The shekel will be twenty gerahs. Sixty shekels<n id="1" /> will be a mina for you.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you will celebrate the Passover, and for seven days bread made without yeast will be eaten.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;At the festivals and at the appointed feasts the grain offering will be an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as one is able,<n id="1" /> and a gallon<n id="2" /> of olive oil with each ephah of grain.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: If the prince should give a gift to one of his sons as<n id="1" /> his inheritance, it will belong to his sons, it is their property by inheritance.

The border will run from the sea to Hazar-enan, at the border of Damascus, and on the north is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The remainder, one and two-thirds miles<n id="1" /> in width and eight and a quarter miles<n id="2" /> in length, will be for common use by the city, for houses and for open space. The city will be in the middle of it;

The city will have open spaces: On the north there will be 437½ feet,<n id="1" /> on the south 437½ feet, on the east 437½ feet, and on the west 437½ feet.

Next to the border of Gad, at the south side, the border will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the Stream of Egypt<n id="1" /> and on to the Great Sea.

When they ask you, &#8216;Why are you groaning?&#8217; you will reply, &#8216;Because of the report that has come. Every heart will melt with fear and every hand will be limp; everyone<n id="1" /> will faint and every knee will be wet with urine.&#8217;<n id="2" /> Pay attention &#8211; it is coming and it will happen, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;p>

As surely as I live, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, my sheep have become prey and have become food for all the wild beasts. There was no shepherd, and my shepherds did not search for my flock, but fed themselves and did not feed my sheep,

like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds after the rain.<n id="1" /> This was the appearance of the surrounding brilliant light; it looked like the glory of the <sc>Lordsc>. When I saw<n id="2" /> it, I threw myself face down, and I heard a voice speaking.p>

As for you, son of man, listen to what I am saying to you: Do not rebel like that rebellious house! Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">He said to me, &#8220;Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your belly with this scroll I am giving to you.&#8221; So I ate it,<n id="1" /> and it was sweet like honey in my mouth.p>

Then for your part take an iron frying pan<n id="1" /> and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign<n id="2" /> for the house of Israel.p>

I will shoot against them deadly,<n id="1" /> destructive<n id="2" /> arrows of famine,<n id="3" /> which I will shoot to destroy you.<n id="4" /> I will prolong a famine on you and will remove the bread supply.<n id="5" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month,<n id="1" /> as I was sitting in my house with the elders of Judah sitting in front of me, the hand<n id="2" /> of the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> seized me.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Then the glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub where it had rested to the threshold of the temple.<n id="1" /> He called to the man dressed in linen who had the writing kit at his side.

While they were striking them down, I was left alone, and I threw myself face down and cried out, &#8220;Ah, sovereign <sc>Lordsc>! Will you destroy the entire remnant of Israel when you pour out your fury on Jerusalem?&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Now, while I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I threw myself face down and cried out with a loud voice, &#8220;Alas, sovereign <sc>Lordsc>! You are completely wiping out the remnant of Israel!&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Therefore say: &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Although I have removed them far away among the nations and have dispersed them among the countries, I have been a little<n id="1" /> sanctuary for them among the lands where they have gone.&#8217;p>