The Holy District

45 “Moreover, when you adivide the land by lot into inheritance, you shall bset apart a district for the Lord, a holy section of the land; its length shall be twenty-five thousand cubits, and the width ten thousand. It shall be holy throughout its territory all around. 2 Of this there shall be a square plot for the sanctuary, cfive hundred by five hundred rods, with fifty cubits around it for an open space. 3 So this is the district you shall measure: twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide; din it shall be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place. 4 It shall be ea holy section of the land, belonging to the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to the Lord; it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. 5 fAn area twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide shall belong to the Levites, the ministers of the 1temple; they shall have gtwenty 2chambers as a possession.

Properties of the City and the Prince

6 h“You shall appoint as the property of the city an area five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand long, adjacent to the district of the holy section; it shall belong to the whole house of Israel.

7 i“The prince shall have a section on one side and the other of the holy district and the city’s property; and bordering on the holy district and the city’s property, extending westward on the west side and eastward on the east side, the length shall be side by side with one of the tribal portions, from the west border to the east border. 8 The land shall be his possession in Israel; and jMy princes shall no more oppress My people, but they shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel, according to their tribes.”