Ezekiel 45–48

Moreover, when ye shall ^adivide by lot the land for inheritance, ^bye shall offer an ^coblation unto the Lord, a holy portion of the land: ^bthe length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand ^dreeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about. ²Of this there shall be for the sanctuary ^efive hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, ^fsquare round about; and fifty cubits round about for ^gthe suburbs thereof. ³And ^hof this measure shalt thou measure ^bhthe length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and ⁱin it shall be the sanctuary and ^kthe most holy place. ^4hThe holy portion of the land shall be ^lfor the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, ^mwhich shall come near to minister unto the Lord: and it shall be a place for their houses, and ⁿa holy place for the sanctuary. ⁵And ^othe five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, ^oshall also the Levites, ^pthe ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for ^qtwenty chambers. ⁶And ^rye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, ^rrover against ^cthe oblation of the holy portion: ^sit shall be for the whole house of Israel. ⁷And ^ssa portion shall be for ^tthe prince on the one side and on the other side of ^cthe oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length shall be over against one of the portions, from the west border unto the east border. ⁸In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and ^umy princes shall no more ^uuvoppress my people; and the rest of ^uuthe land shall they give to the house of Israel ^waccording to their tribes.

⁹Thus saith the Lord God; Let ^wwit suffice you, O princes of Israel: ^uremove violence and spoil, and ^uexecute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord God. ¹⁰Ye ^xshall have just ^ybalances, and a ^zjust ^aephah, and a just bath. ¹¹The ^xzadephah and the ^bdbath ^zshall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a ^cdhomer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer. ¹²And ^ethe shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your ^fmaneh. ¹³This is ^gthe oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ^aephah of a ^chomer of wheat, and ye shall ^hgive the sixth part of an ephah of a homer of barley: ¹⁴concerning the ordinance of oil, ^bthe bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of ⁱthe cor, which is a ^chomer of ten baths; for ten baths are a homer: ¹⁵and one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, ^kout of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for ^lpeace offerings, ^mto make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord God. ¹⁶All the people of the land shall give this ^goblation for the prince in Israel. ¹⁷And ^mmit shall be the prince’s part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and ⁿdrink offerings, ^oin the feasts, and in ^pthe new moons, and in the sabbaths ^oin all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall ^qprepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and ^lthe peace offerings, ^mto make reconciliation for the house of Israel.

¹⁸Thus saith the Lord God; In the first month, ^pin the first day of the month, ^qqthou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and ^rscleanse the sanctuary: ¹⁹and the priest ^sshall take of the blood of the sin offering, ^sand put it upon ^tthe posts of the house, ^sand upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of ^uthe gate of the inner court. ²⁰And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for ^vevery one that erreth, and for ^whim that is simple: so shall ye ^mreconcile the house. ^21xIn the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten. ²²And upon that day shall the prince ^qprepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering. ²³And ^yseven days of the feast he shall ^qprepare a burnt offering to the Lord, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and ^za kid of the goats daily for a sin offering. ²⁴And ^ahe shall ^qprepare a meat offering of ^ban ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and ^ca hin of oil for an ephah. ^25dIn the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, ^eaccording to the sin offering, ^eaccording to the burnt offering, and ^eaccording to the meat offering, and ^eaccording to the oil.

XLVI.Thus saith the Lord God; ^aThe gate of ^bthe inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut ^cthe six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in ^dthe day of the new moon it shall be opened. ²And ^ethe prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by ^fthe post of the gate, and ^gthe priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at ^hthe threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening. ³Likewise ⁱthe people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the Lord in the sabbaths and in ^dthe new moons. ⁴And ^jthe burnt offering that the prince ^kshall offer unto the Lord ^lin the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish. ⁵And ^lmthe meat offering shall be ⁿan ephah for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and ^oa hin of oil to an ephah. ⁶And in ^dthe day of the new moon it shall be ^pa young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish. ⁷And he shall prepare ^ma meat offering, ⁿan ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according ^qas his hand shall attain unto, and ^oa hin of oil to an ephah. ⁸And ^ewhen the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof.

⁹But when ⁱthe people of the land ^rshall come before the Lord ^jin the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth ^sover against it. ¹⁰And ^tthe prince in the midst of them, when they go in, ^tshall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth. ¹¹And ^jin the feasts and ^jin the solemnities the meat offering shall be ⁿan ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs ^uas he is able to give, and ^oa hin of oil to an ephah. ¹²Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings ^vvoluntarily unto the Lord, ^eone shall then open him ^ethe gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, ^was he did on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth ^wone shall shut the gate. ^13xThou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the Lord of a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it every morning. ¹⁴And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of ⁿan ephah, and the third part of ^oa hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the Lord. ¹⁵Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning for ^ya continual burnt offering.

¹⁶Thus saith the Lord God; If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons’; it shall be their possession by inheritance. ¹⁷But if he give a gift ^zof his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to ^athe year of liberty; after, it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons’ for them. ¹⁸Moreover ^bthe prince shall not take the people’s inheritance, ^cby oppression to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.

¹⁹After, he brought me through the entry, which was ^dat the side of the gate, into the holy ^echambers of the priests, which looked toward the north: and behold, there was a place on the two sides westward. ²⁰Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall ^fboil ^gthe trespass offering and ^gthe sin offering, where they shall ^hbake the meat offering; that they bear them not out into the utter court, ⁱto sanctify the people. ²¹Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and behold, in every corner of the court there was a court. ²²In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure. ²³And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about. ²⁴Then said he unto me, These are the places of them that boil, where ^kthe ministers of the house shall ^fboil the sacrifice of the people.

XLVII.Afterward he brought me again unto ^athe door of the house; and behold, ^bwaters issued out from under ^cthe threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of ^dthe altar. ²Then brought he me out of the way of ^ethe gate northward, and led me about the way without unto ^fthe utter gate by the way that looketh eastward; and behold, there ran out waters on the right side. ³And when ^gthe man that had ^hthe line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits,…