45:1 “Now when you divide the land by lot for inheritance, you shall offer ①an allotment to the LORD, a holy portion of the land; the length shall be a length of twenty-five thousand ②cubits, and the width shall be ③twenty thousand. It shall be holy within its entire surrounding boundary.
▷ ①Or a contribution ②Each of these cubits equals about 21 in. or 53 cm ③As in LXX; MT 10,000
45:2 Out of this there shall be for the sanctuary a square encompassing five hundred by five hundred cubits, and fifty cubits for its ①open space round about.
▷ ①Or pasture land
45:3 From this ①area you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand cubits and a width of ten thousand cubits; and in it shall be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
▷ ①Lit measure
45:4 It shall be the holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to serve the LORD, and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.
45:5 An area twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in width shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, and for their possession ①cities in which to live.
▷ ①As in LXX; MT twenty chambers
45:6 “And you shall give the city possession of an area five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand cubits long, alongside the ①allotment of the holy portion; it shall be for the entire house of Israel.
▷ ①Or contribution
45:7 “And the prince shall have land on either side of the holy ①allotment and the ②property of the city, adjacent to the holy ③allotment and the ④property 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.
▷ ①Or contribution ②Lit possession ③Or contribution ④Lit possession
45:8 This shall be his land as 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.”
45:9 ‘This is what the Lord ①GOD says: “Enough, you princes of Israel; get rid of violence and destruction, and practice justice and righteousness. Revoke your evictions of My people,” declares the Lord GOD.
▷ ①Heb YHWH, usually rendered LORD, and so throughout the ch
45:10 “You shall have accurate balances, an accurate ①ephah, and an accurate ②bath.
▷ ①I.e., a dry measure, about 1 cubic foot or 0.03 cubic meters ②I.e., a liquid measure, about 6 gallons or 23 liters
45:11 The ephah and the bath shall be ①the same quantity, so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a ②homer; ③their standard shall be according to the homer.
▷ ①Lit one ②About 7.7 cubic feet or 0.22 cubic meters ③Lit its measure
45:12 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
45:13 “This is the offering that you shall offer: a sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat; a sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley;
45:14 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);
45:15 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.
45:16 “All the people of the land shall ①give to this offering for the prince in Israel.
▷ ①Lit be
45:17 And 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.”
45:18 ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: “In the first month, on the first of the month, you shall take a ①bull without blemish and cleanse the sanctuary from sin.
▷ ①Or young bull
45:19 And 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 courtyard.
45:20 And you shall do this on the seventh day of the month for everyone who does wrong inadvertently or is naive; so you shall make atonement for the house.
45:21 “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.
45:22 On that day the prince shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a bull as a sin offering.
45:23 And 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 as a sin offering.
45:24 And he shall provide as a grain offering an ①ephah ②with a bull, an ③ephah ④with a ram, and a ⑤hin of oil ⑥with an ephah.
▷ ①About 1 cubic foot or 0.03 cubic meters ②Lit for ③About 1 cubic foot or 0.03 cubic meters ④Lit for ⑤About 1 gallon or 3.8 liters ⑥Lit for
45:25 In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he shall provide like these, seven days ①for the sin offering, the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the oil.”
▷ ①Lit according to