Ezekiel 45

The Sacred Portion of the Land

45“When you divide the land by lot as an inheritance, ^fyou must set aside a donation to the Lord, a holy portion of the land, ^g8⅓ miles ^hlong and 6⅔ miles ⁱwide. This entire tract of land will be holy. ²In this area there will be a square section ^jfor the sanctuary, 875 by 875 feet, ^klwith 87½ feet ^mof open space all around it. ³From this holy portion, ⁿyou will measure off an area 8⅓ miles ^olong and 3⅓ miles ^pwide, in which the sanctuary, the most holy place, ^qwill stand. ^r4It will be a holy area of the land to be used by the priests who minister in the sanctuary, who draw near to serve the Lord. ^sIt will be a place for their houses, as well as a holy area for the sanctuary. ⁵There will be another area 8⅓ miles ^tlong and 3⅓ miles ^uwide for the Levites who minister in the temple; ^vit will be their possession for towns to live in. ^w

⁶“As the property of the city, you must set aside an area 1⅔ of a mile ^xwide and 8⅓ miles ^ylong, adjacent to the holy donation of land. ^zIt will be for the whole house of Israel. ⁷And the prince will have the area on each side of the holy donation of land and the city’s property, adjacent to the holy donation and the city’s property, stretching to the west on the west side and to the east on the east side. ^aIts length will correspond to one of the tribal portions from the western boundary to the eastern boundary. ⁸This will be his land as a possession in Israel. My princes will no longer oppress My people ^bbut give the rest of the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

⁹“This is what the Lord God says: You have gone too far, ^cdprinces of Israel! Put away violence and oppression and do what is just and right. ^ePut an end to your evictions of My people.” This is the declaration of the Lord God. ¹⁰“You must have honest scales, an honest dry measure, ^fand an honest liquid measure. ^gh11The dry measure ⁱand the liquid measure ^jwill be uniform, with the liquid measure containing 5½ gallons ^kand the dry measure holding half a bushel. ^lTheir measurement will be a tenth of the standard larger capacity measure. ^m12The shekel will weigh 20 gerahs. ⁿYour mina will equal 60 shekels.

The People’s Contribution to the Sacrifices

¹³“This is the contribution you are to offer: Three quarts ^ofrom five bushels ^pof wheat and ^qthree quarts from five bushels of barley. ¹⁴The quota of oil in liquid measures ^rwill be one percent of every ^scor. The cor equals 10 liquid measures or one standard larger capacity measure, ^tsince 10 liquid measures equal one standard larger capacity measure. ¹⁵And the quota from the flock is one animal out of every 200 from the well-watered pastures of Israel. These are for the grain offerings, burnt offerings, and fellowship offerings, to make atonement for the people.” ^uThis is the declaration of the Lord God. ¹⁶“All the people of the land must take part in this contribution for the prince in Israel. ¹⁷Then the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings for the festivals, New Moons, and Sabbaths—for all the appointed times of the house of Israel—will be the prince’s responsibility. He will provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and fellowship offerings to make atonement on behalf of the house of Israel.

¹⁸“This is what the Lord God says: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you are to take a young, unblemished bull and purify the sanctuary. ¹⁹The priest must take some of the blood from the sin offering and apply it to the temple doorposts, the four corners of the altar’s ledge, and the doorposts of the gate to the inner court. ^v20You must do the same thing on the seventh day of the month for everyone who sins unintentionally or through ignorance. ^wIn this way you will make atonement for the temple.

²¹“In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you are to celebrate the Passover, a festival of seven days during which unleavened bread will be eaten. ^x22On that day the prince will provide a bull as a sin offering on behalf of himself and all the people of the land. ²³During the seven days of the festival, he will provide seven bulls and seven rams without blemish as a burnt offering to the Lord on each of the seven days, along with a male goat each day for a sin offering. ²⁴He will also provide a grain offering of half a bushel ^yper bull and half a bushel per ram, along with a gallon ^zof oil for every half bushel. ²⁵At the festival that begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, ^abhe will provide the same things for seven days—the same sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, and oil.