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圣区

45 “你们抽签分地为业的时候,要献上一份给耶和华作圣区,长十二公里半,宽十公里(此译法参古译本,“十公里”原文作“五公里”);整个地区都是圣的。 其中要有一块作为圣所之地,长二百五十公尺,宽二百五十公尺,四面见方;周围再有二十五公尺作空地。 你们要从所量的圣区量出一块地来,长十二公里半,宽五公里,其中要有圣所,是至圣的地方。 这是整个地区中的一块圣地,要归给那些在圣所里供职,亲近事奉耶和华的祭司,作他们房屋之地和圣所之圣地。 其余的一块地,长十二公里半,宽五公里,要归给在圣殿里供职的利未人作为他们的基业,作居住的城市(按照《马索拉文本》,“作居住的城市”作“二十间房屋”;现参照《七十士译本》翻译)。

归以色列全家的

“你们要划分一块地作城的基业,宽两公里半,长十二公里半,在所献的圣区旁边,归给以色列全家。

归君王的

“归给君王之地要在所献的圣区和城的基业两旁,一块对着所献的圣区,一块对着城的基业,从西边那块地的西面边界,到东边那块地的东面边界,长度与每支派所分得的地一样长。 这地在以色列中要归给君王作基业。我所立的君王都不可再欺压我的子民,却要按支派把地分给以色列家。”

君王应守的条例

主耶和华这样说:“以色列的君王啊!你们所作的该够了吧。你们要除掉强暴和毁灭的事,施行公平和公义。不要再掠夺我子民的产业。这是主耶和华的宣告。 10 你们要用公道的天秤、公道的量器。 11 量固体的‘伊法’和量液体的‘罢特’的容量要相同:一‘罢特’等于‘贺梅珥’的十分之一;一‘伊法’也等于‘贺梅珥’的十分之一,都以‘贺梅珥’的容量为准。 12 重量单位的一‘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’、就是你们的一‘弥那’。

13 “你们所当献的供物是这样:一‘贺梅珥’小麦,要献一‘伊法’的六分之一;一‘贺梅珥’大麦,要献一‘伊法’的六分之一。 14 献油的规定是这样:要用‘罢特’来量,一‘柯珥’要献一‘罢特’的十分之一。原来一‘柯珥’等于十‘罢特’或是一‘贺梅珥’,因为十‘罢特’就是一‘贺梅珥’。 15 从以色列肥沃的草场上,每二百只羊中要献一只羊羔。这些供物要作素祭、燔祭和平安祭,为他们赎罪。这是主耶和华的宣告。 16 国中所有的人民都要奉上供物给以色列的君王。 17 君王要在节期、月朔、安息日,就是在以色列家一切规定的节日上,奉上燔祭、素祭和奠祭。他要预备赎罪祭、素祭、燔祭和平安祭,为以色列家赎罪。”

节期的献祭

18 主耶和华这样说:“正月初一日,你要取一头无残疾的公牛犊,洁净圣所。 19 祭司要取些赎罪祭牲的血,抹在殿的门框、祭坛台上的四角,以及内院的门框上。 20 正月初七日,你也要为犯了误杀罪的或因愚蒙而犯罪的人这样行,为圣殿赎罪。

21 “正月十四日,你们要守逾越节,节期共七天,期间你们要吃无酵饼。 22 在那一天,君王要为自己和国中所有的人民预备一头公牛作赎罪祭。 23 这节期的七天,每天他都要为耶和华预备无残疾的公牛七头和公绵羊七只作燔祭;他每天又要预备公山羊一只作赎罪祭。 24 他也要预备素祭,每一头公牛要与十七公升细面一同献上,每一只公绵羊要与十七公升细面一同献上;每份十七公升的细面加油三公升。 25 七月十五日,守节的时候,他也要这样行,照着逾越节的赎罪祭、燔祭、素祭和油的条例去作。”

Israel Fully Restored

45 “‘When you allot the land as an inheritance,(A) you are to present to the Lord a portion of the land as a sacred district, 25,000 cubits[a] long and 20,000[b] cubits[c] wide; the entire area will be holy.(B) Of this, a section 500 cubits[d] square(C) is to be for the sanctuary, with 50 cubits[e] around it for open land. In the sacred district, measure off a section 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits[f] wide. In it will be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place. It will be the sacred portion of the land for the priests,(D) 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.(E) An area 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide will belong to the Levites, who serve in the temple, as their possession for towns to live in.[g](F)

“‘You are to give the city as its property an area 5,000 cubits[h] wide and 25,000 cubits long, adjoining the sacred portion; it will belong to all Israel.(G)

“‘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.(H) This land will be his possession in Israel. And my princes will no longer oppress my people but will allow the people of Israel to possess the land according to their tribes.(I)

“‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You have gone far enough, princes of Israel! Give up your violence and oppression(J) and do what is just and right.(K) Stop dispossessing my people, declares the Sovereign Lord. 10 You are to use accurate scales,(L) an accurate ephah[i](M) and an accurate bath.[j] 11 The ephah(N) 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[k] is to consist of twenty gerahs.(O) Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels equal one mina.[l]

13 “‘This is the special gift you are to offer: a sixth of an ephah[m] from each homer of wheat and a sixth of an ephah[n] from each homer of barley. 14 The prescribed portion of olive oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath[o] 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(P) and fellowship offerings to make atonement(Q) for the people, declares the Sovereign Lord. 16 All the people of the land will be required to give this special offering to the prince in Israel. 17 It will be the duty of the prince to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings and drink offerings at the festivals, the New Moons(R) and the Sabbaths(S)—at all the appointed festivals of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings,[p] grain offerings, burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to make atonement for the Israelites.(T)

18 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: In the first month(U) on the first day you are to take a young bull without defect(V) and purify the sanctuary.(W) 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(X) of the altar(Y) 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(Z) 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,(AA) a festival lasting seven days, during which you shall eat bread 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.(AB) 23 Every day during the seven days of the festival he is to provide seven bulls and seven rams(AC) without defect as a burnt offering to the Lord, and a male goat for a sin offering.(AD) 24 He is to provide as a grain offering(AE) an ephah for each bull and an ephah for each ram, along with a hin[q] of olive oil for each ephah.(AF)

25 “‘During the seven days of the festival,(AG) 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.(AH)

Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 45:1 That is, about 8 miles or about 13 kilometers; also in verses 3, 5 and 6
  2. Ezekiel 45:1 Septuagint (see also verses 3 and 5 and 48:9); Hebrew 10,000
  3. Ezekiel 45:1 That is, about 6 1/2 miles or about 11 kilometers
  4. Ezekiel 45:2 That is, about 875 feet or about 265 meters
  5. Ezekiel 45:2 That is, about 88 feet or about 27 meters
  6. Ezekiel 45:3 That is, about 3 1/3 miles or about 5.3 kilometers; also in verse 5
  7. Ezekiel 45:5 Septuagint; Hebrew temple; they will have as their possession 20 rooms
  8. Ezekiel 45:6 That is, about 1 2/3 miles or about 2.7 kilometers
  9. Ezekiel 45:10 An ephah was a dry measure having the capacity of about 3/5 bushel or about 22 liters.
  10. Ezekiel 45:10 A bath was a liquid measure equaling about 6 gallons or about 22 liters.
  11. Ezekiel 45:12 A shekel weighed about 2/5 ounce or about 12 grams.
  12. Ezekiel 45:12 That is, 60 shekels; the common mina was 50 shekels. Sixty shekels were about 1 1/2 pounds or about 690 grams.
  13. Ezekiel 45:13 That is, probably about 6 pounds or about 2.7 kilograms
  14. Ezekiel 45:13 That is, probably about 5 pounds or about 2.3 kilograms
  15. Ezekiel 45:14 That is, about 2 1/2 quarts or about 2.2 liters
  16. Ezekiel 45:17 Or purification offerings; also in verses 19, 22, 23 and 25
  17. Ezekiel 45:24 That is, about 1 gallon or about 3.8 liters

Chapter 45

The Holy Portion. When you apportion the land heritage by heritage, you shall set apart a holy portion for the Lord, holier than the rest of the land—twenty-five thousand cubits long and twenty thousand cubits wide; the entire area shall be holy. Of this land a square plot, five hundred by five hundred cubits, shall be assigned to the sanctuary, with fifty cubits of free space around it. From this tract also measure off a length of twenty-five thousand cubits and a width of ten thousand cubits; on it the sanctuary, the holy of holies, shall stand. This shall be the sacred part of the land belonging to the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who draw near to minister to the Lord; it shall be a place for their homes and an area set apart for the sanctuary. There shall also be a strip twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide for the Levites, the ministers of the temple, so they have cities to live in. You shall assign a strip five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand long as the property of the city parallel to the sacred tract; this shall belong to the whole house of Israel. A section shall belong to the prince, bordering both sides of the sacred tract and city combined, extending westward on the west side and eastward on the east side, corresponding in length to one of the tribal portions from the west boundary to the east boundary of the land. This shall be his property in Israel so that my princes will no longer oppress my people, but will leave the land to the house of Israel according to its tribes. Thus says the Lord God: Enough, you princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and do what is just and right! Stop evicting my people!—oracle of the Lord God.

Weights and Measures.[a] 10 (A)You shall have honest scales, an honest ephah, and an honest bath. 11 The ephah and the bath shall be the same size: the bath equal to one tenth of a homer, and the ephah equal to one tenth of a homer; their capacity is based on the homer. 12 The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels make up a mina[b] for you.

Offerings. 13 This is the offering you must make: one sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat and one sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley. 14 This is the regulation for oil: for every bath of oil, one tenth of a bath, computed by the kor,[c] made up of ten baths, that is, a homer, for ten baths make a homer. 15 Also, one sheep from the flock for every two hundred from the pasture land of Israel, for the grain offering, the burnt offering, and communion offerings, to make atonement on their behalf—oracle of the Lord God.(B) 16 All the people of the land shall be responsible for these offerings to the prince in Israel. 17 It shall be the duty of the prince to provide burnt offerings, grain offerings, and libations on feast days, new moons, and sabbaths, on all the festivals of the house of Israel. He shall provide the purification offering, grain offering, burnt offering, and communion offerings, to make atonement on behalf of the house of Israel.(C)

The Passover. 18 Thus says the Lord God: On the first day of the first month you shall take an unblemished young bull to purify the sanctuary.(D) 19 The priest shall take some of the blood from the purification offering and smear it on the doorposts of the house, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the doorposts of the gates of the inner courtyard.(E) 20 You shall repeat this on the seventh day of the month for those who have sinned inadvertently or out of ignorance; thus you shall purge the temple.(F) 21 On the fourteenth day of the first month you shall observe the feast of Passover; for seven days unleavened bread must be eaten. 22 On that day the prince shall sacrifice, on his own behalf and on behalf of all the people of the land, a bull as a purification offering. 23 On each of the seven days of the feast he shall sacrifice, as a burnt offering to the Lord, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish, and as a purification offering he shall sacrifice one male goat each day.(G) 24 As a grain offering he shall offer one ephah for each bull and one ephah for each ram and one hin[d] of oil for each ephah.(H)

The Feast of Booths. 25 In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, on the feast day and for the next seven days, he shall make the same offerings: the same purification offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, and offerings of oil.(I)

Footnotes

  1. 45:10–12 Besides the land monopoly fostered by royal greed and collusion with the wealthy (Mi 2:2; Is 3:12–15; 5:8–10), one grave social evil of preexilic Israel was dishonesty in business; cf. Hos 12:8; Am 8:5. Ephah, bath: see note on Is 5:10.
  2. 45:12 Mina: before the exile, a mina was worth fifty shekels; later, in imitation of Babylonian practice, its value increased to sixty shekels. A shekel weighed slightly less than half an ounce. A shekel’s monetary value depended on whether it was gold or silver.
  3. 45:14 Kor: a liquid and a dry measure, equal to a homer.
  4. 45:24 Hin: one sixth of the liquid measure known as a bath.