Contemporary English Version Anglicised

Ezekiel 46:11-22 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

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.

18. The ruler must never abuse my people by taking land from them. Any land he gives his children must already belong to him.

19. The man who was showing me the temple then took me back to the inner courtyard. We walked to the south side of the courtyard and stopped at the door to the sacred rooms that belonged to the priests. He showed me more rooms at the western edge of the courtyard

20. and said, “These are the kitchens where the priests must boil the meat to be offered as sacrifices to make things right and as sacrifices for sin. They will also bake the grain for sacrifices in these kitchens. That way, these sacred offerings won't have to be carried through the outer courtyard, where someone could accidentally touch them and be harmed.”

21. We went back to the outer courtyard and walked past the four corners.

22. At each corner I saw a smaller courtyard, twenty metres long and fifteen metres wide.