“When you allot the land as an inheritance, you shall set apart
for the LORD a portion of the land as a holy district, 25,000
cubits long and 20,000 cubits broad. It shall be holy throughout
its whole extent. Of this a square plot of 500 by 500 cubits shall
be for the sanctuary, with fifty cubits for an open space around
it. And from this measured district you shall measure off a section
25,000 cubits long and 10,000 broad, in which shall be the
sanctuary, the Most Holy Place. It shall be the holy portion of the
land. It shall be for the priests, who minister in the sanctuary
and approach the LORD to minister to him, and it shall be a place
for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. Another
section, 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits broad, shall be for
the Levites who minister at the temple, as their possession for
cities to live in.
“Alongside the portion set apart as the holy district you shall
assign for the property of the city an area 5,000 cubits broad and
25,000 cubits long. It shall belong to the whole house of Israel.
“And to the prince shall belong the land on both sides of the
holy district and the property of the city, alongside the holy
district and the property 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 of the land. It
is to be his property in Israel. And my princes shall no more
oppress my people, but they shall let the house of Israel have the
land according to their tribes.
“Thus says the Lord GOD: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away
violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness.
Cease your evictions of my people, declares the Lord GOD.
“You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath. 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. The shekel shall be
twenty gerahs; twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen
shekels shall be your mina.
“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, and as the fixed portion of oil, measured in baths, one
tenth of a bath from each cor (the cor, like the homer, contains
ten baths). And one sheep from every flock of two hundred, from the
watering places of Israel for grain offering, burnt offering, and
peace offerings, to make atonement for them, declares the Lord GOD.
All the people of the land shall be obliged to give this offering
to the prince in Israel. It shall be the prince's duty to furnish
the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings, at the
feasts, the new moons, and the Sabbaths, all the appointed feasts
of the house of Israel: he shall provide the sin offerings, grain
offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement
on behalf of the house of Israel.
“Thus says the Lord GOD: In the first month, on the first day of
the month, you shall take a bull from the herd without blemish, and
purify the sanctuary. 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. 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.
“In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you
shall celebrate the Feast of the Passover, and for seven days
unleavened bread shall be eaten. On that day the prince shall
provide for himself and all the people of the land a young bull for
a sin offering. And on the seven days of the festival he shall
provide as a burnt offering to the LORD seven young bulls and seven
rams without blemish, on each of the seven days; and a male goat
daily for a sin offering. And 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. In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month
and for the seven days of the feast, he shall make the same
provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, and grain offerings,
and for the oil.
