Ezekiel 45–48

CHAPTER 45

Yahweh’s Portion of the Land

¹“And when you ^adivide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer a ^bcontribution to Yahweh, a ^choly portion of the land; the length shall be the length of ¹25,000 ^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 ^1afive hundred by five hundred cubits, and ²fifty cubits for its ^3bopen space round about.

³“And from this ¹area you shall measure a length of 25,000 cubits and a width of ²10,000 cubits; and in it shall be the sanctuary, the Holy of Holies.

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 Yahweh, and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.

⁵“And 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 as ¹cities to dwell in.

⁶“And you shall give the ^acity possession of an area ¹5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, alongside the contribution of the holy portion; it shall be for the whole house of Israel.

The Prince’s Portion of the Land

⁷“Now the ^aprince shall have land on either side of the holy contribution and the city’s possession of land, adjacent to the holy contribution and the city’s possession of land, on the west side toward the west and on the east side toward the east, and in length comparable to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.

⁸“This shall be his land for a possession in Israel; so My princes shall no longer ^amistreat My people, but they shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel ^baccording to their tribes.”

⁹‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “^aEnough, you princes of Israel; put away ^bviolence and devastation, and ^cdo justice and righteousness. Stop your ^deviction of My people,” declares Lord Yahweh.

¹⁰“You shall have ^ajust balances, a just ^1bephah, and a just ^2cbath.

¹¹“The ephah and the bath shall be ¹the same quantity so that the bath will contain a tenth of a ^2ahomer and the ephah a tenth of a homer; ³their standard shall be according to the homer.

¹²“And the ^1ashekel shall be twenty ^2bgerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your ³maneh.

¹³“This is the contribution that you shall offer: a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat, a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley,

¹⁴and the statute for the oil (namely, the ¹bath of oil), a tenth of a bath from each ²kor (which is ten baths or a homer, for ten baths are a homer),

¹⁵and one sheep from each flock of two hundred from the watering places of Israel—for a ^agrain offering, for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to ^bmake atonement for them,” declares Lord Yahweh.

¹⁶“^aAll the people of the land shall ¹give to this contribution for the ^bprince in Israel.

¹⁷“And it shall be the ^aprince’s part to provide the ^bburnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the drink offerings, at the ^cfeasts, on the ^dnew moons, and on the sabbaths, at all the appointed times of the house of Israel; he shall ¹provide the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering, and the ^epeace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.”

¹⁸‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “In the ^afirst month, on the first of the month, you shall take a bull from the herd ^bwithout blemish and ^cpurify the sanctuary.

¹⁹“The priest shall take some of the blood from the sin offering and put it on the door posts of the house, on the ^afour corners of the ^bledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner court.

²⁰“And thus you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who ^aerrs or is simpleminded; so you shall make ^batonement for the house.

²¹“In the ^afirst month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the ^bPassover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

²²“And on that day the prince shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a ^abull for a sin offering.

²³“And during the ^aseven days of the feast he shall provide as a ^bburnt offering to Yahweh ^cseven bulls and seven rams without blemish on every day of the seven days, and a male goat daily for a sin offering.

²⁴“And he shall provide as a ^agrain offering an ephah ¹with a bull, an ephah ²with a ram, and a ³hin of oil ⁴with an ephah.

²⁵“In the ^aseventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he shall provide like this, seven days ¹for the sin offering, the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the oil.”

CHAPTER 46

The Prince, Feast, and Offerings

¹‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “The ^agate of the ^binner court facing east shall be ^cshut the six ^dworking days; but it shall be opened on the ^esabbath day and opened on the day of the ^fnew moon.

²“Then the ^aprince shall enter by way of the porch of the gate from outside and stand by the ^bpost of the gate. Then the priests shall provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate and then go out; but the gate shall not be ^cshut until the evening.

³“And the ^apeople of the land shall also worship at the entrance of that gate before Yahweh on the sabbaths and on the ^bnew moons.

⁴“Now the ^aburnt offering which the prince shall bring near to Yahweh on the sabbath day shall be ^bsix lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish;

⁵and the ^agrain offering shall be an ephah ¹with the ram, and the grain offering with the lambs shall be ^ba gift from his hand, as well as a ²hin of oil with an ephah.

⁶“And on the day of the ^anew moon he shall offer a bull from the herd without blemish, also six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish.

⁷“And he shall ¹provide a ^agrain offering, an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as ²much as he is ^bable, and a hin of oil with an ephah.

⁸“And when the ^aprince enters, he shall go in by way of the porch of the gate and go out ¹by the same way.

⁹“But when the people of the land come ^abefore Yahweh at the appointed times, he who enters by way of the north gate to worship shall go out by way of the south gate. And he who enters by way of the south gate shall go out by way of the north gate. ¹No one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered but shall go straight out.

¹⁰“So when they go in, the prince shall go in ^aamong them; and when they go out, ¹he shall go out.

¹¹“Now at the ^afeasts and the appointed times the ^bgrain offering shall be an ¹ephah with a bull and an ephah with a ram, and with the lambs shall be a gift from his hand, as well as a hin of oil with an ephah.

¹²“And when the prince provides a ^afreewill offering, a burnt offering, or peace offerings as a freewill offering to Yahweh, the gate facing east shall be ^bopened for him. And he shall provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he does on the ^csabbath day. Then he shall go out, and the gate shall be shut after he goes out.

¹³“And you shall provide a ^alamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to Yahweh daily; ^bmorning by morning you shall provide it.

¹⁴“Also you shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning—a ^asixth of an ephah as well as a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour—a grain offering to Yahweh continually by a perpetual statute.

¹⁵“Thus they shall provide the lamb, the grain offering, and the oil, morning by morning, for a ^acontinual burnt offering.”

¹⁶‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “If the prince gives a ^agift out of his inheritance to any of his sons, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance.

¹⁷“But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until the ^ayear of liberty; then it shall return to the prince. His inheritance shall be only his sons’; it shall belong to them.

¹⁸“Now the prince shall ^anot take from the people’s inheritance, ^bmistreating them out of their possession; he shall give his sons inheritance from his own possession so that My people will not be scattered, anyone from his possession.” ’ ”

The Boiling Places

¹⁹Then he brought me through the ^aentrance, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which faced north; and behold, there was a place at the extreme rear toward the west.

²⁰Then he said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the ^aguilt offering and the sin offering and where they shall ^bbake the grain offering, in order that they may not bring them out into the outer court to transmit holiness to the people.”

²¹Then he brought me out into the outer court and had me pass through to the four corners of the court; and behold, in every corner of the court there was a small court.

²²In the four corners of the court there were enclosed courts, ¹forty cubits long and thirty wide; these four in the corners were ²the same size.

²³Now there was a row of masonry round about in them, around the four of them, and boiling places were made under the rows round about.

²⁴Then he said to me, “These are the boiling ¹places where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifices of the people.”

CHAPTER 47

The River of Yahweh’s House

¹Then he brought me back to the ^adoor of the house; and behold, ^bwater was flowing from under the threshold of the house toward the east, for the house faced east. And the water was flowing down from under, from the right side of the house, from south of the altar.

²He brought me out by way of the north gate and led me around by way of the outside to the outer gate by way of the gate that faces east. And behold, water was trickling from the south side.

³When the man went out toward the east with a line in his hand, he measured ¹one thousand cubits, and he had me pass through the water, water reaching the ankles.

⁴Again he measured one thousand and had me pass through the water, water reaching the knees. Again he measured one thousand and had me pass through the water, water reaching the loins.

⁵Again he measured one thousand; and it…