Ezekiel 45

¹When you allot the land as an inheritance , you shall set apart for the Lord a portion of the land as a holy district, 25,000 cubits long and 20,000 cubits broad . It shall be holy throughout its whole extent .

²Of this a square plot of 500 by 500 cubits shall be for the sanctuary , with fifty cubits for an open space around it.

³And from this measured district you shall measure off a section 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 broad , in which shall be the sanctuary , the Most Holy Place .

⁴It shall be the holy portion of the land . It shall be for the priests , who minister in the sanctuary and approach the Lord to minister to him, and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary .

⁵Another section, 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits broad , shall be for the Levites who minister at the temple , as their possession for cities to live in .

⁶Alongside the portion set apart as the holy district you shall assign for the property of the city an area 5,000 cubits broad and 25,000 cubits long . It shall belong to the whole house of Israel .

⁷And to the prince shall belong the land on both sides of the holy district and the property of the city , alongside the holy district and the property of the city , on the west and on the east , corresponding in length to one of the tribal portions , and extending from the western to the eastern boundary

⁸of the land . It is to be his property in Israel . And my princes shall no more oppress my people , but they shall let the house of Israel have the land according to their tribes .

⁹Thus says the Lord God: Enough , O princes of Israel ! Put away violence and oppression , and execute justice and righteousness . Cease your evictions of my people , declares the Lord God.

¹⁰You shall have just balances , a just ephah , and a just bath .

¹¹The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure , the bath containing one tenth of a homer , and the ephah one tenth of a homer ; the homer shall be the standard measure .

¹²The shekel shall be twenty gerahs ; twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina .

¹³This is the offering that you shall make : one sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat , and one sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley ,

¹⁴and as the fixed portion of oil , measured in baths , one tenth of a bath from each cor (the cor, like the homer , contains ten baths ).

¹⁵And one sheep from every flock of two hundred , from the watering places of Israel for grain offering , burnt offering , and peace offerings , to make atonement for them, declares the Lord God.

¹⁶All the people of the land shall be obliged to give this offering to the prince in Israel .

¹⁷It shall be the prince’s duty to furnish the burnt offerings , grain offerings , and drink offerings , at the feasts , the new moons , and the Sabbaths , all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel : he shall provide the sin offerings , grain offerings , burnt offerings , and peace offerings , to make atonement on behalf of the house of Israel .

¹⁸Thus says the Lord God: In the first month, on the first day of the month , you shall take a bull from the herd without blemish , and purify the sanctuary .

¹⁹The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple , the four corners of the ledge of the altar , and the posts of the gate of the inner court .

²⁰You shall do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who has sinned through error or ignorance ; so you shall make atonement for the temple .

²¹In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month , you shall celebrate the Feast of the Passover , and for seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten .

²²On that day the prince shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a young bull for a sin offering .

²³And on the seven days of the festival he shall provide as a burnt offering to the Lord seven young bulls and seven rams without blemish , on each of the seven days ; and a male goat daily for a sin offering .

²⁴And he shall provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull , an ephah for each ram , and a hin of oil to each ephah .

²⁵In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month and for the seven days of the feast , he shall make the same provision for sin offerings , burnt offerings , and grain offerings , and for the oil .