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Ezekiel, starting at chapter 46
{46:1} Thus says the Lord GOD: The gate of the inner court that
looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the
Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it
shall be opened. {46:2} The prince shall enter by the way of the porch
of the gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate; and the
priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and
he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth;
but the gate shall not be shut until the evening. {46:3} The people of
the land shall worship at the door of that gate before the LORD on the
Sabbaths and on the new moons. {46:4} The burnt offering that the
prince shall offer to the LORD shall be on the Sabbath day six lambs
without blemish and a ram without blemish; {46:5} and the meal
offering shall be an efah for the ram, and the meal offering for the
lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an efah. {46:6} On
the day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without blemish, and
six lambs, and a ram; they shall be without blemish: {46:7} and he
shall prepare a meal offering, an efah for the bull, and an efah for
the ram, and for the lambs according as he is able, and a hin of oil
to an efah. {46:8} When the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the
way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go forth by its way. {46:9}
But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the
appointed feasts, he who enters by the way of the north gate to
worship shall go forth by the way of the south gate; and he who enters
by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north
gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate by which he came in,
but shall go forth straight before him. {46:10} The prince, when they
go in, shall go in with of them; and when they go out, he shall go
out. {46:11} In the feasts and in the solemnities the meal offering
shall be an [1>]efah[<1] for a bull, and an efah for a ram, and for
the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an efah. {46:12}
When the prince shall prepare a freewill offering, a burnt offering or
peace offerings as a freewill offering to the LORD, one shall open for
him the gate that looks toward the east; and he shall prepare his
burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he does on the Sabbath day:
then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the
gate. {46:13} You shall prepare a lamb a year old without blemish for
a burnt offering to the LORD daily: morning by morning you shall
prepare it. {46:14} You shall prepare a meal offering with it morning
by morning, the sixth part of an efah, and the third part of a hin of
oil, to moisten the fine flour; a meal offering to the LORD
continually by a perpetual ordinance. {46:15} Thus shall they prepare
the lamb, and the meal offering, and the oil, morning by morning, for
a continual burnt offering. {46:16} Thus says the Lord GOD: If the
prince give a gift to any of his sons, it is his inheritance, it shall
belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance. {46:17} But
if he give of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants, it shall
be his to the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince; but
as for his inheritance, it shall be for his sons. {46:18} Moreover the
prince shall not take of the people's inheritance, to thrust them out
of their possession; he shall give inheritance to his sons out of his
own possession, that my people not be scattered every man from his
possession. {46:19} Then he brought me through the entry, which was at
the side of the gate, into the holy rooms for the priests, which
looked toward the north: and behold, there was a place on the hinder
part westward. {46:20} He said to me, This is the place where the
priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, [and]
where they shall bake the meal offering; that they not bring them
forth into the outer court, to sanctify the people. {46:21} Then he
brought me forth into the outer court, and caused me to pass by the
four corners of the court; and behold, in every corner of the court
there was a court. {46:22} In the four corners of the court there were
courts enclosed, forty [cubits] long and thirty broad: these four in
the corners were of one measure. {46:23} There was a wall around in
them, around the four, and boiling places were made under the walls
all around. {46:24} Then he said to me, These are the boiling houses,
where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the
people.
{47:1} He brought me back to the door of the house; and behold,
waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward; (for
the forefront of the house was toward the east;) and the waters came
down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south of the
altar. {47:2} Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward,
and led me round by the way outside to the outer gate, by the way of
[the gate] that looks toward the east; and behold, there ran out
waters on the right side. {47:3} When the man went forth eastward with
the line in his hand, he measured one thousand cubits, and he caused
me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the ankles. {47:4}
Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through the
waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he measured one thousand,
and caused me to pass through [the waters], waters that were to the
waist. {47:5} Afterward he measured one thousand; [and it was] a river
that I could not pass through; for the waters were risen, waters to
swim in, a river that could not be passed through. {47:6} He said to
me, Son of man, have you seen [this]? Then he brought me, and caused
me to return to the bank of the river. {47:7} Now when I had returned,
behold, on the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side
and on the other. {47:8} Then he said to me, These waters issue forth
toward the eastern region, and shall go down into the Arabah; and they
shall go toward the sea; into the sea [shall the waters go] which were
made to issue forth; and the waters shall be healed. {47:9} It shall
happen, that every living creature which swarms, in every place where
the rivers come, shall live; and there shall be a very great multitude
of fish; for these waters have come there, and [the waters of the sea]
shall be healed, and everything shall live wherever the river comes.
{47:10} It shall happen, that fishermen shall stand by it: from En
Gedi even to En Eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets;
their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea,
exceeding many. {47:11} But the miry places of it, and its marshes,
shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt. {47:12} By the
river on its bank, on this side and on that side, shall grow every
tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall its fruit
fail: it shall bring forth new fruit every month, because its waters
issue out of the sanctuary; and its fruit shall be for food, and its
leaf for healing. {47:13} Thus says the Lord GOD: This shall be the
border, by which you shall divide the land for inheritance according
to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph [shall have two] portions.
{47:14} You shall inherit it, one as well as another; for I swore to
give it to your fathers: and this land shall fall to you for
inheritance. {47:15} This shall be the border of the land: On the
north side, from the great sea, by the way of Hethlon, to the entrance
of Zedad; {47:16} Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the
border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer Hatticon, which is
by the border of Hauran. {47:17} The border from the sea, shall be
Hazar Enon at the border of Damascus; and on the north northward is
the border of Hamath. This is the north side. {47:18} The east side,
between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and Eretz-Israel, shall be the
Jordan; from the [north] border to the east sea you shall measure.
This is the east side. {47:19} The south side southward shall be from
Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth Kadesh, to the brook [of
Egypt], to the great sea. This is the south side southward. {47:20}
The west side shall be the great sea, from the [south] border as far
as over against the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side. {47:21}
So you shall divide this land to you according to the tribes of
Israel. {47:22} It shall happen, that you shall divide it by lot for
an inheritance to you and to the aliens who live among you, who shall
father children among you; and they shall be to you as the native-born
among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you
among the tribes of Israel. {47:23} It shall happen, that in what
tribe the stranger lives, there you shall give him his inheritance,
says the Lord GOD.
{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]. {48:2} By the border
of Dan, from the east side to the west side, Asher, one [portion].
{48:3} By the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west
side, Naphtali, one [portion]. {48:4} By the border of Naphtali, from
the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one [portion]. {48:5} By the
border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, Ephraim, one
[portion]. {48:6} By the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to
the west side, Reuben, one [portion]. {48:7} By the border of Reuben,
from the east side to the west side, Judah, one [portion]. {48:8} 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
breadth, and in length as one of the portions, from the east side to
the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in its midst. {48:9} The
offering that you shall offer to the LORD shall be twenty-five
thousand [reeds] in length, and ten thousand in breadth. {48:10} 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 breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and
toward the south twenty-five thousand in length: and the sanctuary of
the LORD shall be in its midst. {48:11} [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. {48:12} It shall be to them an offering from the
offering of the land, a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.
{48:13} Answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites shall
have twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all
the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the breadth ten
thousand. {48:14} They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor
shall the first fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy to the
LORD. {48:15} The five thousand that are left in the breadth, in front
of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use, for the city,
for dwelling and for suburbs; and the city shall be in its midst.
{48:16} These shall be its measures: the north side four thousand and
five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and
on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side
four thousand and five hundred. {48:17} The city shall have suburbs:
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. {48:18} The remainder in the length, answerable to the
holy offering, shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand
westward; and it shall be answerable to the holy offering; and its
increase shall be for food to those who labor in the city. {48:19}
Those who labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall
cultivate it. {48:20} All the offering shall be twenty-five thousand
by twenty-five thousand: you shall offer the holy offering foursquare,
with the possession of the city. {48:21} The residue shall be for the
prince, on the one side and on the other of the 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, answerable to the
portions, it shall be for the prince: and the holy offering and the
sanctuary of the house shall be in its midst. {48:22} Moreover from
the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city,
being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border
of Judah and the border of Benjamin, it shall be for the prince.
{48:23} As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west
side, Benjamin, one [portion]. {48:24} By the border of Benjamin, from
the east side to the west side, Simeon, one [portion]. {48:25} By the
border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar, one
[portion]. {48:26} By the border of Issachar, from the east side to
the west side, Zebulun, one [portion]. {48:27} By the border of
Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad, one [portion].
{48:28} By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border
shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the
brook [of Egypt], to the great sea. {48:29} This is the land which you
shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these
are their several portions, says the Lord GOD. {48:30} These are the
exits of the city: On the north side four thousand and five hundred
[reeds] by measure; {48:31} and the gates of the city shall be after
the names of the tribes of Israel, three gates northward: the gate of
Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one. {48:32} At
the east side four thousand and five hundred [reeds], and three gates:
even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of
Dan, one. {48:33} At the south side four thousand and five hundred
[reeds] by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate
of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one. {48:34} At the west side
four thousand and five hundred [reeds], with their three gates: the
gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.
{48:35} It shall be eighteen thousand [reeds] around: and the name of
the city from that day shall be, the LORD is there.
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Footnotes:
[1] {46:11} 1 efah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
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