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Ezekiel 45:12-22 Good News Bible (GNB)

12. “Your weights are to be as follows:twenty gerahs == one shekelsixty shekels == one mina

13-15. “This is the basis on which you are to make your offerings:Wheat: one sixtieth of your harvestBarley: one sixtieth of your harvestOlive oil: 100th of the yield of your trees(Measure it by the bath: ten baths == one homer == one kor.)Sheep: one sheep out of every 200 from the meadows of Israel“You are to bring grain offerings, animals to be burnt whole, and animals for fellowship offerings, so that your sins will be forgiven. I, the Sovereign Lord, command it.

16. “All the people of the land must take these offerings to the ruling prince of Israel.

17. It will be his duty to provide the animals to be burnt whole, the grain offerings, and the wine offerings for the whole nation of Israel at the New Moon Festivals, the Sabbaths, and the other festivals. He is to provide the sin offerings, the grain offerings, the offerings to be burnt whole, and the fellowship offerings, to take away the sins of the people of Israel.”

18. The Sovereign Lord said, “On the first day of the first month you are to sacrifice a bull without any defects and purify the Temple.

19. The priest will take some of the blood of this sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the Temple, on the four corners of the altar, and on the posts of the gateways to the inner courtyard.

20. On the seventh day of the month you are to do the same thing on behalf of anyone who sins unintentionally or through ignorance. In this way, you will keep the Temple holy.

21. “On the fourteenth day of the first month you will begin the celebration of the Passover Festival. For seven days everyone will eat bread made without yeast.

22. On the first day of the festival the ruling prince must offer a bull as a sacrifice for his sins and for those of all the people.