Ezekiel 44:1-3

Expanded Bible

The Outer East Gate

44 Then the man brought me back to the outer east gateway of the ·Temple area [sanctuary], but the gate was shut. ² The Lord said to me, “This gate will stay shut; it will not be opened. No one may enter through it, because the Lord God of Israel has entered through it. So it must stay shut. ³ Only the ·ruler [prince] himself may sit in the gateway to eat ·a meal [^Lbread; ^Cprobably his portion of the fellowship offering; Lev. 7:15; Deut. 12:7] ·in the presence of [before] the Lord. He must enter through the porch of the gateway and go out the same way.”