Ezekiel 46:1

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

“Thus says the Lord God: The gate of the inner court that faces east shall be shut 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

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till 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 hitherto 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, a hundred cubits. Then he went before me to the north,

Ezekiel 43:1

Afterward 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 peace offerings 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 peace offerings as he does on the sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out the gate shall be shut.

Ezekiel 46:3

The people of the land shall worship 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 young bull 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; and behold, at the door 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, worshiping the sun toward the east.

Luke 13:14

But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the sabbath, said to the people, “There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.”