26t“After he is cleansed, they shall count seven days for him.
27“And on the day that he goes to the sanctuary to minister in the sanctuary, uhe must offer his sin offering vin the inner court,” says the Lord GOD.
28“It shall be, in regard to their inheritance, that I wam their inheritance. You shall give them no xpossession in Israel, for I am their possession.
29y“They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering; zevery dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.
30“The abest4 of all firstfruits of any kind, and every sacrifice of any kind from all your sacrifices, shall be the priest’s; also you bshall give to the priest the first of your ground meal, cto cause a blessing to rest on your house.
31“The priests shall not eat anything, bird or beast, that ddied naturally or was torn by wild beasts.
Ezekiel 45
The Holy District
1“Moreover, when you adivide the land by lot into inheritance, you shall bset apart a district for the LORD, a holy section of the land; its length shall be twenty-five thousand cubits, and the width ten thousand. It shall be holy throughout its territory all around.
2“Of this there shall be a square plot for the sanctuary, cfive hundred by five hundred rods, with fifty cubits around it for an open space.
3“So this is the district you shall measure: twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide; din it shall be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
4“It shall be ea holy section of the land, belonging to the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to the LORD; it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.
5f“An area twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide shall belong to the Levites, the ministers of the 1temple; they shall have gtwenty2 chambers as a possession.
Properties of the City and the Prince
6h“You shall appoint as the property of the city an area five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand long, adjacent to the district of the holy section; it shall belong to the whole house of Israel.
7i“The prince shall have a section on one side and the other of the holy district and the city’s property; and bordering on the holy district and the city’s property, extending westward on the west side and eastward on the east side, the length shall be side by side with one of the tribal portions, from the west border to the east border.
8“The land shall be his possession in Israel; and jMy princes shall no more oppress My people, but they shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel, according to their tribes.”
Laws Governing the Prince
9‘Thus says the Lord GOD: k“Enough, O princes of Israel! lRemove violence and plundering, execute justice and righteousness, and stop dispossessing My people,” says the Lord GOD.
10“You shall have mhonest scales, an honest ephah, and an honest bath.
11“The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, so that the bath contains one-tenth of a homer, and the ephah one-tenth of a homer; their measure shall be according to the homer.
12“The nshekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
13“This is the offering which you shall offer: you shall give one-sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat, and one-sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley.
14“The ordinance concerning oil, the bath of oil, is one-tenth of a bath from a kor. A kor is a homer or ten baths, for ten baths are a homer.
15“And one lamb shall be given from a flock of two hundred, from the rich pastures of Israel. These shall be for grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, oto make atonement for them,” says the Lord GOD.
16“All the people of the land shall give this offering for the prince in Israel.
17“Then it shall be the pprince’s part to give burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings, at the feasts, the New Moons, the Sabbaths, and at all the appointed seasons of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel.”
Keeping the Feasts
(Ex. 12:1–20; Lev. 23:33–43)
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 qcleanse the sanctuary.
19r“The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the 3temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the gateposts of the gate of the inner court.
20“And so you shall do on the seventh day of the month sfor everyone who has sinned unintentionally or in ignorance. Thus you shall make atonement for the temple.
21t“In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall observe the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
22“And on that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land ua bull for a sin offering.
23“On the vseven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish, daily for seven days, wand a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.
24x“And he shall prepare a grain offering of one ephah for each bull and one ephah for each ram, together with a hin of oil for each ephah.
25“In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the yfeast, he shall do likewise for seven days, according to the sin offering, the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the oil.”
Ezekiel 46
The Manner of Worship
1‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “The gateway of the inner court that faces toward the east shall be shut the six aworking days; but on the Sabbath it shall be opened, and on the day of the New Moon it shall be opened.
2b“The prince shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gateway from the outside, and stand by the gatepost. The priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings. He shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening.
3“Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the entrance to this gateway before the LORD on the Sabbaths and the New Moons.
4“The burnt offering that cthe prince offers to the LORD on the dSabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish;
5e“and the grain offering shall be one ephah for a ram, and the grain offering for the lambs, 1as much as he wants to give, as well as a hin of oil with every ephah.
6“On the day of the New Moon it shall be a young bull without blemish, six lambs, and a ram; they shall be without blemish.
7“He shall prepare a grain offering of an ephah for a bull, an ephah for a ram, 2as much as he wants to give for the lambs, and a hin of oil with every ephah.
8f“When the prince enters, he shall go in by way of the vestibule of the gateway, and go out the same way.
9“But when the people of the land gcome before the LORD on the appointed feast days, whoever enters by way of the north hgate to worship shall go out by way of the south gate; and whoever enters by way of the south gate shall go out by way of the north gate. He shall not return by way of the gate through which he came, but shall go out through the opposite gate.
10“The prince shall then be in their midst. When they go in, he shall go in; and when they go out, he shall go out.
11“At the festivals and the appointed feast days ithe grain offering shall be an ephah for a bull, an ephah for a ram, as much as he wants to give for the lambs, and a hin of oil with every ephah.
12“Now when the prince makes a voluntary burnt offering or voluntary peace offering to the LORD, the gate that faces toward the east jshall then be opened for him; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he did on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he goes out the gate shall be shut.
13k“You shall daily make a burnt of
fering to the LORD of a lamb of the first year without blemish; you shall prepare it 3every morning.
14“And you shall prepare a grain offering with it every morning, a sixth of an ephah, and a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour. This grain offering is a perpetual ordinance, to be made regularly to the LORD.
15“Thus they shall prepare the lamb, the grain offering, and the oil, as a lregular burnt offering every morning.”
The Prince and Inheritance Laws
16‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “If the prince gives a gift of some of his inheritance to any of his sons, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance.
17“But if he gives a gift of some of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until mthe year of liberty, after which it shall return to the prince. But his inheritance shall belong to his sons; it shall become theirs.
18“Moreover nthe prince shall not take any of the people’s inheritance by evicting them from their property; he shall provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none of My people may be scattered from his property.” ’ ”
How the Offerings Were Prepared
19Now he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy ochambers of the priests which face toward the north; and there a place was situated at their extreme western end.
20And he said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall pboil the trespass offering and the sin offering, and where they shall qbake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them out into the outer court rto sanctify the people.”
21Then he brought me out into the outer court and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and in fact, in every corner of the court there was another court.
22In the four corners of the court were enclosed courts, forty cubits long and thirty wide; all four corners were the same size.
23There was a row of building stones all around in them, all around the four of them; and 4cooking hearths were made under the rows of stones all around.
24And he said to me, “These are the 5kitchens where the ministers of the 6temple shall sboil the sacrifices of the people.”
Ezekiel 47
The Healing Waters and Trees
1Then he brought me back to the door of the 1temple; and there was awater, flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east, for the front of the temple faced east; the water was flowing from under the right side of the temple, south of the altar.
2He brought me out by way of the north gate, and led me around on the outside to the outer gateway that faces beast; and there was water, running out on the right side.
3And when cthe man went out to the east with the line in his hand, he measured one thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the water came up to my ankles.
4Again he measured one thousand and brought me through the waters; the water came up to my knees. Again he measured one thousand and brought me through; the water came up to my waist.
5Again he measured one thousand, and it was a river that I could not cross; for the water was too deep, water in which one must swim, a river that could not be crossed.
6He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen this?” Then he brought me and returned me to the bank of the river.
7When I returned, there, along the bank of the river, were very many dtrees on one side and the other.
8Then he said to me: “This water flows toward the eastern region, goes down into the 2valley, and enters the sea. When it reaches the sea, its waters are healed.
9“And it shall be that every living thing that moves, wherever 3the rivers go, will live. There will be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters go there; for they will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river goes.
10“It shall be that fishermen will stand by it from En Gedi to En Eglaim; they will be places for spreading their nets. Their fish will be of the same kinds as the fish eof the Great Sea, exceedingly many.
11“But its swamps and marshes will not be healed; they will be given over to salt.
12f“Along the bank of the river, on this side and that, will grow all kinds of trees used for food; gtheir leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. They will bear fruit every month, because their water flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for hmedicine.”4
Borders of the Land
(cf. Num. 34:1–12)
13Thus says the Lord GOD: “These are the iborders by which you shall divide the land as an inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel. jJoseph shall have two portions.
14“You shall inherit it equally with one another; for I kraised My hand in an oath to give it to your fathers, and this land shall lfall to you as your inheritance.
15“This shall be the border of the land on the north: from the Great Sea, by mthe road to Hethlon, as one goes to nZedad,
16o“Hamath, pBerothah, Sibraim (which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath), to Hazar Hatticon (which is on the border of Hauran).
17“Thus the boundary shall be from the Sea to qHazar Enan, the border of Damascus; and as for the north, northward, it is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.
18“On the east side you shall mark out the border from between Hauran and Damascus, and between Gilead and the land of Israel, along the Jordan, and along the eastern side of the sea. This is the east side.
19“The south side, toward the 5South, shall be from Tamar to rthe waters of 6Meribah by Kadesh, along the brook to the Great Sea. This is the south side, toward the South.
20“The west side shall be the Great Sea, from the southern boundary until one comes to a point opposite Hamath. This is the west side.
21“Thus you shall sdivide this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Israel.
22“It shall be that you will divide it by tlot as an inheritance for yourselves, uand for the strangers who dwell among you and who bear children among you. vThey shall be to you as native-born among the children of Israel; they shall have an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
23“And it shall be that in whatever tribe the stranger dwells, there you shall give him his inheritance,” says the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 48
Division of the Land
1“Now these are the names of the tribes: aFrom the northern border along the road to Hethlon at the entrance of Hamath, to Hazar Enan, the border of Damascus northward, in the direction of Hamath, there shall be one section for bDan from its east to its west side;
2“by the border of Dan, from the east side to the west, one section for cAsher;
3“by the border of Asher, from the east side to the west, one section for dNaphtali;
4“by the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west, one section for eManasseh;
5“by the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west, one section for fEphraim;
6“by the border of Ephraim, from the east side to the west, one section for gReuben;
7“by the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west, one section for hJudah;
8“by the border of Judah, from the east side to the west, shall be ithe district which you shall set apart, twenty-five thousand cubits in width, and in length the same as one of the other portions, from the east side to the west, with the jsanctuary in the center.
9“The district that you shall set apart for the LORD shall be twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in width.
10“To these—to the priests—the holy district shall belong: on the north twenty-five thousand cubits in length, on the west ten thousand in width, on the east ten thousand in width, and on the south twenty-five thousand in length. The sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the center.
11k“It shall be for the priests of the sons of Zadok, who are sanctified, who have kept My charge, who did not go astray when the children of Israel went astray, las the Levites went astray.
13“Opposite the border of the priests, the nLevites shall have an area twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in width; its entire length shall be twenty-five thousand and its width ten thousand.
14o“And they shall not sell or exchange any of it; they may not alienate this best part of the land, for it is holy to the LORD.
15p“The five thousand cubits in width that remain, along the edge of the twenty-five thousand, shall be qfor general use by the city, for dwellings and common-land; and the city shall be in the center.
16“These shall be its measurements: the north side four thousand five hundred cubits, the south side four thousand five hundred, the east side four thousand five hundred, and the west side four thousand five hundred.
17“The common-land of the city shall be: to the north two hundred and fifty cubits, to the south two hundred and fifty, to the east two hundred and fifty, and to the west two hundred and fifty.
18“The rest of the length, alongside the district of the holy section, shall be ten thousand cubits to the east and ten thousand to the west. It shall be adjacent to the district of the holy section, and its produce shall be food for the workers of the city.
19r“The workers of the city, from all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.
20“The entire district shall be twenty-five thousand cubits by twenty-five thousand cubits, foursquare. You shall set apart the holy district with the property of the city.
21s“The rest shall belong to the prince, on one side and on the other of the holy district and of the city’s property, next to the twenty-five thousand cubits of the holy district as far as the eastern border, and westward next to the twenty-five thousand as far as the western border, adjacent to the tribal portions; it shall belong to the prince. It shall be the holy district, tand the sanctuary of the 1temple shall be in the center.
22“Moreover, apart from the possession of the Levites and the possession of the city which are in the midst of what belongs to the prince, the area between the border of Judah and the border of uBenjamin shall belong to the prince.
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