Old Testament · Prophets
Ezekiel chapter 45
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When you divide the land by lot as an , you must set aside a portion for Yahweh, a section of the land that belongs to him, twenty-five thousand cubits long and twenty thousand cubits wide. The whole area belongs to God.From this area, a square section five hundred by five hundred cubits will be designated for the , with an open border of fifty cubits surrounding it on every side.From this measured area, mark out a section twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide. Within it will stand , the part that belongs to him alone.This section of the land . It is for the who serve in , the ones who come near to minister before Yahweh. It will give them room for their homes and ground set aside for the place kept for God.Another section, twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide, will belong to the who serve in the temple — it will be their possession, with towns for them to live in.Alongside , you will designate a strip for the city, five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand long. It will belong to the whole .The will have land on both sides of the portion kept for God and the city’s property, stretching westward from the west side and eastward from the east side, running parallel to one of the tribal portions from the western border to the eastern border of the land.This land will be his possession in Israel. And my princes will never again my people. Instead, they will give the rest of the land to the house of Israel, tribe by tribe.This is what the says: Enough, princes of Israel! Put away violence and destruction. Practice and do . Stop evicting my people from their land — this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh.You must use , an honest , and an honest .The dry measure and the liquid measure will be standardized — the liquid measure holding a tenth of a , and the dry measure holding a tenth of a homer. The homer will be the baseline standard for both.The must weigh twenty . Your will equal sixty shekels — twenty plus twenty-five plus fifteen.This is the you are to offer: a sixth of a dry measure from every homer of wheat, and a sixth of a dry measure from every homer of barley.The prescribed portion of oil — measured by the liquid measure — will be a tenth of a liquid measure from every . Ten liquid measures equal one homer, since ten liquid measures make a homer.And one sheep from every flock of two hundred, from the well-watered pastures of Israel — these are for the , the , and the , to make for the people. This is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh.All the people of the land will be required to give this contribution to the prince in Israel.It will be the prince’s responsibility to provide the entirely-burned offerings, the grain offerings, and the during the festivals, the , the — all the of the house of Israel. He will furnish the , the grain offerings, the entirely-burned offerings, and the peace offerings to make reconciliation on behalf of the house of Israel.This is what the Lord Yahweh says: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you will take a young bull and .The priest will take some of the from the failure offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate to the inner court.You will do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who has or out of ignorance. This is how you will make reconciliation for the temple.In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you will observe the — a festival of seven days when will be eaten.On that day the prince will provide a bull as a failure offering for himself and for all the people of the land.During the seven days of the festival, he will provide entirely-burned offerings to Yahweh — seven bulls and seven rams without defect, every day for the seven days — along with a male goat each day as a failure offering.He will also provide a grain offering of one dry measure per bull and one dry measure per ram, along with a of oil for each dry measure.In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, during , he will provide the same offerings for seven days — the same failure offerings, entirely-burned offerings, grain offerings, and oil.