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Ezekiel 45
Lexham English Bible

Instructions about Divisions of the Renewed Land

45 And when you allocate the land as an inheritance, you shall provide a contribution for Yahweh as a holy portion from the land, its length being twenty-five thousand cubits[a] and its width ten thousand cubits;[b] it is holy in all its territory, all around. 2 And there shall be from this area five hundred cubits[c] by five hundred cubits, squared all around, for the sanctuary; and fifty cubits[d][e] of open space shall be for it all around it. 3 And from this measured area you shall measure a length of twenty-five[f] thousand cubits[g] and a width of ten thousand cubits,[h] and in it will be the sanctuary, the most holy place.[i] 4 It[j] is a holy portion from the land; it will be for the priests, the servants of the sanctuary who approach[k] to serve Yahweh, and it will be for them a place for houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. 5 And an area twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand cubits in width will be for the Levites, the servants of the temple. It will serve as property for them as cities to dwell in.[l] 6 And as property of the city, you must set apart alongside the contribution of the sanctuary a portion five thousand cubits[m] in width and twenty-five thousand cubits[n] in length, and it shall be for the entire house of Israel.

7 And a portion will be for[o] the prince on both sides[p] of the holy district,[q] and both sides of the property of the city, and alongside[r] the property of the city on the west,[s] and alongside the property on the east.[t] And also its length[u] corresponds to one of the tribal portions to the west[v] running to the eastern border.[w] 8 This shall be to him with respect to the land[x] as property in Israel; and so my princes shall not again oppress my people, but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.”

9 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Enough of this for you, the princes of Israel; put away violence and destruction and do justice and righteousness; revoke your acts of dispossession from upon[y] my people!” declares[z] the Lord Yahweh. 10 There shall be for you an honest set of scales[aa] and an honest ephah[ab] and an honest bath.[ac] 11 The ephah and the bath shall be one unit of measurement;[ad] the tenth part of the homer is the bath, and the tenth of the homer is the ephah; so the homer shall be its[ae] unit of measurement. 12 And the shekel shall weigh twenty gerahs, twenty shekels[af] and five and twenty shekels[ag] and ten and five shekels,[ah] that shall make the mina for you.[ai]

13 This is the contribution offering which you shall present: a sixth of the ephah from a[aj] homer of wheat, and a[ak] sixth of the ephah from a[al] homer of barley. 14 And the quota of the olive oil, the bath of the olive oil, is the tenth part of a bath from a kor, which is ten baths, or a homer—for ten baths are equal to a homer. 15 And one[am] sheep from the flock from among two hundred from the pastures of Israel will be taken as a grain offering and as a burnt offering and as a fellowship offering to make atonement for them,” declares[an] the Lord Yahweh. 16 “All of the people of the land shall join in[ao] to this contribution with[ap] the prince in Israel.

17 “But on the prince shall be the responsibility for the burnt offerings, and the grain offering, and the libation at the feasts, and at the New Moon festivals, and at[aq] the Sabbaths at all of the assemblies of the house of Israel; he shall provide the sin offering, and the grain offering, and the burnt offering, and the fellowship offering to make atonement for the house of Israel. 18 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘On the first month on the first day of the month, you shall take a bull, a calf[ar] without defect, and you shall purify the sanctuary. 19 And the priest shall take from the blood of the sin offering, and he shall put it on the doorframe of the temple[as] and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar and on the doorframe of the gate of the inner courtyard. 20 And so you shall do on the seventh day in the month for anyone doing wrong inadvertently or due to ignorance, and so you must make atonement for the temple.[at]

21 In the first month, on the fourteenth[au] day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast lasting for seven days,[av] when you shall eat unleavened breads. 22 And the prince shall provide on that day for himself[aw] and for all of the people of the land a bull as a sin offering. 23 And during the seven days of the religious feast he shall provide as a burnt offering to Yahweh seven bulls and seven rams without defect for each of the seven days, and as a sin offering a he-goat for each day. 24 And as a grain offering, an ephah for[ax] the bull and an ephah for[ay] the ram he must provide, and a hin of olive oil for each[az] ephah. 25 In the seventh month, on the fifteenth[ba] day of the month, during the feast, he shall provide just as he has for these seven days, as he did for the sin offering, as he did for the burnt offering, and as he did for the grain offering, and as he did for the olive oil.’”

Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 45:1 Or 8.33 miles
  2. Ezekiel 45:1 Hebrew 3.5 miles; LXX reads 6.67 miles in width, or 20,000 cubits (cf. 45:3, 5; 48:9)
  3. Ezekiel 45:2 That is, “875 feet by 875 feet”
  4. Ezekiel 45:2 Hebrew “cubit”
  5. Ezekiel 45:2 That is, “87.5 feet”
  6. Ezekiel 45:3 According to the reading tradition (Qere)
  7. Ezekiel 45:3 That is, 8.33 miles; cf. 45:5
  8. Ezekiel 45:3 That is, 3.5 miles; cf. 45:5
  9. Ezekiel 45:3 Literally “the holiness of holinesses”
  10. Ezekiel 45:4 Or “this area”
  11. Ezekiel 45:4 Literally “the ones who approach”
  12. Ezekiel 45:5 Literally “twenty chambers”
  13. Ezekiel 45:6 That is, 1.67 miles
  14. Ezekiel 45:6 That is, 8.33 miles
  15. Ezekiel 45:7 Hebrew “to”
  16. Ezekiel 45:7 Literally “from this and from this”
  17. Ezekiel 45:7 Literally “the contribution of the holiness”
  18. Ezekiel 45:7 Literally “to the front of”
  19. Ezekiel 45:7 Literally “from/on the side of the sea”
  20. Ezekiel 45:7 Literally “from/on the side of east”
  21. Ezekiel 45:7 Or “portion”
  22. Ezekiel 45:7 Literally “corresponding to one of the portions from the boundary of the sea”
  23. Ezekiel 45:7 Literally “to the boundary of the east”
  24. Ezekiel 45:8 Literally “to the land”
  25. Ezekiel 45:9 Or “against”
  26. Ezekiel 45:9 Literally “declaration of”
  27. Ezekiel 45:10 Literally “a set of scales of justice/honesty”
  28. Ezekiel 45:10 Literally “an ephah of honesty”
  29. Ezekiel 45:10 Literally “a bath of honesty”; a bath is a liquid measure
  30. Ezekiel 45:11 Or “shall be the same size”
  31. Ezekiel 45:11 Or “the”
  32. Ezekiel 45:12 Hebrew “shekel”
  33. Ezekiel 45:12 Hebrew “shekel”
  34. Ezekiel 45:12 Hebrew “shekel”
  35. Ezekiel 45:12 Meaning of Hebrew uncertain
  36. Ezekiel 45:13 Or “each”; literally “the”
  37. Ezekiel 45:13 Literally “the”
  38. Ezekiel 45:13 Literally “the”
  39. Ezekiel 45:15 Or “a”
  40. Ezekiel 45:15 Literally “declaration of”
  41. Ezekiel 45:16 Or “participate/ take part in”
  42. Ezekiel 45:16 Or possibly “for/to”
  43. Ezekiel 45:17 Or “on”
  44. Ezekiel 45:18 Literally “son of cattle,” or “son of the herd”
  45. Ezekiel 45:19 Or “house”
  46. Ezekiel 45:20 Or “house”
  47. Ezekiel 45:21 Literally “four ten”
  48. Ezekiel 45:21 Literally “a week of days”
  49. Ezekiel 45:22 Hebrew “him”
  50. Ezekiel 45:24 Hebrew “to”
  51. Ezekiel 45:24 Hebrew “to”
  52. Ezekiel 45:24 Literally “the”
  53. Ezekiel 45:25 Literally “five ten”
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Ezekiel 45
Holman Christian Standard Bible

The Sacred Portion of the Land

45 “When you divide the land by lot as an inheritance,(A) you must set aside a donation to the Lord, a holy portion of the land,(B) 8⅓ miles[a] long and 6⅔ miles[b] wide. This entire tract of land will be holy. 2 In this area there will be a square section[c] for the sanctuary, 875 by 875 feet,[d](C) with 87½ feet[e] of open space all around it. 3 From this holy portion,[f] you will measure off an area 8⅓ miles[g] long and 3⅓ miles[h] wide, in which the sanctuary, the most holy place,(D) will stand.[i] 4 It will be a holy area of the land to be used by the priests who minister in the sanctuary, who draw near to serve the Lord.(E) It will be a place for their houses, as well as a holy area for the sanctuary. 5 There will be another area 8⅓ miles[j] long and 3⅓ miles[k] wide for the Levites who minister in the temple;(F) it will be their possession for towns to live in.[l]

6 “As the property of the city, you must set aside an area 1⅔ of a mile[m] wide and 8⅓ miles[n] long, adjacent to the holy donation of land.(G) It will be for the whole house of Israel. 7 And the prince will have the area on each side of the holy donation of land and the city’s property, adjacent to the holy donation and the city’s property, stretching to the west on the west side and to the east on the east side.(H) Its length will correspond to one of the tribal portions from the western boundary to the eastern boundary. 8 This will be his land as a possession in Israel. My princes will no longer oppress My people(I) but give the rest of the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

9 “This is what the Lord God says: You have gone too far,[o](J) princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression and do what is just and right.(K) Put an end to your evictions of My people.” This is the declaration of the Lord God. 10 “You must have honest scales, an honest dry measure,[p] and an honest liquid measure.[q](L) 11 The dry measure[r] and the liquid measure[s] will be uniform, with the liquid measure containing 5½ gallons[t] and the dry measure holding half a bushel.[u] Their measurement will be a tenth of the standard larger capacity measure.[v] 12 The shekel will weigh 20 gerahs.(M) Your mina will equal 60 shekels.

The People’s Contribution to the Sacrifices

13 “This is the contribution you are to offer: Three quarts[w] from five bushels[x] of wheat and[y] three quarts from five bushels of barley. 14 The quota of oil in liquid measures[z] will be one percent of every[aa] cor. The cor equals 10 liquid measures or one standard larger capacity measure,[ab] since 10 liquid measures equal one standard larger capacity measure. 15 And the quota from the flock is one animal out of every 200 from the well-watered pastures of Israel. These are for the grain offerings, burnt offerings, and fellowship offerings, to make atonement for the people.”(N) This is the declaration of the Lord God. 16 “All the people of the land must take part in this contribution for the prince in Israel. 17 Then the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings for the festivals, New Moons, and Sabbaths—for all the appointed times of the house of Israel—will be the prince’s responsibility. He will provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and fellowship offerings to make atonement on behalf of the house of Israel.

18 “This is what the Lord God says: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you are to take a young, unblemished bull and purify the sanctuary. 19 The priest must take some of the blood from the sin offering and apply it to the temple doorposts, the four corners of the altar’s ledge, and the doorposts of the gate to the inner court.(O) 20 You must do the same thing on the seventh day of the month for everyone who sins unintentionally or through ignorance.(P) In this way you will make atonement for the temple.

21 “In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you are to celebrate the Passover, a festival of seven days during which unleavened bread will be eaten.(Q) 22 On that day the prince will provide a bull as a sin offering on behalf of himself and all the people of the land. 23 During the seven days of the festival, he will provide seven bulls and seven rams without blemish as a burnt offering to the Lord on each of the seven days, along with a male goat each day for a sin offering. 24 He will also provide a grain offering of half a bushel[ac] per bull and half a bushel per ram, along with a gallon[ad] of oil for every half bushel. 25 At the festival that begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh month,[ae](R) he will provide the same things for seven days—the same sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, and oil.

Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 45:1 Lit 25,000 [cubits]
  2. Ezekiel 45:1 LXX reads 20,000 [cubits]; MT reads 10,000 [cubits]
  3. Ezekiel 45:2 Lit square all around
  4. Ezekiel 45:2 Lit 500 by 500 [cubits]
  5. Ezekiel 45:2 Lit 50 cubits
  6. Ezekiel 45:3 Lit this measured [portion]
  7. Ezekiel 45:3 Lit 25,000 [cubits]
  8. Ezekiel 45:3 Lit 10,000 [cubits]
  9. Ezekiel 45:3 Lit be
  10. Ezekiel 45:5 Lit 25,000 [cubits]
  11. Ezekiel 45:5 Lit 10,000 [cubits]
  12. Ezekiel 45:5 LXX; MT, Syr, Tg, Vg read possession—20 chambers
  13. Ezekiel 45:6 Lit 5,000 [cubits]
  14. Ezekiel 45:6 Lit 25,000 [cubits]
  15. Ezekiel 45:9 Lit Enough of you
  16. Ezekiel 45:10 Lit an honest ephah
  17. Ezekiel 45:10 Lit and an honest bath
  18. Ezekiel 45:11 Lit the ephah
  19. Ezekiel 45:11 Lit the bath
  20. Ezekiel 45:11 Lit one-tenth of a homer
  21. Ezekiel 45:11 Lit one-tenth of a homer
  22. Ezekiel 45:11 Lit be [based] on the homer
  23. Ezekiel 45:13 Lit One-sixth of an ephah
  24. Ezekiel 45:13 Lit a homer
  25. Ezekiel 45:13 LXX, Vg; MT reads and you are to give
  26. Ezekiel 45:14 Lit oil, the bath, the oil
  27. Ezekiel 45:14 Lit be a tenth of the bath from the
  28. Ezekiel 45:14 Lit 10 baths, a homer
  29. Ezekiel 45:24 Lit an ephah
  30. Ezekiel 45:24 Lit a hin
  31. Ezekiel 45:25 = the Festival of Booths
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