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These towns will be for the Levites to live in, and the surrounding lands will provide pasture for their cattle, flocks, and other livestock.

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Then they will have towns to live in and pasturelands for the cattle they own and all their other animals.(A)

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A section of this land, measuring 875 feet by 875 feet,[a] will be set aside for the Temple. An additional strip of land 87 1⁄2 feet[b] wide is to be left empty all around it.

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Footnotes

  1. 45:2a Hebrew 500 [cubits] [265 meters] by 500 [cubits], a square.
  2. 45:2b Hebrew 50 cubits [26.5 meters].

Of this, a section 500 cubits[a] square(A) is to be for the sanctuary, with 50 cubits[b] around it for open land.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 45:2 That is, about 875 feet or about 265 meters
  2. Ezekiel 45:2 That is, about 88 feet or about 27 meters

14 The Levites even abandoned their pasturelands and property and moved to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons would not allow them to serve the Lord as priests.

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14 The Levites(A) even abandoned their pasturelands and property(B) and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the Lord

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11 Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, along with its surrounding pasturelands. (Arba was an ancestor of Anak.)

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11 They gave them Kiriath Arba(A) (that is, Hebron(B)), with its surrounding pastureland, in the hill country of Judah. (Arba was the forefather of Anak.)

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