web - Ezekiel:45:1-12

web@Ezekiel:45:1 @ Moreover, when you shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer an offering to Yahweh, a holy portion of the land; the length shall be the length of twenty-five thousand [reeds], and the breadth shall be ten thousand: it shall be holy in all its border all around.

web@Ezekiel:45:2 @ Of this there shall be for the holy place five hundred [in length] by five hundred [in breadth], square all around; and fifty cubits for its suburbs all around.

web@Ezekiel:45:3 @ Of this measure you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand, and a breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary, which is most holy.

web@Ezekiel:45:4 @ It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to Yahweh; and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary.

web@Ezekiel:45:5 @ Twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth, shall be to the Levites, the ministers of the house, for a possession to themselves, [for] twenty rooms.

web@Ezekiel:45:6 @ You shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and twenty-five thousand long, side by side with the offering of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.

web@Ezekiel:45:7 @ [Whatever is] for the prince [shall be] on the one side and on the other side of the holy offering and of the possession of the city, in front of the holy offering and in front of the possession of the city, on the west side westward, and on the east side eastward; and in length answerable to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.

web@Ezekiel:45:8 @ In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

web@Ezekiel:45:9 @ Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people, says the Lord Yahweh.

web@Ezekiel:45:10 @ You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, {1 ephah is about 22 litres or about 23 of a bushel} and a just bath.

web@Ezekiel:45:11 @ The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer {1 homer is about 220 litres or 6 bushels}, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: its measure shall be after the homer.

web@Ezekiel:45:12 @ The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.