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The LORD’S Portion of the Land

“Moreover, when you adivide the land by lot for inheritance, you shall set apart and offer an ballotment (contribution) to the LORD, a choly portion of the land to be used for sacred purposes. The length shall be 25,000 dcubits, and the width shall be 20,000 cubits. It shall be holy (set apart for sacred use) within its every area. Ezek 48:9, 12, 13 Of this there shall be a square plot afive hundred by five hundred cubits in perimeter for the holy place, and fifty cubits for the bopen space around it. And in this area you shall measure off a portion 25,000 cubits in length and 10,000 cubits in width. And in it shall be the sanctuary which is most holy. 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. And another portion of land a25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the temple (house) , and they shall possess it as a place in which to live.

“You shall give the acity possession of an area 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, alongside the portion set aside as a holy section. It shall belong to the whole house of Israel.

Portion for the Prince

“The aprince shall have land on either side of the portion set aside as a holy section and the property of the city, adjacent to the holy section 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. 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.”

‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “aEnough, O princes of Israel! Put away bviolence and destruction, and cpractice justice and righteousness. Stop your 1dforceful seizure of property from My people,” says the Lord GOD.

10 “You shall have ajust balances and weights on your scales and just measures, a just bephah dry volume measure and a just cbath liquid measure. 11 The ephah and the bath measures shall be the same quantity, the bath containing one tenth of a ahomer and the ephah one tenth of a homer; their standard measure shall be according to the homer. 12 The ashekel shall be twenty bgerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels added together, a total of sixty shall be your maneh (mina) .

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; 14 and the prescribed portion of oil, (namely, the bath of oil), a tenth part of a bath of oil from each kor (which is ten baths or a homer, for ten baths make a homer); 15 and you shall offer one sheep out of every 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 those who brought them,” says the Lord GOD. 16 aAll the people of the land shall give to this offering for the bprince in Israel. 17 It shall be the aprince’s responsibility 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 prepare and 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 (from sin) . 19 The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the door posts of the temple, on the afour corners of the bledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner courtyard. 20 You shall do this on the seventh day of the month for everyone who goes aastray and sins through error or ignorance and for him who is naive; so shall you make batonement for the temple (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 for all the people of the land a abull for a sin offering. 23 And for 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 for the seven days, and a male goat daily for a sin offering. 24 He shall provide as a agrain offering to be offered with each bull an ephah of grain, an ephah with each ram, and a hin of oil with each ephah of grain. 25 In the aseventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month at the feast, he shall provide offerings like these for the seven days, as the sin offering, the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the oil.”

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