Consecration of the Land

1“ And in your⁺ allotting the land as an inheritance, you⁺ shall set apart a contribution to YHWH, a holy portion of the land; its length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the width twenty thousand.† It is holy in all its borders all around.

2There shall be from this for the sanctuary five hundred by five hundred,† a square plot, around, with fifty cubits† open space for it all around.

3And from this measure, you shall measure a length of five and twenty thousand, and a width of ten thousand;† and in it will be the sanctuary, the Holy of Holies.† 4It is a holy portion of the land; it is for the priests ministering in the sanctuary, who draw near to minister to YHWH; and it shall be unto them a place for houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.

5And five and twenty thousand long, and ten thousand wide, shall be unto the Levites ministering in the temple, as a possession for them, twenty towns in which to live.†

6And as the possession of the city you⁺ shall give five thousand wide, with a length of five and twenty thousand,† adjacent to the portion of the holy portion; it shall be unto all of the house of Israel.

The Prince’s Portion

7And for the prince, on this side and on this side of the portion of the holy area, and of the possession of the city, toward the faces of the portion of the holy area, and toward the faces of the property of the city, from the west side westward, from the east side eastward; and the length is parallel to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border 8of the land. It will be unto him as a possession in Israel.

And My princes will not oppress My people anymore, and the land they will give to the house of Israel according to their tribes. 9Thus says the Lord YHWH: ‘Enough to you⁺, O princes of Israel, turn aside violence and destruction and do justice and righteousness. Stop your⁺ evictions upon My people, a declaration of the Lord YHWH.’

Honest Scales
(Deuteronomy 25:13–16; Proverbs 11:1–3)

10Just balances and a just ephah† and a just bath† shall be unto you⁺.

11The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, the bath to bear a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer. Their measure will be according to the homer.†

12And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs;† twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, ten and five shekels,† will be unto you⁺ the mina.

Offerings and Feasts

13This is the offering that you⁺ shall offer: A sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley.† 14And the ordinance for the oil, the bath of oil, is a tenth of a bath from each kor† (a homer is ten baths, for ten baths are a homer); 15and will be one lamb from the flock, from two hundred, from the watering places of Israel, for each grain offering, and burnt offering, and peace offering, to make atonement upon them, a declaration of the Lord YHWH.

16All the people of the land shall be toward this offering for the prince in Israel. 17And concerning the prince, it shall be the burnt offerings and the grain offering and the drink offering, at the feasts and the New Moons and the Sabbaths and at all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel; he shall prepare the sin offering,† and the grain offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.

18Thus says the Lord YHWH: ‘In the first month, on the first of the month, you shall take a bull, a son of the herd, unblemished, and cleanse the sanctuary. 19And the priest shall take from the blood of the sin offering, and put it onto the doorposts of the temple, and onto the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and onto the doorposts of the gate of the inner court. 20And so you shall do on the seventh of the month, for each man who has sinned unintentionally or in ignorance, and you⁺ will make atonement for the temple.

21In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, will be for you⁺ the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten. 22And the prince shall prepare on that day, for himself and for all the people of the land, a bull as a sin offering. 23And on the seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to YHWH, seven bulls and seven rams unblemished day by day—seven days—and a sin offering, a kid of the goats, day by day. 24And a grain offering of one ephah for each bull, and one ephah for each ram he shall prepare, and a hin of oil for each ephah.† 25In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, during the feast,† he shall do like these seven days, for the sin offering, for the burnt offering, and the grain offering, and the oil.’

Footnotes:

1 LXX; the holy portion was to be approximately 8.3 miles long and 6.6 miles wide (13.3 kilometers long and 10.7 kilometers wide). Hebrew 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 wide. See also verses 3 and 5 and Ezekiel 48:9.
2 500 (long) cubits is approximately 875 feet or 266.7 meters.
2 50 (long) cubits is approximately 87.5 feet or 26.7 meters.
3 The portion was to be approximately 8.3 miles long and 3.3 miles wide (13.3 kilometers long and 5.3 kilometers wide); similarly in verse 5.
3 Or the Most Holy Place
5 LXX; Hebrew their possession, twenty chambers
6 The property of the city was to be approximately 1.7 miles wide and 8.3 miles long (2.7 kilometers wide and 13.3 kilometers long).
10 An ephah is a dry measure of approximately 20 dry quarts or 22 liters.
10 A bath was a liquid measure of approximately 5.8 gallons or 22 liters.
11 A homer was a dry measure of approximately 6.24 bushels or 220 liters; also in verses 13 and 14.
12 20 gerahs is equivalent to one shekel (approximately 0.4 ounces or 11.4 grams).
12 That is, 60 shekels total; elsewhere, the common mina was 50 shekels. Sixty shekels weighed approximately 1.5 pounds or 683.8 grams.
13 That is, a sixtieth of the harvest of wheat and of barley; a sixth of an ephah was approximately 3.3 dry quarts or 3.7 liters.
14 That is, one percent of one’s oil; a tenth of a bath was approximately 2.3 quarts or 2.2 liters.
17 Or purification offering; also in verses 19, 22, 23, and 25
24 A hin of oil for each ephah is approximately 0.97 gallons or 3.67 liters of oil for each ephah of grain
25 That is, Sukkot, the autumn feast of pilgrimage to Jerusalem; also translated as the Feast of Tabernacles or the Feast of Shelters and originally called the Feast of Ingathering (see Exodus 23:16 and Exodus 34:22).