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Ezekiel 46

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1 Thus says the Lord Jehovih*; The gate of the inner court that faces toward the east shall be shut the six work days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and in the day of the new·​·moon it shall be opened.

2 And the chief shall come·​·into the way of the porch of that gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall make his burnt·​·offering and his peace·​·offerings, and he shall worship by the threshold of the gate; then he shall go·​·forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.

3 And the people of the land shall worship at the entrance of this gate before Jehovah on the Sabbaths and on the new·​·moons.

4 And the burnt·​·offering that the chief shall offer to Jehovah in the Sabbath day shall be six perfect lambs, and a perfect ram.

5 And the gift·​·offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the gift·​·offering for the lambs shall be the gift of his hand, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

6 And in the day of the new·​·moon it shall be a son of the herd, a perfect bullock, and six lambs, and a ram; they shall be perfect.

7 And he shall make a gift·​·offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as his hand shall obtain, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

8 And when the chief shall come, he shall go·​·in by the way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go·​·out by the way of it.

9 But when the people of the land shall come·​·in before Jehovah in the solemn·​·occasions, he who comes·​·in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go·​·out by the way of the south gate; and he that comes·​·in by the way of the south gate shall go·​·out by the way of the north gate; he shall not return by way of the gate by which he came·​·in, but shall go·​·out on the gate opposite him.

10 And the chief in their midst, when they go·​·in, he shall go·​·in; and when they go·​·out, he shall go·​·out.

11 And in the festivals and in the solemnities the gift·​·offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs the gift of his hand, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

12 And when the chief shall make a freewill offering, a burnt·​·offering, or peace·​·offerings, a freewill offering to Jehovah, and shall open to him the gate that faces east, and shall make his burnt·​·offering and his peace·​·offerings, as he did on the Sabbath day; then he shall go·​·out, and after his going·​·out he shall shut the gate.

13 And a perfect lamb, the son of his year, thou shalt make as a burnt·​·offering for the day to Jehovah in the morning, in the morning thou shalt make it.

14 And thou shalt make a gift·​·offering for it every morning, the sixth of an ephah, and the third·​·part of a hin of oil, to temper with the flour; a continual gift·​·offering unto Jehovah of an eternal statute.

15 And they shall make the lamb, and the gift·​·offering, and the oil in the morning, in the morning a continual burnt·​·offering.

16 Thus says the Lord Jehovih; If the chief give a gift unto a man of his sons, the inheritance of it shall be to his sons’; it shall be their possession by inheritance.

17 But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be for him to the year of liberty; and it shall return to the chief; but his inheritance shall surely be his sons’ for them.

18 And the chief shall not take from the inheritance of the people, to defraud them of their possession; but from his own possession shall he give· his sons ·for·​·an·​·inheritance; so·​·that they scatter not My people, a man from his possession.

19 And he brought me into the entryway, which was by the shoulder of the gate, into the holy rooms unto the priests, facing toward the north; and, behold, there was a place on the two flanks toward the sea*.

20 And he said to me, This is the place where the priests shall cook the guilt offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the gift·​·offering; that they bring· them not ·out to the outer court, to sanctify the people.

21 And he brought· me ·out to the outer court, and caused me to pass·​·by at the four edges of the court; and, behold, a court at the edge of a court, a court at the edge of a court.

22 In the four edges of the court there were courts joined, forty cubits in length and thirty in breadth; one measure for the four edges.

23 And there was a row all around in them, four with them all around, and cooking·​·places were made beneath the rows all around.

24 Then said he unto me, These are the houses of them that cook, where the ministers of the house shall cook the sacrifice of the people.

   


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1250. That 'the mountain of the east' means charity, indeed charity from the Lord, is clear from the meaning of 'a mountain' in the Word as love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbour, as shown already in 795. And that 'the east' means the Lord, and consequently the celestial things of love and charity, see again what has appeared already in 101, and also in the following places: In Ezekiel,

The cherubs lifted up their wings. The glory of Jehovah went up from over the midst of the city and stood upon the mountain, which is on the east of the city. Ezekiel 11:22-23.

Here 'the mountain which is on the east' means nothing other than the celestial manifestation of the love and the charity that is the Lord's, for it is said that 'the glory of Jehovah stood there'. In the same prophet,

He brought me to the gate, to the gate facing the way of the east. And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east. Ezekiel 43:1-2.

Here 'the east' has a similar meaning.

[2] In the same prophet,

And he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which faces the east, and it was shut. And Jehovah said to me, This gate shall be shut and not opened, and no man shall enter by it; but Jehovah, the God of Israel, will enter by it. Ezekiel 44:1-2.

Here similarly 'the east' stands for the celestial manifestation of the love that is the Lord's alone. In the same prophet,

When the prince makes a freewill offering, a burnt offering, and peace offerings, as a freewill offering to Jehovah, one shall open for him the gate facing towards the east, and he shall make his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he shall do on the sabbath day Ezekiel 46:12.

Here similarly it stands for that which is celestial, which essentially is love to the Lord.

[3] In the same prophet,

He brought me back to the door of the house, and behold, waters were issuing out from below the threshold of the house towards the east, for the house faced east. Ezekiel 47:1, 8.

This refers to the new Jerusalem 'The east' stands for the Lord, and so for the celestial manifestation of love, while 'waters' means things that are spiritual. Here the same is meant by 'the mountain of the east'. Furthermore those who dwelt in Syria were called 'the sons of the east', who will in the Lord's Divine mercy be spoken of later on.

  
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