Division
Of The Land
'When
you allot the Land as an Inheritance,
You
are to present to the Lord a portion of the Land
As
a Sacred District, 25,000 cubits long and 20,000 cubits wide;
THE
ENTIRE AREA WILL BE HOLY.
2
Of this, a section 500 cubits square is to be for the Sanctuary,
With
50 cubits around it for open land.
3
In the Sacred District,
Measure
off a section 25,000cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide.
IN
IT WILL BE THE SANCTUARY, THE MOST HOLY PLACE.
4
It will be the Sacred portions of the land for the Priests,
Who
Minister in the Sanctuary
And
who draw near to Minister before the Lord.
It
will be a place for their houses
As
well as a Holy Place for the Sanctuary.
5
And area 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubit wide
Will
belong to the Levites, who serve in the Temple,
As
their possession for towns to live in.
6
You are to give the City as its property
An
area 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long,
Adjoining
the Sacred Portion;
It
will belong to the Whole House of Israel.
7
'The Prince will have the land bordering each side of the area
Formed
by the Sacred District
And
the property of the City.
It
will extend westward from the west side
And
eastward from the east side,
Running
lengthwise from the western to the eastern border
Parallel
to one of the Tribal Portions.
8
This land will be his possession in Israel.
And
My Princes will no longer oppress My people
But
will allow the House of Israel to possess he Land
According
to their Tribes.
9
'THIS IS WHAT THE SOVEREIGN LORD SAYS:
You
have gone far enough, O Princes of Israel!
GIVE
UP YOUR VIOLENCE AND OPPRESSION
And
do what is Just and Right.
STOP
DISPOSSESSING MY PEOPLE,
DECLARES
THE SOVEREIGN LORD.
10
You are to use accurate scales,
And
accurate Ephah and an accurate Bath.
11
The Ephah and the Bath are to be the same size,
The
Bath containing a tenth of a homer
And
the Ephah a tenth of a Homer;
The
Homer is to be the Standard Measure for both.
12
The Shekel is to consist of twenty Gerahs.
Twenty
Shekels plus twenty-five Shekels plus fifteen Shekels
Equal
one Mina.
Offerings
And Holy Days
13
'This is the Special Gift you are to offer:
A
sixth of an Ephah form each Homer of wheat
And
a sixth of an Ephah form each Homer of barley.
14
The prescribed portion of oil, measured by the Bath,
Is
a tenth of a Bath from each Cor
(Which
consists of ten Baths or one Homer,
For
ten Baths are equivalent to a Homer).
15
Also one sheep is to be taken from every flock
Of
two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel.
These
will be used for the Grain Offerings, Burnt Offerings
And
Fellowship Offerings
TO
MAKE ATONEMENT FOR THE PEOPLE,
DECLARES
THE SOVEREIGN LORD.
16
All the people of the Land will participate in this Special Gift
For
the use of the Prince in Israel.
17
It will be the Duty of the Prince to provide
The
Burnt Offerings, the Grain Offerings and Drink Offerings
At
Festivals, the New Moons and the Sabbaths--
At
all the appointed Feasts of the House of Israel.
He
will provide the Sin Offerings, Grain Offerings,
Burnt
Offerings and Fellowship Offerings
TO
MAKE ATONEMENT FOR THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.
18
'THIS IS WHAT THE SOVEREIGN LORD SAYS:
In
the first month on the first day
You
are to take a young bull without defect and Purify the Sanctuary.
19
The Priest is to take some of the blood of the Sin Offering
And
put it on the doorposts of the Temple,
On
the four corners of the Upper Ledge of the Altar
And
on the Gateposts of the Inner Court.
20
You are to do the same on the seventh day of the month
For
anyone who Sins unintentionally or through Ignorance;
SO
YOU ARE TO MAKE ATONEMENT FOR THE TEMPLE.
21
'In the first month on the fourteenth day
You
are to observe the Passover, a Feast lasting seven days,
During
which you shall eat bred made without yeast.
22
On that day the Prince is to provide a bull as a Sin Offering
For
himself and for all the people of the Land.
23
Every day during the seven days of the Feast
He
is to provide seven bulls and seven rams without defect
As
a Burnt Offering to the Lord,
and
a male goat for a Sin Offering.
24
He is to provide as a Grain Offering
An
Ephah for each bull and an Ephah for each ram,
Along
with a Hin of Oil for each Ephah.
25
'During the seven days of the Feast,
Which
begins in the seventh month on the fifteenth day,
He
is to make the same provision
For
Sin Offerings, Burnt Offerings, Grain Offerings and Oil.
(Ezekiel
45)
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