Ezekiel 45
The Lord’s Portion of the Land
1“And when you adivide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer ▼▼ Or a contribution
an callotment to the Lord, a dholy portion of the land; the length shall be the length of 25,000 e cubits, and the width shall be ▼▼ Or with Gr 10,000
20,000. It shall be holy within all its boundary round about. 2“Out of this there shall be for the holy place a square round about gfive hundred by five hundred cubits, and fifty cubits for its ▼▼ Or pasture land
,
iopen space round about. 3“From this ▼▼ Lit measure
area you shall measure a length of 25,000 cubits and a width of 10,000 cubits; and in it shall be the sanctuary, the most holy place. 4“It shall be the holy portion of the land; it shall be for the kpriests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who lcome near to minister to the Lord, and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. 5“An area m25,000 cubits in length and 10,000 in width shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, and for their possession ▼▼ So with Gr; M.T. twenty chambers
cities to dwell in. 6“You shall give the ocity possession of an area 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, alongside the ▼▼ Or contribution
allotment of the holy portion; it shall be for the whole house of Israel. Portion for the Prince
7“The qprince shall have land on either side of the holy ▼▼ Or contribution
allotment and the ▼▼ Lit possession
property of the city, adjacent to the holy ▼▼ Or contribution
allotment and the ▼▼ Lit possession
property of the city, on the west side toward the west and on the east side toward the east, and in length comparable to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border. 8“This shall be his land for a possession in Israel; so My princes shall no longer voppress My people, but they shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel waccording to their tribes.” 9‘Thus says the Lord ▼▼ Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord , and so throughout the ch
God, y“Enough, you princes of Israel; put away zviolence and destruction, and aapractice justice and righteousness. Stop your abexpropriations from My people,” declares the Lord God. 10“You shall have acjust balances, a just adephah and a just aebath. 11“The ephah and the bath shall be ▼▼ Lit one
the same quantity, so that the bath will contain a tenth of a aghomer and the ephah a tenth of a homer; ▼▼ Lit its measure
their standard shall be according to the homer. 12“The aishekel shall be twenty ajgerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your ▼▼ Or mina
maneh. 13“This is the offering that you shall offer: a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat; a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley; 14and the prescribed portion of oil (namely, the bath of oil), a tenth of a bath from each kor (which is ten baths or a homer, for ten baths are a homer); 15and one sheep from each flock of two hundred from the watering places of Israel— for a algrain offering, for a burnt offering and for peace offerings, to ammake atonement for them,” declares the Lord God. 16 an“All the people of the land shall ▼▼ Lit be
give to this offering for the apprince in Israel. 17“It shall be the aqprince’s part to provide the arburnt offerings, the grain offerings and the drink offerings, at the asfeasts, on the atnew moons and on the sabbaths, at all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel; he shall provide the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering and the aupeace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.” 18‘Thus says the Lord God, “In the avfirst month, on the first of the month, you shall take a young bull awwithout blemish and axcleanse the sanctuary. 19“The priest shall take some of the blood from the sin offering and put it on the door posts of the house, on the ayfour corners of the azledge of the altar and on the posts of the gate of the inner court. 20“Thus you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who goes baastray or is ▼▼ Lit simple
naive; so you shall make bcatonement for the house. 21“In the bdfirst month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the bePassover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten. 22“On that day the prince shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a bfbull for a sin offering. 23“During the bgseven days of the feast he shall provide as a bhburnt offering to the Lord biseven bulls and seven rams without blemish on every day of the seven days, and a male goat daily for a sin offering. 24“He shall provide as a bjgrain offering an ephah ▼▼ Lit for
with a bull, an ephah ▼▼ Lit for
with a ram and a hin of oil ▼▼ Lit for
with an ephah. 25“In the bnseventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he shall provide like this, seven days ▼▼ Lit according to
for the sin offering, the burnt offering, the grain offering and the oil.”
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