Ezekiel 46:16-24 ▼

16 Thus says the Lord YHWH: ‘If the prince gives a gift to man of his sons as his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance.

17 And if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will be unto him until the year of liberty; then it will return to the prince; surely it is his inheritance for his sons; unto them it shall be.

18 And the prince shall not take from inheritance of the people by evicting them from their property; from his own property he shall provide an inheritance for his sons, so that My people will not be scattered, a man from his property.’”

19 And he brought me through the entrance that was at the side of the gate, into the chambers of holiness for the priests, facing toward the north; and behold, there was a place at the extremities of the west.

20 And he said to me: “This is the place where the priests shall boil there the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, so as not to bring them out into the outer court to sanctify the people.”

21 And he brought me out into the outer court, and he caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and behold, a court in each corner of the court, a court in the corner of the court.

22 In the four corners of the court were courts enclosed, forty long and thirty wide, a single measure for their four corners.

23 And a row was all around in them, all around the four of them, and cooking hearths were made under the rows all around.

24 And he said to me, “These are the kitchens of those boiling, where the ministers of the temple will boil there the sacrifices of the people.”