Ezekiel 45 — AAB

Consecration of the Land

45Verse 1“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.^{Verse 2}Within this area there is to be a section for the sanctuary 500 cubits square,⁺with 50 cubits⁺around it for open land.^{Verse 3}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.^{+Verse 4}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.^{Verse 5}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.^{+Verse 6}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.

The Prince’s Portion

^{Verse 7}Now 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.^{Verse 8}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.^{Verse 9}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.’

Honest Scales

^{Verse 10}You must use honest scales, a just ephah,⁺and a just bath.^{+Verse 11}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.^{+Verse 12}The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs.⁺Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.⁺

Offerings and Feasts

^{Verse 13}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.^{+Verse 14}The prescribed portion of oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath from each cor⁺(a cor consists of ten baths or one homer, since ten baths are equivalent to a homer).^{Verse 15}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, ascension offerings, and well-being offerings, to effect purgation for the people, declares the Lord GOD.^{Verse 16}All the people of the land must participate in this contribution for the prince in Israel.^{Verse 17}And it shall be the prince’s part to provide the ascension offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings for the feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—for all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He will provide the purification offerings,⁺grain offerings, ascension offerings, and well-being offerings to effect purgation for the house of Israel.^{Verse 18}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.^{Verse 19}And the priest is to take some of the blood from the purification 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.^{Verse 20}You must do the same thing on the seventh day of the month for anyone who strays unintentionally or in ignorance. In this way you will effect purgation for the temple.^{Verse 21}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.^{Verse 22}On that day the prince shall provide a bull as a purification offering for himself and for all the people of the land.^{Verse 23}Each day during the seven days of the feast, he shall provide seven bulls and seven rams without blemish as an ascension offering to the LORD, along with a male goat for a purification offering.^{Verse 24}He shall also provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull and an ephah for each ram, along with a hin of olive oil for each ephah of grain.^{+Verse 25}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 purification offerings, ascension offerings, grain offerings, and oil.’