Ezekiel 45

1“‘“Moreover, when you divide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer an offering to Yahweh, a holy portion of the land. The length shall be the length of twenty-five thousand reeds, and the width shall be ten thousand. It shall be holy in all its border all around.Cross-references: Lev 25:23 · Num 34:13 · Josh 13:6 · Josh 14:2 · Ps 16:5 · Prov 3:9 · +5 more

2Of this there shall be a five hundred by five hundred square for the holy place, and fifty cubits for its pasture lands all around.Cross-references: Ezek 27:28 · Ezek 42:16

3Of this measure you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand, and a width of ten thousand. In it shall be the sanctuary, which is most holy.Cross-references: Ezek 48:10

4It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to Yahweh. It shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.Cross-references: Num 16:5 · Ezek 40:45 · Ezek 43:19 · Ezek 44:13 · Ezek 44:28 · Ezek 45:1 · +1 more

5Twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in width shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, as a possession for themselves, for twenty rooms.Cross-references: 1Chr 9:26 · Neh 10:38 · Ezek 40:17 · Ezek 48:10 · Ezek 48:13 · Ezek 48:20 · +1 more

6“‘“You shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand long, side by side with the offering of the holy portion. It shall be for the whole house of Israel.Cross-references: Ezek 48:15 · Ezek 48:30

7“‘“What is for the prince shall be on the one side and on the other side of the holy allotment and of the possession of the city, in front of the holy allotment and in front of the possession of the city, on the west side westward, and on the east side eastward, and in length corresponding to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.Cross-references: Ps 2:8 · Isa 9:5 · Ezek 34:24 · Ezek 37:24 · Ezek 46:16 · Ezek 48:21 · +1 more

8In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel. My princes shall no more oppress my people, but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.”Cross-references: Josh 11:23 · Prov 28:16 · Isa 11:3 · Isa 32:1 · Isa 60:17 · Jer 22:17 · +10 more

9“‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Enough, you princes of Israel! Remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness! Stop dispossessing my people!” says the Lord Yahweh.Cross-references: Neh 5:1 · Job 20:19 · Job 22:9 · Job 24:2 · Ps 82:2 · Isa 1:17 · +9 more

10“You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.Cross-references: Lev 19:35 · Deut 25:15 · Prov 11:1 · Prov 16:11 · Prov 20:10 · Prov 21:3 · +3 more

11The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer. Its measure shall be the same as the homer.Cross-references: Isa 5:10

12The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.Cross-references: Ex 30:13 · Lev 27:25 · Num 3:47

13“‘“This is the offering that you shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of wheat, and you shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of barley,

14and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, one tenth of a bath out of the cor, which is ten baths, even a homer (for ten baths are a homer),

15and one lamb of the flock out of two hundred, from the well-watered pastures of Israel—for a meal offering, for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them,” says the Lord Yahweh.Cross-references: Lev 1:4 · Lev 6:30 · Prov 3:9 · Dan 9:24 · Mal 1:8 · Mal 1:14 · +6 more

16“All the people of the land shall give to this offering for the prince in Israel.Cross-references: Ex 30:14 · Isa 16:1

17It shall be the prince’s part to give the burnt offerings, the meal offerings, and the drink offerings, in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, the meal offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.”Cross-references: Lev 23:1 · Num 28:1 · 2Sam 6:19 · 1Ki 8:63 · 1Chr 16:2 · 1Chr 29:3 · +24 more

18“‘The Lord Yahweh says: “In the first month, on the first day of the month, you shall take a young bull without defect, and you shall cleanse the sanctuary.Cross-references: Ex 12:2 · Lev 16:16 · Lev 16:33 · Lev 22:20 · Num 28:11 · Ezek 43:22 · +8 more

19The priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the door posts of the house, and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner court.Cross-references: Lev 16:18 · Ezek 43:14 · Ezek 43:17 · Ezek 43:20

20So you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who errs, and for him who is simple. So you shall make atonement for the house.Cross-references: Lev 4:27 · Lev 16:20 · Ps 19:12 · Ezek 45:15 · Ezek 45:18 · Rom 16:18 · +1 more

21“‘“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.Cross-references: Ex 12:1 · Lev 23:5 · Num 9:2 · Num 28:16 · Deut 16:1 · 1Cor 5:7

22On that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.Cross-references: Lev 4:14 · Matt 20:28 · Matt 26:26 · 2Cor 5:21

23The seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to Yahweh, seven bulls and seven rams without defect daily the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering.Cross-references: Lev 23:8 · Num 23:1 · Num 28:15 · Num 29:5 · Num 29:11 · Job 42:8 · +1 more

24He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bull, an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah.Cross-references: Num 28:12 · Ezek 46:5

25“‘“In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, during the feast, he shall do like that for seven days. He shall make the same provision for sin offering, the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the oil.”Cross-references: Lev 23:33 · Num 29:12 · Deut 16:13 · 2Chr 5:3 · 2Chr 7:8 · Neh 8:14 · +3 more