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LORD'S Portion of the Land |
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Ezekiel 45:1
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"And when you divide by lot the land for inheritance,
you shall offer an allotment to the LORD, a holy portion of the land; the length
shall be the length of 25,000 cubits, and the width shall be 20,000. It shall
be holy within all its boundary round about. |
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Ezekiel 45:2
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"Out of this there shall be for the holy place
a square round about five hundred by five hundred cubits, and fifty cubits for
its open space round about. |
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Ezekiel 45:3
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"From this area you shall measure a length of
25,000 cubits and a width of 10,000 cubits; and in it shall be the sanctuary,
the most holy place. |
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Ezekiel 45:4
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"It shall be the holy portion of the land; it
shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister
to the LORD, and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the
sanctuary. |
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Ezekiel 45:5
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"An area 25,000 cubits in length and 10,000
in width shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, and for their possession
cities to dwell in. |
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Ezekiel 45:6
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"You shall give the city possession of an area
5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, alongside the allotment of the holy
portion; it shall be for the whole house of Israel. |
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Portion for the Prince |
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Ezekiel 45:7
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"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. |
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Ezekiel 45:8
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"This shall be his land for 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." |
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Ezekiel 45:9
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'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Enough, you princes
of Israel; put away violence and destruction, and practice justice and righteousness.
Stop your expropriations from My people," declares the Lord GOD. |
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Ezekiel 45:10
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"You shall have just balances, a just ephah
and a just bath. |
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Ezekiel 45:11
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"The 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. |
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Ezekiel 45:12
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"The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels,
twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your maneh. |
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Ezekiel 45:13
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"This is the offering that you shall offer:
a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat; a sixth of an ephah from a homer of
barley; |
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Ezekiel 45:14
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and 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); |
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Ezekiel 45:15
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and 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. |
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Ezekiel 45:16
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"All the people of the land shall give to this
offering for the prince in Israel. |
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Ezekiel 45:17
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"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." |
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Ezekiel 45:18
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'Thus says the Lord GOD, "In the first month,
on the first of the month, you shall take a young bull without blemish and cleanse
the sanctuary. |
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Ezekiel 45:19
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"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 court. |
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Ezekiel 45:20
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"Thus you shall do on the seventh day of the
month for everyone who goes astray or is naive; so you shall make atonement for
the house. |
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Ezekiel 45:21
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"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. |
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Ezekiel 45:22
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"On that day the prince shall provide for himself
and all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering. |
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Ezekiel 45:23
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"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 for a sin offering. |
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Ezekiel 45:24
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"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. |
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Ezekiel 45:25
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"In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day
of the month, at the feast, he shall provide like this, seven days for the sin
offering, the burnt offering, the grain offering and the oil." |
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