“And when you adivide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer a bcontribution to Yahweh, a choly portion of the land; the length shall be the length of 125,000 dcubits, and the width shall be 220,000. It shall be holy within all its boundary round about.Approx. 7.1 mi. long and 5.6 mi. wide or 11.25 km and 9 kmOr with Gr 10,000Num 34:13; Josh 13:7; 14:3; Ezek 47:21; 48:29Ezek 48:8, 9Zech 14:20, 21Ezek 42:16; 45:2 2 Out of this there shall be for the holy place a square round about 1afive hundred by five hundred cubits, and 2fifty cubits for its 3bopen space round about.Approx. 250 yd. or 225 mApprox. 75 ft. or 22.5 mOr pasture landEzek 42:20Ezek 27:28 3 And from this 1area you shall measure a length of 25,000 cubits and a width of 210,000 cubits; and in it shall be the sanctuary, the Holy of Holies.Lit measureApprox. 2.8 mi. or 4.5 km 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 Yahweh, and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.Ezek 48:10, 11Num 16:5; Ezek 40:45; 43:19 5 And 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 as 1cities to dwell in.As in Gr; M.T. twenty chambersEzek 48:13
6 “And you shall give the acity possession of an area 15,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, alongside the contribution of the holy portion; it shall be for the whole house of Israel.Approx. 1.4 mi. or 2.25 kmEzek 48:15-18, 30-35
7 “Now the aprince shall have land on either side of the holy contribution and the city’s possession of land, adjacent to the holy contribution and the city’s possession of land, 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.Ezek 34:24; 37:24; 46:16-18; 48:21 8 This shall be his land for a possession in Israel; so My princes shall no longer amistreat My people, but they shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel baccording to their tribes.”Is 11:3-5; Jer 23:5; Ezek 19:7; 22:27; 46:18Josh 11:23
9 ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “aEnough, you princes of Israel; put away bviolence and devastation, and cdo justice and righteousness. Stop your deviction of My people,” declares Lord Yahweh.Ezek 44:6Jer 6:7; Ezek 7:11, 23; 8:17Jer 22:3; Zech 8:16Neh 5:1-5
10 “You shall have ajust balances, a just 1bephah, and a just 2cbath.Lev 19:36; Deut 25:15; Prov 16:11; Amos 8:4-6; Mic 6:10, 11Is 5:10An ephah was approx. 21 qt. or 23 lA bath was approx. 6 gal. or 23 l 11 The ephah and the bath shall be 1the same quantity so that the bath will contain a tenth of a 2ahomer and the ephah a tenth of a homer; 3their standard shall be according to the homer.Lit oneA homer was approx. 6.5 bu. or 230 lLit its measureIs 5:10 12 And the 1ashekel shall be twenty 2bgerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your 3maneh.A shekel was approx. 0.4 oz. or 11 gmA gerah was approx. 0.025 oz. or 0.7 gmOr minaEx 30:13; Lev 27:25; Num 3:47
13 “This is the contribution 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 statute for the oil (namely, the 1bath of oil), a tenth of a bath from each 2kor (which is ten baths or a homer, for ten baths are a homer),A bath was approx. 6 gal. or 23 lA kor was approx. 6.5 bu. or 230 l 15 and 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 Lord Yahweh.Ezek 45:17Lev 1:4; 6:30 16 “aAll the people of the land shall 1give to this contribution for the bprince in Israel.Lit beEx 30:14, 15Is 16:1 17 And 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 times of the house of Israel; he shall 1provide the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering, and the epeace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.”Or offer, so in chEzek 46:4-121 Kin 8:64; 1 Chr 16:2; 2 Chr 31:3Lev 23:1-44; Num 28:1-29:39Is 66:231 Kin 8:63; Ezek 43:27
18 ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “In the afirst month, on the first of the month, you shall take a bull from the herd bwithout blemish and cpurify the sanctuary.Ex 12:2Lev 22:20; Heb 9:14Lev 16:16, 33; Ezek 43:22, 26 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.Lev 16:18-20; Ezek 43:20Ezek 43:14, 17, 20 20 And thus you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who aerrs or is simpleminded; so you shall make batonement for the house.Lev 4:27; Ps 19:12Lev 16:20; Ezek 45:15, 18
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.Num 28:16fEx 12:1-24; Lev 23:5-8 22 And on that day the prince shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a abull for a sin offering.Lev 4:14 23 And during the aseven days of the feast he shall provide as a bburnt offering to Yahweh cseven bulls and seven rams without blemish on every day of the seven days, and a male goat daily for a sin offering.Lev 23:8Num 28:16-25Num 23:1, 2; Job 42:8 24 And he shall provide as a agrain offering an ephah 1with a bull, an ephah 2with a ram, and a 3hin of oil 4with an ephah.Lit forA hin was approx. 1 gal. or 3.8 lNum 28:12-15; Ezek 46:5-7 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.”Lit according toLev 23:33-43; Num 29:12-38; 2 Chr 5:3; 7:8, 10