“Thus saith the Lord God; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.”
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—establishing that the eastern gate of the inner court (not the permanently closed outer eastern gate) is opened only on sacred times: Sabbath and new moon. The regulation of access emphasizes that entry to the sanctuary is controlled and restricted to appropriate occasions. This verse establishes the gate's opening schedule.
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