Ezekiel45
New American Standard
1“Now when you divide the land by lot for inheritance, you shall offer an allotment to the Lord, a holy portion of the land; the length shall be a length of twenty-five thousand cubits, and the width shall be twenty thousand. It shall be holy within its entire surrounding boundary.
2Out of this there shall be for the sanctuary a square encompassing five hundred by five hundred cubits, and fifty cubits for its open space round about.
3From this area you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand cubits and a width of ten thousand cubits; and in it shall be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
4It shall be the holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to serve the Lord, and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.
5An area twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in width shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, and for their possession cities in which to live.
6“And you shall give the city possession of an area five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand cubits long, alongside the allotment of the holy portion; it shall be for the entire house of Israel.
7“And the prince shall have land on either side of the holy allotment and the property of the city, adjacent to the holy allotment and the property of the city, on the west side toward the west and on the east side toward the east, and in length comparable to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.
8This shall be his land as a possession in Israel; so My princes shall no longer oppress My people, but they shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.”
9‘This is what the Lord God says: “Enough, you princes of Israel; get rid of violence and destruction, and practice justice and righteousness. Revoke your evictions of My people,” declares the Lord God.
10“You shall have accurate balances, an accurate ephah, and an accurate bath.
11The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity, so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; their standard shall be according to the homer.
12And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
13“This is the offering that you shall offer: a sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat; a sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley;
14and the prescribed portion of oil (namely, the bath of oil), a tenth of a bath from each kor (which is ten baths or a homer, for ten baths are a homer);
15and one sheep from each flock of two hundred from the watering places of Israel—for a grain offering, for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them,” declares the Lord God.
16“All the people of the land shall give to this offering for the prince in Israel.
17And it shall be the prince’s part to provide the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the drink offerings, at the feasts, on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, at all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel; he shall provide the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.”
18‘This is what the Lord God says: “In the first month, on the first of the month, you shall take a bull without blemish and cleanse the sanctuary from sin.
19And the priest shall take some of the blood from the sin offering and put it on the door posts of the house, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner courtyard.
20And you shall do this on the seventh day of the month for everyone who does wrong inadvertently or is naive; so you shall make atonement for the house.
21“In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
22On that day the prince shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a bull as a sin offering.
23And during the seven days of the feast he shall provide as a burnt offering to the Lord seven bulls and seven rams without blemish on every day of the seven days, and a male goat daily as a sin offering.
24And he shall provide as a grain offering an ephah with a bull, an ephah with a ram, and a hin of oil with an ephah.
25In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he shall provide like these, seven days for the sin offering, the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the oil.”
Study Guide
Public-domain commentary and original-language notes for Ezekiel 45.
Chapter Summary
In this chapter: The Vision of the Temple. (1-25).
vv1-25
In the period here foretold, the worship and the ministers of God will be provided for; the princes will rule with justice, as holding their power under Christ; the people will live in peace, ease, and godliness. These things seem to be represented in language taken from the customs of the times in which the prophet wrote. Christ is our Passover that is sacrificed for us: we celebrate the memorial of that sacrifice, and feast upon it, triumphing in our deliverance out of the Egyptian slavery of sin, and our preservation from the destroying sword of Divine justice, in the Lord's supper, which is our passover feast; as the whole Christian life is, and must be, the feast of the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Key Words
נָפַל: to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
אֶרֶץ: the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
נַחֲלָה: properly, something inherited, i.e. (abstractly) occupancy, or (concretely) an heirloom; generally an estate, patrimony or portion
רוּם: to be high actively, to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively)
תְּרוּמָה: a present (as offered up), especially in sacrifice or as tribute
מִן: properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses
קֹדֶשׁ: a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity
אֹרֶךְ: length
רֹחַב: width (literally or figuratively)
סָבִיב: (as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around
Cross References
Ezekiel 45Christ as our true Passover sacrifice, represented spiritually by the feast of unleavened bread.
Supported by Matthew Henry, JFB
The fuller geographic layout and distribution of the sacred land allocation among the tribes.
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Identifies the role and close relationship of the prince to the sanctuary and its offerings.
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The original Mosaic law standard demanding honest weights and just balances in civil dealings.
Supported by Matthew Poole
Explicit commandment concerning the just ephah and just balances, mirroring Ezekiel's call.
Supported by Matthew Poole
Establishes the standard temple tax weight of the shekel defined as twenty gerahs.
Supported by JFB
Confirms God as the inheritance and possession of the ministering priests.
Supported by Matthew Poole
Regulations preventing the prince from abusing power or alienating land from the tribes.
Supported by Matthew Poole
Mosaic sacrificial provision for unintentional sins of ignorance or the simple.
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The foundational Levitical institution of the Passover feast and seven days of unleavened bread.
Supported by Matthew Henry
The Feast of Tabernacles in the seventh month, which the prince must also celebrate.
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Shows the exact dimensions of the holy oblation portion designated for the priests.
Supported by Matthew Poole
Shows the designated portion of land allocated specifically for the Levites.
Supported by Matthew Poole
Mosaic monetary definition of the shekel valued at twenty gerahs.
Supported by Matthew Poole
The Day of Atonement ritual for cleansing the holy sanctuary because of uncleanness.
Supported by Matthew Poole
Parallel ritual of putting blood on the horns and corners of the altar to cleanse it.
Supported by Matthew Poole
Wisdom literature condemning false balances and praising just scales as God's delight.
Supported by Matthew Henry
Prophetic condemnation of those who make the ephah small and falsify balances by deceit.
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Specific details on how the prince is to offer sacrifices in the feasts.
Supported by Matthew Poole
Exhortation to keep the feast not with old leaven, but with sincerity and truth.
Supported by Matthew Henry