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The Place for the Temple

The contribution you are to devote to the Lord is to be twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand cubits wide.[a] 10 The holy contribution for the priests will be this: a rectangular area measuring twenty-five thousand cubits long on the north side, ten thousand cubits wide on the west, ten thousand cubits wide on the east, and twenty-five thousand cubits long on the south. The sanctuary of the Lord will be in the middle. 11 It will be for the priests, whoever has been consecrated from the sons of Zadok, who guarded the ministry for me, and who did not go astray when the other sons of Israel went astray, as also the Levites went astray.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 48:9 A little more than 8 miles by 3 miles in size, this portion is located along the north edge of the square.