Ezekiel 46–48

¹‘Thus said the Lord Jehovah: The gate of the inner court that is looking eastward is shut the six days of work, and on the day of rest it is opened, and in the day of the new moon it is opened; ²and come in hath the prince the way of the porch of the gate at the outside, and he hath stood by the post of the gate, and the priests have made his burnt-offering, and his peace-offerings, and he hath bowed himself by the opening of the gate, and hath gone forth, and the gate is not shut till the evening. ³And bowed themselves have the people of the land at the opening of that gate, on sabbaths, and on new moons, before Jehovah.

⁴‘And the burnt-offering that the prince bringeth near to Jehovah on the day of rest is six lambs, perfect ones, and a ram, a perfect one. ⁵And the present is an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs a present, the gift of his hand, and of oil a hin for an ephah. ⁶And on the day of the new moon a bullock, a son of the herd, a perfect one, and six lambs and a ram, they are perfect. ⁷And with an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, he prepareth a present, and for the lambs as his hand attaineth, and of oil a hin for an ephah.

⁸‘And in the coming in of the prince, the way of the porch of the gate he cometh in, and by its way he goeth out. ⁹And in the coming in of the people of the land before Jehovah at appointed times, he who hath come in the way of the north gate to bow himself, goeth out the way of the south gate, and he who hath come in the way of the south gate, goeth out by the way of the north gate: he doth not turn back the way of the gate by which he came in, but over-against it he goeth out. ¹⁰And the prince in their midst in their coming in cometh in, and in their going out he goeth out.

¹¹‘And in feasts, and in appointed times, the present is an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for lambs the gift of his hand, and of oil a hin for an ephah. ¹²And when the prince maketh a free-will burnt-offering, or free-will peace-offerings, to Jehovah, then he hath opened for himself the gate that is looking eastward, and he hath made his burnt-offering and his peace-offerings as he doth in the day of rest, and he hath gone out, and he hath shut the gate after his going out.

¹³‘And a lamb, son of a year, a perfect one, thou dost make a burnt-offering daily to Jehovah; morning by morning thou dost make it. ¹⁴And a present thou dost make for it morning by morning, a sixth part of the ephah, and of oil a third part of the hin, to temper with the fine flour, a present to Jehovah, by a statute age-during—continually; ¹⁵and prepare ye the lamb, and the present, and the oil, morning by morning, a continual burnt-offering.

¹⁶‘Thus said the Lord Jehovah: When the prince giveth a gift to any of his sons, his inheritance it is, to his sons it is; their possession it is by inheritance. ¹⁷And when he giveth a gift out of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it hath been to him till the year of freedom, and it hath turned back to the prince, only the inheritance of his sons is theirs. ¹⁸And the prince doth not take of the inheritance of the people to oppress them, out of their possession, out of his own possession he doth cause his sons to inherit, so that My people are not scattered each from his possession.’

¹⁹And he bringeth me in through the entrance that is by the side of the gate, unto the holy chambers, unto the priests, that are looking northward, and lo, there is a place in their two sides westward. ²⁰And he saith unto me, ‘This is the place where the priests do boil the guilt-offering and the sin-offering, where they bake the present, so as not to bring it out unto the outer court, to sanctify the people.’ ²¹And he bringeth me out unto the outer court, and causeth me to pass over unto the four corners of the court, and lo, a court in a corner of the court, a court in a corner of the corner. ²²In the four corners of the court are perfume courts, forty long, and thirty broad, one measure is to the four corners. ²³And a row is round about in them, round about to them four, and made with boilers under the rows round about. ²⁴And he saith unto me, ‘These are the houses of those boiling where the ministrants of the house boil the sacrifice of the people.’

Chapter 47

¹And he causeth me to turn back unto the opening of the house; and lo, water is coming forth from under the threshold of the house eastward, for the front of the house is eastward, and the water is coming down from beneath, from the right side of the house, from the south of the altar. ²And he causeth me to go out the way of the gate northward, and causeth me to turn round the way without, unto the gate that is without, the way that is looking eastward, and lo, water is coming forth from the right side. ³In the going out of the man eastward, and a line in his hand, then he measureth a thousand by the cubit, and he causeth me to pass over into water—water to the ankles. ⁴And he measureth a thousand, and causeth me to pass over into water—water to the knees. And he measureth a thousand, and causeth me to pass over—water to the loins. ⁵And he measureth a thousand—a stream that I am not able to pass over; for risen have the waters—waters to swim in—a stream that is not passed over. ⁶And he saith unto me, ‘Hast thou seen, son of man?’ and he leadeth me, and bringeth me back unto the edge of the stream. ⁷In my turning back, then, lo, at the edge of the stream are very many trees, on this side and on that side. ⁸And he saith unto me, ‘These waters are going forth unto the east circuit, and have gone down unto the desert, and have entered the sea; unto the sea they are brought forth, and the waters have been healed. ⁹And it hath come to pass, every living creature that teemeth, whithersoever the streams come, doth live: and there hath been great abundance of fish, for these waters have come thither, and they are healed; and every thing whither the stream cometh hath lived. ¹⁰And it hath come to pass, fishers do stand by it, from En-Gedi even unto En-Eglaim; a spreading place of nets they are; according to their own kind is their fish, as the fish of the great sea, very many. ¹¹Its miry and its marshy places—they are not healed; to salt they have been given up. ¹²And by the stream there cometh up on its edge, on this side and on that side, every kind of fruit-tree whose leaf fadeth not, and not consumed is its fruit, according to its months it yieldeth first-fruits, because its waters from the sanctuary are coming forth; and its fruits hath been for food, and its leaf for medicine.

¹³‘Thus said the Lord Jehovah: This is the border whereby ye inherit the land, according to the twelve tribes of Israel; Joseph hath portions. ¹⁴And ye have inherited it, one as well as another, in that I have lifted up My hand to give it to your fathers; and this land hath fallen to you in inheritance.

¹⁵‘And this is the border of the land at the north quarter; from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, at the coming in to Zedad: ¹⁶Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, that is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazar-Hatticon, that is at the coast of Havran. ¹⁷And the border from the sea hath been Hazar-Enan, the border of Damascus, and Zaphon at the north, and the border of Hamath: and this is the north quarter.

¹⁸‘And the east quarter is from between Havran, and Damascus, and Gilead, and the land of Israel, to the Jordan; from the border over-against the eastern sea ye measure: and this is the east quarter.

¹⁹‘And the south quarter southward is from Tamar unto the waters of Meriboth-Kadesh, the stream unto the great sea: and this is the south quarter southward.

²⁰‘And the west quarter is the great sea, from the border till over-against the coming in to Hamath: this is the west quarter.

²¹‘And ye have divided this land to you, according to the tribes of Israel; ²²and it hath come to pass, ye separate it for an inheritance to yourselves, and to the sojourners who are sojourning in your midst, who have begotten sons in your midst, and they have been to you as native, with the sons of Israel, with you they are separated for an inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Israel. ²³And it hath come to pass, in the tribe with which the sojourner sojourneth, there ye give his inheritance—an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

Chapter 48

¹And these are the names of the tribes: From the north end unto the side of the way of Hethlon, at the coming in to Hamath, Hazar-Enan, the border of Damascus northward, unto the side of Hamath, and they have been his—side east and west, Dan one, ²and by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, Asher one, ³and by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, Naphtali one, ⁴and by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, Manasseh one, ⁵and by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side, Ephraim one, ⁶and by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, Reuben one, ⁷and by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side, Judah one, ⁸and by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side is the heave-offering that ye lift up, five and twenty thousand broad and long, as one of the parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary hath been in its midst. ⁹The heave-offering that ye lift up to Jehovah is five and twenty thousand long, and broad ten thousand. ¹⁰And of these is the holy heave-offering for the priests, northward five and twenty thousand, and westward in breadth ten thousand, and eastward in breadth ten thousand, and southward in length five and twenty thousand: and the sanctuary of Jehovah hath been in its midst. ¹¹For the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept My charge, who erred not in the erring of the sons of Israel, as the Levites erred, ¹²even the heave-offering hath been to them, out of the heave-offering of the land, most holy, by the border of the Levites. ¹³…