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Welcome to Shemini / Eighth - this week’s Prophetic reading


Prophecy 46, 112, 151;
Leviticus 9:1–11:47;
Ezekiel 45:16-46:18;
Hebrews 8:1-6;



Ezekiel 45:16-46:18


16 All the people of the land shall be at this heave offering for the prince in Israel.
17 And responsibility for burnt offerings shall be on the prince, and a food offering, and drink offerings, in the feasts and on the new moons and on the Sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He shall make the sin offering, and the food offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to atone for the house of Israel.
18 So says Adonai YAHUVEH: In the first month, on the first of the month, you shall take a bull without blemish, a son of the herd, and cleanse the sanctuary. (Ex 12:2)
19 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the door posts of the house, and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the gateposts of the inner court.
20 And so you shall do on the seventh of the month for each man who goes astray, and for the simple. And you shall atone for the house.
21 In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, the Passover shall be to you; a feast of seven days, unleavened bread is eaten.
22 And the prince shall make ready on that day for himself and for the people of the land, a bull for a sin offering.
23 And seven days of the feast he shall make ready a burnt offering to YAHUVEH, seven bulls and seven rams, without blemish, daily for the seven days, and for a sin offering a kid of the he-goats daily.
24 And a food offering of an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, he shall make ready; also of oil, a hin for an ephah.
25 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he shall make ready like these seven days as the sin offering, as the burnt offering, as the food offering, and as the oil. (Ex 23:16, 34:22, Deut 16:16)

Chapter 46


1 So says Adonai YAHUVEH: The gate of the inner court that faces the east shall be shut the six days of work. But on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
2 And the prince shall enter by way of the porch of the gate from outside and shall stand by the gatepost. And the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings. And he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.
3 And the people of the land shall worship at the door of that gate on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, before YAHUVEH.
4 And the burnt offering that the prince shall bring near to YAHUVEH on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.
5 And the food offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and a food offering for the lambs, a gift of his hand; and a hin of oil to an ephah.
6 And in the day of the new moon: a bull without blemish, a son of the herd, and six lambs, and a ram, they shall be without blemish,
7 and an ephah for a bull and an ephah for a ram he shall prepare as a food offering; and for the lambs as his hand can reach; and a hin of oil to an ephah.
8 And when the prince shall enter, he shall enter by way of the porch of the gate, and by its way he shall go out.
9 But when the people of the land come before YAHUVEH at the appointed feasts, he who enters by way of the north gate to worship shall go out by way of the south gate. And he who enters by way of the south gate shall go out by way of the north gate. He shall not return by way of the gate by which he came in, but shall go out opposite it.
10 And the prince shall go in among them when they go in, and he shall go out when they go out.
11 And in the feast seasons, and in the appointed feasts, the food offering shall be an ephah to a bull, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs a gift of his hand; and a hin of oil to an ephah.
12 And when the prince makes a free offering, a burnt offering, or peace offerings as a free offering to YAHUVEH, then one shall open to him the gate facing east. And he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he does on the Sabbath day. And he shall go out, and the gate is shut after he goes out.
13 And you shall make ready a burnt offering daily to YAHUVEH, a lamb without blemish, a son of a year; from dawn to dawn you shall make it ready.
14 And you shall make ready a food offering for it from dawn to dawn, a sixth of an ephah, and a third of a hin of oil to wet the fine flour, a food offering to YAHUVEH, perfect statutes forever.
15 So they shall make ready the lamb, and the food offering, and the oil, from dawn to dawn as a burnt offering continually.
16 So says Adonai YAHUVEH: If the prince gives a gift to sons of his inheritance, it shall be to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance.
17 But if he gives it as a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his until the year of liberty, then it shall return to the prince. His inheritance is only his sons'; it shall be theirs.
18 And the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance, oppressing them from their possession. He shall give inheritance to his sons from his possession, so that My people shall not be dispersed, each man from his possession.

Hebrews 8:1-6

1 Now the sum of the whole thing is this: We have a High Priest, who is seated on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven.
2 And He is the minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which Elohim has pitched, and not man.
3 For every high priest is set in place to offer both gifts and sacrifices; from which it is necessary for this One also to have something which He may offer.
4 For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, there being those priests offering gifts according to the Law,
5 who serve the pattern of and shadow of heavenly things, even as Moses was divinely warned, being about to make the tabernacle: For He says, "See that you make all things according to the pattern being shown to you in the mount." (Ex. 25:40)
6 But now, YAHUSHUA HA MASHIACH hath received a ministry which is greater than that: also by so much more, He is a Mediator of a better covenant, and so are the promises greater than the first covenant.