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1 “ ‘ “Moreover,
when you divide
by lot the
land for
inheritance, you
shall offer an
offering to the
LORD, 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 It
is a holy
portion of the
land; it shall
be for the
priests, the
ministers of the
sanctuary, who
come near to
minister to the
LORD. 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 GOD says: “Enough
you, princes of
Israel! Remove
violence and plunder,
and execute
justice and
righteousness! Stop dispossessing
my people!” says
the Lord GOD.
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
of the 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 GOD.
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
atonement for the
house of Israel.”
18 “ ‘The
Lord GOD 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
of the blood
of the 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
the LORD, 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.”