Ezekiel 46:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“Thus says the Lord God: The gate of the inner court that faces east shall remain closed on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

1 Chronicles 9:18

stationed previously in the king’s gate on the east side. These were the gatekeepers of the camp of the Levites.

Exodus 20:9

Six days you shall labor and do all your work.

Isaiah 66:23

From new moon to new moon and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before me, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 10:3

Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the house when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.

Ezekiel 40:19

Then he measured the distance from the inner front of the lower gate to the outer front of the inner court, one hundred cubits.

Ezekiel 43:1

Then he brought me to the gate, the gate facing east.

Ezekiel 46:12

When the prince provides a freewill offering, either a burnt offering or offerings of well-being as a freewill offering to the Lord, the gate facing east shall be opened for him, and he shall offer his burnt offering or his offerings of well-being as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out the gate shall be closed.

Ezekiel 46:3

The people of the land shall bow down at the entrance of that gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.

Ezekiel 46:6

On the day of the new moon he shall offer a bull of the herd without blemish and six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish;

Ezekiel 8:16

And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord; there, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, prostrating themselves to the sun toward the east.

Luke 13:14

But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured on the Sabbath, kept saying to the crowd, “There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be cured and not on the Sabbath day.”