Ezekiel 45
1 “‘When you divide the land as an inheritance, you are to set apart a portion for the LORD, a holy section of the land: twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide. It will be holy throughout its entire territory.
2 From this portion, a square measuring five hundred by five hundred cubits is to be set aside for the sanctuary, with an open space fifty cubits wide all around it.
3 From this measured area, you are to measure twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in width. The sanctuary, the Most Holy Place, will be there.
4 This is a holy section of the land. It will belong to the priests who serve in the sanctuary, those who approach to serve the LORD. It will be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.
5 Another section, twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide, will belong to the Levites who serve in the temple, as their possession, with twenty rooms.
6 As the city’s possession, you are to set aside a section five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand long, beside the holy portion. It will belong to all the house of Israel.
7 The prince will have land on both sides of the holy portion and the city’s possession, extending in front of the holy portion and the city’s possession: westward from the western side and eastward from the eastern side. Its length will match one of the tribal portions, from the western boundary to the eastern boundary.
8 This land will be his possession in Israel. My princes will no longer oppress my people; they will give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
9 This is what the Lord GOD says: Enough, princes of Israel! Stop your violence and destruction. Do what is just and right. Stop driving my people from their homes, declares the Lord GOD.
10 You are to use honest scales, an honest ephah, and an honest bath.
11 The ephah and the bath are to have the same measure: the bath is to hold one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer. Their measure is to be based on the homer.
12 The shekel is to equal twenty gerahs. Your mina is to equal twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels.
13 This is the contribution you are to set aside: one sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and one sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley.”’”
14 “‘The prescribed measure for oil, the bath of oil, is one tenth of a bath from each kor. Ten baths make a homer, since ten baths make a homer.
15 And one sheep from every two hundred, from Israel’s pastures, is to be given for the grain offering, the burnt offering, and the fellowship offerings, to make atonement for them, declares the Lord GOD.
16 All the people of the land are to contribute this offering for the prince in Israel.
17 The prince is responsible for the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings at the festivals, new moons, and Sabbaths, at all the appointed festivals of the house of Israel. He is to provide the sin offering, grain offering, burnt offering, and fellowship offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.
18 This is what the Lord GOD says: On the first day of the first month, you are to take a flawless young bull from the herd and purify the sanctuary.
19 The priest is to take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the altar ledge, and on the doorposts of the gate to the inner courtyard.
20 You are to do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who sins unintentionally or through ignorance. In this way you are to make atonement for the temple.
21 On the fourteenth day of the first month, you are to celebrate the Passover, a festival lasting seven days. Unleavened bread is to be eaten.
22 On that day the prince is to provide a young bull as a sin offering for himself and for all the people of the land.
23 During the seven days of the festival, he is to offer to the LORD as a burnt offering seven young bulls and seven flawless rams each day, for all seven days, and one male goat each day as a sin offering.
24 He is to provide a grain offering of an ephah for each bull and an ephah for each ram, with a hin of oil for each ephah.
25 On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, during the festival, he is to do the same for seven days: the same sin offering, the same burnt offering, the same grain offering, and the same oil.”’”
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