"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."
Ezekiel 46:3
"The people of the land shall worship at the door of that gate before the LORD on the Sabbaths and on the new moons."
Ezekiel 46:4
"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;"
Ezekiel 46:5
"and the meal offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and the meal offering for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah."
Ezekiel 46:6
"On the day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without defect, six lambs, and a ram. They shall be without defect."
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