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it shall be holy throughout its entire extent. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>Of this, a square plot of five hundred by five hundred cubits shall be for the sanctuary, with fifty cubits for an open space around it. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>In the holy district you shall measure off a section twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide, in which shall be the sanctuary, the most holy place. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>It shall be a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, who minister in the sanctuary and approach the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> to minister to him; and it shall be both a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Another section, twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand cubits wide, shall be for the Levites who minister at the temple, as their holding for cities to live in.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-25735b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Alongside the portion set apart as the holy district you shall assign as a holding for the city an area five thousand cubits wide, and twenty-five thousand cubits long; it shall belong to the whole house of Israel.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>And to the prince shall belong the land on both sides of the holy district and the holding of the city, alongside the holy district and the holding of the city, on the west and on the east, corresponding in length to one of the tribal portions, and extending from the western to the eastern boundary </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>of the land. It is to be his property in Israel. And my princes shall no longer oppress my people; but they shall let the house of Israel have the land according to their tribes.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Thus says the Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">God</span>: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Cease your evictions of my people, says the Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">God</span>.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Weights and Measures</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>You shall have honest balances, an honest ephah, and an honest bath.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-25740c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, the bath containing one-tenth of a homer, and the ephah one-tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall make a mina for you.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Offerings</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>This is the offering that you shall make: one-sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and one-sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>and as the fixed portion of oil,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-25744d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> one-tenth of a bath from each cor (the cor,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-25744e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> like the homer, contains ten baths); </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>and one sheep from every flock of two hundred, from the pastures of Israel. This is the offering for grain offerings, burnt offerings, and offerings of well-being, to make atonement for them, says the Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">God</span>. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>All the people of the land shall join with the prince in Israel in making this offering. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>But this shall be the obligation of the prince regarding the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings, at the festivals, the new moons, and the sabbaths, all the appointed festivals of the house of Israel: he shall provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, the burnt offerings, and the offerings of well-being, to make atonement for the house of Israel.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Festivals</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Thus says the Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">God</span>: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you shall take a young bull without blemish, and purify the sanctuary. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and the posts of the gate of the inner court. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>You shall do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who has sinned through error or ignorance; so you shall make atonement for the temple.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall celebrate the festival of the passover, and for seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>On that day the prince shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a young bull for a sin offering. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>And during the seven days of the festival he shall provide as a burnt offering to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> seven young bulls and seven rams without blemish, on each of the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>He shall provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull, an ephah for each ram, and a hin of oil to each ephah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month and for the seven days of the festival, he shall make the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, and grain offerings, and for the oil.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Ezekiel 45:1">Ezekiel 45:1</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk: Heb <i>ten</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Ezekiel 45:5">Ezekiel 45:5</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk: Heb <i>as their holding, twenty chambers</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Ezekiel 45:10">Ezekiel 45:10</a> <span class='footnote-text'>A Heb measure of volume</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Ezekiel 45:14">Ezekiel 45:14</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>oil, the bath the oil</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Ezekiel 45:14">Ezekiel 45:14</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Vg: Heb <i>homer</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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