Ezekiel 45

1 “When you divide the land by lot as an inheritance, you are to set aside a portion for the LORD, a holy portion of the land 25,000 cubits long and 20,000 cubits wide. This entire tract of land will be holy.

2 Within this area there is to be a section for the sanctuary 500 cubits square, with 50 cubits around it for open land.

3 From this holy portion, you are to measure off a length of 25,000 cubits and a width of 10,000 cubits, and in it will be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.

4 It will be a holy portion of the land to be used by the priests who minister in the sanctuary, who draw near to minister before the LORD. It will be a place for their houses, as well as a holy area for the sanctuary.

5 An adjacent area 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide shall belong to the Levites who minister in the temple; it will be their possession for towns in which to live.

6 As the property of the city, you are to set aside an area 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, adjacent to the holy district. It will belong to the whole house of Israel.

7 Now the prince will have the area bordering each side of the area formed by the holy district and the property of the city, extending westward from the western side and eastward from the eastern side, running lengthwise from the western boundary to the eastern boundary and parallel to one of the tribal portions.

8 This land will be his possession in Israel. And My princes will no longer oppress My people, but will give the rest of the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

9 For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Enough, O princes of Israel! Cease your violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing My people, declares the Lord GOD.’

10 You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.

11 The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure for both.

12 The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.

13 This is the contribution you are to offer: a sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley.

14 The prescribed portion of oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath from each cor (a cor consists of ten baths or one homer, since ten baths are equivalent to a homer).

15 And one sheep shall be given from each flock of two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel. These are for the grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement for the people, declares the Lord GOD.

16 All the people of the land must participate in this contribution for the prince in Israel.

17 And it shall be the prince’s part to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings for the feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—for all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel.

18 This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘On the first day of the first month you are to take a young bull without blemish and purify the sanctuary.

19 And the priest is to take some of the blood from the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the gateposts of the inner court.

20 You must do the same thing on the seventh day of the month for anyone who strays unintentionally or in ignorance. In this way you will make atonement for the temple.

21 On the fourteenth day of the first month you are to observe the Passover, a feast of seven days, during which unleavened bread shall be eaten.

22 On that day the prince shall provide a bull as a sin offering for himself and for all the people of the land.

23 Each day during the seven days of the feast, he shall provide seven bulls and seven rams without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD, along with a male goat for a sin offering.

24 He shall also provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull and an ephah for each ram, along with a hin of olive oil for each ephah of grain.

25 During the seven days of the feast that begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, he is to make the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, and oil.’

1 ¶ Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy portion of the land: the length [shall be] the length of five and twenty thousand [reeds], and the breadth [shall be] ten thousand. This [shall be] holy in all the borders thereof round about.

2 Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred [in length], with five hundred [in breadth], square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.

3 And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary [and] the most holy [place].

4 The holy [portion] of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the LORD: and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary.

5 And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers.

6 And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against the oblation of the holy [portion]: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.

7 And a [portion shall be] for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy [portion], and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy [portion], and before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length [shall be] over against one of the portions, from the west border unto the east border.

8 In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress my people; and [the rest of] the land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

9 ¶ Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.

10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

12 And the shekel [shall be] twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.

13 ¶ This [is] the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley:

14 Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, [ye shall offer] the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, [which is] an homer of ten baths; for ten baths [are] an homer:

15 And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord GOD.

16 All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince in Israel.

17 And it shall be the prince's part [to give] burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.

18 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first [month], in the first [day] of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary:

19 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put [it] upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.

20 And so thou shalt do the seventh [day] of the month for every one that erreth, and for [him that is] simple: so shall ye reconcile the house.

21 In the first [month], in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

22 And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock [for] a sin offering.

23 And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily [for] a sin offering.

24 And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah.

25 In the seventh [month], in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil.

1 Now therefore, when ye shall divide the land by lot, ye shall set apart a heave offering out of the land, which shall be holy unto the LORD, twenty and five thousand rods long, and ten thousand broad. The place shall be holy as far as it goes.

2 And from it shall come unto the sanctuary five hundred rods a quarter, and a space round about fifty cubits.

3 And in the same place, which is twenty and five thousand rods long, and ten thousand broad, shall be the sanctuary, and the holy of holies.

4 And the rest of the holy land shall be for the priests that minister in the sanctuary, and that come before the LORD to minister unto him, that they may have room for houses; and it shall be holy also.

5 And the Levites also that minister before the house shall have twenty and five thousand rods long, and ten thousand broad, for their part, for twenty chambers.

6 And unto the city ye shall leave a place for all the house of Israel, five thousand rods broad, and twenty and five thousand long, beside the separate place of the sanctuary.

7 And ye shall give the prince also a place on either side between the priests' place, and between the place of the city, east and west: and the east and the west shall be the same length.

8 This shall be his own portion in Israel, that my princes shall no more take theirs from my people, but shall leave the land to the house of Israel for their tribes.

9 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye have done long enough, ye princes of Israel; depart from iniquity and violence, and do that which is right and good; and depart from my people your casting out, saith the Lord GOD.

10 Ye shall have right weight, and right bushels, and right measure.

11 The ephah and the bath shall be the same, that the bath may be the tenth part of the homer, and the ephah also the tenth part of the homer: for according to the homer they shall both be measured.

12 But a shekel shall have twenty gerahs: and a mina shall make twenty shekels, twenty and five shekels, and fifteen shekels.

13 Now this shall be the heave offering which ye shall lift up, even the sixth part of an ephah of a homer of wheat, and the sixth part of an ephah of a homer of barley.

14 And of the oil ye shall give one bath, even the tenth of the Kor, and the tenth of the Homer: for ten bath make one Homer.

15 And one lamb of every two hundred sheep of the flock of the pasture of Israel for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for a peace offering, to make an atonement for them, saith the LORD GOD.

16 All the people of the land shall bring such heave offerings unto the prince in Israel.

17 And the prince shall offer his burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering, upon the feasts, and upon the new moons, and upon the sabbaths, and upon all the high feasts of the house of Israel; and he shall offer sin offerings, and meat offerings, and burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make an atonement for the house of Israel.

18 Thus saith the LORD GOD; In the first day of the first month thou shalt take a young bullock without change, and shalt cleanse the sanctuary.

19 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and sprinkle it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.

20 So shalt thou do also on the seventh day of the month, when any man hath erred, or been deceived, to make an atonement for the house.

21 In the fourteenth day of the first month ye shall keep the passover, and celebrate it seven days, and eat unleavened bread.

22 And on the same day the prince shall offer a bullock for a sin offering for himself, and for all the people of the land.

23 And during the seven days of the feast he shall offer a burnt offering daily unto the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without issue, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.

24 And for a meat offering he shall offer an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and an hin of oil to an ephah.

25 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month he shall celebrate seven days in succession, as he did those seven days, and shall keep the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the meat offering, and the oil.