Ezekiel 45–48

Chapter 45

The Lord’s Portion of the Land

¹“And when you ^adivide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer ¹an ^ballotment to the Lord, a ^choly portion of the land; the length shall be the length of 25,000 ^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 ^afive hundred by five hundred cubits, and fifty cubits for its ^1bopen space round about.

³“From this ¹area you shall measure a length of 25,000 cubits and a width of 10,000 cubits; and in it shall be the sanctuary, the most holy place.

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

⁵“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 ¹cities to dwell in.

⁶“You shall give the ^acity possession of an area 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, alongside the ¹allotment of the holy portion; it shall be for the whole house of Israel.

Portion for the Prince

⁷“The ^aprince shall have land on either side of the holy ¹allotment and the ²property of the city, adjacent to the holy allotment and the property of the city, 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 ^aoppress My people, but they shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel ^baccording to their tribes.”

⁹‘Thus says the Lord ¹God, “^aEnough, you princes of Israel; put away ^bviolence and destruction, and ^cpractice justice and righteousness. Stop your ^dexpropriations from My people,” declares the Lord God.

¹⁰“You shall have ^ajust balances, a just ^bephah and a just bath.

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

¹²“The ^ashekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your ¹maneh.

¹³“This is the offering 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 prescribed portion of oil (namely, the bath of oil), a tenth of a bath from each kor (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 the Lord God.

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

¹⁷“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 feasts of the house of Israel; he shall provide the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering and the ^epeace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.”

¹⁸‘Thus says the Lord God, “In the ^afirst month, on the first of the month, you shall take a young bull ^bwithout blemish and ^ccleanse 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“Thus you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who goes ^aastray or is ¹naive; 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“On that day the prince shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a ^abull for a sin offering.

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

²⁴“He shall provide as a ^agrain offering an ephah ¹with a bull, an ephah with a ram and a hin of oil with 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’s Offerings

¹‘Thus says the Lord ¹God, “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“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“The ^apeople of the land shall also worship at the doorway of that gate before the Lord on the sabbaths and on the ^bnew moons.

⁴“The ^aburnt offering which the prince shall offer to the Lord 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 ²as much as he is ^bable to give, and a hin of oil with an ephah.

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

⁷“And he shall provide a ^agrain offering, an ephah ¹with 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“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 the Lord at the appointed feasts, 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“When they go in, the prince shall go in ^aamong them; and when they go out, ¹he shall go out.

¹¹“At the ^afestivals and the appointed feasts the ^bgrain offering shall be an ephah ¹with a bull and an ephah with a ram, and with the lambs as ²much as one is able to give, and a hin of oil with an ephah.

¹²“When the prince provides a ^afreewill offering, a burnt offering, or peace offerings as a freewill offering to the Lord, 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 the Lord 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 and a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour, a grain offering to the Lord continually by a perpetual ¹ordinance.

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

¹⁶‘Thus says the Lord God, “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“The prince shall ^anot take from the people’s inheritance, ^1bthrusting 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.

²⁰He 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 led me across 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, forty cubits long and thirty wide; these four in the corners were ¹the same size.

²³There 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

Water from the Temple

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 ¹on 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 a thousand cubits, and he led me through the water, water reaching the ankles.

⁴Again he measured a thousand and led me through the water, water reaching the knees. Again he measured a thousand and led me through the water, water reaching the loins.

⁵Again he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not ford, for the water had risen, enough water to swim in, a ^ariver that could not be forded.

⁶He said to me, “Son of man, have you ^aseen this?” Then he…