44 Then the man took me back to the outer sanctuary gate facing east, but it was shut 2 and Yahweh told me, “This gate has been sealed shut—it won’t be opened. No person will go through it, because Yisrael’s God Yahweh entered through it, so it’s now closed. 3 Only Yisrael’s ruler will sit by it to eat food in front of Yahweh, but he’ll enter via the gate’s porch, and leave the same way.”