< Ezekiel 45 >
1 “When you divide the land by lot as an inheritance, you are to set aside a portion for the LORD, a holy portion of the land 25,000 cubits long and 20,000 cubits wide. This entire tract of land will be holy.
And when make fall you the land an inheritance you will offer up a contribution to Yahweh - a holy portion from the land [the] length [will be] five and twenty thousand [cubits] [the] length and [the] breadth [will be] ten thousand [cubits] [will be] a holy place it in all territory its all around.
2 Within this area there is to be a section for the sanctuary 500 cubits square, with 50 cubits around it for open land.
It will be some of this to the holy place five hundred [cubits] by five hundred [cubits] square all around and fifty cubit[s] open land [will belong] to it all around.
3 From this holy portion, you are to measure off a length of 25,000 cubits and a width of 10,000 cubits, and in it will be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
And from the measured area this you will measure a length (five *Q(K)*) and twenty thousand [cubits] and a breadth ten thousand [cubits] and in it it will be the sanctuary a holy place of holy places.
4 It will be a holy portion of the land to be used by the priests who minister in the sanctuary, who draw near to minister before the LORD. It will be a place for their houses, as well as a holy area for the sanctuary.
[will be] a holy portion From the land it to the priests [who] serve the sanctuary it will belong approaching to serve Yahweh and it will be for them a place for houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.
5 An adjacent area 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide shall belong to the Levites who minister in the temple; it will be their possession for towns in which to live.
And five and twenty thousand [cubits] length and ten thousand [cubits] breadth (and it will belong *Q(K)*) to the Levites [who] serve the house of them to a possession twenty rooms.
6 As the property of the city, you are to set aside an area 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, adjacent to the holy district. It will belong to the whole house of Israel.
And [the] possession of the city you will give five thousand [cubits] breadth and length five and twenty thousand [cubits] close to [the] contribution of holiness to all [the] house of Israel it will belong.
7 Now the prince will have the area bordering each side of the area formed by the holy district and the property of the city, extending westward from the western side and eastward from the eastern side, running lengthwise from the western boundary to the eastern boundary and parallel to one of the tribal portions.
And [will belong] to the prince from this and from this of [the] contribution of holiness and of [the] possession of the city to [the] face of [the] contribution of holiness and to [the] face of [the] possession of the city from [the] side of [the] west west-ward and from [the] side of east-ward east-ward and length corresponding to one of the portions from [the] border of [the] west to [the] border of east-ward.
8 This land will be his possession in Israel. And My princes will no longer oppress My people, but will give the rest of the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
To the land it will belong to him to a possession in Israel and not they will oppress again princes my people my and the land they will give to [the] house of Israel to tribes their.
9 For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Enough, O princes of Israel! Cease your violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing My people, declares the Lord GOD.’
Thus he says [the] Lord Yahweh enough for you O princes of Israel injustice and violence remove and justice and righteousness do remove eviction your from on people my [the] utterance of [the] Lord Yahweh.
10 You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.
Balances of righteousness and an ephah of righteousness and a bath of righteousness let it be to you.
11 The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure for both.
The ephah and the bath measurement one it will be [is] to carry [the] tenth part of the homer the bath and [the] tenth [part] of the homer the ephah to the homer it will be measurement its.
12 The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.
And the shekel [will be] twenty gerah[s] twenty shekels five and twenty shekels ten and five shekel[s] the mina it will be for you.
13 This is the contribution you are to offer: a sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley.
This [will be] the contribution which you will offer up [the] sixth [part] of the ephah from [the] homer of the wheat and you will give a sixth part of the ephah from [the] homer of the barley.
14 The prescribed portion of oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath from each cor (a cor consists of ten baths or one homer, since ten baths are equivalent to a homer).
And [the] prescribed portion of the oil the bath the oil [will be] [the] tenth part of the bath from the cor [the] ten the baths [are] a homer for ten the baths [are] a homer.
15 And one sheep shall be given from each flock of two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel. These are for the grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement for the people, declares the Lord GOD.
And a sheep one from the flock from the two hundred from [the] well-watered land of Israel to a grain offering and to a burnt offering and to peace offerings to make atonement on them [the] utterance of [the] Lord Yahweh.
16 All the people of the land must participate in this contribution for the prince in Israel.
All the people of the land they will be to the contribution this for the prince in Israel.
17 And it shall be the prince’s part to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings for the feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—for all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel.
And on the prince it will be the burnt offerings and the grain offering and the drink offering at the festivals and at the new moons and on the sabbaths at all [the] appointed times of [the] house of Israel he he will provide the sin offering and the grain offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings to make atonement for [the] house of Israel.
18 This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘On the first day of the first month you are to take a young bull without blemish and purify the sanctuary.
Thus he says [the] Lord Yahweh in the first [month] on [day] one of the month you will take a young bull a young one of cattle unblemished and you will cleanse from sin the sanctuary.
19 And the priest is to take some of the blood from the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the gateposts of the inner court.
And he will take the priest some of [the] blood of the sin offering and he will put [it] to [the] doorpost of the house and to [the] four [the] corners of the ledge of the altar and on [the] doorpost of [the] gate of the courtyard inner.
20 You must do the same thing on the seventh day of the month for anyone who strays unintentionally or in ignorance. In this way you will make atonement for the temple.
And thus you will do on [day] seven in the month from anyone [who] errs and from a simple person and you will make atonement for the house.
21 On the fourteenth day of the first month you are to observe the Passover, a feast of seven days, during which unleavened bread shall be eaten.
In the first [month] on four-teen day of the month it will be for you the passover a festival weeks days unleavened bread it will be eaten.
22 On that day the prince shall provide a bull as a sin offering for himself and for all the people of the land.
And he will provide the prince on the day that for himself and for all [the] people of the land a young bull a sin offering.
23 Each day during the seven days of the feast, he shall provide seven bulls and seven rams without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD, along with a male goat for a sin offering.
And [the] seven [the] days of the festival he will provide a burnt offering to Yahweh seven young bulls and seven rams unblemished to the day [the] seven the days and a sin offering a male goat of goats to the day.
24 He shall also provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull and an ephah for each ram, along with a hin of olive oil for each ephah of grain.
And a grain offering an ephah to the young bull and an ephah to the ram he will provide and oil a hin to the ephah.
25 During the seven days of the feast that begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, he is to make the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, and oil.’
In the seventh [month] on fif-teen day of the month at the festival he will provide like these [things] [the] seven the days like the sin offering like the burnt offering and like the grain offering and like the oil.