Ezekiel:46-48
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Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days ;
but on the sabbath it shall be opened ,
and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened .
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And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without ,
and shall stand by the post of the gate ,
and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings ,
and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate :
then he shall go forth ;
but the gate shall not be shut until the evening .
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Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons .
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And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish ,
and a ram without blemish .
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And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram ,
and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give ,
and an hin of oil to an ephah .
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And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish ,
and six lambs ,
and a ram :
they shall be without blemish .
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And he shall prepare a meat offering ,
an ephah for a bullock ,
and an ephah for a ram ,
and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto ,
and an hin of oil to an ephah .
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And when the prince shall enter ,
he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate ,
and he shall go forth by the way thereof .
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But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts ,
he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate ;
and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate :
he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in ,
but shall go forth over against it .
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And the prince in the midst of them ,
when they go in ,
shall go in ;
and when they go forth ,
shall go forth .
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And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering shall be an ephah to a bullock ,
and an ephah to a ram ,
and to the lambs as he is able to give ,
and an hin of oil to an ephah .
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Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD ,
one shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east ,
and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings ,
as he did on the sabbath day :
then he shall go forth ;
and after his going forth one shall shut the gate .
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Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the LORD of a lamb of the first year without blemish :
thou shalt prepare it every morning .
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And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning ,
the sixth part of an ephah ,
and the third part of an hin of oil ,
to temper with the fine flour ;
a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD .
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Thus shall they prepare the lamb ,
and the meat offering ,
and the oil ,
every morning for a continual burnt offering .
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Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons ,
the inheritance thereof shall be his sons ';
it shall be their possession by inheritance .
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But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants ,
then it shall be his to the year of liberty ;
after it shall return to the prince :
but his inheritance shall be his sons '
for them .
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Moreover the prince shall not take of the people '
s inheritance by oppression ,
to thrust them out of their possession ;
but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession :
that my people be not scattered every man from his possession .
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After he brought me through the entry ,
which was at the side of the gate ,
into the holy chambers of the priests ,
which looked toward the north :
and ,
behold ,
there was a place on the two sides westward .
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Then said he unto me ,
This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering ,
where they shall bake the meat offering ;
that they bear them not out into the utter court ,
to sanctify the people .
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Then he brought me forth into the utter court ,
and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court ;
and ,
behold ,
in every corner of the court there was a court .
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In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad :
these four corners were of one measure .
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And there was a row of building round about in them ,
round about them four ,
and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about .
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Then said he unto me ,
These are the places of them that boil ,
where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people .
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Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house ;
and ,
behold ,
waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward :
for the forefront of the house stood toward the east ,
and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house ,
at the south side of the altar .
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Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward ,
and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward ;
and ,
behold ,
there ran out waters on the right side .
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And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward ,
he measured a thousand cubits ,
and he brought me through the waters ;
the waters were to the ankles .
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Again he measured a thousand ,
and brought me through the waters ;
the waters were to the knees .
Again he measured a thousand ,
and brought me through ;
the waters were to the loins .
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Afterward he measured a thousand ;
and it was a river that I could not pass over :
for the waters were risen ,
waters to swim in ,
a river that could not be passed over .
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And he said unto me ,
Son of man ,
hast thou seen this ?
Then he brought me ,
and caused me to return to the brink of the river .
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Now when I had returned ,
behold ,
at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other .
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Then said he unto me ,
These waters issue out toward the east country ,
and go down into the desert ,
and go into the sea :
which being brought forth into the sea ,
the waters shall be healed .
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And it shall come to pass ,
that every thing that liveth ,
which moveth ,
whithersoever the rivers shall come ,
shall live :
and there shall be a very great multitude of fish ,
because these waters shall come thither :
for they shall be healed ;
and every thing shall live whither the river cometh .
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And it shall come to pass ,
that the fishers shall stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim ;
they shall be a place to spread forth nets ;
their fish shall be according to their kinds ,
as the fish of the great sea ,
exceeding many .
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But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed ;
they shall be given to salt .
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And by the river upon the bank thereof ,
on this side and on that side ,
shall grow all trees for meat ,
whose leaf shall not fade ,
neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed :
it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months ,
because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary :
and the fruit thereof shall be for meat ,
and the leaf thereof for medicine .
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Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
This shall be the border ,
whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel :
Joseph shall have two portions .
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And ye shall inherit it ,
one as well as another :
concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers :
and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance .
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And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side ,
from the great sea ,
the way of Hethlon ,
as men go to Zedad ;
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Hamath ,
Berothah ,
Sibraim ,
which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath ;
Hazarhatticon ,
which is by the coast of Hauran .
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And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan ,
the border of Damascus ,
and the north northward ,
and the border of Hamath .
And this is the north side .
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And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran ,
and from Damascus ,
and from Gilead ,
and from the land of Israel by Jordan ,
from the border unto the east sea .
And this is the east side .
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And the south side southward ,
from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh ,
the river to the great sea .
And this is the south side southward .
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The west side also shall be the great sea from the border ,
till a man come over against Hamath .
This is the west side .
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So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes of Israel .
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And it shall come to pass ,
that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you ,
and to the strangers that sojourn among you ,
which shall beget children among you :
and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel ;
they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel .
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And it shall come to pass ,
that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth ,
there shall ye give him his inheritance ,
saith the Lord GOD .
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Now these are the names of the tribes .
From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon ,
as one goeth to Hamath ,
Hazarenan ,
the border of Damascus northward ,
to the coast of Hamath ;
for these are his sides east and west ;
a portion for Dan .
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And by the border of Dan ,
from the east side unto the west side ,
a portion for Asher .
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And by the border of Asher ,
from the east side even unto the west side ,
a portion for Naphtali .
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And by the border of Naphtali ,
from the east side unto the west side ,
a portion for Manasseh .
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And by the border of Manasseh ,
from the east side unto the west side ,
a portion for Ephraim .
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And by the border of Ephraim ,
from the east side even unto the west side ,
a portion for Reuben .
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And by the border of Reuben ,
from the east side unto the west side ,
a portion for Judah .
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And by the border of Judah ,
from the east side unto the west side ,
shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth ,
and in length as one of the other parts ,
from the east side unto the west side :
and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it .
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The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of five and twenty thousand in length ,
and of ten thousand in breadth .
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And for them ,
even for the priests ,
shall be this holy oblation ;
toward the north five and twenty thousand in length ,
and toward the west ten thousand in breadth ,
and toward the east ten thousand in breadth ,
and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length :
and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the midst thereof .
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It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok ;
which have kept my charge ,
which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray ,
as the Levites went astray .
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And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites .
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And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length ,
and ten thousand in breadth :
all the length shall be five and twenty thousand ,
and the breadth ten thousand .
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And they shall not sell of it ,
neither exchange ,
nor alienate the firstfruits of the land :
for it is holy unto the LORD .
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And the five thousand ,
that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand ,
shall be a profane place for the city ,
for dwelling ,
and for suburbs :
and the city shall be in the midst thereof .
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And these shall be the measures thereof ;
the north side four thousand and five hundred ,
and the south side four thousand and five hundred ,
and on the east side four thousand and five hundred ,
and the west side four thousand and five hundred .
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And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty ,
and toward the south two hundred and fifty ,
and toward the east two hundred and fifty ,
and toward the west two hundred and fifty .
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And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward ,
and ten thousand westward :
and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion ;
and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city .
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And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel .
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All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand :
ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare ,
with the possession of the city .
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And the residue shall be for the prince ,
on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation ,
and of the possession of the city ,
over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border ,
and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west border ,
over against the portions for the prince :
and it shall be the holy oblation ;
and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof .
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Moreover from the possession of the Levites ,
and from the possession of the city ,
being in the midst of that which is the prince '
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between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin ,
shall be for the prince .
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As for the rest of the tribes ,
from the east side unto the west side ,
Benjamin shall have a portion .
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And by the border of Benjamin ,
from the east side unto the west side ,
Simeon shall have a portion .
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And by the border of Simeon ,
from the east side unto the west side ,
Issachar a portion .
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And by the border of Issachar ,
from the east side unto the west side ,
Zebulun a portion .
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And by the border of Zebulun ,
from the east side unto the west side ,
Gad a portion .
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And by the border of Gad ,
at the south side southward ,
the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh ,
and to the river toward the great sea .
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This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance ,
and these are their portions ,
saith the Lord GOD .
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And these are the goings out of the city on the north side ,
four thousand and five hundred measures .
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And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel :
three gates northward ;
one gate of Reuben ,
one gate of Judah ,
one gate of Levi .
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And at the east side four thousand and five hundred :
and three gates ;
and one gate of Joseph ,
one gate of Benjamin ,
one gate of Dan .
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And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures :
and three gates ;
one gate of Simeon ,
one gate of Issachar ,
one gate of Zebulun .
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At the west side four thousand and five hundred ,
with their three gates ;
one gate of Gad ,
one gate of Asher ,
one gate of Naphtali .
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It was round about eighteen thousand measures :
and the name of the city from that day shall be ,
The LORD is there .