Ezekiel 45

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.”