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Ezekiel

Land Allotments and the Prince's Portion

45
Chapter 45
1 And when you divide the land by inheritance, you shall lift up an offering to the LORD, holy from the land: length twenty-five thousand, and width ten thousand. It is holy in all its boundary all around. 2 It shall be five hundred by five hundred to the holy place, a square all around, and fifty cubits of pastureland for it all around. 3 From this measurement, you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand and a width of ten thousand. In it the sanctuary—the holy of holies—shall be. 4 It is holy from the land for the priests, the servants of the sanctuary. It will be for the ones drawing near to serve the LORD. And it will be for them a place for houses, a sanctuary for the sanctuary. 5 And twenty-five thousand in length and ten thousand in width, and it will be for the Levites, servants of the house, for them a possession—twenty chambers. 6 And you shall give the possession of the city five thousand wide and twenty-five thousand long, alongside the heave offering of the holy portion; it shall be for all the house of Israel. 7 And to the prince from this side and from this side to the offering of the holy things and to the holding of the city, alongside the face of the offering of the holy things and alongside the face of the holding of the city, from the side of sea seaward and from the side of eastness eastward, and length alongside one of the portions from boundary of sea to boundary eastward. 8 The land will be to him a holding in Israel, and the rulers of my people will no longer devour. And the land they will give to the House of Israel, to their tribes. 9 Thus says the Lord GOD: Enough for you, chieftains of Israel! Remove violence and oppression, and do justice and righteousness. Lift up your expulsions from upon my people—utterance of the Lord GOD. 10 You shall have scales of righteousness and an ephah of righteousness and a bath of righteousness. 11 The ephah and the bath shall be one measure, to bear the tithe of the homer: the bath and the tenth of the homer the ephah to the homer; it shall be according to its measure. 12 The shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, fifteen shekels. The maneh will be to you.