⁸ And when the ruler comes in, he is to go in through the covered way of the doorway, and he is to go out by the same way.

² And the ruler is to go in through the covered way of the outer doorway outside, and take his place by the pillar of the doorway, and the priests will make his burned offering and his peace-offerings and he will give worship at the doorstep of the doorway; then he will go out, and the door will not be shut till the evening.

¹ And he took me back to the outer doorway of the holy place, looking to the east; and it was shut.

² And the Lord said to me, This doorway is to be shut, it is not to be open, and no man is to go in by it, because the Lord, the God of Israel, has gone in by it; and it is to be shut.

³ But the ruler will be seated there to take his food before the Lord; he will go in by the covered way to the door, and will come out by the same way.

¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church: the starting point of all things, the first to come again from the dead; so that in all things he might have the chief place.