The Lord’s Portion of the Land

45 “Now when you ^(A)divide the land by lot for inheritance, you shall offer ^[a]an ^(B)allotment to the Lord, a ^(C)holy portion of the land; the length shall be a length of twenty-five thousand ^[b](D)cubits, and the width shall be ^[c]twenty thousand. It shall be holy within its entire surrounding boundary. ² Out of this there shall be for the sanctuary a square encompassing ^(E)five hundred by five hundred cubits, and fifty cubits for its ^[d](F)open space round about. ³ From this ^[e]area you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand cubits and a width of ten thousand 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 ^(G)priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who ^(H)come near to serve the Lord, and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. ⁵ An area ^(I)twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in width shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, and for their possession ^[f]cities in which to live.

⁶ “And you shall give the ^(J)city possession of an area five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand cubits long, alongside the ^[g]allotment of the holy portion; it shall be for the entire house of Israel.

Portion for the Prince

⁷ “And the ^(K)prince shall have land on either side of the holy ^[h]allotment and the ^[i]property of the city, adjacent to the holy ^[j]allotment and the ^[k]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 as a possession in Israel; so My princes shall no longer ^(L)oppress My people, but they shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel ^(M)according to their tribes.”

⁹ ‘This is what the Lord ^[l]God says: “^(N)Enough, you princes of Israel; get rid of ^(O)violence and destruction, and ^(P)practice justice and righteousness. Revoke your ^(Q)evictions of My people,” declares the Lord God.

¹⁰ “You shall have ^(R)accurate balances, an accurate ^[m](S)ephah, and an accurate ^[n](T)bath. ¹¹ The ephah and the bath shall be ^[o]the same quantity, so that the bath will contain a tenth of a ^(U)homer, and the ephah a tenth of a ^[p]homer; ^[q]their standard shall be according to the homer. ¹² And the ^(V)shekel shall be twenty ^(W)gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your mina.

¹³ “This is the offering that you shall offer: a sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat; a sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley; ¹⁴ and 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); ¹⁵ and one sheep from each flock of two hundred from the watering places of Israel—for a ^(X)grain offering, for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to ^(Y)make atonement for them,” declares the Lord God. ¹⁶ “^(Z)All the people of the land shall ^[r]give to this offering for the ^(AA)prince in Israel. ¹⁷ And it shall be the ^(AB)prince’s part to provide the ^(AC)burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the drink offerings, at the ^(AD)feasts, on the ^(AE)new 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 ^(AF)peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.”

¹⁸ ‘This is what the Lord God says: “In the ^(AG)first month, on the first of the month, you shall take a ^[s]bull ^(AH)without blemish and ^(AI)cleanse the sanctuary from sin. ¹⁹ And the priest shall take some of the blood from the sin offering and put it on the door posts of the house, on the ^(AJ)four corners of the ^(AK)ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner courtyard. ²⁰ And you shall do this on the seventh day of the month for everyone who does ^(AL)wrong inadvertently or is naive; so you shall make ^(AM)atonement for the house.

²¹ “In the ^(AN)first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the ^(AO)Passover, 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 ^(AP)bull as a sin offering. ²³ And during the ^(AQ)seven days of the feast he shall provide as a ^(AR)burnt offering to the Lord ^(AS)seven bulls and seven rams without blemish on every day of the seven days, and a male goat daily as a sin offering. ²⁴ And he shall provide as a ^(AT)grain offering an ^[t]ephah ^[u]with a bull, an ^[v]ephah ^[w]with a ram, and a ^[x]hin of oil ^[y]with an ephah. ²⁵ In the ^(AU)seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he shall provide like these, seven days ^[z]for the sin offering, the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the oil.”

The Prince’s Offerings

46 ‘This is what the Lord ^[aa]God says: “The ^(AV)gate of the ^(AW)inner courtyard facing east shall be ^(AX)shut for the six ^(AY)working days; but it shall be opened on the ^(AZ)Sabbath day and opened on the day of the ^(BA)new moon. ² The ^(BB)prince shall enter by way of the porch of the gate from outside and stand by the ^(BC)post of the gate. Then the priests shall provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate and then go out; but the gate shall not be ^(BD)shut until the evening. ³ The ^(BE)people of the land shall also worship at the doorway of that gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the ^(BF)new moons. ⁴ The ^(BG)burnt offering which the prince shall offer to the Lord on the Sabbath day shall be ^(BH)six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish; ⁵ and the ^(BI)grain offering shall be an ^[ab]ephah ^[ac]with the ram, and the grain offering ^[ad]with the lambs ^[ae]as much as he is ^(BJ)able to give, and a ^[af]hin of oil ^[ag]with an ephah. ⁶ On the day of the ^(BK)new moon he shall offer a ^[ah]bull without blemish, and six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish. ⁷ And he shall provide a ^(BL)grain offering, an ephah ^[ai]with the bull and an ephah ^[aj]with the ram, and ^[ak]with the lambs as ^[al]much as he is ^(BM)able, and a hin of oil ^[am]with an ephah. ⁸ When the ^(BN)prince enters, he shall go in by way of the porch of the gate, and go out by ^[an]the same way. ⁹ But when the people of the land come ^(BO)before the Lord at the appointed feasts, one who enters by way of the north gate to worship shall go out by way of the south gate. And one who enters by way of the south gate shall go out by way of the north gate. ^[ao]No one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered, but shall go straight out. ¹⁰ And when they go in, the prince shall go in ^(BP)among them; and when they go out, ^[ap]he shall go out.

¹¹ “At the ^(BQ)festivals and the appointed feasts, the ^(BR)grain offering shall be an ephah ^[aq]with a bull and an ephah ^[ar]with a ram, and ^[as]with the lambs as ^[at]much as one is able to give, and a hin of oil ^[au]with an ephah. ¹² And when the prince provides a ^(BS)[av]voluntary offering, a burnt offering, or peace offerings as a ^[aw]voluntary offering to the Lord, the gate facing east shall be ^(BT)opened for him. And he shall provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he does on the ^(BU)Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and the gate shall be shut after he goes out.

¹³ “And you shall provide a ^(BV)lamb a year old without blemish as a burnt offering to the Lord daily; ^(BW)morning by morning you shall provide it. ¹⁴ You shall also provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, a ^(BX)sixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour, a grain offering to the Lord continually by ^[ax]a permanent ordinance. ¹⁵ So they shall provide the lamb, the grain offering, and the oil, morning by morning, as a ^(BY)continual burnt offering.”

¹⁶ ‘This is what the Lord God says: “If the prince gives a ^(BZ)gift from his inheritance to any of his sons, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance. ¹⁷ But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until the ^(CA)year of ^[ay]release; then it shall return to the prince. His inheritance shall be only his sons’; it shall belong to them. ¹⁸ And the prince shall ^(CB)not take from the people’s inheritance, ^[az](CC)depriving them of their property; he shall give his sons inheritance from his own property, so that My people will not be scattered, anyone from his property.”’”

The Boiling Places

¹⁹ Then he brought me through the ^(CD)entrance, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which faced north; and behold, a place was there at the extreme rear toward the west. ²⁰ And he said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the ^(CE)guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall ^(CF)bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them out into the outer courtyard ^[ba]and transfer holiness to the people.”

²¹ Then he brought me out into the outer courtyard and led me across to the four corners of the courtyard; and behold, in every corner of the courtyard there was a small courtyard. ²² In the four corners of the courtyard there were enclosed courtyards, forty ^[bb]cubits long and thirty wide; these four in the corners were ^[bc]the same size. ²³ And there was a row of masonry all around in them, around the four of them, and cooking hearths were made under the rows all around. ²⁴ Then he said to me, “These are the cooking ^[bd]places where the ministers of the house shall cook the sacrifices of the people.”

Christ Is Our Advocate

2 ^(A)My little children, I am ^(B)writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, ^(C)we have an ^[a](D)Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; ² and He Himself is ^(E)the ^[b]propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also ^(F)for the sins of the whole world.

^3 (G)By this we know that we have come to ^(H)know Him, if we ^(I)keep His commandments. ⁴ The one who says, “^(J)I have come to ^(K)know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a ^(L)liar, and ^(M)the truth is not in him; ⁵ but whoever ^(N)follows His word, in him the ^(O)love of God has truly been perfected. ^(P)By this we know that we are in Him: ⁶ the one who says that he ^(Q)remains in Him ^(R)ought, himself also, walk just as He walked.

^7 (S)Beloved, I am ^(T)not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had ^(U)from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard. ^8 [c]On the other hand, I am writing ^(V)a new commandment to you, which is true in Him and in you, because ^(W)the darkness is passing away and ^(X)the true Light is already shining. ⁹ The one who says that he is in the Light and yet ^(Y)hates his ^(Z)brother or sister is in the darkness until now. ^10 (AA)The one who loves his brother and sister remains in the Light, and there is nothing in him to cause stumbling. ¹¹ But the one who ^(AB)hates his brother or sister is in the darkness and ^(AC)walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has ^(AD)blinded his eyes.

¹² I am writing to you, ^(AE)little children, because ^(AF)your sins have been forgiven you on account of His name. ¹³ I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him ^(AG)who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because ^(AH)you have overcome ^(AI)the evil one. I have written to you, children, because ^(AJ)you know the Father. ¹⁴ I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him ^(AK)who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are ^(AL)strong, and the ^(AM)word of God remains in you, and ^(AN)you have overcome the evil one.

Do Not Love the World

¹⁵ Do not love ^(AO)the world nor the things in the world. ^(AP)If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ For all that is in the world, ^(AQ)the lust of the flesh and ^(AR)the lust of the eyes and ^(AS)the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. ^17 (AT)The world is passing away and also its lusts; but the one who ^(AU)does the will of God continues to live forever.

¹⁸ Children, ^(AV)it is the last hour; and just as you heard that ^(AW)antichrist is coming, ^(AX)even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour. ^19 (AY)They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, ^(AZ)so that ^[d]it would be evident that they all are not of us. ^20 [e]But you have an ^(BA)anointing from ^(BB)the Holy One, and ^(BC)you all know. ²¹ I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but ^(BD)because you do know it, and ^[f]because no lie is ^(BE)of the truth. ²² Who is the liar except ^(BF)the one who denies that Jesus is the ^[g]Christ? This is ^(BG)the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. ^23 (BH)Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also. ²⁴ As for you, see that what you heard ^(BI)from the beginning remains in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also ^(BJ)will remain in the Son and in the Father.

The Promise Is Eternal Life

^25 (BK)This is the promise which He Himself ^[h]made to us: eternal life.

²⁶ These things I have written to you concerning those who are trying to ^(BL)deceive you. ²⁷ And as for you, the ^(BM)anointing which you received from Him remains in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing ^(BN)teaches you about all things, and is ^(BO)true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, ^[i]you remain in Him.

²⁸ Now, ^(BP)little children, remain in Him, so that when He ^(BQ)appears, we may have ^(BR)confidence and ^(BS)not ^[j]draw back from Him in shame ^[k]at His ^(BT)coming. ²⁹ If you know that ^(BU)He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness also ^(BV)has been born of Him.