King James Version
Ezekiel 46:8 in the King James Version says “And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way t...” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 46 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof.”
Ezekiel 46:8 · KJV
And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish.
And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof.
But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it.
And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth.
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“And when the prince”
H5387properly, an exalted one, i.e., a king or sheik; also a rising mist
“by the way”
H1870a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
“by the way”
H1870a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
“and he shall go forth”
H3318to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
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