以西结书 45
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
聖區
45 “你們抽籤分地為業的時候，要獻上一份給耶和華作聖區，長十二公里半，寬十公里（此譯法參古譯本，“十公里”原文作“五公里”）；整個地區都是聖的。 2 其中要有一塊作為聖所之地，長二百五十公尺，寬二百五十公尺，四面見方；周圍再有二十五公尺作空地。 3 你們要從所量的聖區量出一塊地來，長十二公里半，寬五公里，其中要有聖所，是至聖的地方。 4 這是整個地區中的一塊聖地，要歸給那些在聖所裡供職，親近事奉耶和華的祭司，作他們房屋之地和聖所之聖地。 5 其餘的一塊地，長十二公里半，寬五公里，要歸給在聖殿裡供職的利未人作為他們的基業，作居住的城市（按照《馬索拉文本》，“作居住的城市”作“二十間房屋”；現參照《七十士譯本》翻譯）。
歸以色列全家的
6 “你們要劃分一塊地作城的基業，寬兩公里半，長十二公里半，在所獻的聖區旁邊，歸給以色列全家。
歸君王的
7 “歸給君王之地要在所獻的聖區和城的基業兩旁，一塊對著所獻的聖區，一塊對著城的基業，從西邊那塊地的西面邊界，到東邊那塊地的東面邊界，長度與每支派所分得的地一樣長。 8 這地在以色列中要歸給君王作基業。我所立的君王都不可再欺壓我的子民，卻要按支派把地分給以色列家。”
君王應守的條例
9 主耶和華這樣說：“以色列的君王啊！你們所作的該夠了吧。你們要除掉強暴和毀滅的事，施行公平和公義。不要再掠奪我子民的產業。這是主耶和華的宣告。 10 你們要用公道的天秤、公道的量器。 11 量固體的‘伊法’和量液體的‘罷特’的容量要相同：一‘罷特’等於‘賀梅珥’的十分之一；一‘伊法’也等於‘賀梅珥’的十分之一，都以‘賀梅珥’的容量為準。 12 重量單位的一‘舍客勒’是二十‘季拉’；二十‘舍客勒’，加二十五‘舍客勒’和十五‘舍客勒’、就是你們的一‘彌那’。
13 “你們所當獻的供物是這樣：一‘賀梅珥’小麥，要獻一‘伊法’的六分之一；一‘賀梅珥’大麥，要獻一‘伊法’的六分之一。 14 獻油的規定是這樣：要用‘罷特’來量，一‘柯珥’要獻一‘罷特’的十分之一。原來一‘柯珥’等於十‘罷特’或是一‘賀梅珥’，因為十‘罷特’就是一‘賀梅珥’。 15 從以色列肥沃的草場上，每二百隻羊中要獻一隻羊羔。這些供物要作素祭、燔祭和平安祭，為他們贖罪。這是主耶和華的宣告。 16 國中所有的人民都要奉上供物給以色列的君王。 17 君王要在節期、月朔、安息日，就是在以色列家一切規定的節日上，奉上燔祭、素祭和奠祭。他要預備贖罪祭、素祭、燔祭和平安祭，為以色列家贖罪。”
節期的獻祭
18 主耶和華這樣說：“正月初一日，你要取一頭無殘疾的公牛犢，潔淨聖所。 19 祭司要取些贖罪祭牲的血，抹在殿的門框、祭壇臺上的四角，以及內院的門框上。 20 正月初七日，你也要為犯了誤殺罪的或因愚蒙而犯罪的人這樣行，為聖殿贖罪。
21 “正月十四日，你們要守逾越節，節期共七天，期間你們要吃無酵餅。 22 在那一天，君王要為自己和國中所有的人民預備一頭公牛作贖罪祭。 23 這節期的七天，每天他都要為耶和華預備無殘疾的公牛七頭和公綿羊七隻作燔祭；他每天又要預備公山羊一隻作贖罪祭。 24 他也要預備素祭，每一頭公牛要與十七公升細麵一同獻上，每一隻公綿羊要與十七公升細麵一同獻上；每份十七公升的細麵加油三公升。 25 七月十五日，守節的時候，他也要這樣行，照著逾越節的贖罪祭、燔祭、素祭和油的條例去作。”
Ezekiel 45
Good News Translation
The Lord's Portion of the Country
45 When the land is divided to give each tribe a share, one part is to be dedicated to the Lord. It is to be 10 miles long by 8 miles[a] wide. The entire area will be holy. 2 In this area there is to be a square plot of land for the Temple, 840 feet on each side, entirely surrounded by an open space 84 feet wide. 3 Half of this area, a section 10 miles by 4 miles, is to be measured off; it will contain the Temple, the holiest place of all. 4 It will be a holy part of the country, set aside for the priests who serve the Lord in his Temple. It will contain their houses and the section of land for the Temple. 5 The other half of the area is to be set aside as the possession of the Levites, who do the work in the Temple. There will be towns there for them to live in.[b]
6 Next to the holy area, another section, 10 miles long and 2 miles wide, is to be set aside for a city where any of the people of Israel may live.
Land for the Prince
7 Land is also to be set aside for the ruling prince. From the west boundary of the holy area it will extend west to the Mediterranean Sea; and from the east boundary it will extend to the eastern border of the country, so that its length will be the same as the length of one of the areas allotted to the tribes of Israel. 8 This area will be the share the ruling prince will have in the land of Israel, so that he will no longer oppress the people, but will let the rest of the country belong to the tribes of Israel.
Rules for the Prince
9 The Sovereign Lord said, “You have sinned too long, you rulers of Israel! Stop your violence and oppression. Do what is right and just. You must never again drive my people off their land. I, the Sovereign Lord, am telling you this.
10 (A)“Everyone must use honest weights and measures:
11 “The ephah for dry measure is to be equal to the bath for liquid measure. The standard is the homer.[c] The resulting measures are as follows:
1 homer = 10 ephahs = 10 baths
12 “Your weights are to be as follows:
20 gerahs = 1 shekel[d]
60 shekels = 1 mina
13-15 “This is the basis on which you are to make your offerings:
Wheat: 1/60th of your harvest
Barley: 1/60th of your harvest
Olive oil: 1/100th of the yield of your trees
(Measure it by the bath 10 baths = 1 homer = 1 kor)
Sheep: 1 sheep out of every 200 from the meadows of Israel
“You are to bring grain offerings, animals to be burned whole, and animals for fellowship offerings, so that your sins will be forgiven. I, the Sovereign Lord, command it.
16 “All the people of the land must take[e] these offerings to the ruling prince of Israel. 17 It will be his duty to provide the animals to be burned whole, the grain offerings, and the wine offerings for the whole nation of Israel at the New Moon Festivals, the Sabbaths, and the other festivals. He is to provide the sin offerings, the grain offerings, the offerings to be burned whole, and the fellowship offerings, to take away the sins of the people of Israel.”
The Festivals(B)
18 The Sovereign Lord said, “On the first day of the first month you are to sacrifice a bull without any defects and purify the Temple. 19 The priest will take some of the blood of this sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the Temple, on the four corners of the altar, and on the posts of the gateways to the inner courtyard. 20 On the seventh day of the month you are to do the same thing on behalf of anyone who sins unintentionally or through ignorance. In this way you will keep the Temple holy.
21 (C)“On the fourteenth day of the first month you will begin the celebration of the Passover Festival. For seven days everyone will eat bread made without yeast. 22 On the first day of the festival the ruling prince must offer a bull as a sacrifice for his sins and for those of all the people. 23 On each of the seven days of the festival he is to sacrifice to the Lord seven bulls and seven rams without any defects and burn them whole. He is also to sacrifice a male goat each day as a sin offering. 24 For each bull and each ram that is sacrificed, there is to be an offering of half a bushel of grain and three quarts of olive oil.
25 (D)“For the Festival of Shelters, which begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, the prince will offer on each of the seven days the same sacrifice for sin, the same offerings to be burned whole, and the same offerings of grain and olive oil.”
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 45:1 One ancient translation 8 miles; Hebrew 4 miles.
- Ezekiel 45:5 One ancient translation towns there for them to live in; Hebrew twenty rooms.
- Ezekiel 45:11 A unit of dry or liquid measure, about 5 bushels or 175 quarts; so an ephah or a bath would be about ½ bushel or 17.5 quarts.
- Ezekiel 45:12 In Ezekiel's time this unit of weight was about 0.4 ounce or 11.4 grams.
- Ezekiel 45:16 Probable text must take; Hebrew unclear.
Ezekiel 45
Revised Standard Version
The Holy District
45 “When you allot the land as a possession, you shall set apart for the Lord a portion of the land as a holy district, twenty-five thousand cubits long and twenty[a] thousand cubits broad; it shall be holy throughout its whole extent. 2 Of this a square plot of five hundred by five hundred cubits shall be for the sanctuary, with fifty cubits for an open space around it. 3 And in the holy district you shall measure off a section twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand broad, in which shall be the sanctuary, the most holy place. 4 It shall be the holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, who minister in the sanctuary and approach the Lord to minister to him; and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. 5 Another section, twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand cubits broad, shall be for the Levites who minister at the temple, as their possession for cities to live in.[b]
6 “Alongside the portion set apart as the holy district you shall assign for the possession of the city an area five thousand cubits broad, and twenty-five thousand cubits long; it shall belong to the whole house of Israel.
7 “And to the prince shall belong the land on both sides of the holy district and the property of the city, alongside the holy district and the property of the city, on the west and on the east, corresponding in length to one of the tribal portions, and extending from the western to the eastern boundary of the land. 8 It is to be his property in Israel. And my princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall let the house of Israel have the land according to their tribes.
9 “Thus says the Lord God: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness; cease your evictions of my people, says the Lord God.
Weights and Measures
10 “You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath. 11 The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, the bath containing one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure. 12 The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; five shekels shall be five shekels, and ten shekels shall be ten shekels, and your mina shall be fifty shekels.[c]
Offerings
13 “This is the offering which you shall make: one sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and one sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley, 14 and as the fixed portion of oil,[d] one tenth of a bath from each cor (the cor,[e] like the homer, contains ten baths); 15 and one sheep from every flock of two hundred, from the families[f] of Israel. This is the offering for cereal offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement for them, says the Lord God. 16 All the people of the land shall give[g] this offering to the prince in Israel. 17 It shall be the prince’s duty to furnish the burnt offerings, cereal offerings, and drink offerings, at the feasts, the new moons, and the sabbaths, all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel: he shall provide the sin offerings, cereal offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.
Festivals
18 “Thus says the Lord God: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you shall take a young bull without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary. 19 The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and the posts of the gate of the inner court. 20 You shall do the same on the seventh day of the month for any one who has sinned through error or ignorance; so you shall make atonement for the temple.
21 “In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall celebrate the feast of the passover, and for 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 young bull for a sin offering. 23 And on the seven days of the festival he shall provide as a burnt offering to the Lord seven young bulls and seven rams without blemish, on each of the seven days; and a he-goat daily for a sin offering. 24 And he shall provide as a cereal offering an ephah for each bull, an ephah for each ram, and a hin of oil to each ephah. 25 In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month and for the seven days of the feast, he shall make the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, and cereal offerings, and for the oil.
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 45:1 Gk: Heb ten
- Ezekiel 45:5 Gk: Heb twenty chambers
- Ezekiel 45:12 Gk: Heb twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, fifteen shekels shall be your mina
- Ezekiel 45:14 Cn: Heb oil, the bath the oil
- Ezekiel 45:14 Vg: Heb homer
- Ezekiel 45:15 Gk: Heb watering places
- Ezekiel 45:16 Gk Compare Syr: Heb shall be to
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