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Ezekiel

ESV

Chapter 45

1“When you allot the land as an inheritance, you are to present to the LORD a portion of the land as a holy offering, twenty-five thousand cubits long and twenty thousand cubits broad. It is to be holy throughout its whole extent. 2Of this a square plot of five hundred by five hundred cubits is to be for the sanctuary, with fifty cubits for an open space around it. 3And from this measured portion, you shall measure off a length of twenty-five thousand cubits and a breadth of ten thousand. And in it shall be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place. 4It shall be the holy portion of the land for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to the LORD, and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. 5Another portion, twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand cubits broad, shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the temple, as their possession for cities to live in. 6Alongside the portion of the holy offering, you shall assign for the property of the city an area five thousand cubits broad and twenty-five thousand cubits long. It shall belong to the whole house of Israel. 7“And to the prince shall belong the land on both sides of the holy offering and the property of the city, alongside the holy offering and the property of the city, on the west and on the east. Its length shall correspond to one of the tribal portions, from the west border to the east border. 8This land shall be his possession in Israel. And my princes shall no more oppress my people, but they shall let the house of Israel have the land according to their tribes. 9“Thus says the Lord GOD: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease your evictions of my people, declares the Lord GOD. 10You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath. 11The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, the bath containing one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure. 12The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your mina. 13“This is the offering that you shall make: one sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and one sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley. 14And the fixed portion of oil, measured by the bath, shall be one tenth of a bath from each cor (the cor, like the homer, contains ten baths). 15And one sheep from every two hundred from the flocks of Israel, for a grain offering, a burnt offering, and peace offerings, to make atonement for them, declares the Lord GOD. 16All the people of the land shall be obliged to give this offering to the prince in Israel. 17It shall be the prince’s duty to furnish the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings, at the feasts, new moons, and Sabbaths, all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel: he shall provide the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel. 18“Thus says the Lord GOD: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you shall take a bull from the herd without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary. 19The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner court. 20You shall do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who has sinned through error or ignorance; so you shall make atonement for the temple. 21“In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall celebrate the Passover, a feast of seven days, in which unleavened bread shall be eaten. 22On that day the prince shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering. 23And during the seven days of the feast he shall provide as a burnt offering to the LORD seven bulls and seven rams without blemish, daily for seven days, and a male goat daily for a sin offering. 24And he shall provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull, and an ephah for each ram, with a hin of oil to each ephah. 25In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month and for the seven days of the feast, he shall make the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, and oil.