Ezekiel

When you allot the land as an inheritance, you shall set aside from the land, as a gift sacred to GOD, an areaaarea Lit. “length.” 25,000 [cubits] long and 10,000b10,000 Septuagint reads 20,000; cf. vv. 3–5. wide: this shall be holy through its entire extent.

Of this, a square measuring a full 500 by 500 shall be reserved for the Sanctuary,creserved for the Sanctuary Cf. 42.15–20. and 50 cubits for an open space all around it.

Of the aforesaid area, you shall measure off, as most holy and destined to include the Sanctuary, [a space] 25,000 long by 10,000 wide;

it is a sacred portion of the land; it shall provide space for houses for the priests, the ministrants of the Sanctuary who are qualified to minister to GOD, as well as holy ground for the Sanctuary.

Another [space], 25,000 long by 10,000 wide, shall be the property of the Levites, the servants of the temple—twenty chambers.dtwenty chambers Septuagint reads “for towns to dwell in.”

Alongside the sacred reserve, you shall set aside [a space] 25,000 long by 5,000 wide, as the property of the city; it shall belong to the whole House of Israel.

And to the prince shall belong, on both sides of the sacred reserve and the property of the city and alongside the sacred reserve and the property of the city, on the west extending westward and on the east extending eastward, a portioneportion Meaning of Heb. uncertain. corresponding to one of the [tribal] portions that extend from the western border to the eastern border

of the land.f[tribal] portions … of the land Cf. 48.1–29. That shall be his property in Israel; and My princes shall no more defraud My people, but shall leave the rest of the land to the several tribes of the House of Israel.

Thus said the Sovereign GOD: Enough, princes of Israel! Make an end of lawlessness and rapine, and do what is right and just! Put a stop to your evictions of My people—declares the Sovereign GOD.

Have honest balances, an honest ephah, and an honest bath.gephah…bath Units of dry measure and liquid measure, respectively.

The ephah and the bath shall comprise the same volume, the bath a tenth of a ḥomer and the ephah a tenth of a ḥomer; their capacity shall be gauged by the ḥomer.

And the shekel shall weigh 20 gerahs. 20 shekels, 25 shekels [and] 10 plus 5 shekels shall count with you as a mina.h20 shekels, 25 shekels [and] 10 plus 5 shekels shall count with you as a mina The Mesopotamian mina of 60 shekels; but meaning of Heb. uncertain.

This is the contribution you shall make: One-sixth of an ephah from every ḥomer of wheat and one-sixth of an ephah from every ḥomer of barley,

while the due from the oil—the oil being measured by the bath ithe oil being measured by the bath Meaning of Heb. uncertain.—shall be one-tenth of a bath from every kor.—As 10 baths make a ḥomer, so 10 baths make a ḥomer.jḥomer The Vulgate reads “kor”; ḥomer and kor are synonyms.—

And [the due] from the flock shall be one animal from every 200. [All these shall be contributed] from Israel’s productskproducts Meaning of Heb. uncertain. for grain offerings, burnt offerings, and offerings of well-being, to make expiation for them—declares the Sovereign GOD.

In this contribution, the entire population must join with the prince in Israel.

But the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the libations on festivals, new moons, sabbaths—all fixed occasions—of the House of Israel shall be the obligation of the prince; he shall provide the purgation offerings, the grain offerings, the burnt offerings, and the offerings of well-being, to make expiation for the House of Israel.

Thus said the Sovereign GOD: On the first day of the first month, you shall take a bull of the herd without blemish, and you shall cleanse the Sanctuary.

The priest shall take some of the blood of the purgation offering and apply it to the doorposts of the temple, to the four corners of the ledgelledge Meaning of Heb. uncertain. of the altar, and to the doorposts of the gate of the inner court.

You shall do the same on the seventh day of the monthmon the seventh day of the month Septuagint reads “in the seventh month.” to purge the temple from impurity caused by unwitting or ignorant persons.

On the fourteenth day of the first month you shall have the passover sacrifice; and during a festival of seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten.

On that day, the prince shall provide a bull of purgation offering on behalf of himself and of the entire population;

and during the seven days of the festival, he shall provide daily—for seven days—seven bulls and seven rams, without blemish, for a burnt offering to GOD, and one goat daily for a purgation offering.

He shall provide a grain offering of an ephah ngrain offering of an ephah Of choice flour. for each bull and an ephah for each ram, with a hin of oil to every ephah.

So, too, during the festival of the seventh month, for seven days from the fifteenth day on, he shall provide the same purgation offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, and oil.