Ezekiel 45

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

⁶ For the city's property you are to set aside a strip about one and a half miles wide and eight miles long beside the holy portion; it belongs to the whole house of Israel.

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

⁹ This is what the Sovereign Father says: Enough, princes of Israel! Remove violence and oppression; do justice and righteousness. Lift your evictions off my people from their land, declares the Sovereign Father.

¹⁰ You are to use honest scales, an honest dry measure, and an honest liquid measure. ¹¹ The ephah and the bath: one measure — the bath a tenth of a homer, the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer sets the standard. ^a a v11 A bath was a liquid measure of about six gallons (22 liters); the ephah was its dry-goods equal. ¹² The standard weight equals twenty small units. Twenty plus twenty-five plus fifteen of these make your large weight measure.

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

¹⁸ The Sovereign Father says: In the first month, on the first of the month, take a young bull without defect and purify the sanctuary. ¹⁹ The priest takes some blood from the sin offering and puts it on the temple doorposts, the altar ledge's four corners, and the inner court gate's posts. ²⁰ Do the same on the seventh of the month for anyone who sins by mistake or unknowingly. So you will make atonement for the temple.

²¹ In the first month, on the fourteenth day, you are to keep the Passover, a seven-day feast, and bread without yeast is to be eaten. ²² On that day the prince provides a bull as a sin offering for himself and for all the people of the land. ²³ Through the feast's seven days he is to offer me a burnt offering: seven bulls and seven rams without defect daily, the seven days; and daily a male goat as a sin offering. ²⁴ As a grain offering he is to provide a measure of grain per bull and per ram, with about a gallon of oil per measure. ²⁵ In the seventh month, on the fifteenth of the month, at the festival, he is to do the same for seven days — the same sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, and oil.