The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Ezekiel 48
1 “Now these are the names of the tribes:
From the north end, beside the way of
Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar
Enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath (and they shall have
their sides east and west), Dan, one portion.
2 “By the border of Dan, from the east
side to the west side, Asher, one portion.
3 “By the border of Asher, from the east
side even to the west side, Naphtali, one
portion.
4 “By the border of Naphtali, from the
east side to the west side, Manasseh, one
portion.
5 “By the border of Manasseh, from the
east side to the west side, Ephraim, one
portion.
6 “By the border of Ephraim, from the
east side evento the west side, Reuben, one
portion.
7 “By the border of Reuben, from the east
side to the west side, Judah, one portion.
8 “By the border of Judah, from the east
side to the west side, shall be the offering
which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand
reeds in width, and in length as one
of the portions, from the east side to the
west side; and the sanctuary shall be in the
middle of it.
9 “The offering that you shall offer to
Yahweh shall be twenty-five thousand
reeds in length, and ten thousand in width.
10 For these, even for the priests, shall
be the holy offering: toward the north
twenty-five thousand in length, and toward the
west ten thousand in width, and
toward the eastten thousand in width, and
toward the south twenty-five thousand in
length; and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall
be in the middle of it.
11 It shall be for the priests who are sanctified
of the sons of Zadok, who have kept
my instruction, who didn’t go astray when
the children of Israel went astray, as the
Levites went astray.
12 It shall be to them an offering from the
offering of the land, a most holy thing, by
the border of the Levites.
13 “Alongside the border of the priests,
the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand
cubits in length and ten thousand in
width. All the length shall be twenty-five
thousand, and the width ten thousand.
14 They shall sell none ofit, nor exchange
it, nor shall the first fruits of the land be
alienated, for it is holy to Yahweh.
15 “The five thousand cubits that are left
in the width, in front of the twenty-five
thousand, shall be for common use, for the
city, for dwelling and for pasture lands;
and the city shall be in the middle of it.
16 These shall be its measurements: the
north side four thousand and five hundred,
and the southside four thousand and
five hundred, and on the east side four
thousand and five hundred, and the west
side four thousand and five hundred.
17 The city shall have pasture lands: toward
the north two hundred fifty, and
toward the south two hundred fifty, and
toward the east two hundred fifty, and
toward the west two hundred fifty.
18 The remainder ofthe length, alongside
the holy offering, shall be ten thousand
eastward and tenthousand westward; and
it shall be alongside the holy offering. Its
increase shall be for food to those who
labor in the city.
19 Those who labor in the city, out of all
the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.
20 All the offering shall be a square of
twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand.
You shall offer it as a holy offering,
with the possession of the city.
21 “The remainder shallbe for theprince,
on the one side and on the other ofthe holy
offering and of the possession of the city;
in front of the twenty-five thousand of the
offering toward the east border, and westward
in front of the twenty-five thousand
toward the west border, alongside the portions,
it shall be for the prince. The holy
offering and the sanctuary of the house
shall be in the middle of it.
22 Moreover, from the possession of the
Levites, and from the possession of the
city, being in the middle of that which is
the prince’s, between the border of Judah
and the border of Benjamin, shall be for
the prince.
23 “As for the rest of the tribes: from the
east side to the west side, Benjamin, one
portion.
24 “By the border of Benjamin, from the
east side to the west side, Simeon, one
portion.
25 “By the border of Simeon, from the
east side to the west side, Issachar, one
portion.
26 “By the border of Issachar, from the
east side to the west side, Zebulun, one
portion.
27 “By the border of Zebulun, from the
east side to the west side, Gad, one portion.
28 “By the border of Gad, atthe south side
southward, the border shall be even from
Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh,
to the brook, to the great sea.
29 “This is the land which yous hall divide
by lot to the tribes ofIsraelfor inheritance,
and these are their several portions, says
the Lord Yahweh.
30 “These are the exits of the city: On
the north side four thousand five hundred
reeds by measure;
31 and the gates ofthe city shallbenamed
after the tribes of Israel, three gates northward:
the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of
Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.
32 “At the east side four thousand five
hundred reeds, and three gates: even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin,
one; the gate of Dan, one.
33 “At the south side four thousand five
hundred reeds by measure, and three
gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of
Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.
34 “At the west side four thousand five
hundred reeds, with their three gates: the
gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the
gate of Naphtali, one.
35 “It shall be eighteen thousand reeds in
circumference; and the name of the city
from that day shall be,
‘Yahweh is there.