Ezekiel 45-48
1599 Geneva Bible
45 1 Out of the land of promise are there separate four portions, of which the first is given to the Priests and to the Temple, the second to the Levites, the third to the city, the fourth to the prince. 9 An exhortation unto the heads of Israel. 10 Of just weights and measures. 14 Of the firstfruits, etc.
1 Moreover, when ye shall divide the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the Lord an [a]holy portion of the land, five and twenty thousand reeds long, and ten thousand broad: this shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about.
2 Of this there shall be for the Sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, all square round about, and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.
3 And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the Sanctuary, and the most holy place.
4 The holy portion of the land shall be the Priests, which minister in the Sanctuary, which came near to serve the Lord: and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the Sanctuary.
5 And in the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth shall the Levites that minister in the house, have their possession for twenty chambers.
6 Also ye shall appoint the possession of the city, five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long over against the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.
7 And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side, and on that side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, even before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the city from the West corner Westward, and from the East corner Eastward, and the length shall be by one of the portions from the West border unto the East border.
8 In this land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress my people, and the rest of the land shall they give to the house of Israel, according to their tribes.
9 Thus saith the Lord God, Let it [b]suffice you, O princes of Israel: leave off cruelty and oppression, and execute judgment and justice: take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord God.
10 Ye shall have just balances, and a true [c]Ephah, and a true Bath.
11 The Ephah and the Bath shall be equal: a Bath shall contain the tenth part of an Homer, and an Ephah the tenth part of an Homer: the equality thereof shall be after the Homer.
12 (A)And the shekel shall be twenty Gerahs, and twenty shekels, and [d]five and twenty shekels and fifteen shekels shall be your Mina.
13 ¶ This is the oblation that ye shall offer, the sixth part of an Ephah of an Homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an Ephah of an Homer of Barley.
14 Concerning the ordinance of the oil, even of the Bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a Bath out of the Cor (ten Baths are an Homer: for ten Baths fill an Homer)
15 And one Lamb of two hundred sheep out of the fat pastures of Israel for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord God.
16 All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince in Israel.
17 And it shall be the prince’s part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings in the solemn feasts and in the new moons, and in the Sabbaths, and in all the high feasts of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.
18 ¶ Thus saith the Lord God, In the first month, in the first day of the [e]month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish and cleanse the Sanctuary.
19 And the Priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four [f]corners of the frame of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.
20 And so shalt thou do the seventh day of the month, for everyone that hath erred, and for him that is deceived: so shall you reconcile the house.
21 (B)In the first month in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days, and ye shall eat unleavened bread.
22 And upon that day, shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land, a bullock for a sin offering.
23 And in the seven days of the feast he shall make a burnt offering to the Lord, even of seven bullocks, and seven rams without blemish daily for seven days, and an he goat daily for a sin offering.
24 And he shall prepare a meat offering of an Ephah for a bullock, an Ephah for a ram, and an [g]Hin of oil for an Ephah.
25 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast for seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil.
46 1 The sacrifices of the Sabbath and of the new moon. 8 Through which doors they must go in, or come out of the Temple, etc.
1 Thus saith the Lord God, The gate of the inner court, that turneth toward the East, shall be shut the six working days: but on the Sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the Priests shall make his burnt offering, and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: after he shall go forth, but the gate shall not be shut till the evening.
3 Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the entry of this gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths, and in the new moons.
4 And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the Lord on the Sabbath day, shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.
5 And the meat offering shall be an Ephah for a ram: and the meat offering for the lambs [h]a gift of his hand, and an Hin of oil to an Ephah.
6 And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs and a ram: they shall be without blemish.
7 And he shall prepare a meat offering, even an Ephah for a bullock, and an Ephah for a ram, and for the lambs [i]according as his hand shall bring, and an Hin of oil to an Ephah.
8 And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof.
9 But when the people of the land shall come before the Lord in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the North gate to worship, shall go out by the way of the South gate: and he that entereth by the way of the South gate, shall go forth by the way of the North gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but they shall go forth over against it.
10 And the prince shall be in the midst of them: he shall go in when they go in, and when they go forth, they shall go forth together.
11 And in the feasts, and in the solemnities the meat offering shall be an Ephah to a bullock, and an Ephah to a ram, and to the lambs, the gift of his hand, and an Hin of oil to an Ephah.
12 Now when the prince shall make a free burnt offering, or peace offerings freely unto the Lord, one shall then open him the gate that turneth toward the East, and he shall make his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the Sabbath day: after he shall go forth, and when he is gone forth, one shall shut the gate.
13 Thou shalt daily make a burnt offering unto the Lord of a lamb of one year, without blemish: thou shalt do it every morning.
14 And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an Ephah, and the third part of an Hin of oil, to mingle with the fine flour: this meat offering shall be continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the Lord.
15 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil every morning, for a continual burnt offering.
16 ¶ Thus saith the Lord God, If the prince give a gift of his inheritance unto any of his sons, it shall be his sons, and it shall be their possession by inheritance.
17 But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the [j]year of liberty: after, it shall return to the Prince, but his inheritance shall remain to his sons for them.
18 Moreover the prince shall not [k]take of the people’s inheritance, nor thrust them out of their possession: but he shall cause his sons to inherit of his own possession, that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.
19 ¶ After he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the Priests, which stood toward the North: and behold, there was a place at the West side of them.
20 Then said he unto me, This is the place where the Priests shall seethe the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering, that they should not bear them into the utter court, [l]to sanctify the people.
21 Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me to go by the four corners of the court: and behold, in every corner of the court there was a court.
22 In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long, and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure.
23 And there went a wall about them, even about those four, and kitchens were made under the walls round about.
24 Then said he unto me, This is the kitchen where the ministers of the house shall seethe the sacrifice of the people.
47 1 The vision of the waters that came out of the Temple. 13 The coasts of the land of promise, and the division thereof by tribes.
1 Afterward he brought me unto the door of the house: and behold, [m]waters issued out from under the threshold of the house Eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the East, and the waters ran down from under the right side of the house, at the South side of the altar.
2 Then brought he me out toward the North gate, and led me about by the way without unto the utter gate by the way that turneth Eastward: and behold, there came forth waters on the right side
3 And when the man that had the line in his hand, went forth Eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters: the waters were to the ankles.
4 Again he measured a thousand and brought me through the waters: the waters were to the knees: again he measured a thousand, and brought me through: the waters were to the loins.
5 Afterward he measured a thousand, and it was a [n]river, that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, and the waters did flow, as a river that could not be passed over.
6 And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river:
7 Now when I turned, behold, at the brink of the river were very many [o]trees on the one side and on the other.
8 Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the East country, and run down into the plain, and shall go into one [p]sea: they shall run into another sea, and the waters shall be wholesome.
9 And everything that liveth, which moveth, wheresoever the rivers shall come, shall live, and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: [q]for they shall be wholesome, and everything shall live whither the river cometh.
10 And then the [r]fishers shall stand upon it, and from En Gedi even unto [s]En Eglaim, they shall spread out their nets: for their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of [t]the main sea, exceeding many.
11 But [u]the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof shall not be wholesome: they shall be made salt pits.
12 And by this river upon the brink thereof, on this side, and on that side shall grow all [v]fruitful trees, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof fail: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters run out of the Sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be meat, and the leaf thereof shall be for [w]medicine.
13 ¶ Thus saith the Lord God, This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes (C)of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.
14 And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: (D)concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers, and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance.
15 And this shall be the border [x]of the land toward the North side, from the main sea toward Hethlon, as men go to Zedad:
16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus, and the border of Hamath, and Hazar, Hatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran.
17 And the border from the sea shall be Hazar, Enan, and the border of Damascus, and the residue of the North Northward, and the border of Hamath: so shall be the North part.
18 But the East side shall ye measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, and from the border unto the East sea: and so shall be the East part.
19 And the South side shall be toward Teman, from Tamar to the waters of [y]Meriboth in Kadesh, and the river to the main sea: so shall be the South part toward Teman.
20 The West part also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath: this shall be the west part.
21 So shall ye divide this land unto you, according to the tribes of Israel.
22 And you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that dwell among you, which shall beget children among you, and they shall be unto you, as born in the country among the children of Israel, [z]they shall part inheritance with you in the midst of the tribes of Israel.
23 And in what tribe the stranger dwelleth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord God.
48 The lots of the tribes. 9 The parts of the possession of the Priests, of the Temple, of the Levites, of the city, and of the Prince are rehearsed.
1 Now these are the names of the [aa]tribes. From the North side, to the coast toward Hethlon as one goeth to Hamath, Hazar, Enan, and the border of Damascus Northward the coast of Hamath, even from the East side to the West shall be a portion for Dan.
2 And by the border of Dan from the East side unto the West side, a portion for Asher.
3 And by the border of Asher from the East part even unto the West part, a portion for Naphtali.
4 And by the border of Naphtali from the East quarter unto the West side, a portion for Manasseh.
5 And by the border of Manasseh, from the East side unto the West side, a portion for Ephraim.
6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the East part even unto the West part, a portion for Reuben.
7 And by the border of Reuben, from the East quarter unto the West quarter, a portion for Judah.
8 And by the border of Judah from the East part unto the West part [ab]shall be the offering which they shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds broad, and of length as one of the other parts, from the East side unto the West side, and the Sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.
9 The oblation that ye shall offer unto the Lord, shall be of five and twenty thousand long, and of ten thousand the breadth.
10 And for them, even for the Priests shall be this holy oblation, toward the North five and twenty thousand long, and toward the West, ten thousand broad, and toward the East ten thousand broad, and toward the South five and twenty thousand long, and the Sanctuary of the Lord shall be in the midst thereof.
11 It shall be for the Priests that are sanctified of the sons of (E)Zadok, which have kept my charge, which went not astray, when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
12 Therefore this oblation of the land that is offered shall be theirs, as a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.
13 And over against the border of the Priests the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand long, and [ten] thousand broad: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
14 And they shall not sell of it, neither change it, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the Lord.
15 And the five thousand that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for housing, and for suburbs, and the city shall be in the midst thereof.
16 And these shall be the measures thereof, the North part five hundred and four thousand, and the South part [ac]five hundred and four thousand, and the East part five hundred and four thousand, and the West part five hundred and four thousand.
17 And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the North two hundred and fifty, and toward the South two hundred and fifty, and toward the East two hundred and fifty, and toward the West two hundred and fifty.
18 And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand Eastward, and ten thousand Westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion, and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve in the city.
19 And they that serve in the city, shall be of all the tribes of Israel that shall serve therein.
20 All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand with [ad]five and twenty thousand: you shall offer this oblation foursquare for the Sanctuary, and for the possession of the city.
21 And the residue shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other of the oblation of the Sanctuary, and of the possession of the city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the East border, and Westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the West border, over against shall be for the portion of the prince: this shall be the holy oblation, and the house of the Sanctuary shall be in the midst thereof.
22 Moreover, from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, that which is in the midst shall be the prince’s: between the border [ae]of Judah, and between the border of Benjamin shall be the Princes.
23 And the rest of the tribes shall be thus: from the East part unto the West part, Benjamin shall be a portion.
24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the East side unto the West side, Simeon a portion.
25 And by the border of Simeon from the East part unto the West part, Issachar a portion.
26 And by the border of Issachar, from the East side unto the West, Zebulun a portion.
27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the East part unto the West part, Gad a portion.
28 And by the border of Gad at the South side, toward [af]Temath, the border shall be even from [ag]Tamar, unto the waters of Meribah in Kadesh, and to the [ah]river, that runneth into the main sea.
29 This is the land, which ye shall distribute unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord God.
30 And these are the bounds of the city, on the North side five hundred, and four thousand measures.
31 And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel, the gates Northward, one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, and one gate of Levi.
32 And at the East side five hundred and four thousand, and three gates, and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, and one gate of Dan.
33 And at the South side, five hundred and four thousand measures, and three ports, one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, and one gate of Zebulun.
34 At the West side, five hundred and four thousand, with their three gates, one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, and one gate of Naphtali.
35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures, and the name of the city from that day shall be, [ai]The Lord is there.
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 45:1 Of all the land of Israel the Lord only requireth this portion for the Temple and for the Priests, for the city and for the Prince.
- Ezekiel 45:9 The Prophet showeth that the heads must be first reformed afore any good order can be established among the people.
- Ezekiel 45:10 Ephah and Bath were both of one quantity, save that Ephah contained in dry things that which Bath did in liquor, Lev. 5:11; 1 Kings 5:11.
- Ezekiel 45:12 That is, three-score shekels make a weight called Mina, for he joineth these three parts to a Mina.
- Ezekiel 45:18 Which was Nisan, containing part of March and part of April.
- Ezekiel 45:19 Or, court.
- Ezekiel 45:24 Read Exod. 29:40.
- Ezekiel 46:5 That is, as much as he will.
- Ezekiel 46:7 Meaning, as he shall think good.
- Ezekiel 46:17 Which was at the Jubilee, Lev. 25:9.
- Ezekiel 46:18 But be content with that portion that God hath assigned him, as Ezek. 45:8.
- Ezekiel 46:20 That the people should not have to do with those things which appertain to the Lord, and think it lawful for them to eat them.
- Ezekiel 47:1 Whereby are meant the spiritual graces that should be given to the Church under the kingdom of Christ.
- Ezekiel 47:5 Signifying that the graces of God should never decrease, but ever abound in his Church.
- Ezekiel 47:7 Meaning, the multitude of them that should be refreshed by the spiritual waters.
- Ezekiel 47:8 Showing that the abundance of these graces should be so great, that all the world should be full thereof, which is here meant by the Persian sea, or Genezareth, and the sea called Mediterranean, Zech. 14:8.
- Ezekiel 47:9 The waters which of nature are salt, and unwholesome shall be made sweet and comfortable.
- Ezekiel 47:10 Signifying, that when God bestoweth his mercies in such abundance, the ministers shall by their preaching win many.
- Ezekiel 47:10 Which were cities at the corners of the salt or dead sea.
- Ezekiel 47:10 They shall be here of all sorts, and in as great abundance as in the great Ocean where they are bred.
- Ezekiel 47:11 That is, the wicked and reprobate.
- Ezekiel 47:12 Or, tree for meat.
- Ezekiel 47:12 Or, for bruises and sores.
- Ezekiel 47:15 By the land of promise he signifieth the spiritual land whereof this was a figure.
- Ezekiel 47:19 Or, strife.
- Ezekiel 47:22 Meaning, that in this spiritual kingdom there should be no difference between Jew nor Gentile, but that all should be partakers of this inheritance in their head Christ.
- Ezekiel 48:1 The tribes after that they entered into the land under Joshua, divided the land somewhat otherwise than is here set forth by this vision.
- Ezekiel 48:8 That is, the portion of the ground which they shall separate and appoint to the Lord, which shall be divided into three parts, for the Priests, for the Prince, and for the city.
- Ezekiel 48:16 Meaning, that it should be square.
- Ezekiel 48:20 Every way it shall be five and twenty thousand.
- Ezekiel 48:22 So that Judah was on the North side of the Prince’s and Levites’ portions, and Benjamin on the South side.
- Ezekiel 48:28 Which is here taken for Edom.
- Ezekiel 48:28 Which was Jericho the city of palm trees.
- Ezekiel 48:28 Meaning, Nile that runneth into the Sea, called Mediterranean.
- Ezekiel 48:35 Hebrew, Jehovah Shammah.
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