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 ¹  to the Lord, a holy portion from the land; the length will be eight and a quarter miles ²  and the width three and one-third miles. ³  This entire area will be holy. ⁴ 

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 

[45:1]  ¹ tn Heb “a contribution.”

[45:1]  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.

[45:1]  ³ tc The LXX reads “twenty thousand cubits.”

[45:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “holy it is in all its territory round about.”

[48:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

[48:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

[48:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

[48:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

[48:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

[48:13]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

[48:13]  ¹¹ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

[48:13]  ¹² tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).