Ezekiel 48:8-14

New Living Translation

⁸“South of Judah is the land set aside for a special purpose. It will be 8 1⁄3 miles^[a] wide and will extend as far east and west as the tribal territories, with the Temple at the center.

⁹“The area set aside for the Lord’s Temple will be 8 1⁄3 miles long and 6 2⁄3 miles wide.^[b] ¹⁰For the priests there will be a strip of land measuring 8 1⁄3 miles long by 3 1⁄3 miles wide,^[c] with the Lord’s Temple at the center. ¹¹This area is set aside for the ordained priests, the descendants of Zadok who served me faithfully and did not go astray with the people of Israel and the rest of the Levites. ¹²It will be their special portion when the land is distributed, the most sacred land of all. Next to the priests’ territory will lie the land where the other Levites will live.

¹³“The land allotted to the Levites will be the same size and shape as that belonging to the priests—8 1⁄3 miles long and 3 1⁄3 miles wide. Together these portions of land will measure 8 1⁄3 miles long by 6 2⁄3 miles wide.^[d] ¹⁴None of this special land may ever be sold or traded or used by others, for it belongs to the Lord; it is set apart as holy.

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Footnotes

48:8 Hebrew 25,000 [cubits] [13.3 kilometers].
48:9 As in one Greek manuscript and the Greek reading in 45:1: 25,000 [cubits] [13.3 kilometers] long and 20,000 [cubits] [10.6 kilometers] wide; Hebrew reads 25,000 [cubits] long and 10,000 [cubits] [3 1⁄3 miles or 5.3 kilometers] wide. Similarly in 48:13b. Compare 45:1-5; 48:10-13.
48:10 Hebrew 25,000 [cubits] [13.3 kilometers] long by 10,000 [cubits] [5.3 kilometers] wide; also in 48:13a.
48:13 See note on 48:9.