18. The prince shall not seize any part of the heritage of the people by forcing them off their property. From his own property he shall provide heritage for his sons, so that none of my people will be driven off their property.
19. Then he brought me through the entrance at the side of the gateway to the chambers reserved for the priests, which faced north. There I saw a place at the far west end,
20. about which he said to me, “This is the place where the priests cook the reparation offerings and the purification offerings and bake the grain offerings, so they do not have to bring them into the outer court and so transmit holiness to the people.”
21. Then he led me into the outer court and had me cross to the four corners of the court, and there, in each corner, was another court!
22. In all four corners of the courtyard there were courts set off, each forty cubits long by thirty cubits wide, all four of them the same size.
23. A stone wall surrounded them on four sides, and ovens were built along the bottom of the walls all the way around.
24. He said to me, “These are the kitchens where the temple ministers cook the sacrifices of the people.”