Ezekiel 45
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
The Holy District
45 “When you allot the land as an inheritance, you shall set aside for the Lord a portion of the land as a holy district, twenty-five thousand cubits long and twenty[a] thousand cubits wide; it shall be holy throughout its entire 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 In the holy district you shall measure off a section twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide, in which shall be the sanctuary, the most holy place. 4 It shall be a 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 both a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.(A) 5 Another section, twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand cubits wide, shall be for the Levites who minister at the temple, as their holding for cities to live in.[b](B)
6 “Alongside the portion set apart as the holy district you shall assign as a holding for the city an area five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand cubits long; it shall belong to the whole house of Israel.(C)
7 “And to the prince shall belong the land on both sides of the holy district and the holding of the city, alongside the holy district and the holding 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(D) 8 of the land. It is to be his property in Israel. And my princes shall no longer oppress my people, but they shall let the house of Israel have the land according to their tribes.(E)
9 “Thus says the Lord God: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Cease your evictions of my people, says the Lord God.(F)
Weights and Measures
10 “You shall have honest balances, an honest ephah, and an honest bath.[c](G) 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. Twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall make a mina for you.(H)
Offerings
13 “This is the offering that 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[e] from each cor (the cor,[f] like the homer, contains ten baths), 15 and one sheep from every flock of two hundred from the pastures of Israel. This is the offering for grain offerings, burnt offerings, and offerings of well-being, to make atonement for them, says the Lord God.(I) 16 All the people of the land shall join in making this offering in Israel through the prince. 17 This shall be the obligation of the prince regarding the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings, at the festivals, the new moons, and the Sabbaths, all the appointed festivals of the house of Israel: he shall provide the purification offerings, the grain offerings, the burnt offerings, and the offerings of well-being, to make atonement for the house of Israel.(J)
Festivals
18 “Thus says the Lord God: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you shall take a bull of the herd without blemish and purify the sanctuary.(K) 19 The priest shall take some of the blood of the purification 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.(L) 20 You shall do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who has sinned through error or ignorance; so you shall make atonement for the temple.(M)
21 “In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall celebrate the Festival of the Passover, and for seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten.(N) 22 On that day the prince shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a bull for a purification offering.(O) 23 And during the seven days of the festival he shall provide as a burnt offering to the Lord seven bulls and seven rams without blemish, on each of the seven days, and a male goat daily for a purification offering.(P) 24 He shall provide as a grain 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 festival, he shall make the same provision for purification offerings, burnt offerings, and grain offerings and for the oil.(Q)
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
- Ezekiel 45:1 Or 8.33 miles
- Ezekiel 45:1 Hebrew 3.5 miles; LXX reads 6.67 miles in width, or 20,000 cubits (cf. 45:3, 5; 48:9)
- Ezekiel 45:2 That is, “875 feet by 875 feet”
- Ezekiel 45:2 Hebrew “cubit”
- Ezekiel 45:2 That is, “87.5 feet”
- Ezekiel 45:3 According to the reading tradition (Qere)
- Ezekiel 45:3 That is, 8.33 miles; cf. 45:5
- Ezekiel 45:3 That is, 3.5 miles; cf. 45:5
- Ezekiel 45:3 Literally “the holiness of holinesses”
- Ezekiel 45:4 Or “this area”
- Ezekiel 45:4 Literally “the ones who approach”
- Ezekiel 45:5 Literally “twenty chambers”
- Ezekiel 45:6 That is, 1.67 miles
- Ezekiel 45:6 That is, 8.33 miles
- Ezekiel 45:7 Hebrew “to”
- Ezekiel 45:7 Literally “from this and from this”
- Ezekiel 45:7 Literally “the contribution of the holiness”
- Ezekiel 45:7 Literally “to the front of”
- Ezekiel 45:7 Literally “from/on the side of the sea”
- Ezekiel 45:7 Literally “from/on the side of east”
- Ezekiel 45:7 Or “portion”
- Ezekiel 45:7 Literally “corresponding to one of the portions from the boundary of the sea”
- Ezekiel 45:7 Literally “to the boundary of the east”
- Ezekiel 45:8 Literally “to the land”
- Ezekiel 45:9 Or “against”
- Ezekiel 45:9 Literally “declaration of”
- Ezekiel 45:10 Literally “a set of scales of justice/honesty”
- Ezekiel 45:10 Literally “an ephah of honesty”
- Ezekiel 45:10 Literally “a bath of honesty”; a bath is a liquid measure
- Ezekiel 45:11 Or “shall be the same size”
- Ezekiel 45:11 Or “the”
- Ezekiel 45:12 Hebrew “shekel”
- Ezekiel 45:12 Hebrew “shekel”
- Ezekiel 45:12 Hebrew “shekel”
- Ezekiel 45:12 Meaning of Hebrew uncertain
- Ezekiel 45:13 Or “each”; literally “the”
- Ezekiel 45:13 Literally “the”
- Ezekiel 45:13 Literally “the”
- Ezekiel 45:15 Or “a”
- Ezekiel 45:15 Literally “declaration of”
- Ezekiel 45:16 Or “participate/ take part in”
- Ezekiel 45:16 Or possibly “for/to”
- Ezekiel 45:17 Or “on”
- Ezekiel 45:18 Literally “son of cattle,” or “son of the herd”
- Ezekiel 45:19 Or “house”
- Ezekiel 45:20 Or “house”
- Ezekiel 45:21 Literally “four ten”
- Ezekiel 45:21 Literally “a week of days”
- Ezekiel 45:22 Hebrew “him”
- Ezekiel 45:24 Hebrew “to”
- Ezekiel 45:24 Hebrew “to”
- Ezekiel 45:24 Literally “the”
- Ezekiel 45:25 Literally “five ten”
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