Ezekiel 45 in plain modern English. New Ground English Translation.
When you divide the land by lot as an you must a portion for Yahweh — a sacred section of the land, twenty-five thousand cubits long and twenty thousand cubits wide. The entire area will be as dedicated ground.
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 sacred place — the most of all.
This will be a sacred section of the land, belonging to the who serve in the sacred place — those who to minister before Yahweh. It will be the site for their homes and a dedicated area for the sacred place itself.
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 the sacred portion, you will designate a strip for the city — five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand long. It will belong to the whole of
The will have land on both sides of the sacred portion 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 what is Stop evicting my people from their land — this is the declaration of the
You must use an and an
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 The 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 the grain and the during the festivals, the the — all the of the house of Israel. He will furnish the the grain the entirely-burned and the peace 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 sacred place.
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 the he will provide the same offerings for seven days — the same failure offerings, entirely-burned offerings, grain offerings, and oil.