The Lord’s Portion of the Land

1 “And when you adivide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer 1an ballotment to the Lord, a choly portion of the land; the length shall be the length of 25,000 dcubits, and the width shall be 220,000. It shall be holy within all its boundary round about.

2 “Out of this there shall be for the holy place a square round about afive hundred by five hundred cubits, and fifty cubits for its 1bopen space round about.

3 “From this 1area you shall measure a length of 25,000 cubits and a width of 10,000 cubits; and in it shall be the sanctuary, the most holy place.

4 “It shall be the holy portion of the land; it shall be for the apriests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who bcome near to minister to the Lord, and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.

5 “An area a25,000 cubits in length and 10,000 in width shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, and for their possession 1cities to dwell in.

6 “You shall give the acity possession of an area 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, alongside the 1allotment of the holy portion; it shall be for the whole house of Israel.