Moff EZE Chapter 45

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45 When you are dividing up the land you must set apart a sacred district for the Eternal, eight and a third miles long and six and two-thirds miles broad, the whole extent of which is to be sacred. 3 Measure off from this a strip for the priests who serve in the sanctuary, who approach the Eternal in his service; 4 it shall contain their houses and their grounds, 2 and cover ground eight and a third miles long, and three and a third miles broad, within which shall stand the sacred sanctuary on a square plot of two hundred and ninety yards, surrounded by an enclosure of twenty-nine yards. 5 Another strip eight and a third miles long and three and a third miles broad shall belong to the Levites who serve the temple; they are to have that land for their townships 6 Then the city is to have a strip of land eight and a third miles long and a mile and two-thirds broad, alongside of the sacred reservation; this shall belong to the whole of Israel. 7 The prince is to hold the whole of the land east and west of the sacred reservation and of the city-land, on both sides, corresponding in length to one of the clan-zones and stretching from the western to the eastern frontier. 8 Such is to be his holding in Israel. No prince shall oppress my people in future; Israel is to hold the land according to its clans.

9 Here are the orders of the Lord the Eternal: Enough, O princes of Israel! Cease harrying and despoiling the people, enforce law and justice, relieve my people of your evictions, says the Lord the Eternal. 10 You must have just balances, just dry and liquid measures; 11 the dry homer and the liquid bath must be of the same standard, the bath containing a tenth of the liquid homer, and the ephah a tenth of the dry homer, the homer being the standard of measurement. 12 The shekel is to be twenty gerahs; five shekels are to count five, ten shekels ten, and the maneh is to be fifty shekels. 13 By way of dues, one- sixth of every bushel of wheat is to be set aside, with one-sixth of every bushel of barley, 14 and a proportion of oil amounting to one per cent., 15 with one lamb out of every two hundred; all the families of Israel shall make this contribution for the cereal-offering, the burnt-offering, and the recompense-offering, by way of expiation, says the Lord Eternal; 16 the entire population must offer this contribution to the prince in Israel, 17 and it shall be the prince’s duty to provide the burnt-offering, the cereal-offering, and the libation; at the festivals, at every new moon, and on the sabbaths, at all the great occasions in Israel, he shall provide the sin-offering, the cereal-offering, the burnt-offering, and the recompense-offering, by way of expiation for Israel. 18 Here are the orders of the Lord the Eternal: On the first day of the first month you must take an unblemished bullock to purify the sanctuary; 19 the priest is to take some of the blood from the sin- offering and smear the door-posts of the temple, the four corners of/the ledge of the altar, and the posts at the gateways of the inner court. 20 This must be repeated on the first day of the seventh month, for anyone who has erred inadvertently or by mistake; so shall you make expiation for the temple. 21 On the fourteenth day of the first month you shall hold the festival of passover, eating unleavened bread for seven days; 22 and on that day the prince shall provide a bullock as a sin-offering for himself and for the entire population, 23 while during the seven days of the festival he shall provide every day a sacrifice for the Eternal consisting of seven bullocks and seven rams, all unblemished, besides a he-goat as a sin-offering every day. 24 He must also provide, by way of cereal-offering, a bushel of grain for every bullock, a bushel of grain for every ram, and a gallon and a half of oil with every bushel. 25 On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, he must do the same, for seven days at the festival, providing for the sin-offering, the burnt-offering, the cereal-offering, and the oil.”

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