Ezekiel 45

45 ¹ When you divide the land by lot as an inheritance, you are to set apart a portion for our Father, a holy portion of the land: about eight miles long and about three miles wide. It will be holy throughout all its borders. ² Of this, a square plot about eight hundred and seventy-five feet on each side is for the sanctuary, with about ninety feet of open land all around it. ³ From this area you are to measure a length of about eight miles and a width of about three miles; within it will be the sanctuary, the most holy place. ⁴ It is the holy portion of the land. It will belong to the priests who minister in the sanctuary, who draw near to minister to me; it will be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. ⁵ An area about eight miles long and about three miles wide will belong to the Levites who minister in the temple, as their possession, with cities to live in.

⁶ As the property of the city you are to set aside a strip about one and a half miles wide and about eight miles long, alongside the holy portion; it will belong to the whole house of Israel.

The Prince's Portion

⁷ The prince will have the land on both sides of the holy portion and the property of the city, bordering the holy portion and the city's property, on the west side westward and on the east side eastward; its length will run alongside one of the tribal portions, from the western boundary to the eastern boundary. ⁸ This land will be his possession in Israel. My princes will no longer oppress my people, but will give the rest of the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

⁹ This is what the Sovereign Father says: Enough, princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Stop driving my people from their land, declares the Sovereign Father.

Honest Weights and Measures

¹⁰ You are to use honest scales, an honest dry measure, and an honest liquid measure. ¹¹ The dry measure and the liquid measure are to hold the same amount — each one-tenth of the large standard measure. The large standard measure is the basis for both. ¹ 1 v11 A bath was a liquid measure of about six gallons (22 liters); the ephah was its dry-goods equal. ¹² The standard weight is to equal twenty smaller units. Twenty plus twenty-five plus fifteen of these — sixty in all — will make your large weight measure.

Offerings and Sacred Feasts

¹³ This is the contribution you are to offer: one-sixth of a dry measure from each large measure of wheat, and one-sixth of a dry measure from each large measure of barley. ¹⁴ The set portion of oil, measured by liquid measure, is one-tenth of a liquid measure from each large container — a large container holds ten liquid measures. ¹⁵ And one sheep from every flock of two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel. These are for the grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement for the people, declares the Sovereign Father. ¹⁶ All the people of the land will join in this contribution to the prince in Israel. ¹⁷ It will be the prince's duty to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings at the festivals, the new moons, and the sabbaths — at all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He is to furnish the sin offering, grain offering, burnt offering, and peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.

¹⁸ This is what the Sovereign Father says: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you are to take a young bull without blemish and purify the sanctuary. ¹⁹ The priest is to take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the gateposts of the inner court. ²⁰ You are to do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who sins unintentionally or in ignorance. In this way you will make atonement for the temple.

²¹ In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you are to keep the Passover, a feast of seven days, during which bread made without yeast is to be eaten. ²² On that day the prince is to provide a bull as a sin offering for himself and for all the people of the land. ²³ Throughout the seven days of the feast he is to provide a burnt offering to me of seven bulls and seven rams without blemish daily, and a male goat daily as a sin offering. ²⁴ He is to provide as a grain offering a measure of grain for each bull and for each ram, along with about a gallon of oil per measure. ²⁵ In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he is to do the same for seven days — the same sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, and oil.