Ezekiel
45
- "'When you allot the land as an inheritance,
you are to present to the LORD a portion of the land as a sacred district,
25,000 cubits long and 20,000 cubits wide; the entire area will be holy.
- Of this, a section 500 cubits square is
to be for the sanctuary, with 50 cubits around it for open land.
- In the sacred district, measure off a section
25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide. In it will be the sanctuary, the
Most Holy Place.
- It will be the sacred portion of the land
for the priests, who minister in the sanctuary and who draw near to minister
before the LORD. It will be a place for their houses as well as a holy place
for the sanctuary.
- An area 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits
wide will belong to the Levites, who serve in the temple, as their possession
for towns to live in.
- "'You are to give the city as its property
an area 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, adjoining the sacred portion;
it will belong to the whole house of Israel.
- "'The prince will have the land bordering
each side of the area formed by the sacred district and the property of the
city. It will extend westward from the west side and eastward from the east
side, running lengthwise from the western to the eastern border parallel to
one of the tribal portions.
- This land will be his possession in Israel.
And my princes will no longer oppress my people but will allow the house of
Israel to possess the land according to their tribes.
- "'This is what the Sovereign LORD says:
You have gone far enough, O princes of Israel! Give up your violence and oppression
and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing my people, declares the
Sovereign LORD.
- You are to use accurate scales, an accurate
ephah and an accurate bath.
- The ephah and the bath are to be the same
size, the bath containing a tenth of a homer and the ephah a tenth of a homer;
the homer is to be the standard measure for both.
- The shekel is to consist of twenty gerahs.
Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels equal one mina.
- "'This is the special gift you are
to offer: a sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat and a sixth of an ephah
from each homer of barley.
- The prescribed portion of oil, measured
by the bath, is a tenth of a bath from each cor (which consists of ten baths
or one homer, for ten baths are equivalent to a homer).
- Also one sheep is to be taken from every
flock of two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel. These will
be used for the grain offerings, burnt offerings and fellowship offerings
to make atonement for the people, declares the Sovereign LORD.
- All the people of the land will participate
in this special gift for the use of the prince in Israel.
- It will be the duty of the prince to provide
the burnt offerings, grain offerings and drink offerings at the festivals,
the New Moons and the Sabbaths--at all the appointed feasts of the house of
Israel. He will provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings
and fellowship offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel.
- "'This is what the Sovereign LORD says:
In the first month on the first day you are to take a young bull without defect
and purify the sanctuary.
- 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 upper ledge of the altar and on the gateposts of the inner
court.
- You are to do the same on the seventh day
of the month for anyone who sins unintentionally or through ignorance; so
you are to make atonement for the temple.
- "'In the first month on the fourteenth
day you are to observe the Passover, a feast lasting seven days, during which
you shall eat bread made without yeast.
- On that day the prince is to provide a bull
as a sin offering for himself and for all the people of the land.
- Every day during the seven days of the Feast
he is to provide seven bulls and seven rams without defect as a burnt offering
to the LORD, and a male goat for a sin offering.
- He is to provide as a grain offering an
ephah for each bull and an ephah for each ram, along with a hin of oil for
each ephah.
- "'During the seven days of the Feast,
which begins in the seventh month on the fifteenth day, he is to make the
same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings and oil.
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