Instructions about Divisions of the Renewed Land

¹ And when you allocate the land as an inheritance, you shall provide a contribution for Yahweh as a holy portion from the land, its length being twenty-five thousand cubits¹ and its width ten thousand cubits;² it is holy in all its territory, all around.

1. Or 8.33 miles
2. Hebrew 3.5 miles; LXX reads 6.67 miles in width, or 20,000 cubits (cf. 45:3, 5; 48:9)

² And there shall be from this area five hundred cubits¹ by five hundred cubits, squared all around, for the sanctuary; and fifty cubits²³ of open space shall be for it all around it.

1. That is, “875 feet by 875 feet”
2. Hebrew “cubit”
3. That is, “87.5 feet”

³ And from this measured area you shall measure a length of twenty-five¹ thousand cubits² and a width of ten thousand cubits,³ and in it will be the sanctuary, ⌞the most holy place⌟.⁴

1. According to the reading tradition (Qere)
2. That is, 8.33 miles; cf. 45:5
3. That is, 3.5 miles; cf. 45:5
4. Literally “the holiness of holinesses”

⁴ It¹ is a holy portion from the land; it will be for the priests, the servants of the sanctuary ⌞who approach⌟² to serve Yahweh, and it will be for them a place for houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.

1. Or “this area”
2. Literally “the ones who approach”

⁵ And an area twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand cubits in width will be for the Levites, the servants of the temple. It will serve as property for them ⌞as cities to dwell in⌟.¹

1. Literally “twenty chambers”

⁶ And as property of the city, you must set apart alongside the contribution of the sanctuary a portion five thousand cubits¹ in width and twenty-five thousand cubits² in length, and it shall be for the entire house of Israel.

1. That is, 1.67 miles
2. That is, 8.33 miles

⁷ And a portion will be for¹ the prince ⌞on both sides⌟² of ⌞the holy district⌟,³ and both sides of the property of the city, and ⌞alongside⌟⁴ the property of the city ⌞on the west⌟,⁵ and alongside the property ⌞on the east⌟.⁶ And also its length⁷ ⌞corresponds to one of the tribal portions to the west⌟⁸ running ⌞to the eastern border⌟.⁹

1. Hebrew “to”
2. Literally “from this and from this”
3. Literally “the contribution of the holiness”
4. Literally “to the front of”
5. Literally “from/on the side of the sea”
6. Literally “from/on the side of east”
7. Or “portion”
8. Literally “corresponding to one of the portions from the boundary of the sea”
9. Literally “to the boundary of the east”

⁸ This shall be to him ⌞with respect to the land⌟¹ as property in Israel; and so my princes shall not again oppress my people, but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.”

1. Literally “to the land”

⁹ Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Enough of this for you, the princes of Israel; put away violence and destruction and do justice and righteousness; revoke your acts of dispossession from upon¹ my people!” ⌞declares⌟² the Lord Yahweh.

1. Or “against”
2. Literally “declaration of”

¹⁰ There shall be for you ⌞an honest set of scales⌟¹ and ⌞an honest ephah⌟² and ⌞an honest bath⌟.³

1. Literally “a set of scales of justice/honesty”
2. Literally “an ephah of honesty”
3. Literally “a bath of honesty”; a bath is a liquid measure

¹¹ The ephah and the bath shall be one unit of measurement;¹ the tenth part of the homer is the bath, and the tenth of the homer is the ephah; so the homer shall be its² unit of measurement.

1. Or “shall be the same size”
2. Or “the”

¹² And the shekel shall weigh twenty gerahs, twenty shekels¹ and five and twenty shekels² and ten and five shekels,³ that shall make the mina for you.⁴

1. Hebrew “shekel”
2. Hebrew “shekel”
3. Hebrew “shekel”
4. Meaning of Hebrew uncertain

¹³ This is the contribution offering which you shall present: a sixth of the ephah from a¹ homer of wheat, and a² sixth of the ephah from a³ homer of barley.

1. Or “each”; literally “the”
2. Literally “the”
3. Literally “the”

¹⁴ And the quota of the olive oil, the bath of the olive oil, is the tenth part of a bath from a kor, which is ten baths, or a homer—for ten baths are equal to a homer.

¹⁵ And one¹ sheep from the flock from among two hundred from the pastures of Israel will be taken as a grain offering and as a burnt offering and as a fellowship offering to make atonement for them,” ⌞declares⌟² the Lord Yahweh.

1. Or “a”
2. Literally “declaration of”

¹⁶ “All of the people of the land shall join in¹ to this contribution with² the prince in Israel.

1. Or “participate/ take part in”
2. Or possibly “for/to”

¹⁷ “But on the prince shall be the responsibility for the burnt offerings, and the grain offering, and the libation at the feasts, and at the New Moon festivals, and at¹ the Sabbaths at all of the assemblies of the house of Israel; he shall provide the sin offering, and the grain offering, and the burnt offering, and the fellowship offering to make atonement for the house of Israel.

1. Or “on”

¹⁸ Thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘On the first month on the first day of the month, you shall take a bull, ⌞a calf⌟¹ without defect, and you shall purify the sanctuary.

1. Literally “son of cattle,” or “son of the herd”

¹⁹ And the priest shall take from the blood of the sin offering, and he shall put it on the doorframe of the temple¹ and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar and on the doorframe of the gate of the inner courtyard.

1. Or “house”

²⁰ And so you shall do on the seventh day in the month for anyone doing wrong inadvertently or due to ignorance, and so you must make atonement for the temple.¹

1. Or “house”

²¹ In the first month, on the ⌞fourteenth⌟¹ day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast lasting for ⌞seven days⌟,² when you shall eat unleavened breads.

1. Literally “four ten”
2. Literally “a week of days”

²² And the prince shall provide on that day for himself¹ and for all of the people of the land a bull as a sin offering.

1. Hebrew “him”

²³ And during the seven days of the religious feast he shall provide as a burnt offering to Yahweh seven bulls and seven rams without defect for each of the seven days, and as a sin offering a he-goat for each day.

²⁴ And as a grain offering, an ephah for¹ the bull and an ephah for² the ram he must provide, and a hin of olive oil for ⌞each⌟³ ephah.

1. Hebrew “to”
2. Hebrew “to”
3. Literally “the”

²⁵ In the seventh month, on the ⌞fifteenth⌟¹ day of the month, during the feast, he shall provide just as he has for these seven days, as he did for the sin offering, as he did for the burnt offering, and as he did for the grain offering, and as he did for the olive oil.’ ”

1. Literally “five ten”