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Title:       Old Testament, The
Book:        Ezekiel
Author:      Various
Date:        1885

Chapter 45

     Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall
offer an oblation unto Jehovah, ^3 a holy portion of the land; the length
shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall
be ^4 ten thousand: it shall be holy in all the border thereof round about.
Of this there shall be for the holy place five hundred in length by five
hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits for the ^5 suburbs
thereof round about.  And of this measure shalt thou measure a length of five
and twenty thousand, and a breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the
sanctuary, which is most holy.  It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be
for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, that come near to minister
unto Jehovah; and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for
the sanctuary.  And five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in
breadth, shall be unto the Levites, the ministers of the house, for a
possession unto themselves, for ^6 twenty chambers.  And ye shall appoint the
possession of the city five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long,
side by side with the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole
house of Israel.  And whatsoever is for the prince shall be on the one side
and on the other side of the holy oblation and of the possession of the city,
in front of the holy oblation and in front of the possession of the city, on
the west side westward, and on the east side eastward; and in length
answerable unto one of the portions, from the west border unto the east
border. ^7 In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel: and my
princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall give the land to the
house of Israel according to their tribes.

[Footnote 3: Heb. holiness.]

[Footnote 4: The Sept. has, twenty.]

[Footnote 5: Or, open space]

[Footnote 6: The Sept. has, cities to dwell in.]

[Footnote 7: Or, As touching]

     Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel:
remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness; take away
your ^8 exactions from my people, saith the Lord Jehovah.  Ye shall have just
balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.  The ephah and the bath shall be
of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the
ephah the tenth part of a homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, five and twenty
shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.

[Footnote 8: Heb. expulsions.]

     This is the oblation that ye shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah from
a homer of wheat; and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of
barley; and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, the tenth part of a
bath out of the cor, which is ten baths, even a homer (for ten baths are a
homer); and one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred, from the well-watered
pastures of Israel; - for a meal-offering, and for a burnt-offering, and for
peace-offerings, to make atonement for them, saith the Lord Jehovah.  All the
people of the land ^9 shall give unto this oblation for the prince in Israel.
And it shall be the prince's part to give the burnt- offerings, and 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, and the meal-offering, and the burnt-offering,
and the peace-offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.

[Footnote 9: Heb. shall be for.]

     Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the first month, in the first day of the
month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish; and thou shalt cleanse
the sanctuary.  And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin- offering,
and put it upon the door-posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the
ledge of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.  And so
thou shalt do on the enth day of the month for every one that erreth, and for
him that is simple: so shall ye make atonement for the house.

     In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the
passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.  And upon
that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the
land a bullock for a sin-offering.  And the seven days of the feast he shall
prepare a burnt-offering to Jehovah, seven bullocks and seven rams without
blemish daily the seven days; and a he-goat daily for a sin-offering. And he
shall prepare a meal-offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram,
and a hin of oil to an ephah.  In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of
the month, in the feast, shall he do the like the seven days; according to the
sin-offering, according to the burnt-offering, and according to the
meal-offering, and according to the oil.