The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Ezekiel 45
1 Moreover, when you 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 width
shall be ten thousand. It shall be holy in all
its border all around.
2 Of this there shall be a five hundred
by five hundred square for the holy place,
and fifty cubits† for its pasture lands all
around.
3 Of this measure you shall measure
a length of twenty-five thousand, and a
width of ten thousand. In it shall be the
sanctuary, which is most holy.
4 Itis a holy portion ofthe land; it shall be
for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary,
who come near to minister to Yahweh.
It shall be a place for their houses and a
holy place for the sanctuary.
5 Twenty-five thousand cubits in length
and ten thousand in width shall be for
the Levites, the ministers of the house, as
a possession for themselves, for twenty
rooms.
6 You shall appoint the possession
of the city five thousand cubits wide and
twenty-five thousand long, side by side
with the offering of the holy portion. It
shall be for the whole house of Israel.
7 What is for the prince shall be on
the one side and on the other side of the
holy allotment and of the possession of the
city, in front of the holy allotment and in
front of the possession of the city, on the
west side westward, and on the east side
eastward, and in length corresponding to
one of the portions, from the west border
to the east border.
8 In the land it shall be to him for a
possession in Israel. My princes shall no more
oppress my people, but they shall give the
land to the house of Israel according to
their tribes.”
9 The Lord Yahweh says: “Enough
you, princes of Israel! Remove violence
and plunder, and execute justice and
righteousness! Stop dispossessing my people!”
says the Lord Yahweh.
10 “You shall have just balances, a just
ephah,‡ and a just bath.
11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one
measure, that the bath may contain one
tenth of a homer,§ and the ephah one tenth
of a homer. Its measure shall be the same
as the homer.
12 The shekel† shall be twenty gerahs.‡
Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels
plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.§
13 This is the offering that you shall
offer: the sixth part of an ephah from a
homer of wheat, and you shall give the
sixth part of an ephah from a homer of
barley,
14 and the set portion of oil, of the bath of
oil, one tenth of a bath out ofthe cor, which
is ten baths, even a homer (for ten baths
are a homer),†
15 and one lamb of the flock out of two
hundred, from the well-watered pastures
of Israel—for a meal offering, for a burnt
offering, and for peace offerings, to make
atonement for them,” says the Lord Yahweh.
16 “All the people of the land shall give to
this offering for the prince in Israel.
17 It shall be the prince’s part to give the
burnt offerings, the meal offerings, and
the drink offerings, in the feasts, and on
the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, in all
the appointed feasts of the house of
Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering,
the meal offering, the burnt offering, and
the peace offerings, to make atonementfor
the house of Israel.”
18 “ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “In the first
month, on the first day of the month, you
shall take a young bull without defect, and
you shall cleanse the sanctuary.
19 The priest shall take ofthe blood ofthe
sin offering and put it on the door posts of
the house, and on the four corners of the
ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the
gate of the inner court.
20 So you shall do on the seventh day
of the month for everyone who errs, and
for him who is simple. So you shall make
atonement for the house.
21 “ ‘ “In the first month, on the fourteenth
day of the month, you shall have the Passover,
a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
22 On that day the prince shall prepare
for himself and for all the people of the
land a bull for a sin offering.
23 The seven days of the feast he shall
prepare a burnt offering to Yahweh, seven
bulls and seven rams without defect daily
the seven days; and a male goat daily for a
sin offering.
24 He shall prepare a meal offering, an
ephah‡ for a bull, an ephah for a ram, and
a hin§ of oil to an ephah.
25 “ ‘ “In the seventh month, on the
fifteenth day of the month, during the feast,
he shall do like that for seven days. He
shall make the same provision for sin offering,
the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the oil.”