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 43:19

43:19 you will give a young bull for a sin offering to the Levitical priests who are descended from Zadok, who approach me to minister to me, declares the sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 44:10

44:10 “‘But the Levites who went far from me, straying off from me after their idols when Israel went astray, will be responsible for ¹  their sin.

Ezekiel 45:5

45:5 An area eight and a quarter miles ²  in length and three and one-third miles ³  in width will be for the Levites, who minister at the temple, as the place for the cities ⁴  in which they will live.

Ezekiel 48:11

48:11 This will be for the priests who are set apart from the descendants of Zadok who kept my charge and did not go astray when the people of Israel strayed off, like the Levites did. ⁵ 

Ezekiel 48:22

48:22 The property of the Levites and of the city will be in the middle of that which belongs to the prince. The portion between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin will be for the prince.

Ezekiel 44:15

The Levitical Priests

44:15 “‘But the Levitical priests, the descendants of Zadok ⁶  who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, will approach me to minister to me; they will stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 48:13

48:13 “Alongside the border of the priests, the Levites will have an allotment eight and a quarter miles ⁷  in length and three and one-third miles ⁸  in width. The whole length will be eight and a quarter miles ⁹  and the width three and one-third miles. ¹⁰ 

[44:10]  ¹ tn Heb “will bear.”

[45:5]  ¹ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

[45:5]  ² tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

[45:5]  ³ tc The translation follows the LXX here. The MT reads “twenty.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:246.

[48:11]  ¹ tn Heb “strayed off.”

[44:15]  ¹ sn Zadok was a descendant of Aaron through Eleazar (1 Chr 6:50-53), who served as a priest during David’s reign (2 Sam 8:17).

[48:13]  ¹ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

[48:13]  ² tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

[48:13]  ³ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

[48:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).