45When the land is divided to give each tribe a share, one part is to be dedicated to the LORD. It is to be 10 miles long by 8 miles wide. The entire area will be holy.H5307H776H5159H7311H8641H3068H6944H776H753H753H2568H6242H505H7341H6235H505H6944H1366H5439 2In this area there is to be a square plot of land for the Temple, 840 feet on each side, entirely surrounded by an open space 84 feet wide.H6944H2568H3967H2568H3967H7251H5439H2572H520H5439H4054 3Half of this area, a section 10 miles by 4 miles, is to be measured off; it will contain the Temple, the holiest place of all.H4060H4058H753H2568H6242H505H7341H6235H505H4720H6944H6944 4It will be a holy part of the country, set aside for the priests who serve the LORD in his Temple. It will contain their houses and the section of land for the Temple.H6944H776H3548H8334H4720H7131H8334H3068H4725H1004H4720H4720 5The other half of the area is to be set aside as the possession of the Levites, who do the work in the Temple. There will be towns there for them to live in.H2568H6242H505H753H6235H505H7341H3881H8334H1004H272H6242H3957 6Next to the holy area, another section, 10 miles long and 2 miles wide, is to be set aside for a city where any of the people of Israel may live.H5414H272H5892H2568H505H7341H2568H6242H505H753H5980H8641H6944H1004H3478 7Land is also to be set aside for the ruling prince. From the west boundary of the holy area it will extend west to the Mediterranean Sea; and from the east boundary it will extend to the eastern border of the country, so that its length will be the same as the length of one of the areas allotted to the tribes of Israel.H5387H8641H6944H272H5892H6440H8641H6944H6440H272H5892H3220H6285H3220H6924H6285H6921H753H5980H259H2506H3220H1366H6921H1366 8This area will be the share the ruling prince will have in the land of Israel, so that he will no longer oppress the people, but will let the rest of the country belong to the tribes of Israel.H776H272H3478H5387H3238H5971H776H5414H1004H3478H7626 9The Sovereign LORD said, "You have sinned too long, you rulers of Israel! Stop your violence and oppression. Do what is right and just. You must never again drive my people off their land. I, the Sovereign LORD, am telling you this.H5002H136H3069H7227H5387H3478H5493H2555H7701H6213H4941H6666H7311H1646H5971H559H136H3069 10"Everyone must use honest weights and measures:H6664H3976H6664H374H6664H1324 11"The ephah for dry measure is to be equal to the bath for liquid measure. The standard is the homer. The resulting measures are as follows: 1 homer = 10 ephahs = 10 bathsH374H1324H259H8506H1324H5375H4643H2563H374H6224H2563H4971H2563 12"Your weights are to be as follows: 20 gerahs = 1 shekel 60 shekels = 1 minaH8255H6242H1626H6242H8255H2568H6242H8255H2568H6235H8255H4488 13"This is the basis on which you are to make your offerings: Wheat: 1/60th of your harvest Barley: 1/60th of your harvest Olive oil: 1/100th of the yield of your trees (Measure it by the bath: 10 baths = 1 homer = 1 kor.)H8641H7311H8345H374H2563H2406H8341H374H2563H8184 14Sheep: 1 sheep out of every 200 from the meadows of Israel "You are to bring grain offerings, animals to be burned whole, and animals for fellowship offerings, so that your sins will be forgiven.H2706H8081H1324H8081H4643H1324H3734H2563H6235H1324H6235H1324H2563 15I, the Sovereign LORD, command it.H259H7716H6629H3967H4945H3478H4503H5930H8002H3722H5002H136H3069 16"All the people of the land must take these offerings to the ruling prince of Israel.H5971H776H8641H5387H3478 17It will be his duty to provide the animals to be burned whole, the grain offerings, and the wine offerings for the whole nation of Israel at the New Moon Festivals, the Sabbaths, and the other festivals. He is to provide the sin offerings, the grain offerings, the offerings to be burned whole, and the fellowship offerings, to take away the sins of the people of Israel."H5387H5930H4503H5262H2282H2320H7676H4150H1004H3478H6213H2403H4503H5930H8002H3722H1004H3478 18The Sovereign LORD said, "On the first day of the first month you are to sacrifice a bull without any defects and purify the Temple.H559H136H3069H7223H259H2320H3947H1121H1241H6499H8549H2398H4720 19The priest will take some of the blood of this sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the Temple, on the four corners of the altar, and on the posts of the gateways to the inner courtyard.H3548H3947H1818H2403H5414H4201H1004H702H6438H5835H4196H4201H8179H6442H2691 20On the seventh day of the month you are to do the same thing on behalf of anyone who sins unintentionally or through ignorance. In this way you will keep the Temple holy.H6213H7651H2320H376H7686H6612H3722H1004 21"On the fourteenth day of the first month you will begin the celebration of the Passover Festival. For seven days everyone will eat bread made without yeast.H7223H702H6240H3117H2320H6453H2282H7620H3117H4682H398 22On the first day of the festival the ruling prince must offer a bull as a sacrifice for his sins and for those of all the people.H3117H5387H6213H5971H776H6499H2403 23On each of the seven days of the festival he is to sacrifice to the LORD seven bulls and seven rams without any defects and burn them whole. He is also to sacrifice a male goat each day as a sin offering.H7651H3117H2282H6213H5930H3068H7651H6499H7651H352H8549H3117H7651H3117H8163H5795H3117H2403 24For each bull and each ram that is sacrificed, there is to be an offering of half a bushel of grain and three quarts of olive oil.H6213H4503H374H6499H374H352H1969H8081H374 25"For the Festival of Shelters, which begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, the prince will offer on each of the seven days the same sacrifice for sin, the same offerings to be burned whole, and the same offerings of grain and olive oil."H7651H2568H6240H3117H2320H6213H2282H7637H3117H2403H5930H4503H8081
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