Ezekiel 40:38-40

Contemporary English Version

The Rooms for Sacrificing Animals

^38-39Inside the entrance room of the north gate, I saw four tables, two on each side of the room, where the animals to be sacrificed were killed. Just outside^[a] this room was a small building used for washing the animals before they were offered as sacrifices to please the Lord^[b] or sacrifices for sin^[c] or sacrifices to make things right.^[d] ⁴⁰Four more tables were in the outer courtyard, two on each side of the steps leading into the entrance room.

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Footnotes

40.38,39 Just outside: Or “Inside.”
40.38,39 sacrifices to please the Lord: These sacrifices have traditionally been called “whole burnt offerings” because the whole animal was burned on the altar. A main purpose of such sacrifices was to please the Lord with the smell of the sacrifice, and so in the CEV they are often called “sacrifices to please the Lord.”
40.38,39 sacrifices for sin: See Leviticus 4.1,2; 6.24-30.
40.38,39 sacrifices to make things right: See Leviticus 5.14-19; 7.1-10.