The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel 45 The Division of the Land: The Holy Place

 The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel 45

The Division of the Land: The Holy Place

1 When you divide the land by lot for inheritance, you shall offer an offering to the Lord, a holy place in the land: its length shall be twenty-five thousand cubits, and its width ten thousand; it shall be holy all around.

2 It shall be a sanctuary of five hundred cubits by five hundred cubits, in a square, and it shall have a suburb of fifty cubits around it.

3 From this measure you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand cubits, and a width of ten thousand; and there shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place.

4 This shall be the holy place in the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who approach it to minister to the Lord; and it shall be for them a place for houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary.

5 And the Levites, the ministers of the house, shall have as their possession twenty-five thousand measures of length, for twenty chambers. 

6 And for the possession of the city, you shall give five thousand reeds in width and twenty-five thousand in length, opposite the holy offering; this shall be for all the house of Israel.

7 The prince shall have his portion on this side and on the other side of the holy offering, and of the possession of the city, opposite the holy offering, and opposite the possession of the city, at the western corner toward the west, and at the eastern corner toward the east; and the length, opposite one of the sides, shall be from the western border to the eastern border.

8 And this land shall be his possession in Israel; and my princes shall no more oppress my people, but shall leave the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

9 Thus says the Lord God: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and desolation, and do justice and righteousness; remove your impositions from my people, says the Lord God.

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

11 The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, so that the bath shall be one-tenth of a homer, and the ephah one-tenth of a homer; according to the homer shall be its measure.

12 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall serve you as a pound.

13 This shall be the offering which you shall make: one-sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat; you shall also give one-sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley.

14 As for the statute of the oil, from each bath of oil you shall offer one-tenth of a bath taken from a cor, which is a homer of ten baths; for ten baths make a homer.

15 And one lamb from the flock, out of every two hundred, from the best watered land of Israel, for a grain offering, and for a burnt offering, and for a peace offering; that they may make atonement for them, says the Lord God.

16 All the people of the land shall contribute to this offering for the prince of Israel.

17 And the prince shall be responsible for the burnt offerings, and the grain offerings, and the drink offerings, at the feasts, and at the new moons, and at the Sabbaths, at all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel; he shall make atonement for sin, and the grain offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.

18 Thus says the Lord God: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you shall take a young bull without blemish, and purify the sanctuary.

19 The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the altar, and on the doorposts of the inner court.

20 You shall do the same on the seventh day of the month, for those who sin and for the simple-minded; you shall make atonement for the temple.

21 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; you shall eat unleavened bread.

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

23 During the seven days of the feast he shall offer a burnt offering to the Lord, seven young bulls and seven rams without blemish, each day for seven days, and a sin offering of a male goat each day.

24 He shall also prepare a grain offering: an ephah for each bull, and an ephah for each ram, and a hin of oil for each ephah.

25 In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he shall do the same for all seven days, both the sacrifice for atonement, and the burnt offering, and the grain offering, and the oil.