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Text -- Ezekiel 45:1-17 (NET)
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The Lord’s Portion of the Land
45:1 “‘When you allot the land as an inheritance , you will offer an allotment to the Lord , a holy portion from the land ; the length will be eight and a quarter miles and the width three and one-third miles . This entire area will be holy .
45:2 Of this area a square 875 feet by 875 feet will be designated for the sanctuary , with 87½ feet set aside for its open space round about .
45:3 From this measured area you will measure a length of eight and a quarter miles and a width of three and one-third miles ; in it will be the sanctuary , the most holy place .
45:4 It will be a holy portion of the land ; it will be for the priests , the ministers of the sanctuary who approach the Lord to minister to him. It will be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary .
45:5 An area eight and a quarter miles in length and three and one-third miles in width will be for the Levites , who minister at the temple , as the place for the cities in which they will live.
45:6 “‘Alongside the portion set apart as the holy allotment , you will allot for the city an area one and two-thirds miles wide and eight and a quarter miles long ; it will be for the whole house of Israel .
45:7 “‘For the prince there will be land on both sides of the holy allotment and the allotted city , alongside the holy allotment and the allotted city , on the west side and on the east side ; it will be comparable in length to one of the portions , from the west border to the east border
45:8 of the land . This will be his property in Israel . My princes will no longer oppress my people , but the land will be allotted to the house of Israel according to their tribes .
45:9 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says : Enough , you princes of Israel ! Put away violence and destruction , and do what is just and right . Put an end to your evictions of my people , declares the sovereign Lord .
45:10 You must use just balances , a just dry measure (an ephah ), and a just liquid measure (a bath ).
45:11 The dry and liquid measures will be the same , the bath will contain a tenth of a homer , and the ephah a tenth of a homer ; the homer will be the standard measure .
45:12 The shekel will be twenty gerahs . Sixty shekels will be a mina for you.
45:13 “‘This is the offering you must offer : a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat ; a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley ,
45:14 and as the prescribed portion of olive oil , one tenth of a bath from each kor (which is ten baths or a homer , for ten baths make a homer );
45:15 and one sheep from each flock of two hundred , from the watered places of Israel , for a grain offering , burnt offering , and peace offering , to make atonement for them, declares the sovereign Lord .
45:16 All the people of the land will contribute to this offering for the prince of Israel .
45:17 It will be the duty of the prince to provide the burnt offerings , the grain offering , and the drink offering at festivals , on the new moons and Sabbaths , at all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel ; he will provide the sin offering , the grain offering , the burnt offering , and the peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel .
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NET Notes: Eze 45:5 The translation follows the LXX here. The MT reads “twenty.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:246.
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NET Notes: Eze 45:9 Evictions of the less fortunate by the powerful are described in 1 Kgs 21:1-16; Jer 22:1-5, 13-17; Ezek 22:25.
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NET Notes: Eze 45:11 The homer was about 5 bushels as a dry measure and 55 gallons as a liquid measure.
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