Ezekiel 48:20-21

48:20 The whole allotment will be eight and a quarter miles ¹  square, you must set apart the holy allotment with the possession of the city.

48:21 “The rest, on both sides of the holy allotment and the property of the city, will belong to the prince. Extending from the eight and a quarter miles ²  of the holy allotment to the east border, and westward from the eight and a quarter miles ³  to the west border, alongside the portions, it will belong to the prince. The holy allotment and the sanctuary of the temple will be in the middle of it.

Ezekiel 45:13

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,

Ezekiel 45:16

45:16 All the people of the land will contribute ⁴  to this offering for the prince of Israel.

Ezekiel 48:9

48:9 The allotment you set apart to the Lord will be eight and a quarter miles ⁵  in length and three and one-third miles ⁶  in width.

Ezekiel 48:12

48:12 It will be their portion from the allotment of the land, a most holy place, next to the border of the Levites.

Ezekiel 44:30

44:30 The first of all the first fruits and all contributions of any kind ⁷  will be for the priests; you will also give to the priest the first portion of your dough, so that a blessing may rest on your house.

Ezekiel 45:7

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

Ezekiel 48:18

48:18 The remainder of the length alongside the holy allotment will be three and one-third miles ⁸  to the east and three and one-third miles toward the west, and it will be beside the holy allotment. Its produce will be for food for the workers of the city.

Ezekiel 45:6

45:6 “‘Alongside the portion set apart as the holy allotment, you will allot for the city an area one and two-thirds miles ⁹  wide and eight and a quarter miles ¹⁰  long; it will be for the whole house of Israel.

Ezekiel 20:40

20:40 For there on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord, all the house of Israel will serve me, all of them ¹¹  in the land. I will accept them there, and there I will seek your contributions and your choice gifts, with all your holy things.

Ezekiel 45:1

The Lord’s Portion of the Land

45:1 “‘When you allot the land as an inheritance, you will offer an allotment ¹²  to the Lord, a holy portion from the land; the length will be eight and a quarter miles ¹³  and the width three and one-third miles. ¹⁴  This entire area will be holy. ¹⁵ 

Ezekiel 48:8

48:8 “Next to the border of Judah from the east side to the west will be the allotment you must set apart. It is to be eight and a quarter miles ¹⁶  wide, and the same length as one of the tribal portions, from the east side to the west; the sanctuary will be in the middle of it.

Ezekiel 48:10

48:10 These will be the allotments for the holy portion: for the priests, toward the north eight and a quarter miles ¹⁷  in length, toward the west three and one-third miles ¹⁸  in width, toward the east three and one-third miles ¹⁹  in width, and toward the south eight and a quarter miles ²⁰  in length; the sanctuary of the Lord will be in the middle.

¹ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

² tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

³ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

³ tn Heb “will be.”

⁴ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

⁵ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

⁵ tn Heb has in addition “from your contributions,” a repetition unnecessary in English.

⁶ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers); the phrase occurs again later in this verse.

⁷ tn Heb “five thousand cubits” (i.e., 2.625 kilometers).

⁸ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

⁸ tn Heb “all of it.”

⁹ tn Heb “a contribution.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers). The measuring units here are the Hebrew “long” cubit, consisting of a cubit (about 18 inches or 45 cm) and a handbreadth (about 3 inches or 7.5 cm), for a total of 21 inches (52.5 cm). Because modern readers are not familiar with the cubit as a unit of measurement, and due to the additional complication of the “long” cubit as opposed to the regular cubit, all measurements have been converted to American standard miles (one mile = 5,280 feet), with the Hebrew measurements and the metric equivalents given in the notes.

¹¹ tc The LXX reads “twenty thousand cubits.”

¹² tn Heb “holy it is in all its territory round about.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

¹¹ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

¹² tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

¹³ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

¹⁴ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).