CHAPTER 45
When you divide the land
by lot
as an inheritance,
you are to set aside
a portion
for the LORD,
a holy
portion of
the land
25,000 cubits
long
and 20,000 cubits
wide.
This
entire
tract of land
will be holy.
Within this area
there is to be
a section for
the sanctuary
500 cubits
square,
with 50
cubits
around it
for open land.
From
this
holy portion,
you are to measure off
a length
of 25,000 cubits
and a width
of 10,000 cubits,
and in it
will be
the sanctuary,
the Most
Holy Place.
It will be
a holy portion
of
the land
to be used by the priests
who minister
in the sanctuary,
who draw near
to minister before
the LORD.
It will be
a place
for their houses,
as well as a holy area
for the sanctuary.
An adjacent area 25,000 cubits
long
and 10,000 cubits
wide
shall belong
to the Levites
who minister
in the temple;
it will be their possession
for towns in which to live.
As the property
of the city,
you are to set aside
an area 5,000 cubits
wide
and 25,000 cubits
long,
adjacent to
the holy
district.
It will belong to
the whole
house
of Israel.
And the prince
will have the area
bordering
each side of the area formed by
the holy
district
and the property
of the city,
extending westward
from the western
side
and eastward
from the eastern
side,
running lengthwise
from the western
boundary
to the eastern
boundary
and parallel to
one
of the tribal portions.
This land
will be
his
possession
in Israel.
And My princes
will no
longer
oppress
My people,
but will give
the rest of the land
to the house
of Israel
according to their tribes.
For this is what
the Lord
GOD
says:
‘Enough,
O princes
of Israel!
Cease
your violence
and oppression,
and do
what is just
and right.
Stop
dispossessing
My people,
declares
the Lord
GOD.’
The ephah
and the bath
shall be
the same
quantity
so that the bath
will contain
a tenth
of a homer,
and the ephah
a tenth
of a homer;
the homer
will be
the standard measure for both.
The shekel
will consist of twenty
gerahs.
Twenty
shekels
plus twenty-five
shekels
plus fifteen
shekels
will equal
one mina.
This
is the contribution
you are to offer:
a sixth
of an ephah
from each homer
of wheat,
and a sixth
of an ephah
from each homer
of barley.
The prescribed portion
of oil,
measured by the bath,
is a tenth
of a bath
from
each cor
(which is ten
baths
or one homer;
for
ten
baths
equal one homer).
And
one
sheep shall be given
from each flock
of
two hundred
from the well-watered pastures
of Israel.
These are for the grain offerings,
burnt offerings,
and peace offerings,
to make atonement
for the people,
declares
the Lord
GOD.
And
it shall be
the prince's part
to provide the burnt offerings,
grain offerings,
and drink offerings
for the festivals,
New Moons,
and Sabbaths—
for all
the appointed feasts
of the house
of Israel.
He
will provide
the sin offerings,
grain offerings,
burnt offerings,
and peace offerings
to make atonement
for
the house
of Israel.
This is what
the Lord
GOD
says:
‘On the first day
of the first month
you are to take
a young bull
without blemish
and purify
the sanctuary.
And the priest
is to take
some of the blood
from the sin offering
and put it
on
the doorposts
of the temple,
on
the four
corners
of the ledge
of the altar,
and on
the gateposts
of the inner
court.
You must do
the same thing
on the seventh
day of the month
for anyone
who sins unintentionally
or in ignorance.
In this way you will make atonement
for the temple.
On the fourteenth
day
of the first month
you are to observe
the Passover,
a feast
of seven
days,
during which unleavened bread
shall be eaten.
On that
day
the prince
shall provide
a bull
as a sin offering
for himself
and for
all
the people
of the land.
Each day
during the seven
days
of the feast,
he shall provide
seven
bulls
and seven
rams
without blemish
as a burnt offering
to the LORD,
along with a male goat
for a sin offering.
He shall also provide
as a grain offering
an ephah
for each bull
and an ephah
for each ram,
along with a hin
of oil
of for each ephah.
During the seven
days
of the feast
that begins on the fifteenth
day
of the seventh
month,
he is to make the same provision
for sin offerings,
burnt offerings,
grain offerings,
and oil.’