God’s Grace to Unfaithful Jerusalem

16 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² “Son of man, ^(A)make known to Jerusalem her abominations, ³ and say, ‘This is what the Lord ^[a]God says to Jerusalem: “Your origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. ⁴ As for your birth, ^(B)on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing; you were not rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths. ⁵ No eye looked with pity on you to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you. Rather you were thrown out into the ^[b](C)open field, ^[c]for you were abhorred on the day you were born.

⁶ “When I passed by you and saw you squirming in your blood, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’ ⁷ I ^(D)made you ^[d]very numerous, like plants of the field. Then you grew up, became tall and reached the age for fine jewelry; your breasts were formed and your hair had grown. Yet you were naked and bare.

⁸ “Then I passed by you and saw you, and behold, ^[e]you were at the time for love; so I ^(E)spread My ^[f]garment over you and covered your nakedness. I also ^(F)swore an oath to you and ^(G)entered into a covenant with you so that you ^(H)became Mine,” declares the Lord God. ⁹ “Then I bathed you with water, washed off your blood from you, and ^(I)anointed you with oil. ¹⁰ I also clothed you with ^(J)colorfully woven cloth and put sandals of ^[g]fine leather on your feet; and I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk. ¹¹ I adorned you with jewelry, put ^(K)bracelets on your wrists, and a ^(L)necklace around your neck. ¹² I also put a ^(M)ring in your nose, earrings in your ears, and a ^(N)beautiful crown on your head. ¹³ So you were adorned with ^(O)gold and silver, and your dress was of fine linen, silk, and colorfully woven cloth. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil; so you were exceedingly beautiful and advanced to ^(P)royalty. ¹⁴ Then your ^(Q)fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was ^(R)perfect because of My splendor which I bestowed on you,” declares the Lord God.

¹⁵ “But you ^(S)trusted in your beauty and ^(T)became unfaithful because of your fame, and you poured out your ^[h]obscene practices on every passer-by to whom it might be tempting. ¹⁶ You took some of your clothes, made for yourself ^[i]high places of various colors, and committed prostitution on them, which should not come about nor happen. ¹⁷ You also took your beautiful ^[j](U)jewels made of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images so that you might commit prostitution with them. ¹⁸ Then you took your colorfully woven cloth and covered them, and offered My oil and My incense before them. ¹⁹ Also ^(V)My bread which I gave you, fine flour, oil, and honey with which I fed you, ^[k]you would offer before them for a soothing aroma; so it happened,” declares the Lord God. ²⁰ “Furthermore, you took your sons and daughters whom you had borne to ^(W)Me and ^(X)sacrificed them to ^[l]idols to be devoured. Were your obscene practices a trivial matter? ²¹ You slaughtered ^(Y)My children and offered them to ^[m]idols by ^(Z)making them pass through the fire. ²² And besides all your abominations and obscene practices, you did not remember the days of ^(AA)your youth, when you were naked and bare and squirming in your blood.

²³ “Then it came about after all your wickedness (‘Woe, woe to you!’ declares the Lord God), ²⁴ that you built yourself a ^(AB)shrine and made yourself a ^(AC)high place in every public square. ²⁵ You built yourself a high place at the beginning of ^(AD)every street and made your beauty abominable, and you spread your legs to every passer-by and multiplied your obscene practice. ²⁶ You also committed prostitution with the Egyptians, your ^[n]lustful neighbors, and multiplied your obscene practice to ^(AE)provoke Me to anger. ²⁷ So behold, I have stretched out My hand against you and cut back your rations. And I turned you over to the desire of those who hate you, the ^(AF)daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your outrageous conduct. ²⁸ Moreover, you committed prostitution with the ^(AG)Assyrians because you were not satisfied; you committed prostitution with them and still were not satisfied. ²⁹ You also multiplied your obscene practice with the land of merchants, Chaldea; yet even with this you were not satisfied.”’”

³⁰ “How ^(AH)feverish is your heart,” declares the Lord God, “while you do all these things, the action of a ^[o](AI)bold prostitute! ³¹ When you built your shrine at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every public square, in ^(AJ)spurning a prostitute’s fee, you were not like a prostitute. ³² You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband! ³³ Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you ^(AK)give your gifts to all your lovers and lavish favors on them so that they will come to you from every direction for your obscene practices. ³⁴ So it is the opposite for you from those women in your obscene practices, in that you are not approached for prostitution, and in the fact that you pay a prostitute’s fee, and no fee is paid to you; so you are the opposite.”

³⁵ Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the Lord. ³⁶ This is what the Lord God says: “Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your obscene practices with your lovers and with all your detestable ^(AL)idols, and because of the blood of your sons that you gave to ^[p]idols, ³⁷ therefore, behold, I am going to ^(AM)gather all your lovers whom you pleased, all those whom you loved as well as all those whom you ^(AN)hated. So I will gather them against you from every direction and ^(AO)expose your nakedness to them so that they may see all your nakedness. ³⁸ So I will ^(AP)judge you as women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of ^(AQ)wrath and jealousy. ³⁹ I will also hand you over to ^[q]your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, ^(AR)strip you of your clothing, take away your ^[r]jewels, and will leave you naked and bare. ⁴⁰ They will ^[s]incite a ^(AS)crowd against you, and they will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords. ⁴¹ And they will ^(AT)burn your houses with fire and execute judgments against you in the sight of many women. Then I will ^(AU)put an end to your prostitution, and you will also no longer pay ^[t]your lovers. ⁴² So I ^(AV)will satisfy My fury against you and My jealousy will leave you, and I will be pacified and ^(AW)no longer be angry. ⁴³ Since you have ^(AX)not remembered the days of your youth but ^[u]have ^(AY)caused Me unrest by all these things, behold, I in turn will ^(AZ)bring your conduct down on your own head,” declares the Lord God, “so that you will not commit this outrageous sin in addition to all your other abominations.

⁴⁴ “Behold, everyone who quotes ^(BA)proverbs will quote this proverb about you, saying, ‘Like ^[v]mother, like daughter.’ ⁴⁵ You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You are also the ^(BB)sister of your sisters, who ^(BC)loathed their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. ⁴⁶ Now your ^(BD)older sister is Samaria, who lives ^[w]north of you with her ^[x]daughters; and your younger sister, who lives ^[y]south of you, is ^(BE)Sodom with her ^[z]daughters. ⁴⁷ Yet you have not merely walked in their ways and ^[aa]committed their abominations; but, as if that were ^(BF)too little, you also acted ^(BG)more corruptly in all your conduct than they. ⁴⁸ As I live,” declares the Lord God, “Sodom, your sister and her daughters have ^(BH)not done as you and your daughters have done! ⁴⁹ Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had ^(BI)arrogance, ^(BJ)plenty of food, and ^(BK)carefree ease, but she did not ^[ab]help the ^(BL)poor and needy. ⁵⁰ So they were haughty and committed ^(BM)abominations before Me. Therefore I ^(BN)removed them ^[ac]when I saw it. ⁵¹ Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half of your sins, for you have multiplied your abominations more than they. So you have made your sisters appear ^(BO)innocent by all your abominations which you have committed. ⁵² Also, bear your disgrace in that you have ^[ad]made judgment favorable for your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted ^(BP)more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. Yes, be also ashamed and bear your disgrace, in that you made your sisters appear innocent.

⁵³ “Nevertheless, I will restore their fortunes, the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and ^[ae]along with them your own fortunes, ⁵⁴ so that you will bear your disgrace and feel ^(BQ)ashamed for all that you have done when you become ^(BR)a consolation to them. ⁵⁵ Your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, ^[af]will return to their former state, and you with your daughters will also return to your former state. ⁵⁶ As the name of your sister Sodom was not heard from your lips in your day of pride, ⁵⁷ before your ^(BS)wickedness was uncovered, ^[ag]so now you have become the ^(BT)disgrace of the daughters of ^[ah]Edom and of all who are around her, of the daughters of the Philistines—those surrounding you who despise you. ⁵⁸ You have ^(BU)suffered the penalty of your outrageous sin and abominations,” the Lord declares. ⁵⁹ For this is what the Lord God says: “I will also do with you as you have done, you who have ^(BV)despised the oath by breaking the covenant.

The Covenant Remembered

⁶⁰ “Nevertheless, I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an ^(BW)everlasting covenant with you. ⁶¹ Then you will ^(BX)remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both your older and your younger; and I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of your covenant. ⁶² So I will ^(BY)establish My covenant with you, and you shall ^(BZ)know that I am the Lord, ⁶³ so that you may ^(CA)remember and be ashamed, and ^(CB)not open your mouth again because of your disgrace, when I have ^[ai](CC)forgiven you for all that you have done,” the Lord God declares.

Prophecy against Mount Seir

35 Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² “Son of man, set your face against ^(A)Mount Seir, and prophesy against it ³ and say to it, ‘This is what the Lord ^[a]God says:

⁵ Since you have had everlasting ^(E)hostility and have turned over the sons of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their disaster, at the time of the ^[b](F)punishment of the end, ⁶ therefore as I live,” declares the Lord God, “I will certainly ^[c]doom you to ^(G)bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you; since you have not hated bloodshed, therefore bloodshed will pursue you. ⁷ I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation and I will eliminate from it one who passes through and returns. ⁸ I will ^(H)fill its mountains with its slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines. ⁹ I will make you a permanent ^(I)desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

¹⁰ “Since you have ^(J)said, ‘These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will possess ^[d]them,’ although the ^(K)Lord was there, ¹¹ therefore as I live,” declares the Lord God, “I will deal with you ^(L)according to your anger and according to your envy which you displayed because of your hatred for them; so I will ^(M)make Myself known among them when I judge you. ¹² Then you will know ^[e]that I, the Lord, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel saying, ‘They are desolate; they have been ^(N)given to us as food.’ ¹³ And you have ^[f](O)spoken arrogantly against Me and have multiplied your words against Me; ^(P)I Myself have heard it.” ¹⁴ This is what the Lord God says: “As all the ^(Q)earth rejoices, I will make you a desolation. ¹⁵ As you ^(R)rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, ^(S)so I will do to you. You will be a ^(T)desolation, Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”’

The Mountains of Israel to Be Blessed

36 “Now you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say, ‘You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord. ² This is what the Lord ^[g]God says: “Since the enemy has spoken against you, ‘Aha!’ and, ‘The everlasting ^[h](U)heights have become our possession,’ ³ therefore prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Lord God says: “^[i]For good reason they have made you ^(V)desolate and harassed you from every side, so that you would become a possession of the rest of the nations; and you have been taken up in the ^[j](W)talk and the rumor of the people.”’” ⁴ Therefore, you ^(X)mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God. This is what the Lord God says to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, to the desolate ruins and to the abandoned cities which have become ^(Y)plunder and an object of ridicule to the rest of the nations which are all around— ⁵ therefore the Lord God says this: “Certainly in the fire of My ^(Z)jealousy I have spoken against the ^(AA)rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who ^[k]appropriated My land for themselves as a possession with wholehearted ^(AB)joy and with contempt of soul, in order to make its pastureland plunder.” ⁶ Therefore prophesy in regard to the land of Israel and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, “This is what the Lord God says: ‘Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and in My wrath because you have ^(AC)endured the insults of the nations.’ ⁷ Therefore the Lord God says this: ‘I have ^[l]sworn that the nations that are around you will certainly endure their insults themselves. ⁸ But as for you, mountains of Israel, you will ^[m](AD)grow your branches and bear fruit for My people Israel; for they are about to come. ⁹ For, behold, I am for you, and I will ^(AE)turn to you, and you will be ^(AF)cultivated and sown. ¹⁰ And I will multiply people on you, ^(AG)all the house of Israel, all of it; and the ^(AH)cities will be inhabited and the ruins will be rebuilt. ¹¹ I will multiply on you people and animals, and they will increase and be fruitful; and I will populate you as you were ^(AI)previously, and treat you ^(AJ)better than at the beginning. Then you will know that I am the Lord. ¹² Yes, I will have ^(AK)people—My people Israel—walk on you and possess you, so that you will become their ^(AL)inheritance and never again ^(AM)bereave them of children.’

¹³ “The Lord God says this: ‘Since they say to you, “You are a ^(AN)devourer of people and have bereaved your nation of children,” ¹⁴ for that reason you will no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children,’ declares the Lord God. ¹⁵ I will not let you hear ^(AO)insults from the nations anymore, nor will you suffer ^(AP)disgrace from the peoples any longer, nor will you make your nation ^(AQ)stumble any longer,” declares the Lord God.’”

¹⁶ Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ¹⁷ “Son of man, when the house of Israel was living on their own land, they ^(AR)defiled it by their ways and their deeds; their way before Me was like ^(AS)the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity. ¹⁸ Therefore I ^(AT)poured out My wrath on them for the blood which they had shed on the land, because they had defiled it with their idols. ¹⁹ I also ^(AU)scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed throughout the lands. ^(AV)According to their ways and their deeds I judged them. ²⁰ When they came to the nations where they went, they ^(AW)profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, ‘These are the ^(AX)people of the Lord, yet they have left His land.’ ²¹ But I had ^[n]concern for My ^(AY)holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went.

Israel to Be Renewed for His Name’s Sake

²² “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Lord God says: “It is ^(AZ)not for your sake, house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for My holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went. ²³ And I will ^(BA)vindicate the holiness of My great name which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned among them. Then the ^(BB)nations will know that I am the Lord,” declares the Lord God, “when I show Myself holy among you in their sight. ²⁴ For I will ^(BC)take you from the nations, and gather you from all the lands; and I will bring you into your own land. ²⁵ Then I will ^(BD)sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your ^(BE)filthiness and from all your ^(BF)idols. ²⁶ Moreover, I will give you a ^(BG)new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the ^(BH)heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. ²⁷ And I will ^(BI)put My Spirit within you and bring it about that you walk in My statutes, and are careful and ^[o]follow My ordinances. ²⁸ And you will live in the land that I gave to your forefathers; so you will be ^(BJ)My people, and I will be your God. ²⁹ Moreover, I will save you from all your uncleanness; and I will call for the grain and multiply it, and I ^(BK)will not ^[p]bring a famine on you. ³⁰ Instead, I will ^(BL)multiply the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field, so that you will not receive again the disgrace of famine among the nations. ³¹ Then you will ^(BM)remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your wrongdoings and your abominations. ³² I am not doing this ^(BN)for your sake,” declares the Lord God; “let that be known to you. Be ashamed and humiliated for your ways, house of Israel!”

³³ ‘This is what the Lord God says: “On the day that I cleanse you from all your wrongdoings, I will populate the ^(BO)cities, and the ^(BP)places of ruins will be rebuilt. ³⁴ The desolated land will be cultivated instead of being a desolation in the sight of everyone who passes by. ³⁵ And they will say, ‘This desolated land has become like the ^(BQ)Garden of Eden; and the waste, desolated and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.’ ³⁶ Then the nations around you that are left will know that I, the Lord, have rebuilt the ruined places and planted that which was desolated; I, the Lord, have spoken, and I ^(BR)will do it.”

³⁷ ‘This is what the Lord God says: “This too I will let the house of Israel ask Me to do for them: I will increase their people like a flock. ³⁸ Like the ^(BS)flock ^[q]for sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so will the waste cities be filled with ^(BT)flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”’”

Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones

37 The ^(BU)hand of the Lord was upon me, and He ^(BV)brought me out ^[r]by the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the ^(BW)valley; and it was full of bones. ² He had me pass among them all around, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley; and behold, they were very dry. ³ Then He said to me, “Son of man, ^(BX)can these bones live?” And I answered, “Lord ^[s]God, ^(BY)You Yourself know.” ⁴ Again He said to me, “^(BZ)Prophesy over these bones and say to them, ‘You dry bones, ^(CA)hear the word of the Lord.’ ⁵ This is what the Lord God says to these bones: ‘Behold, I am going to make ^[t](CB)breath enter you so that you may come to life. ⁶ And I will ^[u]attach tendons to you, make flesh grow back on you, cover you with skin, and put breath in you so that you may come to life; and you will ^(CC)know that I am the Lord.’”

⁷ So I prophesied ^(CD)as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a loud noise, and behold, a ^[v]rattling; and the bones came together, bone to its bone. ⁸ And I looked, and behold, tendons were on them, and flesh grew and skin covered them; but there was no breath in them. ⁹ Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, ‘The Lord God says this: “Come from the four winds, breath, and ^(CE)breathe on these slain, so that they ^(CF)come to life.”’” ¹⁰ So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the ^(CG)breath entered them, and they came to life and stood on their feet, an ^(CH)exceedingly great army.

The Vision Explained

¹¹ Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the ^(CI)entire house of Israel; behold, they say, ‘Our ^(CJ)bones are dried up and our hope has perished. We are ^[w]completely ^(CK)cut off.’ ¹² Therefore prophesy and say to them, ‘This is what the Lord God says: “Behold, I am going to open your graves and ^(CL)cause you to come up out of your graves, My people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel. ¹³ Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves and caused you to come up out of your graves, My people. ¹⁴ And I will ^(CM)put My ^[x]Spirit within you and you will come to life, and I will place you on your own land. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken and done it,” declares the Lord.’”

Reunion of Judah and Israel

¹⁵ The word of the Lord came again to me, saying, ¹⁶ “Now you, son of man, take for yourself ^(CN)one stick and write on it, ‘For ^(CO)Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For ^(CP)Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.’ ¹⁷ Then ^(CQ)put them together for yourself one to another into one stick, so that they may become one in your hand. ¹⁸ And when the sons of your people speak to you, saying, ‘Will you not declare to us ^(CR)what ^[y]you mean by these?’ ¹⁹ say to them, ‘This is what the Lord God says: “Behold, I am going to take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand.”’ ²⁰ The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes. ²¹ And say to them, ‘This is what the Lord God says: “Behold, I am going to ^(CS)take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; ²² and I will make them ^(CT)one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and ^(CU)one king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations, and no longer be divided into two kingdoms. ²³ They will ^(CV)no longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their offenses; but ^(CW)I will rescue them from all their ^[z]dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God.

The Davidic Kingdom

²⁴ “And My servant ^(CX)David will be king over them, and they will all have ^(CY)one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances, and keep My statutes and ^[aa]follow them. ²⁵ And they will live on the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, in which your fathers lived; and they will live on it, they, and their sons and their sons’ sons, forever; and My servant ^(CZ)David will be their leader forever. ²⁶ And I will make a ^(DA)covenant of peace with them; it will be an ^(DB)everlasting covenant with them. And I will ^[ab]place them and ^(DC)multiply them, and set My ^(DD)sanctuary in their midst forever. ²⁷ My ^(DE)dwelling place also will be among them; and ^(DF)I will be their God, and they will be My people. ²⁸ And the nations will know that I am the Lord ^(DG)who sanctifies Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forever.”’”

Prophecy about Gog and Future Invasion of Israel

38 Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² “Son of man, set your face toward ^(DH)Gog of the land of ^(DI)Magog, the ^(DJ)chief prince of ^(DK)Meshech and ^(DL)Tubal, and prophesy against him, ³ and say, ‘This is what the Lord ^[ac]God says: “Behold, I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. ⁴ So I will turn you around and put hooks into your jaws, and I will ^(DM)bring you out, and all your army, ^(DN)horses and horsemen, all of them magnificently dressed, a great contingent with shield and ^[ad]buckler, all of them wielding swords; ^5 (DO)Persia, ^[ae](DP)Cush, and ^(DQ)Put with them, all of them with buckler and helmet; ^6 (DR)Gomer with all its troops; ^(DS)Beth-togarmah from the remote parts of the north with all its troops—many peoples with you.

⁷ “^(DT)Be ready, and be prepared, you and all your contingents that are assembled around you, and be a guard for them. ^8 (DU)After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come into the land that is restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been ^(DV)gathered from many ^[af]nations to the ^(DW)mountains of Israel which had been a continual place of ruins; but ^[ag]its people were brought out from the ^[ah]nations, and they are ^(DX)living securely, all of them. ⁹ And you will go up, you will come ^(DY)like a storm; you will be like a ^(DZ)cloud covering the land, you and all your troops, and many peoples with you.”

¹⁰ ‘This is what the Lord God says: “It will come about on that day, that ^[ai]thoughts will come into your mind and you will ^(EA)devise an evil plan, ¹¹ and you will say, ‘I will go up against the land of ^[aj](EB)unwalled villages. I will go against those who are ^(EC)at rest, who live securely, all of them living without walls and having no bars or gates, ¹² to ^(ED)capture spoils and to seize plunder, to turn your hand against the ruins that are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who live at the ^[ak]center of the world.’ ^13 (EE)Sheba and ^(EF)Dedan and the merchants of ^(EG)Tarshish with all its ^[al]villages will say to you, ‘Have you come to capture spoils? Have you assembled your contingent to seize plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to capture great ^(EH)spoils?’”’

¹⁴ “Therefore prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog, ‘This is what the Lord God says: “On that day when My people Israel are ^(EI)living securely, will you not know it? ^15 (EJ)You will come from your place out of the remote parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding horses, a large assembly and a mighty army; ¹⁶ and you will come up against My people Israel like a cloud to cover the land. It shall come about in the last days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may ^(EK)know Me when I ^(EL)show Myself holy through you before their eyes, Gog.”

¹⁷ ‘This is what the Lord God says: “Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days through My servants the prophets of Israel, who ^(EM)prophesied in those days for many years that I would bring you against them? ¹⁸ It will come about on that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” declares the Lord God, “that My fury will mount up in My ^(EN)anger. ¹⁹ In My ^(EO)zeal and in My blazing wrath I declare that on that day there will certainly be a great ^[am](EP)earthquake in the land of Israel. ^20 (EQ)The fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the animals of the field, all the crawling things that crawl on the earth, and all mankind who are on the face of the earth will shake at My presence; and the ^(ER)mountains will be thrown down, the steep pathways will ^[an]collapse, and every wall will fall to the ground. ²¹ And I will call for a ^(ES)sword against ^[ao]him on all My mountains,” declares the Lord God. “^(ET)Every man’s sword will be against his brother. ²² With plague and with blood I will enter into ^(EU)judgment with him; and I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, ^[ap]a torrential rain, ^(EV)hailstones, fire, and brimstone. ²³ So I will prove Myself great, show Myself holy, and ^(EW)make Myself known in the sight of many nations; and they will know that I am the Lord.”’

Prophecy against Gog—Invaders Destroyed

39 “And ^(EX)you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, ‘This is what the Lord ^[aq]God says: “Behold, I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal; ² and I will turn you around, lead you on a rope, take you up from the remotest parts of the north, and bring you against the mountains of Israel. ³ Then I will ^(EY)strike your bow from your left hand and make your arrows fall from your right hand. ⁴ You will ^(EZ)fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops, and the peoples who are with you; I will give you as ^(FA)food to every ^[ar]kind of predatory bird and animal of the field. ⁵ You will fall on the ^[as]open field; for it is I who have spoken,” declares the Lord God. ⁶ “And I will send ^(FB)fire upon Magog and those who inhabit the ^(FC)coastlands in safety; and they will know that I am the Lord.

⁷ “And I will make My ^(FD)holy name known in the midst of My people Israel; and I will not allow My holy name to be ^(FE)profaned anymore. But the ^(FF)nations will know that I am the Lord, the ^(FG)Holy One in Israel. ⁸ Behold, it is coming and it shall be done,” declares the Lord God. “That is the day of which I have spoken.

⁹ “Then those who inhabit the cities of Israel will ^(FH)go out and make ^(FI)fires with the weapons and burn them, both ^[at]bucklers and shields, bows and arrows, war clubs and spears, and for seven years they will make fires of them. ¹⁰ They will not take wood from the field or gather firewood from the forests, because they will make fires with the weapons; and they will take the spoils of those who plundered them and seize the ^(FJ)plunder of those who plundered them,” declares the Lord God.

¹¹ “On that day I will give Gog a burial place there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea, and it will block the way of those who would pass by. So they will bury Gog there with all his horde, and they will call it the Valley of ^[au]Hamon-gog. ¹² For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to ^(FK)cleanse the land. ¹³ And all the people of the land will bury them; and it will be ^[av]to their ^(FL)renown on the day that I ^(FM)appear in My glory,” declares the Lord God. ¹⁴ “They will also select men who will constantly pass through the land, ^(FN)burying those who were passing through, those left on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will conduct a search. ¹⁵ As those who pass through the land pass through and anyone sees a human bone, then he will ^[aw]set up a marker by it until the burial detail has buried it in the Valley of ^[ax]Hamon-gog. ¹⁶ And even the name of the city will be Hamonah. So they will cleanse the land.”’

¹⁷ “Now as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord God says: ‘Say to every ^[ay]kind of ^(FO)bird and to every ^(FP)animal of the field: “Assemble and come, gather from every direction to My sacrifice, which I am going to ^(FQ)sacrifice for you as a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel; and you will eat flesh and drink blood. ¹⁸ You will ^(FR)eat the flesh of warriors and drink the blood of the leaders of the earth, as though they were ^(FS)rams, lambs, goats, and ^(FT)bulls, all of them fattened livestock of ^(FU)Bashan. ¹⁹ So you will eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, from My sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. ²⁰ You will eat your fill at My table with ^(FV)horses and charioteers, with warriors and all the men of war,” declares the Lord God.

²¹ “And I will place My ^(FW)glory among the nations; and all the nations will see My judgment which I have executed, and My hand which I have laid on them. ²² And the house of Israel will ^(FX)know that I am the Lord their God, from that day onward. ²³ The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile for their ^(FY)wrongdoing, because they were disloyal to Me, and I ^(FZ)hid My face from them; so I handed them over to their adversaries, and all of them fell by the sword. ^24 (GA)In accordance with their uncleanness and their offenses I dealt with them, and I hid My face from them.”’”

Israel Restored

²⁵ Therefore this is what the Lord God says: “Now I will ^(GB)restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on all the ^(GC)house of Israel; and I will be ^(GD)jealous for My holy name. ²⁶ They will ^[az](GE)forget their disgrace and all their ^[ba]treachery which they perpetrated against Me, when they ^(GF)live securely on their own land with ^(GG)no one to make them afraid. ²⁷ When I ^(GH)bring them back from the peoples and gather them from the lands of their enemies, then I shall ^(GI)show Myself holy ^[bb]through them in the sight of the many nations. ²⁸ Then they will know that I am the Lord their God because I made them go into exile among the nations, and then I gathered them again to their own land; and I will leave none of them there any longer. ²⁹ I will not hide My face from them any longer, for I will have ^(GJ)poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel,” declares the Lord God.

Vision of the Man with a Measuring Rod

40 In the ^(GK)twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the ^(GL)city was ^[bc]taken, on this very day the ^(GM)hand of the Lord was upon me and He brought me there. ² In the ^(GN)visions of God He brought me into the land of Israel and set me on a very ^(GO)high mountain, and on it ^(GP)to the south there was something like a ^(GQ)structure of a city. ³ So He brought me there; and behold, there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of ^(GR)bronze, with a ^(GS)thread of flax and a ^(GT)measuring ^[bd]rod in his hand; and he was standing in the gateway. ⁴ And the man said to me, “^(GU)Son of man, ^(GV)see with your eyes, hear with your ears, and ^[be]pay attention to all that I am going to show you; for you have been brought here in order to show it to you. ^(GW)Declare to the house of Israel all that you see.”

Measurements Relating to the Temple

⁵ And behold, there was a ^(GX)wall on the outside of the ^[bf]temple all around, and in the man’s hand was a measuring rod of six ^[bg]cubits, ^[bh]each of which was a ^[bi]cubit and a hand width. So he measured the thickness of the ^[bj]wall, one rod; and the height, one rod. ⁶ Then he went to the gate which faced ^(GY)east, went up its steps, and measured the threshold of the gate, one rod ^[bk]in width; and the other threshold was one rod ^[bl]in width. ⁷ The ^(GZ)guardroom was one rod long and one rod wide; and there were five cubits between the guardrooms. And the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate ^[bm]facing inward was one rod. ⁸ Then he measured the porch of the gate ^[bn]facing inward, one rod. ⁹ And he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its side pillars, two cubits. And the porch of the gate was ^[bo]faced inward. ¹⁰ The guardrooms of the gate toward the east numbered three on each side; the three of them had the same measurement. The side pillars also had the same measurement on each side. ¹¹ And he measured the width of the ^[bp]gateway, ten cubits, and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits. ¹² There was a ^[bq]barrier wall one cubit wide in front of the guardrooms on each side; and the guardrooms were six cubits square on each side. ¹³ And he measured the gate from the roof of the one guardroom to the roof of the other, a width of twenty-five cubits, from one door to the door opposite. ¹⁴ He made the side pillars sixty cubits high; the gate extended all around to the side pillar of the ^(HA)courtyard. ¹⁵ And from the front of the entrance gate to the front of the inner porch of the gate was fifty cubits. ¹⁶ And there were ^[br](HB)shuttered windows looking toward the guardrooms, and toward their side pillars within the gate all around, and likewise for the porches. And there were windows all around inside; and on each side pillar were ^(HC)palm tree decorations.

¹⁷ Then he brought me into the ^(HD)outer courtyard, and behold, there were ^(HE)chambers and a stone pavement made for the courtyard all around; thirty chambers ^[bs]faced the pavement. ¹⁸ And the pavement (that is, the lower pavement) was by the ^[bt]side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates. ¹⁹ Then he measured the width from the front of the ^(HF)lower gate to the front of the exterior of the inner courtyard, a ^(HG)hundred cubits on the east and on the north.

²⁰ And as for the ^(HH)gate of the outer courtyard which faced north, he measured its length and its width. ^21 [bu]It had three ^(HI)guardrooms on each side; and its ^(HJ)side pillars and its porches ^[bv]had the same measurement as the first gate. Its length was ^(HK)fifty cubits, and the width ^(HL)twenty-five cubits. ²² Its ^(HM)windows, its porches, and its palm tree decorations had the same measurements as the ^(HN)gate which faced east; and ^[bw]it was reached by seven ^(HO)steps, and its ^[bx]porch was in front of them. ²³ The inner courtyard had a gate opposite the gate on the north as well as the gate on the east; and he measured a ^(HP)hundred cubits from gate to gate.

²⁴ Then he led me toward the south, and behold, there was a ^(HQ)gate toward the south; and he measured its ^(HR)side pillars and its porches according to ^[by]those same measurements. ^25 [bz]The gate and its porches had ^(HS)windows all around like ^[ca]those other windows; the length was ^(HT)fifty cubits and the width, twenty-five cubits. ²⁶ There were seven ^(HU)steps going up to it, and its porches were in front of them; and it had ^(HV)palm tree decorations on its side pillars, one on each side. ²⁷ The inner courtyard had a gate toward the ^(HW)south; and he measured from gate to gate toward the south, a ^(HX)hundred cubits.

²⁸ Then he brought me to the inner courtyard by the south gate; and he measured the south gate ^(HY)according to those same measurements. ²⁹ Its ^(HZ)guardrooms also, its side pillars, and its ^(IA)porches were according to those same measurements. And ^[cb]the gate and its porches had ^(IB)windows all around; it was ^(IC)fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. ³⁰ There were ^(ID)porches all around, twenty-five cubits long and five cubits wide. ³¹ And its porches were toward the outer courtyard; and ^(IE)palm tree decorations were on its side pillars, and its stairway had eight ^(IF)steps.

³² Then he brought me into the ^(IG)inner courtyard toward the east. And he measured the gate ^(IH)according to those same measurements. ³³ Its ^(II)guardrooms also, its side pillars, and its porches were according to those same measurements. And ^[cc]the gate and its porches had ^(IJ)windows all around; it was ^(IK)fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. ³⁴ Its ^(IL)porches were toward the outer courtyard; and ^(IM)palm tree decorations were on its side pillars, on each side, and its stairway had eight ^(IN)steps.

³⁵ Then he brought me to the ^(IO)north gate; and he measured it according to those same measurements, ³⁶ with its ^(IP)guardrooms, its side pillars, and its ^(IQ)porches. And ^[cd]the gate had ^(IR)windows all around; the length was ^(IS)fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits. ³⁷ And its side pillars were toward the outer courtyard; and ^(IT)palm tree decorations were on its side pillars, on each side, and its stairway had eight ^(IU)steps.

³⁸ A ^(IV)chamber with its doorway was by the side pillars at the gates; there they ^(IW)rinse the burnt offering. ³⁹ And in the porch of the gate were two ^(IX)tables on each side, on which to slaughter the ^(IY)burnt offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering. ⁴⁰ On the outer ^[ce]side, ^[cf]as one went up to the ^[cg]gateway toward the north, were two tables; and on the other ^[ch]side of the porch of the gate were two tables. ⁴¹ Four ^(IZ)tables were on each side ^[ci]next to the gate; eight tables on which they slaughter sacrifices. ⁴² For the burnt offering there were four ^(JA)tables of ^(JB)cut stone, a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high, on which they set the utensils with which they slaughter the ^(JC)burnt offering and the sacrifice. ⁴³ And the double ^[cj]hooks, ^[ck]one hand width in length, were installed ^[cl]in the house all around; and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.

⁴⁴ From the outside to the ^(JD)inner gate were ^[cm](JE)chambers for the ^(JF)singers in the inner courtyard, one of which was at the ^[cn]side of the north gate, with ^[co]its front toward the south, and one at the ^[cp]side of the ^[cq]south gate facing north. ⁴⁵ Then he said to me, “This is the ^(JG)chamber which faces south, intended for the priests who ^[cr]are ^(JH)responsible for the ^[cs]temple; ⁴⁶ but the ^(JI)chamber which faces north is for the priests who ^[ct]are ^(JJ)responsible for the altar. They are the ^(JK)sons of Zadok, who from the sons of Levi ^(JL)come near to the Lord to serve Him.” ⁴⁷ He measured the courtyard, a perfect square, a ^(JM)hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide; and the altar was in front of the ^[cu]temple.

⁴⁸ Then he brought me to the ^(JN)porch of the ^[cv]temple and measured each side pillar of the porch, five cubits on each side; and the width of the gate was three cubits on each side. ⁴⁹ The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the width eleven cubits; and at the ^(JO)stairway by which it was ascended were ^(JP)columns belonging to the side pillars, one on each side.

The Inner Temple

41 Then he ^(JQ)brought me to the ^(JR)sanctuary, and he measured the ^(JS)side pillars: six ^[cw]cubits wide on each side was the width of the ^[cx]side pillar. ² The width of the entrance was ten cubits and the ^[cy]sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. He also measured ^[cz]the length of the sanctuary, ^(JT)forty cubits, and the width, ^(JU)twenty cubits. ³ Then he went ^[da](JV)inside and measured each ^(JW)side pillar of the doorway, two cubits, and the doorway, six cubits high; and the width of the doorway, seven cubits. ⁴ And he measured its length, ^(JX)twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the ^(JY)sanctuary; and he said to me, “This is the ^(JZ)Most Holy Place.”

⁵ Then he measured the wall of the ^[db]temple, six cubits; and the width of the ^(KA)side chambers, four cubits, all around the house on every side. ^6 (KB)The side chambers were in three stories, ^[dc]one above another, and ^[dd]thirty in each story; and ^[de]the side chambers ^(KC)extended to the wall which stood on ^[df]their inward side all around, so that they could be attached, but not be attached to the wall of the temple itself. ⁷ And the side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story. Because the ^(KD)structure surrounding the temple went upward by stages on all sides of the temple, for that reason the width of the temple increased as it went higher; and so one went up from the lowest story to the highest by way of the ^[dg]second story. ⁸ I saw also that the house had a raised ^[dh]platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full ^[di]rod of ^(KE)six ^[dj]long cubits in height. ⁹ The ^[dk]thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. But the ^(KF)free space between the side chambers belonging to the temple ¹⁰ and the outer ^(KG)chambers was twenty cubits in width around the temple on every side. ¹¹ The ^[dl]doorways of the side ^[dm]chambers toward the ^(KH)free space consisted of one doorway toward the north, and another doorway toward the south; and the width of the ^(KI)free space was five cubits all around.

¹² The ^(KJ)building that was in front of the ^(KK)separate area at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits ^[dn]thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits.

¹³ Then he measured the temple, a ^(KL)hundred cubits long; the ^(KM)separate area with the ^(KN)building and its walls were also a ^(KO)hundred cubits long. ¹⁴ Also the width of the front of the temple and that of the separate ^[do]areas along the east side totaled a hundred cubits.

¹⁵ And he measured the length of the ^(KP)building ^[dp]along the front of the ^(KQ)separate area behind it, with a ^[dq](KR)gallery on each side, a hundred cubits; he also measured the inner sanctuary and the porches of the courtyard. ¹⁶ The ^(KS)thresholds, the ^[dr](KT)latticed windows, and the ^[ds](KU)galleries all around their ^(KV)three stories, opposite the threshold, were ^(KW)paneled with wood all around, and from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered), ¹⁷ over the entrance, and to the inner house, and on the outside, and on all the wall all around inside and outside, by measurement. ¹⁸ It was ^[dt]carved with ^(KX)cherubim and ^(KY)palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces: ¹⁹ a ^(KZ)human face toward the palm tree on one side and a young ^(LA)lion’s face toward the palm tree on the other side; they were ^[du]carved on all the house all around. ²⁰ From the ground to above the entrance ^(LB)cherubim and ^(LC)palm trees were ^[dv]carved, as well as on the wall of the sanctuary.

²¹ The ^(LD)doorposts of the ^(LE)sanctuary were square; as for the front of the inner ^[dw]sanctuary, the appearance of one doorpost was like that of the other. ²² The ^(LF)altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits; its corners, its ^[dx]base, and its ^[dy]sides were of wood. And he said to me, “This is the ^(LG)table that is before the Lord.” ²³ The ^(LH)sanctuary and the inner ^[dz](LI)sanctuary each had a double ^(LJ)door. ²⁴ Each of the doors had two leaves, two ^[ea](LK)swinging leaves; two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other. ²⁵ Also there were ^[eb]carved on them, on the doors of the main room, ^(LL)cherubim and ^(LM)palm trees like those ^[ec]carved on the walls; and there was a ^[ed](LN)threshold of wood on the front of the porch outside. ²⁶ And there were ^[ee](LO)latticed windows and ^(LP)palm trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the ^(LQ)porch; the same were on the ^(LR)side chambers of the house and the ^[ef]thresholds.

Chambers of the Temple

42 Then he ^(LS)brought me out into the ^(LT)outer courtyard, the way ^(LU)toward the north; and he brought me to the ^(LV)chamber which was opposite the ^(LW)separate area and opposite the ^(LX)building toward the north. ² Along the length, which was a ^(LY)hundred ^[eg]cubits, was the north door; the width was fifty cubits. ³ Opposite the ^(LZ)twenty cubits which belonged to the inner courtyard, and opposite the ^(MA)stone pavement which belonged to the outer courtyard, was ^[eh](MB)gallery corresponding to ^[ei]gallery in three stories. ⁴ In front of the ^(MC)chambers was an inner passage ten cubits wide, a way of one hundred cubits; and their openings were on the north. ⁵ Now the upper chambers were ^[ej]smaller because the ^[ek](MD)galleries took more space away from them than from the lower and middle ones in the building. ⁶ For they were in ^(ME)three stories and had no pillars like the pillars of the courtyards; for that reason the upper chambers were ^[el]set back from the ground upward, more than the lower and middle ones. ⁷ As for the ^(MF)outer wall by the side of the chambers, toward the outer courtyard facing the chambers, its length was fifty cubits. ⁸ For the length of the chambers which were in the outer courtyard was fifty cubits; and behold, the length of those facing the main room was a ^(MG)hundred cubits. ⁹ And below these chambers was the ^(MH)entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer courtyard.

¹⁰ In the ^[em]thickness of the ^(MI)wall of the courtyard toward the east, facing the ^(MJ)separate area and facing the building, there were ^(MK)chambers. ¹¹ And the ^(ML)way in front of them was like the appearance of the chambers which were on the north; according to their length, so was their width, and all their exits were according to their building plans and openings. ¹² Corresponding to the openings of the chambers which were toward the south was an opening at the head of the way, the way in front of the ^(MM)wall toward the east, as one enters them.

¹³ Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers, which are opposite the ^(MN)separate area, they are the ^(MO)holy chambers where the priests who are ^(MP)near to the Lord shall eat the ^(MQ)most holy things. There they shall set the most holy things, the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering; for the place is holy. ¹⁴ When the priests enter, they shall not go out into the outer courtyard from the sanctuary ^[en]without ^(MR)laying their ^(MS)garments there in which they minister, for they are holy. They shall put on other garments; then they shall approach that which is for the people.”

¹⁵ Now when he had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out by way of the ^(MT)gate which faced east, and measured it all around. ¹⁶ He measured on the east side with the measuring ^[eo]rod: five hundred rods by the ^(MU)measuring rod. ¹⁷ He measured on the north side: five hundred rods by the measuring rod. ¹⁸ On the south side he measured five hundred rods with the measuring rod. ¹⁹ He turned to the west side and measured five hundred rods with the measuring rod. ²⁰ He measured it ^[ep]on the four sides; it had a ^(MV)wall all around, the ^(MW)length five hundred rods and the ^(MX)width five hundred, to ^(MY)divide between the holy and the ^[eq]common.

Vision of the Glory of God Filling the Temple

43 Then he led me to the ^(MZ)gate, the gate facing east; ² and behold, the ^(NA)glory of the God of Israel was coming from the way of the ^(NB)east. And His ^(NC)voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth ^(ND)shone from His glory. ³ And it was like the appearance of the vision which I saw, like the ^(NE)vision which I saw when ^[er]He came to ^(NF)destroy the city. And the visions were like the vision which I saw by the ^(NG)river Chebar; and I ^(NH)fell on my face. ⁴ And the glory of the Lord entered the house by way of the gate facing ^(NI)east. ⁵ And the ^(NJ)Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner courtyard; and behold, the ^(NK)glory of the Lord filled the house.

⁶ Then I heard Him speaking to me from the house, while a ^(NL)man was standing beside me. ⁷ And He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My ^(NM)throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will ^(NN)dwell among the sons of Israel forever. And the house of Israel will not again defile My holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their prostitution and by the ^[es](NO)corpses of their kings ^[et]when they die, ⁸ by putting their threshold by My threshold, and their door post beside My door post, with only the wall between Me and them. And they have ^(NP)defiled My holy name by their abominations which they have committed. So I have consumed them in My anger. ⁹ Now let them ^(NQ)remove their prostitution and the ^[eu]corpses of their kings far from Me, and I will ^(NR)dwell among them forever.

¹⁰ “As for you, son of man, ^(NS)inform the house of Israel of the ^[ev]temple, so that they will be ^(NT)ashamed of their wrongdoings; and have them measure the ^[ew](NU)plan. ¹¹ And if they are ashamed of everything that they have done, make known to them the plan of the house, its layout, its ^(NV)exits, its entrances, all its plans, all its ^[ex]statutes, and all its laws. And write it ^(NW)in their sight, so that they may observe its entire plan and all its statutes and ^(NX)execute them. ¹² This is the ^[ey]law of the house: its entire ^[ez]area on the top of the ^(NY)mountain all around shall be most holy. Behold, this is the ^[fa]law of the house.

The Altar of Sacrifice

¹³ “And these are the measurements of the ^(NZ)altar by cubits (the ^(OA)cubit being a ^[fb]cubit and a hand width): the ^[fc]base shall be a cubit and the width a cubit, and its border on its edge all around one span; and this shall be the height of the ^[fd]base of the altar. ¹⁴ And from the base on the ground to the lower ^(OB)ledge shall be two cubits, and the width one cubit; and from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge shall be four cubits, and the width ^[fe]one cubit. ¹⁵ The ^[ff]altar hearth shall be four cubits; and from the ^[fg]altar hearth shall extend upward four ^(OC)horns. ¹⁶ Now the ^[fh]altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, ^(OD)square in its four sides. ¹⁷ And the ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide in its four sides, the border around it shall be half a cubit, and its base shall be a cubit all around; and its ^(OE)steps shall ^[fi](OF)face east.”

The Offerings

¹⁸ And He said to me, “^(OG)Son of man, this is what the Lord ^[fj]God says: ‘These are the statutes for the altar on the day it is built, to offer ^(OH)burnt offerings on it and to ^(OI)sprinkle blood on it. ¹⁹ You shall give to the Levitical priests who are from the descendants of ^(OJ)Zadok, who come ^(OK)near to Me to serve Me,’ declares the Lord God, ‘a ^[fk](OL)bull as a ^(OM)sin offering. ²⁰ And you shall take some of its blood and put it on its four ^(ON)horns and on the four corners of the ^(OO)ledge, and on the border all around; so you shall ^(OP)cleanse it and make atonement for it. ²¹ You shall also take the bull as the sin offering, and it shall be ^(OQ)burned in the appointed place of the house, outside the sanctuary.

²² ‘And on the second day you shall offer a ^(OR)male goat without blemish as a sin offering, and they shall ^(OS)cleanse the altar from sin as they cleansed it with the bull. ²³ When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a ^[fl](OT)bull without blemish and a ^(OU)ram without blemish from the flock. ²⁴ You shall offer them before the Lord, and the priests shall throw ^(OV)salt on them, and they shall offer them up as a burnt offering to the Lord. ^25 (OW)For seven days you shall prepare a goat as a sin offering daily; also a ^[fm]bull and a ram from the flock, both without blemish, shall be prepared. ²⁶ For seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they ^[fn]consecrate it. ²⁷ When they have completed the days, it shall be that on the ^(OX)eighth day and onward, the priests shall ^[fo]offer your burnt offerings on the altar, and your ^(OY)peace offerings; and I will ^(OZ)accept you,’ declares the Lord God.”

Gate for the Prince

44 Then He brought me back by way of the ^(PA)outer gate of the sanctuary, which faces east; and it was shut. ² And the Lord said to me, “This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it, for the ^(PB)Lord God of Israel has entered by it; therefore it shall be shut. ³ As for the ^(PC)prince, he shall sit in it as prince to ^(PD)eat bread before the Lord; he shall ^(PE)enter by way of the ^(PF)porch of the gate and shall go out ^[fp]by the same way.”

⁴ Then He brought me by way of the ^(PG)north gate to the front of the house; and I looked, and behold, the ^(PH)glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord, and I ^(PI)fell on my face. ⁵ And the Lord said to me, “Son of man, ^[fq](PJ)pay attention, see with your eyes and hear with your ears everything that I say to you concerning all the ^(PK)statutes of the house of the Lord and all its laws; and ^[fr]pay attention to the entrance of the house, with all the exits of the sanctuary. ⁶ You shall say to the ^[fs](PL)rebellious ones, to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Lord ^[ft]God says: “^(PM)Enough of all your abominations, house of Israel, ⁷ when you brought in ^(PN)foreigners, ^(PO)uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary to profane it, My house, when you ^(PP)offered My food, the fat, and the blood and they ^(PQ)broke My covenant—this in addition to all your abominations. ⁸ And you have not ^[fu](PR)taken responsibility for My holy things yourselves, but you have appointed foreigners ^[fv]to take responsibility for My sanctuary.”

⁹ ‘This is what the Lord God says: “^(PS)No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the sons of Israel, shall enter My sanctuary. ¹⁰ But the Levites who went far from Me when Israel went astray, who ^(PT)went astray from Me ^[fw]following their idols, shall ^(PU)suffer the punishment for their wrongdoing. ¹¹ Yet they shall be ^(PV)ministers in My sanctuary, having ^(PW)oversight at the gates of the house and ^(PX)ministering in the house; they shall ^(PY)slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall ^(PZ)stand before them to minister to them. ¹² Since they ministered to them ^(QA)before their idols and became a ^(QB)stumbling block of wrongdoing to the house of Israel, for that reason I have ^[fx](QC)sworn against them,” declares the Lord God, “that they shall ^(QD)suffer the punishment for their wrongdoing. ¹³ And they shall ^(QE)not approach Me to serve as priests for Me, nor approach any of My holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they will ^(QF)bear their shame and their abominations which they have committed. ¹⁴ Nevertheless I will ^[fy]appoint them ^[fz]to ^(QG)take responsibility for the house, of all its service and of everything that shall be done in it.

Ordinances for the Levites

¹⁵ “But the ^(QH)Levitical priests, the sons of ^(QI)Zadok, who ^[ga](QJ)took responsibility for My sanctuary when the sons of Israel ^(QK)went astray from Me, shall come near to Me to serve Me; and they shall ^(QL)stand before Me to offer Me the ^(QM)fat and the blood,” declares the Lord God. ¹⁶ “They shall ^(QN)enter My sanctuary; they shall come near to My ^(QO)table to serve Me and ^[gb]assume the responsibility I give them. ¹⁷ And it shall be that when they enter at the gates of the inner courtyard, they shall be clothed with ^(QP)linen garments; and wool shall not ^[gc]be worn by them while they are ministering in the gates of the inner courtyard or in the house. ¹⁸ Linen ^(QQ)turbans shall be on their heads and ^(QR)linen undergarments shall be around their waists; they shall not put on anything that makes them sweat. ¹⁹ And when they go out into the outer courtyard, into the outer courtyard to the people, they shall ^(QS)take off their garments in which they have been ministering and lay them in the holy chambers; then they shall put on other garments, so that they will ^(QT)not transfer holiness to the people with their garments. ²⁰ Also they shall ^(QU)not shave their heads, yet they shall not ^(QV)let their locks ^[gd]grow long; they shall only trim the hair of their heads. ^21 (QW)Nor shall any of the priests drink wine when they enter the inner courtyard. ²² And they shall not ^[ge]marry a widow or a ^(QX)divorced woman, but shall ^(QY)take virgins from the descendants of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest. ²³ Moreover, they shall teach My people the ^(QZ)difference between the holy and the ^[gf]common, and teach them to distinguish between the unclean and the clean. ²⁴ In a dispute ^(RA)they shall take their stand to judge; they shall judge it according to My ordinances. They shall also keep My laws and My statutes in all My ^(RB)appointed feasts, and ^(RC)sanctify My Sabbaths. ^25 [gg](RD)They shall not go to a dead person to defile themselves; however, for father, for mother, for son, for daughter, for brother, or for a sister who has not had a husband, they may defile themselves. ²⁶ And after he is ^(RE)cleansed, seven days ^[gh]shall elapse for him. ²⁷ On the day that he goes into the sanctuary, to the ^(RF)inner courtyard to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his ^(RG)sin offering,” declares the Lord God.

²⁸ “And it shall be regarding an inheritance for them, that ^(RH)I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no property in Israel—I am their property. ²⁹ They shall ^(RI)eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering; and everything ^(RJ)banned from secular use in Israel shall be theirs. ³⁰ And the first of all the ^(RK)first fruits of every kind and every ^[gi]contribution of every kind, from all your ^[gj]contributions, shall be for the priests; you shall also give to the priest the ^(RL)first of your ^[gk]dough, to make a ^(RM)blessing rest on your house. ³¹ The priests shall not eat any bird or animal that has ^(RN)died a natural death or has been torn to pieces by animals.

The Lord’s Portion of the Land

45 “Now when you ^(RO)divide the land by lot for inheritance, you shall offer ^[gl]an ^(RP)allotment to the Lord, a ^(RQ)holy portion of the land; the length shall be a length of twenty-five thousand ^[gm](RR)cubits, and the width shall be ^[gn]twenty thousand. It shall be holy within its entire surrounding boundary. ² Out of this there shall be for the sanctuary a square encompassing ^(RS)five hundred by five hundred cubits, and fifty cubits for its ^[go](RT)open space round about. ³ From this ^[gp]area you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand cubits and a width of ten thousand cubits; and in it shall be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place. ⁴ It shall be the holy portion of the land; it shall be for the ^(RU)priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who ^(RV)come near to serve the Lord, and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. ⁵ An area ^(RW)twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in width shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, and for their possession ^[gq]cities in which to live.

⁶ “And you shall give the ^(RX)city possession of an area five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand cubits long, alongside the ^[gr]allotment of the holy portion; it shall be for the entire house of Israel.

Portion for the Prince

⁷ “And the ^(RY)prince shall have land on either side of the holy ^[gs]allotment and the ^[gt]property of the city, adjacent to the holy ^[gu]allotment and the ^[gv]property of the city, on the west side toward the west and on the east side toward the east, and in length comparable to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border. ⁸ This shall be his land as a possession in Israel; so My princes shall no longer ^(RZ)oppress My people, but they shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel ^(SA)according to their tribes.”

⁹ ‘This is what the Lord ^[gw]God says: “^(SB)Enough, you princes of Israel; get rid of ^(SC)violence and destruction, and ^(SD)practice justice and righteousness. Revoke your ^(SE)evictions of My people,” declares the Lord God.

¹⁰ “You shall have ^(SF)accurate balances, an accurate ^[gx](SG)ephah, and an accurate ^[gy](SH)bath. ¹¹ The ephah and the bath shall be ^[gz]the same quantity, so that the bath will contain a tenth of a ^(SI)homer, and the ephah a tenth of a ^[ha]homer; ^[hb]their standard shall be according to the homer. ¹² And the ^(SJ)shekel shall be twenty ^(SK)gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your mina.

¹³ “This is the offering that you shall offer: a sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat; a sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley; ¹⁴ and the prescribed portion of oil (namely, the bath of oil), a tenth of a bath from each kor (which is ten baths or a homer, for ten baths are a homer); ¹⁵ and one sheep from each flock of two hundred from the watering places of Israel—for a ^(SL)grain offering, for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to ^(SM)make atonement for them,” declares the Lord God. ¹⁶ “^(SN)All the people of the land shall ^[hc]give to this offering for the ^(SO)prince in Israel. ¹⁷ And it shall be the ^(SP)prince’s part to provide the ^(SQ)burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the drink offerings, at the ^(SR)feasts, on the ^(SS)new moons, and on the Sabbaths, at all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel; he shall provide the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering, and the ^(ST)peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.”

¹⁸ ‘This is what the Lord God says: “In the ^(SU)first month, on the first of the month, you shall take a ^[hd]bull ^(SV)without blemish and ^(SW)cleanse the sanctuary from sin. ¹⁹ And the priest shall take some of the blood from the sin offering and put it on the door posts of the house, on the ^(SX)four corners of the ^(SY)ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner courtyard. ²⁰ And you shall do this on the seventh day of the month for everyone who does ^(SZ)wrong inadvertently or is naive; so you shall make ^(TA)atonement for the house.

²¹ “In the ^(TB)first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the ^(TC)Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten. ²² On that day the prince shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a ^(TD)bull as a sin offering. ²³ And during the ^(TE)seven days of the feast he shall provide as a ^(TF)burnt offering to the Lord ^(TG)seven bulls and seven rams without blemish on every day of the seven days, and a male goat daily as a sin offering. ²⁴ And he shall provide as a ^(TH)grain offering an ^[he]ephah ^[hf]with a bull, an ^[hg]ephah ^[hh]with a ram, and a ^[hi]hin of oil ^[hj]with an ephah. ²⁵ In the ^(TI)seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he shall provide like these, seven days ^[hk]for the sin offering, the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the oil.”

The Prince’s Offerings

46 ‘This is what the Lord ^[hl]God says: “The ^(TJ)gate of the ^(TK)inner courtyard facing east shall be ^(TL)shut for the six ^(TM)working days; but it shall be opened on the ^(TN)Sabbath day and opened on the day of the ^(TO)new moon. ² The ^(TP)prince shall enter by way of the porch of the gate from outside and stand by the ^(TQ)post of the gate. Then the priests shall provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate and then go out; but the gate shall not be ^(TR)shut until the evening. ³ The ^(TS)people of the land shall also worship at the doorway of that gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the ^(TT)new moons. ⁴ The ^(TU)burnt offering which the prince shall offer to the Lord on the Sabbath day shall be ^(TV)six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish; ⁵ and the ^(TW)grain offering shall be an ^[hm]ephah ^[hn]with the ram, and the grain offering ^[ho]with the lambs ^[hp]as much as he is ^(TX)able to give, and a ^[hq]hin of oil ^[hr]with an ephah. ⁶ On the day of the ^(TY)new moon he shall offer a ^[hs]bull without blemish, and six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish. ⁷ And he shall provide a ^(TZ)grain offering, an ephah ^[ht]with the bull and an ephah ^[hu]with the ram, and ^[hv]with the lambs as ^[hw]much as he is ^(UA)able, and a hin of oil ^[hx]with an ephah. ⁸ When the ^(UB)prince enters, he shall go in by way of the porch of the gate, and go out by ^[hy]the same way. ⁹ But when the people of the land come ^(UC)before the Lord at the appointed feasts, one who enters by way of the north gate to worship shall go out by way of the south gate. And one who enters by way of the south gate shall go out by way of the north gate. ^[hz]No one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered, but shall go straight out. ¹⁰ And when they go in, the prince shall go in ^(UD)among them; and when they go out, ^[ia]he shall go out.

¹¹ “At the ^(UE)festivals and the appointed feasts, the ^(UF)grain offering shall be an ephah ^[ib]with a bull and an ephah ^[ic]with a ram, and ^[id]with the lambs as ^[ie]much as one is able to give, and a hin of oil ^[if]with an ephah. ¹² And when the prince provides a ^(UG)[ig]voluntary offering, a burnt offering, or peace offerings as a ^[ih]voluntary offering to the Lord, the gate facing east shall be ^(UH)opened for him. And he shall provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he does on the ^(UI)Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and the gate shall be shut after he goes out.

¹³ “And you shall provide a ^(UJ)lamb a year old without blemish as a burnt offering to the Lord daily; ^(UK)morning by morning you shall provide it. ¹⁴ You shall also provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, a ^(UL)sixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour, a grain offering to the Lord continually by ^[ii]a permanent ordinance. ¹⁵ So they shall provide the lamb, the grain offering, and the oil, morning by morning, as a ^(UM)continual burnt offering.”

¹⁶ ‘This is what the Lord God says: “If the prince gives a ^(UN)gift from his inheritance to any of his sons, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance. ¹⁷ But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until the ^(UO)year of ^[ij]release; then it shall return to the prince. His inheritance shall be only his sons’; it shall belong to them. ¹⁸ And the prince shall ^(UP)not take from the people’s inheritance, ^[ik](UQ)depriving them of their property; he shall give his sons inheritance from his own property, so that My people will not be scattered, anyone from his property.”’”

The Boiling Places

¹⁹ Then he brought me through the ^(UR)entrance, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which faced north; and behold, a place was there at the extreme rear toward the west. ²⁰ And he said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the ^(US)guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall ^(UT)bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them out into the outer courtyard ^[il]and transfer holiness to the people.”

²¹ Then he brought me out into the outer courtyard and led me across to the four corners of the courtyard; and behold, in every corner of the courtyard there was a small courtyard. ²² In the four corners of the courtyard there were enclosed courtyards, forty ^[im]cubits long and thirty wide; these four in the corners were ^[in]the same size. ²³ And there was a row of masonry all around in them, around the four of them, and cooking hearths were made under the rows all around. ²⁴ Then he said to me, “These are the cooking ^[io]places where the ministers of the house shall cook the sacrifices of the people.”

Water from the Temple

47 Then he brought me back to the ^(UU)door of the house; and behold, ^(UV)water was flowing from under the threshold of the house toward the east, for the house faced east. And the water was flowing down from under, from the right side of the house, from south of the altar. ² And he brought me out by way of the north gate and led me around ^[ip]on the outside to the outer gate, by the way facing east. And behold, water was spurting out from the south side.

³ When the man went out toward the east with a line in his hand, he measured a thousand ^[iq]cubits, and he led me through the water, water reaching the ankles. ⁴ Again he measured a thousand and led me through the water, water reaching the knees. Again he measured a thousand and led me through the water, water reaching the ^[ir]hips. ⁵ Again he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not ^[is]wade across, because the water had risen, enough water to swim in, a ^(UW)river that could not be crossed by wading. ⁶ And he said to me, “Son of man, have you ^(UX)seen this?” Then he brought me ^[it]back to the bank of the river. ⁷ Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river there were very many ^(UY)trees on the one side and on the other. ⁸ Then he said to me, “These waters go out toward the eastern region and go down into the ^(UZ)Arabah; then they go toward the ^[iu]sea, being made to flow into the ^(VA)sea, and the waters of the sea become ^[iv]fresh. ⁹ And it will come about that every living creature which swarms in every place where the ^[iw]river goes, will live. And there will be very many fish, for these waters go there and the others ^[ix]become fresh; so ^(VB)everything will live where the river goes. ¹⁰ And it will come about that ^(VC)fishermen will stand beside it; from ^(VD)Engedi to Eneglaim there will be a place for the ^(VE)spreading of nets. Their fish will be according to their kinds, like the fish of the ^(VF)Great Sea, ^(VG)very many. ¹¹ But its swamps and marshes will not become ^[iy]fresh; they will be ^[iz]left for ^(VH)salt. ¹² And ^(VI)by the river on its bank, on one side and on the other, will grow all kinds of ^(VJ)trees for food. Their ^(VK)leaves will not wither and their fruit will not fail. They will bear fruit every month because their water flows from the sanctuary, and their fruit will be for food and their ^(VL)leaves for healing.”

Boundaries and Division of the Land

¹³ This is what the Lord ^[ja]God says: “This shall be the ^(VM)boundary by which you shall divide the land for an inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel; Joseph shall have two ^(VN)portions. ¹⁴ And you shall divide it for an inheritance, each one ^[jb]equally with the other; for I ^[jc](VO)swore to give it to your forefathers, and this land shall fall to you ^[jd]as an inheritance.

¹⁵ “And this shall be the boundary of the land: on the ^(VP)north side, from the Great Sea by the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of ^[je](VQ)Zedad; ^16 [jf](VR)Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of ^(VS)Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer-hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran. ¹⁷ The boundary shall ^[jg]extend from the sea to ^(VT)Hazar-enan at the border of Damascus, and on the north toward the north is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.

¹⁸ “The ^(VU)east side, from between Hauran, Damascus, ^(VV)Gilead, and the land of Israel, shall be the ^(VW)Jordan; from the north border to the eastern sea you shall measure. This is the east side.

¹⁹ “The ^(VX)south side toward the south shall extend from ^(VY)Tamar as far as the waters of ^(VZ)Meribath-kadesh, to the ^(WA)brook of Egypt and to the ^(WB)Great Sea. This is the south side toward the south.

²⁰ “And the ^(WC)west side shall be the Great Sea, from the south border to a point opposite ^[jh](WD)Lebo-hamath. This is the west side.

²¹ “So you shall divide this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Israel. ²² You shall divide it by ^(WE)lot for an inheritance among yourselves and among the ^(WF)strangers who stay in your midst, who bring forth sons in your midst. And they shall be to you as the native-born among the sons of Israel; they shall be allotted an ^(WG)inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. ²³ And in the tribe with which the stranger resides, there you shall give him his inheritance,” declares the Lord God.

Division of the Land

48 “Now ^(WH)these are the names of the tribes: from the northern extremity, ^[ji]beside the way of Hethlon to ^[jj]Lebo-hamath, as far as Hazar-enan at the border of Damascus, toward the north ^[jk]beside Hamath, ^[jl]running from east to west, ^(WI)Dan, one portion. ² Beside the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, ^(WJ)Asher, one portion. ³ Beside the border of Asher, from the east side to the west side, ^(WK)Naphtali, one portion. ⁴ Beside the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, ^(WL)Manasseh, one portion. ⁵ Beside the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, ^(WM)Ephraim, one portion. ⁶ Beside the border of Ephraim, from the east side to the west side, ^(WN)Reuben, one portion. ⁷ Beside the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, ^(WO)Judah, one portion.

⁸ “And beside the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the ^[jm]allotment which you shall ^[jn]set apart, twenty-five thousand ^[jo]cubits in width, and in length like one of the portions, from the east side to the west side; and the ^(WP)sanctuary shall be in the middle of it. ⁹ The allotment that you shall set apart to the Lord shall be twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in width.

Portion for the Priests

¹⁰ The holy allotment shall be for these, namely for the ^(WQ)priests, toward the north twenty-five thousand cubits in length, toward the west ten thousand in width, toward the east ten thousand in width, and toward the south twenty-five thousand in length; and the sanctuary of the Lord shall be in its midst. ¹¹ It shall be for the priests who are sanctified of the ^(WR)sons of Zadok, who have ^[jp]taken the responsibility I gave them, who did not go astray when the sons of Israel went astray as the ^(WS)Levites went astray. ¹² It shall be an allotment to them from the allotment of the land, a most holy reserve, by the border of the Levites. ¹³ And alongside the border of the priests, the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in width. The entire length shall be twenty-five thousand cubits and the width ten thousand. ¹⁴ Moreover, they ^(WT)shall not sell or exchange any of it, or allow this ^[jq]choice portion of land to pass to others; for it is holy to the Lord.

¹⁵ “The remainder, five thousand cubits in width and twenty-five thousand ^[jr]in length, shall be for ^(WU)common use for the city, for homes and for ^[js]open spaces; and the city shall be in its midst. ¹⁶ And these shall be its measurements: the north side, 4,500 cubits, the south side ^(WV)4,500 cubits, the east side 4,500 cubits, and the west side, 4,500 cubits. ¹⁷ The city shall have ^[jt]open spaces: on the north 250 cubits, on the south 250 cubits, on the east 250 cubits, and on the west 250 cubits. ¹⁸ The remainder of the length alongside the holy allotment shall be ten thousand cubits toward the east and ten thousand toward the west; and it shall be ^[ju]alongside the holy allotment. And its produce shall be food for the workers of the city. ¹⁹ And the workers of the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it. ²⁰ The whole allotment shall be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand cubits; you shall ^[jv]set apart the holy allotment, a ^[jw]square, with the ^[jx]property of the city.

Portion for the Prince

²¹ “The ^(WW)remainder shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy allotment and of the ^[jy]property of the city; in front of the twenty-five thousand cubits of the allotment toward the east border and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand toward the west border, alongside the portions, it shall be for the prince. And the holy allotment and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the middle of it. ²² And exclusive of the ^[jz]property of the Levites and the ^[ka]property of the city, which are in the middle of that which belongs to the prince, everything between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin shall belong to the prince.

Portion for Other Tribes

²³ “As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side, ^(WX)Benjamin, one portion. ²⁴ Beside the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, ^(WY)Simeon, one portion. ²⁵ Beside the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, ^(WZ)Issachar, one portion. ²⁶ Beside the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, ^(XA)Zebulun, one portion. ²⁷ Beside the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, ^(XB)Gad, one portion. ²⁸ And beside the border of Gad, at the south side toward the south, the border shall be from ^(XC)Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, to the ^(XD)Great Sea. ²⁹ This is the ^(XE)land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for an inheritance, and these are their several portions,” declares the Lord ^[kb]God.

The City Gates

³⁰ “Now these are the exits of the city: on the ^(XF)north side, 4,500 cubits by measurement, ^31 [kc]shall be the gates of the city, ^[kd](XG)named for the tribes of Israel, three gates toward the north: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; and the gate of Levi, one. ³² On the east side, 4,500 cubits, ^[ke]shall be three gates: the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; and the gate of Dan, one. ³³ On the south side, 4,500 cubits by measurement, ^[kf]shall be three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; and the gate of Zebulun, one. ³⁴ On the west side, 4,500 cubits, shall be three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; and the gate of Naphtali, one. ³⁵ The city shall be eighteen thousand cubits all around; and the ^(XH)name of the city from that day shall be, ‘^[kg]The ^(XI)Lord is there.’”