¹⁰The priests are to have a portion of this holy area. From east to west their portion is to measure twelve and a half kilometres, and from north to south, five kilometres. The Temple of the Lord is to be in the middle of this area. ¹¹This holy area is to be for the priests who are descendants of Zadok. They served me faithfully and did not join the rest of the Israelites in doing wrong, as the other members of the tribe of Levi did. ¹²So they are to have a special area next to the area belonging to the Levites, and it will be the holiest of all. ¹³The Levites also are to have a special area, south of that of the priests. It too is to be twelve and a half kilometres from east to west, by five kilometres from north to south. ¹⁴The area dedicated to the Lord is the best part of all the land, and none of it may be sold or exchanged or transferred to anyone else. It is holy and belongs to the Lord.

¹⁵The part of the special area that is left, twelve and a half kilometres by two and a half kilometres, is not holy, but is for the general use of the people. They may live there and use the land. The city is to be in the centre of it, ¹⁶and it will be a square, measuring 2,250 metres on each side. ¹⁷All round the city on each side there will be an open space 125 metres across. ¹⁸The land that is left after the city has been built in the area immediately to the south of the holy area—five kilometres by two and a half kilometres on the east and five kilometres by two and a half kilometres on the west—is to be used as farm land by the people who live in the city. ¹⁹Anyone who lives in the city, no matter which tribe he comes from, may farm that land.

²⁰And so the total area in the centre of the section which was set apart will be a square measuring twelve and a half kilometres on each side, and it will include the area occupied by the city.

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