Ezekiel 46:8
Good News Translation
The prince must leave the entrance room of the gateway and go out by the same way he went in.

New Revised Standard Version
When the prince enters, he shall come in by the vestibule of the gate, and he shall go out by the same way.

Contemporary English Version
The ruler must come through the entrance room of the east gate and leave the same way.

New American Bible
When the prince enters, he shall always enter and depart by the vestibule of the gate.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when the prince is to go in, let him go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and let him go out the same way.

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And when the prince is to go in, let him go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and let him go out the same way.

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Ezekiel 46:2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate from without, and he shall stand at the threshold of the gate: and the priests shall offer his holocaust, and his peace offerings: and he shall adore upon the threshold of the gate, and shall go out: but the gate shall not be shut till the evening.

Ezekiel 44:1-3 And he brought me back to the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary, which looked towards the east: and it was shut. . . .

Colossians 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he may hold the primacy:

Context
The Prince's Offerings
7And he shall offer in sacrifice an ephi for calf, an ephi also for a ram: but for the lambs, as his hand shall find: and a hin of oil for every ephi. 8And when the prince is to go in, let him go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and let him go out the same way.9But when the people of the land shall go in before the Lord in the solemn feasts, he that goeth in by the north gate to adore, shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that goeth in by the way of the south gate, shall go out by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go out at that over against it.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 44:3
For the prince. The prince himself shall sit in it, to eat bread before the Lord: he shall enter in by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out by the same way.

Ezekiel 46:2
And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate from without, and he shall stand at the threshold of the gate: and the priests shall offer his holocaust, and his peace offerings: and he shall adore upon the threshold of the gate, and shall go out: but the gate shall not be shut till the evening.

Ezekiel 46:7
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