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Within this area, a square five hundred by five hundred cubits[a] is to be set aside for the sanctuary. There is also to be an open area of fifty cubits all around it.

From this measured area, you are to measure off a separate area which has a length of twenty-five thousand cubits and a width of ten thousand cubits. The sanctuary, the most holy place, will be in it. It is to be a holy area of the land.[b] It will be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who draw near to serve the Lord. It will be a place for their houses, as well as a holy place for the sanctuary.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 45:2 About 875 feet by 875 feet—smaller than today’s Temple Mount
  2. Ezekiel 45:4 This area is a band extending across the top 40% of the special area for the Lord.