Ezekiel 45

The Lord’s Portion of the Land

45MOREOVER, WHEN you shall divide the land by apportioned {and} assigned lots for inheritance, you shall set apart as an offering to the Lord a portion of the land to be used for holy purposes. The length shall be 25,000 {cubits,} and the breadth 20,000. It shall be holy (set apart and consecrated to sacred use) in its every area.H5307H776H5159H7311H8641H3068H6944H776H753H753H2568H6242H505H7341H6235H505H6944H1366H54392Of this there shall belong to the sanctuary a square plot 500 by 500, and 50 {cubits} for the open space around it.H6944H2568H3967H2568H3967H7251H5439H2572H520H5439H40543And in this sacred section you shall measure off a portion 25,000 {cubits} in length and 10,000 {cubits} in breadth. And in it shall be the sanctuary which is most holy.H4060H4058H753H2568H6242H505H7341H6235H505H4720H6944H69444It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to the Lord; and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place (set apart as sacred) for the sanctuary.H6944H776H3548H8334H4720H7131H8334H3068H4725H1004H4720H47205And another portion of land, 25,000 {cubits} long and 10,000 {cubits} wide, shall also be for the Levites, the ministers of the temple, and they shall possess it as a place in which to live.H2568H6242H505H753H6235H505H7341H3881H8334H1004H272H6242H39576And you shall appoint for the possession of the city an area of 5,000 {cubits} wide and 25,000 {cubits} long, along beside the portion set aside as a holy section. It shall belong to the whole house of Israel.H5414H272H5892H2568H505H7341H2568H6242H505H753H5980H8641H6944H1004H3478

Portion for the Prince

7And to the prince shall belong the land on the one side and on the other side of the portion set aside as a holy section and the property of the city, in front of the holy section and the property of the city, from the west side westward and from the east side eastward; and the length shall be answerable to that of one of the tribal portions {and} parallel to it from the western boundary to the eastern boundary of the land.H5387H8641H6944H272H5892H6440H8641H6944H6440H272H5892H3220H6285H3220H6924H6285H6921H753H5980H259H2506H3220H1366H6921H13668It shall be for the prince--his possession in Israel. And My princes shall no more oppress My people, but they shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.H776H272H3478H5387H3238H5971H776H5414H1004H3478H76269Thus says the Lord God: That is enough for you, O princes of Israel! Stop the violence and plundering {and} oppression [that you did when you were given no property], and do justice and righteousness, and take away your exactions {and} cease your evictions of My people, says the Lord God.H5002H136H3069H7227H5387H3478H5493H2555H7701H6213H4941H6666H7311H1646H5971H559H136H306910You shall have just weights on your scales and just measures--both a just ephah measure and a just bath measure.H6664H3976H6664H374H6664H132411The ephah and the bath measures shall both be the same size, the bath containing one tenth of a homer and the ephah one tenth of a homer; the standard measure shall be the homer.H374H1324H259H8506H1324H5375H4643H2563H374H6224H2563H4971H256312And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels and twenty-five shekels and fifteen shekels shall be your maneh.H8255H6242H1626H6242H8255H2568H6242H8255H2568H6235H8255H448813This is the offering which you shall make: a sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat and a sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley.H8641H7311H8345H374H2563H2406H8341H374H2563H818414And as to the set portion of oil, you shall offer the tenth part of a bath of oil out of each cor, which is a homer of ten baths, for ten baths make [both a cor and] a homer.H2706H8081H1324H8081H4643H1324H3734H2563H6235H1324H6235H1324H256315And [you shall offer] one lamb out of every flock of two hundred, out of the well-watered pastures of Israel {and} from all the families of Israel, to provide for a meal offering and for a burnt offering and for peace offerings, to make atonement for those who brought them, says the Lord God.H259H7716H6629H3967H4945H3478H4503H5930H8002H3722H5002H136H306916All the people of the land shall give this offering for the prince in Israel.H5971H776H8641H5387H347817And it shall be the prince's part to furnish [from the contributions of the people] the burnt offerings, meal offerings, and drink offerings at the feasts and on the New Moons and on the Sabbaths, at all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He shall prepare {and} make the sin offering, the meal offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings to make atonement for, bringing forgiveness {and} reconciliation to, the house of Israel.H5387H5930H4503H5262H2282H2320H7676H4150H1004H3478H6213H2403H4503H5930H8002H3722H1004H347818Thus says the Lord God: In the first [month], on the first [day] of the month, you shall take a young bull without blemish and you shall cleanse the sanctuary.H559H136H3069H7223H259H2320H3947H1121H1241H6499H8549H2398H472019And the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it upon the doorposts of the temple and upon the four corners of the ledge of the altar and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.H3548H3947H1818H2403H5414H4201H1004H702H6438H5835H4196H4201H8179H6442H269120You shall do this on the seventh day of the month for everyone who has sinned through error {or} ignorance and for him who is simple-minded. So shall you make atonement for the temple.H6213H7651H2320H376H7686H6612H3722H100421In the first month on the fourteenth day of the [month]; you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.H7223H702H6240H3117H2320H6453H2282H7620H3117H4682H39822Upon that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.H3117H5387H6213H5971H776H6499H240323And for the seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the Lord, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily for the seven days, and a he-goat daily for a sin offering.H7651H3117H2282H6213H5930H3068H7651H6499H7651H352H8549H3117H7651H3117H8163H5795H3117H240324And he shall prepare as a meal offering to be offered with each bullock an ephah of meal, an ephah for each ram, and a hin of oil for each ephah of meal.H6213H4503H374H6499H374H352H1969H8081H37425In the seventh [month], on the fifteenth day of the month, he shall make the same provision {and} preparation for the seven days of the feast, for sin offerings, burnt offerings, bloodless {or} meal offerings, and for the oil.H7651H2568H6240H3117H2320H6213H2282H7637H3117H2403H5930H4503H8081