Moff EZE Chapter 48

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48 The following are the names of the clans. On the northern frontier from the Mediterranean by Hethlon to the pass of Hamath, as far as Ha-zar-enon, bounded on the north by Hamath, Dan has one zone, from east to west. 2 Next to Dan, from east to west, Asher’s zone; 3 next to Asher, from east to west, 4 Naphtali’s zone; next to Naphtali, from east to west, Manasseh’s zone; 5 next to Manasseh, from east to west, Ephraim’s zone; 6 next to Ephraim, from east to west, Reuben’s zone; 7 next to Reuben, from east to west, Judah’s zone.

8 Next to Judah, from east to west, shall be the reservation which you must set apart, eight and a third miles wide, and as long as one of the clan-zones from east to west; the sanctuary shall stand here. 9 The reservation you must set apart for the Eternal shall be eight and a third miles wide and six and a third miles long. 10 Of this sacred reservation the priests shall have a zone eight and a third miles long from east to west, and three and a third miles wide from north to south, containing the sanctuary of the Eternal; 11 these consecrated priests, the Zadokites, who did their duty to me and did not go astray, as the Levites did, when the Israelites went astray, 12 shall have a special section of the reservation, a most sacred strip, on the southern border of the Levites, 13 whereas the Levites shall have a zone along the northern border of the priests, measuring eight and a third miles long and three and a third miles wide. The entire reservation shall be eight and a third miles long and six and a third miles wide. 14 No part of this choice land is ever to be sold or exchanged or alienated: it is sacred to the Eternal. 15 The remaining section of the reservation, a mile and two-thirds wide and eight and a third miles in length, shall not be sacred; it is for the city with its houses and suburbs, the city lying in the middle.

16 The city shall measure a mile and a half square; 17 its suburbs shall cover a hundred and forty-seven yards on each side of the square, 18 and the remainder of the strip, over three miles on the east and over three miles on the west, stretching along the sacred reservation, shall serve to support the workers in the city, 19 and shall be cultivated by the workers in the city, belonging to all the clans of Israel. 20 The entire reservation, including the city-strip, is to measure seven and a third miles square. 21 The rest of the territory shall belong to the prince, that is, the land on either side of the sacred reservation and of the city-strip, also eight and a third miles broad and running parallel to the zones of the clans—the sacred reservation 22 (with the temple and the Levites’ domain) and the city-strip intersecting it, and the frontier of Judah and Benjamin bounding it. 23 As for the rest of the clans: from east to west, Benjamin’s zone; 24 next to Benjamin, from east to west, Simeon’s zone; 25 next to Simeon, from east to west, 26 Issachar’s zone; next to Issachar, from east to west, 27 Zebulun’s zone; next to Zebulun, from east to west, Gad’s zone; 28 next to Gad, on the south, the frontier shall run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-Kadesh, thence to the Wady-el-Arish, and on to the Mediterranean. 29 Such is the land you are to allot to the clans of Israel as their possession, and such shall be their holdings, says the Lord Eternal. 30 These shall be the dimensions of the city. 31 The gates shall be named after the clans of Israel; 30 on the northern side of a mile and a half, 31 three gates, Reuben, Judah, and Levi; 32 on the eastern side of a mile and a half, three gates, Joseph, Benjamin, and Dan; 33 on the southern side of a mile and a half, three gates, Simeon, Issachar, and Zebulun; 34 and on the western side of a mile and a half, three gates, Gad, Asher, and Naphtali. 35 In circumference it shall measure about six miles. And from that day the city’s name shall be: “The Eternal-there.”

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