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In it will be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/45-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>It will be the sacred portion of the land for the priests, who minister in the sanctuary and who draw near to minister before the <span class="name">Lord</span>. It will be a place for their houses as well as a holy place for the sanctuary. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/45-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>An area 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide will belong to the Levites, who serve in the temple, as their possession for towns to live in. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Septuagint; Hebrew temple; they will have as their possession 20 rooms">g</a></sup></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/45-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“ ‘You are to give the city as its property an area 5,000 cubits <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, about 1 2/3 miles or about 2.7 kilometers">h</a></sup></span> wide and 25,000 cubits long, adjoining the sacred portion; it will belong to all Israel.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/45-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“ ‘The prince will have the land bordering each side of the area formed by the sacred district and the property of the city. It will extend westward from the west side and eastward from the east side, running lengthwise from the western to the eastern border parallel to one of the tribal portions. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/45-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>This land will be his possession in Israel. And my princes will no longer oppress my people but will allow the people of Israel to possess the land according to their tribes.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/45-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“ ‘This is what the Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span> says: You have gone far enough, princes of Israel! Give up your violence and oppression and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing my people, declares the Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/45-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>You are to use accurate scales, an accurate ephah <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="An ephah was a dry measure having the capacity of about 3/5 bushel or about 22 liters.">i</a></sup></span> and an accurate bath. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A bath was a liquid measure equaling about 6 gallons or about 22 liters.">j</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/45-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The ephah and the bath are to be the same size, the bath containing a tenth of a homer and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer is to be the standard measure for both. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/45-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The shekel <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A shekel weighed about 2/5 ounce or about 12 grams.">k</a></sup></span> is to consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels equal one mina. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, 60 shekels; the common mina was 50 shekels. Sixty shekels were about 1 1/2 pounds or about 690 grams.">l</a></sup></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/45-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“ ‘This is the special gift you are to offer: a sixth of an ephah <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, probably about 6 pounds or about 2.7 kilograms">m</a></sup></span> from each homer of wheat and a sixth of an ephah <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, probably about 5 pounds or about 2.3 kilograms">n</a></sup></span> from each homer of barley. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/45-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The prescribed portion of olive oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, about 2 1/2 quarts or about 2.2 liters">o</a></sup></span> from each cor (which consists of ten baths or one homer, for ten baths are equivalent to a homer). <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/45-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Also one sheep is to be taken from every flock of two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel. These will be used for the grain offerings, burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to make atonement for the people, declares the Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/45-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>All the people of the land will be required to give this special offering to the prince in Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/45-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>It will be the duty of the prince to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings and drink offerings at the festivals, the New Moons and the Sabbaths—at all the appointed festivals of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or purification offerings; also in verses 19, 22, 23 and 25">p</a></sup></span> grain offerings, burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to make atonement for the Israelites.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/45-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“ ‘This is what the Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span> says: In the first month on the first day you are to take a young bull without defect and purify the sanctuary. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/45-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>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 upper ledge of the altar and on the gateposts of the inner court. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/45-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>You are to do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who sins unintentionally or through ignorance; so you are to make atonement for the temple.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/45-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“ ‘In the first month on the fourteenth day you are to observe the Passover, a festival lasting seven days, during which you shall eat bread made without yeast. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/45-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>On that day the prince is to provide a bull as a sin offering for himself and for all the people of the land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/45-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Every day during the seven days of the festival he is to provide seven bulls and seven rams without defect as a burnt offering to the <span class="name">Lord</span>, and a male goat for a sin offering. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/45-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>He is to provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull and an ephah for each ram, along with a hin <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, about 1 gallon or about 3.8 liters">q</a></sup></span> of olive oil for each ephah.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/45-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“ ‘During the seven days of the festival, which begins in the seventh month on the fifteenth day, he is to make the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings and oil.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 8 miles or about 13 kilometers; also in verses 3, 5 and 6</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotebot">Septuagint (see also verses 3 and 5 and 48:9); Hebrew <i>10,000</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 6 1/2 miles or about 11 kilometers</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 875 feet or about 265 meters</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 88 feet or about 27 meters</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 3 1/3 miles or about 5.3 kilometers; also in verse 5</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotebot">Septuagint; Hebrew <i>temple; they will have as their possession 20 rooms</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">h</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 1 2/3 miles or about 2.7 kilometers</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">i</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotebot">An ephah was a dry measure having the capacity of about 3/5 bushel or about 22 liters.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">j</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotebot">A bath was a liquid measure equaling about 6 gallons or about 22 liters.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">k</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotebot">A shekel weighed about 2/5 ounce or about 12 grams.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">l</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, 60 shekels; the common mina was 50 shekels. Sixty shekels were about 1 1/2 pounds or about 690 grams.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">m</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, probably about 6 pounds or about 2.7 kilograms</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">n</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, probably about 5 pounds or about 2.3 kilograms</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">o</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 2 1/2 quarts or about 2.2 liters</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">p</span> <span class="fnverse">17</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>purification offerings</i>; also in verses 19, 22, 23 and 25</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">q</span> <span class="fnverse">24</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 1 gallon or about 3.8 liters</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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