⁸The next section of the land is to be set apart for special use. It is to be twelve and a half kilometres wide from north to south, and the same length from east to west as the sections given to the tribes. The Temple will be in this section.

⁹In the centre of this section, a special area twelve and a half kilometres by ten kilometres^y is to be dedicated to the Lord. 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.

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Footnotes

yProbable text (see 45:1) ten kilometres; Hebrew five kilometres.