Ezekiel 45
Christian Standard Bible
The Sacred Portion of the Land
45 “When you divide the land by lot as an inheritance,(A) set aside a donation to the Lord, a holy portion of the land,(B) 8⅓ miles[a] long and 6⅔ miles[b] wide. This entire region will be holy. 2 In this area there will be a square section[c] for the sanctuary, 875 by 875 feet,[d](C) with 87½ feet[e] of open space all around it. 3 From this holy portion,[f] you will measure off an area 8⅓ miles long and 3⅓ miles[g] wide, in which the sanctuary, the most holy place,(D) will stand.[h] 4 It will be a holy area of the land to be used by the priests who minister in the sanctuary, who approach to serve the Lord.(E) It will be a place for their houses, as well as a holy area for the sanctuary. 5 There will be another area 8⅓ miles long and 3⅓ miles wide for the Levites who minister in the temple;(F) it will be their possession for towns to live in.[i]
6 “As the property of the city, set aside an area 1⅔ miles[j] wide and 8⅓ miles long, adjacent to the holy donation of land.(G) It will be for the whole house of Israel. 7 And the prince will have the area on each side of the holy donation of land and the city’s property, adjacent to the holy donation and the city’s property, stretching to the west on the west side and to the east on the east side.(H) Its length will correspond to one of the tribal portions from the western boundary to the eastern boundary. 8 This will be his land as a possession in Israel. My princes will no longer oppress my people(I) but give the rest of the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
9 “This is what the Lord God says: You have gone too far,[k](J) princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression and do what is just and right.(K) Put an end to your evictions of my people.” This is the declaration of the Lord God. 10 “You are to have honest scales, an honest dry measure,[l] and an honest liquid measure.[m](L) 11 The dry measure[n] and the liquid measure[o] will be uniform, with the liquid measure containing 5½ gallons[p] and the dry measure holding half a bushel.[q] Their measurement will be a tenth of the standard larger capacity measure.[r] 12 The shekel[s] will weigh twenty gerahs.(M) Your mina will equal sixty shekels.
The People’s Contribution to the Sacrifices
13 “This is the contribution you are to offer: Three quarts[t] from six bushels[u] of wheat and[v] three quarts from six bushels of barley. 14 The quota of oil in liquid measures[w] will be one percent of every[x] cor. The cor equals ten liquid measures or one standard larger capacity measure,[y] since ten liquid measures equal one standard larger capacity measure. 15 And the quota from the flock is one animal out of every two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel. These are for the grain offerings, burnt offerings, and fellowship offerings, to make atonement for the people.”(N) This is the declaration of the Lord God. 16 “All the people of the land must take part in this contribution for the prince in Israel. 17 Then the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings for the festivals, New Moons, and Sabbaths—for all the appointed times of the house of Israel—will be the prince’s responsibility. He will provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and fellowship offerings to make atonement on behalf of the house of Israel.
18 “This is what the Lord God says: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you are to take a young, unblemished bull and purify the sanctuary. 19 The priest is to take some of the blood from the sin offering and apply it to the temple doorposts, the four corners of the altar’s ledge, and the doorposts of the gate of the inner court.(O) 20 You are to do the same thing on the seventh day of the month for everyone who sins unintentionally or through ignorance.(P) In this way you will make atonement for the temple.
21 “In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you are to celebrate the Passover, a festival of seven days during which unleavened bread will be eaten.(Q) 22 On that day the prince will provide a bull as a sin offering on behalf of himself and all the people of the land. 23 During the seven days of the festival, he will provide seven bulls and seven rams without blemish as a burnt offering to the Lord on each of the seven days, along with a male goat each day for a sin offering. 24 He will also provide a grain offering of half a bushel[z] per bull and half a bushel per ram, along with a gallon[aa] of oil for every half bushel. 25 At the festival that begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh month,[ab](R) he will provide the same things for seven days—the same sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, and oil.
Footnotes
- 45:1 Lit 25,000 cubits, also in vv. 3,5,6
- 45:1 LXX reads 20,000 cubits; MT reads 10,000 cubits
- 45:2 Lit square all around
- 45:2 Lit 500 by 500 cubits
- 45:2 Lit 50 cubits
- 45:3 Lit this measured portion
- 45:3 Lit 10,000 cubits, also in v. 5
- 45:3 Lit be
- 45:5 LXX; MT, Syr, Tg, Vg read possession—20 chambers
- 45:6 Lit 5,000 cubits
- 45:9 Lit Enough of you
- 45:10 Lit an honest ephah
- 45:10 Lit and an honest bath
- 45:11 Lit The ephah
- 45:11 Lit the bath
- 45:11 Lit one-tenth of a homer
- 45:11 Lit one-tenth of a homer
- 45:11 Lit be based on the homer
- 45:12 A shekel is about two-fifths of an ounce of silver
- 45:13 Lit One-sixth of an ephah
- 45:13 Lit a homer
- 45:13 LXX, Vg; MT reads and you are to give
- 45:14 Lit oil, the bath, the oil
- 45:14 Lit be a tenth of the bath from the
- 45:14 Lit 10 baths, a homer
- 45:24 Lit an ephah
- 45:24 Lit a hin
- 45:25 = the Festival of Shelters
Ezekiel 45
New King James Version
The Holy District
45 “Moreover, when you (A)divide the land by lot into inheritance, you shall (B)set apart a district for the Lord, a holy section of the land; its length shall be twenty-five thousand cubits, and the width ten thousand. It shall be holy throughout its territory all around. 2 Of this there shall be a square plot for the sanctuary, (C)five hundred by five hundred rods, with fifty cubits around it for an open space. 3 So this is the district you shall measure: twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide; (D)in it shall be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place. 4 It shall be (E)a holy section of the land, belonging to the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to the Lord; it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. 5 (F)An area twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide shall belong to the Levites, the ministers of the [a]temple; they shall have (G)twenty[b] chambers as a possession.
Properties of the City and the Prince
6 (H)“You shall appoint as the property of the city an area five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand long, adjacent to the district of the holy section; it shall belong to the whole house of Israel.
7 (I)“The prince shall have a section on one side and the other of the holy district and the city’s property; and bordering on the holy district and the city’s property, extending westward on the west side and eastward on the east side, the length shall be side by side with one of the tribal portions, from the west border to the east border. 8 The land shall be his possession in Israel; and (J)My princes shall no more oppress My people, but they shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel, according to their tribes.”
Laws Governing the Prince
9 ‘Thus says the Lord God: (K)“Enough, O princes of Israel! (L)Remove violence and plundering, execute justice and righteousness, and stop dispossessing My people,” says the Lord God. 10 “You shall have (M)honest scales, an honest ephah, and an honest bath. 11 The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, so that the bath contains one-tenth of a homer, and the ephah one-tenth of a homer; their measure shall be according to the homer. 12 The (N)shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
13 “This is the offering which you shall offer: you shall give one-sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat, and one-sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley. 14 The ordinance concerning oil, the bath of oil, is one-tenth of a bath from a kor. A kor is a homer or ten baths, for ten baths are a homer. 15 And one lamb shall be given from a flock of two hundred, from the rich pastures of Israel. These shall be for grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, (O)to make atonement for them,” says the Lord God. 16 “All the people of the land shall give this offering for the prince in Israel. 17 Then it shall be the (P)prince’s part to give burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings, at the feasts, the New Moons, the Sabbaths, and at all the appointed seasons of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel.”
Keeping the Feasts(Q)
18 ‘Thus says the Lord God: “In the first month, on the first day of the month, you shall take a young bull without blemish and (R)cleanse the sanctuary. 19 (S)The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the [c]temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the gateposts of the gate of the inner court. 20 And so you shall do on the seventh day of the month (T)for everyone who has sinned unintentionally or in ignorance. Thus you shall make atonement for the temple.
21 (U)“In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall observe the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten. 22 And on that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land (V)a bull for a sin offering. 23 On the (W)seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the Lord, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish, daily for seven days, (X)and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering. 24 (Y)And he shall prepare a grain offering of one ephah for each bull and one ephah for each ram, together with a hin of oil for each ephah.
25 “In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the (Z)feast, he shall do likewise for seven days, according to the sin offering, the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the oil.”
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 45:5 Lit. house
- Ezekiel 45:5 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX a possession, cities of dwelling
- Ezekiel 45:19 Lit. house
Ezechiele 45
Conferenza Episcopale Italiana
Divisione del paese. Parte del Signore
45 «Quando voi spartirete a sorte la regione, in eredità, preleverete dal territorio, in offerta al Signore, una porzione sacra, lunga venticinquemila cubiti e larga ventimila: essa sarà santa per tutta la sua estensione. 2 Di essa sarà per il santuario un quadrato di cinquecento cubiti per cinquecento, con una zona libera all'intorno di cinquanta cubiti. 3 In quella superficie misurerai un tratto di venticinquemila cubiti di lunghezza per diecimila di larghezza, dove sarà il santuario, il Santo dei santi. 4 Esso sarà la parte sacra del paese, sarà per i sacerdoti ministri del santuario, che si avvicinano per servire il Signore: questo luogo servirà per le loro case e come luogo sacro per il santuario. 5 Uno spazio di venticinquemila cubiti di lunghezza per diecimila di larghezza sarà il possesso dei leviti che servono nel tempio, con città dove abitare. 6 Come possesso poi delle città assegnerete un tratto di cinquemila cubiti di larghezza per venticinquemila di lunghezza, parallelo alla parte assegnata al santuario: apparterrà a tutta la gente d'Israele.
Parte del principe
7 Al principe sarà assegnato un possesso di qua e di là della parte sacra e del territorio dalle città, al fianco della parte sacra e al fianco del territorio della città, a occidente fino all'estremità occidentale e a oriente sino al confine orientale, per una lunghezza uguale a ognuna delle parti, dal confine occidentale sino a quello orientale. 8 Questa sarà la sua terra, il suo possesso in Israele e così i miei prìncipi non opprimeranno il mio popolo, ma lasceranno la terra alla gente d'Israele, alle sue tribù».
9 Dice il Signore Dio: «Basta, prìncipi d'Israele, basta con le violenze e le rapine! Agite secondo il diritto e la giustizia; eliminate le vostre estorsioni dal mio popolo. Parola del Signore Dio. 10 Abbiate bilance giuste, efa giusta, bat giusto. 11 L'efa e il bat saranno della medesima misura così che il bat e l'efa contengano un decimo del comer, la loro misura sarà in relazione al comer. 12 Il siclo sarà di venti ghere: venti sicli, venticinque sicli e quindici sicli saranno la vostra mina.
Offerte per il culto
13 Questa sarà l'offerta che voi preleverete: un sesto di efa per ogni comer di frumento e un sesto di efa per ogni comer di orzo. 14 Norma per l'olio - che si misura con il bat - è un decimo del bat per ogni kor. Dieci bat corrispondono ad un comer, perché dieci bat formano un comer. 15 Dal gregge, una pecora ogni duecento, dai prati fertili d'Israele. Questa sarà data per le oblazioni, per gli olocausti, per i sacrifici di comunione, in espiazione per loro. Parola del Signore Dio. 16 Tutta la popolazione del paese sarà tenuta a questa offerta verso il principe d'Israele. 17 A carico del principe saranno gli olocausti, le oblazioni e le libazioni nelle solennità, nei noviluni e nei sabati, in tutte le feste della gente d'Israele. Egli provvederà per il sacrificio espiatorio, l'oblazione, l'olocausto e il sacrificio di comunione per l'espiazione della gente d'Israele».
Festa della pasqua
18 Dice il Signore Dio: «Il primo giorno del primo mese, prenderai un giovenco senza difetti e purificherai il santuario. 19 Il sacerdote prenderà il sangue della vittima per il peccato e lo metterà sugli stipiti del tempio e sui quattro angoli dello zoccolo dell'altare e sugli stipiti delle porte dell'atrio interno. 20 Lo stesso farà il sette del mese per chi abbia peccato per errore o per ignoranza: così purificherete il tempio. 21 Il quattordici del primo mese sarà per voi la pasqua, festa d'una settimana di giorni: mangeranno pane azzimo. 22 In quel giorno il principe offrirà, per sé e per tutto il popolo del paese, un giovenco per il peccato; 23 nei sette giorni della festa offrirà in olocausto al Signore sette giovenchi e sette montoni, senza difetti, in ognuno dei sette giorni, e un capro in sacrificio per il peccato, ogni giorno. 24 In oblazione offrirà un'efa per giovenco e un'efa per montone, con un hin di olio per ogni efa.
Festa delle capanne
25 Il quindici del settimo mese farà per la festa come in quei sette giorni, per i sacrifici espiatori, per gli olocausti, le oblazioni e l'olio».
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