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Ezekiel 46:20 — Meaning and Application

King James Version

“Then said he unto me, This {is} the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear {them} not out into the utter court, to sanctify the people.”

Ezekiel 46:20

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18

Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; {but} he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.

19

After he brought me through the entry, which {was} at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there {was} a place on the two sides westward.

20

Then said he unto me, This {is} the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear {them} not out into the utter court, to sanctify the people.

21

Then he brought me forth into the utter 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. {in every...: Heb. a court in a corner of a court, and a court in a corner of a court}

22

In the four corners of the court {there were} courts joined of forty {cubits} long and thirty broad: these four corners {were} of one measure. {joined: or, made with chimneys} {corners were...: Heb. cornered, etc}

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