Special offerings and holy days

13 “ ‘You must present to the king one bushel of wheat or barley for every 60 that you harvest. 14 And you must give him one quart/liter of olive oil for every 100 quarts/liters that you make. 15 Also, I, Yahweh, declare that you must take one sheep from each 200 sheep in your flocks in the pastures of Israel. Those things that you take to the king will be used with the offerings of things made from grain and for the offerings that will be completely burned and the offerings to maintain fellowship with me, offerings in order for me to forgive you for the sins that you have committed. 16 All the Israeli people must join in bringing those offerings to the king of Israel. 17 The king must provide the animals to be completely burned on the altar, grain for the grain offerings, and wine for the wine offerings for the sacred festivals that I have appointed for the people of Israel—including the festivals to celebrate each new moon and the Sabbaths. He must provide the animals for the offerings for the people to become acceptable to me, grain for the grain offerings, animals to be completely burned on the altar, and offerings to maintain fellowship with me, Yahweh, in order that I will forgive the Israeli people for their sins.

18 This is also what I, Yahweh the Lord, declare: On the first day of the first month of each year you must take one young bull that has no defects and sacrifice it to cause the temple to be acceptable to me. 19 The Supreme Priest must take some of the blood of the offering to cause people to become acceptable to me, and smear it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the upper ledge of the altar, and on the entry posts of the inner courtyard. 20 He must do the same thing on the seventh day of the month for any people who sin without intending to sin or without realizing that what they did is sinful. By doing that you will purify the temple.

21 In the first month of each year, on the 14th day of the month, you must start to celebrate the Passover Festival. The festival will last for seven days. During that time you must not eat bread made with yeast. 22 On the first day, the king must provide a bull to be an offering for himself and for the all the other people of the country. 23 And every day during those seven days he must provide seven young bulls and seven rams that have no defects, to be an offering for the people’s sins. 24 He must also provide a half bushel of grain to be an offering, and also four quarts of olive oil, for each bill and ram.

25 During the seven days of the festival of Living in Temporary Shelters, which starts on the fifteenth day of the seventh month of each year, the king must provide the same things for offerings for the people’s sins, for offerings to be completely burned, for grain offerings, and the same amount of olive oil that he provided each day during the Passover Festival.’ ”

46 “ ‘This is also what I, Yahweh the Lord, declare: The east entryway of the inner courtyard must be shut during the six days in which people work each week, but on the Sabbath days and on the days when there is a new moon, that entryway must remain open until that evening. 2 The king must enter the courtyard through the entry room of the entryway, and stand alongside the entry post. Then the priests must sacrifice the animal that the king brought to be completely burnedon the altar, and also his offering to maintain fellowship with me. The king must worship me at the entrance of the entryway, and then he must go out. After he leaves, the entryway will not be shut until that evening. 3 On the Sabbath days and on the days when there is a new moon, the people must worship me at the entrance of the entryway. 4 The offering that the king brings to be completely burned on the Sabbath day must be six lambs and one ram, all with no defects. 5 The offering that he gives with the ram must be a bushel of grain, and the grain that he offers with the lambs should be as much as he desires to offer, along with ◄1 gallon/3.8 liters► of olive oil for each bushel of grain. 6 Then each day that there is a new moon, he must offer a young bull, six lambs and a ram, all with no defects. 7 He must also provide one bushel of grain with the bull, one bushel of grain with the ram, and as much grain as he wants with the lambs, along with one quart/liter of olive oil with each bushel of grain. 8 When the king enters the temple area, he must enter through the entry room of the entryway, and he must go out through that same entry room when he leaves.

9 When the Israeli people come to worship me at the festivals that I have appointed, those who enter the temple area through the north entryway must go out through the south entryway. And those who enter through the south entryway must go out through the north entryway. People must not go out through the entryway through which they entered; they must go out through the opposite entryway. 10 The king must go in when the other people go in, and go out when the people go out.

11 During the festivals and sacred feasts, the king must present a bushel of grain along with each bull or ram, and as much grain as he wants to bring, along with the lambs and ◄1 gallon/3.8 liters► of olive oil with each bushel of grain. 12 When the king gives an offering that is not required, either one to be completely burned on the altar or an offering to maintain fellowship with me, Yahweh, the entryway on the east side of the courtyard must be opened for him. Then he must present those offerings like he does on the Sabbath days. Then he must go out, and after he goes out, the entryway must be shut.

13 Every day, during the morning, someone must provide a one-year-old lamb with no defects to be an offering to me that will be completely burned. 14 Someone must also provide each morning an offering of flour. It must be one sixth of a bushel of flour mixed with one quart/liter of olive oil. These offerings of flour and olive oil to must be presented to me, Yahweh, each day. 15 The lamb and the offering of flour and olive oil must be presented to me every morning, to be completely burned on the altar.

16 This is what I, Yahweh the Lord, declare: If the king gives some of his land to one of his sons, to belong to him permanently, it will then belong to his son’s descendants forever. 17 However, if he gives some of his land to one of his servants, the servant is allowed to keep that land until the Year of Celebration. Then the king will own it again; the king’s land must belong to his descendants forever. 18 The king must not take any land that the people own and force them to live somewhere else. The land that he gives to his sons must be from his own property, not from anyone else’s property, in order that none of my people will be forced to leave his own property.’ ”

19 Then, in the vision, the man who was showing the temple area to me brought me through the entrance alongside the entryway and led me to the sacred rooms on the north side, the rooms that the priests used, and he showed me a place at the western end of those rooms. 20 He said to me, “This is the place where the priests must cook the meat of the offerings that people bring in order to no longer be guilty for having sinned, and offerings for their sins, and where they will bake bread made with the flour brought to be offerings. They will cook those things in their rooms in order to avoid bringing them into the outer courtyard to cook them there, lest someone be punished because of touching them.”

21 Then the man brought me to the outer courtyard and led me to its four corners. In each corner I saw an enclosed area; 22 each of those areas was ◄70 feet/21.2 meters► long and ◄52-1/2 feet/15.9 meters► wide. 23 Around the inside of each of those enclosed areas was a stone ledge, with places to make fires all around under each ledge. 24 The man said to me, “These are the kitchens where the descendants of Levi who work in the temple must cook the sacrifices that the people bring.”