Ezekiel 5:2

5:2 Burn a third of it in the fire inside the city when the days of your siege are completed. Take a third and slash it with a sword all around the city. Scatter a third to the wind, and I will unleash a sword behind them.

Ezekiel 5:12

5:12 A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you. ¹  A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you, ²  and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.

Ezekiel 46:14

46:14 And you ³  will provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, a sixth of an ephah, and a third of a gallon ⁴  of olive oil to moisten the choice flour, as a grain offering to the Lord; this is a perpetual statute.

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 ⁵  in length, toward the west three and one-third miles ⁶  in width, toward the east three and one-third miles ⁷  in width, and toward the south eight and a quarter miles ⁸  in length; the sanctuary of the Lord will be in the middle.

Ezekiel 48:13

48:13 “Alongside the border of the priests, the Levites will have an allotment eight and a quarter miles ⁹  in length and three and one-third miles ¹⁰  in width. The whole length will be eight and a quarter miles ¹¹  and the width three and one-third miles. ¹² 

Ezekiel 48:18

48:18 The remainder of the length alongside the holy allotment will be three and one-third miles ¹³  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 48:9

48:9 The allotment you set apart to the Lord will be eight and a quarter miles ¹⁴  in length and three and one-third miles ¹⁵  in width.

Ezekiel 45:3

45:3 From this measured area you will measure a length of eight and a quarter miles ¹⁶  and a width of three and one-third miles; ¹⁷  in it will be the sanctuary, the most holy place.

Ezekiel 45:5

45:5 An area eight and a quarter miles ¹⁸  in length and three and one-third miles ¹⁹  in width will be for the Levites, who minister at the temple, as the place for the cities ²⁰  in which they will live.

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 ²¹  to the Lord, a holy portion from the land; the length will be eight and a quarter miles ²²  and the width three and one-third miles. ²³  This entire area will be holy. ²⁴ 

¹ sn The judgment of plague and famine comes from the covenant curse (Lev 26:25-26). As in v. 10, the city of Jerusalem is figuratively addressed here.

² sn Judgment by plague, famine, and sword occurs in Jer 21:9; 27:13; Ezek 6:11, 12; 7:15.

¹ tc Two medieval Hebrew mss, the LXX, the Syriac, and the Vulgate read the verb as third person singular.

² tn Heb “a hin of oil.” A hin was about 1/16 of a bath. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:266, and O. R. Sellers, “Weights,” IDB 4:835 g.

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

² tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

³ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

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

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

² tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

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

⁴ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

¹ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers); the phrase occurs again later in this verse.

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

² tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

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

² tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

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

² tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

³ tc The translation follows the LXX here. The MT reads “twenty.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:246.

¹ tn Heb “a contribution.”

² 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.

³ tc The LXX reads “twenty thousand cubits.”

⁴ tn Heb “holy it is in all its territory round about.”