Ezekiel
Chapter Forty-Eight
1 Now these are the names
of the tribes: From the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance
of Hamath, Hazar-enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath, (and
they shall have their sides east and west,) Dan, one portion.
2 And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, Asher, one
portion.
3 And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, Naphtali,
one portion.
4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, Manasseh,
one portion.
5 And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side, Ephraim,
one portion.
6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side,
Reuben, one portion.
7 And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side, Judah,
one portion.
8 And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be
the oblation which ye shall offer, five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth,
and in length as one of the portions, from the east side unto the west side:
and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.
9 The oblation that ye shall offer unto Jehovah shall be five and twenty thousand
reeds in length, and ten thousand in breadth.
10 And for these, even for the priests, shall be the holy oblation: toward the
north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in
breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five
and twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of Jehovah shall be in the
midst thereof.
11 It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, that
have kept my charge, that went not astray when the children of Israel went astray,
as the Levites went astray.
12 And it shall be unto them an oblation from the oblation of the land, a thing
most holy, by the border of the Levites.
13 And answerable unto the border of the priests, the Levites shall have five
and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall
be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
14 And they shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first-fruits
of the land be alienated; for it is holy unto Jehovah.
15 And the five thousand that are left in the breadth, in front of the five
and twenty thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and
for suburbs; and the city shall be in the midst thereof.
16 And these shall be the measures thereof: the north side four thousand and
five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the
east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and
five hundred.
17 And the city shall have suburbs: toward the north two hundred and fifty,
and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred
and fifty, and toward the west two hundred and fifty.
18 And the residue in the length, answerable unto the holy oblation, shall be
ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it shall be answerable
unto the holy oblation; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them
that labor in the city.
19 And they that labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall till
it.
20 All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand:
ye shall offer the holy oblation four-square, with the possession of the city.
21 And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other
of the holy oblation and of the possession of the city; in front of the five
and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and westward in
front of the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, answerable unto
the portions, it shall be for the prince: and the holy oblation and the sanctuary
of the house shall be in the midst thereof.
22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the
city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of
Judah and the border of Benjamin, it shall be for the prince.
23 And as for the rest of the tribes: from the east side unto the west side,
Benjamin, one portion.
24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side, Simeon,
one portion.
25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side, Issachar,
one portion.
26 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun,
one portion.
27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side, Gad,
one portion.
28 And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be
even from Tamar unto the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, unto
the great sea.
29 This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for
inheritance, and these are their several portions, saith the Lord Jehovah.
30 And these are the egresses of the city: On the north side four thousand and
five hundred reeds by measure;
31 and the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel,
three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the
gate of Levi, one.
32 And at the east side four thousand and five hundred reeds, and three gates:
even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.
33 And at the south side four thousand and five hundred reeds by measure, and
three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of
Zebulun, one.
34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred reeds, with their three gates:
the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.
35 It shall be eighteen thousand reeds round about: and the name of the city
from that day shall be, Jehovah is there.
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