19 The city’s workers from all the tribes of Israel will cultivate it.(A) 20 The entire donation will be 8⅓ miles by 8⅓ miles; you are to set apart the holy donation along with the city property as a square area.

21 “The remaining area on both sides of the holy donation and the city property will belong to the prince.(B) He will own the land adjacent to the tribal portions, next to the 8⅓ miles of the donation as far as the eastern border and[a] next to the 8⅓ miles of the donation as far as the western border. The holy donation and the sanctuary of the temple will be in the middle of it.

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Footnotes

  1. 48:21 Lit border, and to the west,

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