^45:1“ ‘When you allot the land as an inheritance, you will offer an allotment¹ to the Lord, a holy portion from the land; the length will be eight and a quarter miles² and the width three and one-third miles.³ This entire area will be holy.⁴^45:2Of this area a square 875 feet⁵ by 875 feet will be designated for the sanctuary, with 87½ feet⁶ set aside for its open space round about. ^45:3From this measured area you will measure a length of eight and a quarter miles⁷ and a width of three and one-third miles;⁸ in it will be the sanctuary, the most holy place. ^45:4It will be a holy portion of the land; it will be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary who approach the Lord to minister to him. It will be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.⁹^45:5An area eight and a quarter miles¹⁰ in length and three and one-third miles¹¹ in width will be for the Levites, who minister at the temple, as the place for the cities¹² in which they will live.

^45:6“ ‘Alongside the portion set apart as the holy allotment, you will allot for the city an area one and two-thirds miles¹³ wide and eight and a quarter miles¹⁴ long; it will be for the whole house of Israel.

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Footnotes

1 Heb “a contribution.”
2 Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers). The measuring units here are the Hebrew “long” cubit, consisting of a cubit (about 18 inches or 45 cm) and a handbreadth (about 3 inches or 7.5 cm), for a total of 21 inches (52.5 cm). Because modern readers are not familiar with the cubit as a unit of measurement, and due to the additional complication of the “long” cubit as opposed to the regular cubit, all measurements have been converted to American standard miles (one mile = 5,280 feet), with the Hebrew measurements and the metric equivalents given in the notes.
3 The reads “twenty thousand cubits.” Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).
4 Heb “holy it is in all its territory round about.”
5 Heb “five hundred cubits” (i.e., 262.5 meters); the phrase occurs twice in this verse.
6 Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).
7 Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).
8 Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).
9 The apparently understood “open land” instead of “sanctuary.”
10 Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).
11 Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).
12 The translation follows the here. The reads “twenty.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (), 2:.
13 Heb “five thousand cubits” (i.e., 2.625 kilometers).
14 Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).