Ezekiel 48
1 And these are the names of the
tribes from the northern corner, on the side of the descent that draws a line
to the entrance of Emath the palace of Ælam, the border of Damascus northward
on the side of Emath the palace; and they shall have the eastern parts as far
as the sea, for Dan, one portion.
2 And from the borders of Dan eastward
as far as the west sea-coast, for Asser, one.
3 And from the borders of Asser, from
the eastern parts as far as the west coasts, for Nephthalim, one.
4 And from the borders of Nephthalim,
from the east as far as the west coasts, for Manasse, one.
5 And from the borders of Manasse,
from the eastern parts as far as the west coasts, for Ephraim, one.
6 And from the borders of Ephraim,
from the eastern parts to the west coasts, for Ruben, one.
7 And from the borders of Ruben, from
the eastern parts as far as the west coasts, for Juda, one.
8 And from the borders of Juda, from
the eastern parts shall be the offering of first-fruits, in breadth
twenty-five thousand reeds, and in length as one of
the portions measured from the east even to the
western parts: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of them.
9 As for the
first-fruits which they shall offer to the Lord,
it shall be in length twenty-five thousand, and in
breadth twenty-five thousand. 10 Out
of this shall be the first-fruits of the holy things to the priests,
northward, five and twenty-thousand, and towards the west, ten thousand, and
southward, five and twenty thousand: and the mountain of the sanctuary, shall
be in the midst of it, 11 for the
priests, for the consecrated sons of Sadduc, who keep the charges of the
house, who erred not in the error of the children of Israel, as the Levites
erred. 12 And the first-fruits shall
be given to them out of the first-fruits of the land,
even a most holy portion from the borders of the
Levites.
13 And the Levites
shall have the part, next to
the borders of the priests, in length twenty-five thousand, and in breadth ten
thousand: the whole length shall be five and twenty
thousand, and the breadth twenty thousand.
14 No
part of it shall be sold, nor measured
as for sale, neither shall the first-fruits of the
land be taken away: for they are holy to the Lord.
15 But
concerning the five thousand that remain in the
breadth in the five and twenty thousand, they shall be a suburb to the city
for dwelling, and for a space before it: and the city shall be in the midst
thereof. 16 And these
shall be its dimensions; from the northern side four
thousand and five hundred, and from the southern side four thousand and five
hundred, and from the eastern side four thousand and five hundred, and from
the western side they shall measure four thousand
five hundred. 17 And there shall be a
space to the city northward two hundred and fifty, and southward two hundred
and fifty, and eastward two hundred and fifty, and westward two hundred and
fifty.
18 And the remainder of the length
that is next to the first-fruits of the holy
portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten
thousand westward: and they shall be the first-fruits of the sanctuary; and
the fruits thereof shall be for bread to them that labour for the city.
19 And they that labour for the city
shall labour for it out of all the tribes of Israel.
20 The whole offering
shall be a square of twenty-five thousand by
twenty-five thousand: ye shall separate again part of
it, the first-fruits of the sanctuary, from the possession of the city.
21 And the prince
shall have the remainder on this side and on that
side from the first-fruits of the sanctuary, and
there shall be a possession of the city, for five and
twenty thousand cubits in length, to the eastern and western borders, for five
and twenty thousand to the western borders, next to the portions of the
prince; and the first-fruits of the holy things and the sanctuary of the house
shall be in the midst of it.
22 And there shall be
a portion taken from the Levites, from the possession
of the city in the midst of the princes between the borders of Juda and the
borders of Benjamin, and it shall be the portion of
the princes.
23 And
as for the rest of the tribes, from the eastern parts
as far as the western, Benjamin shall have one
portion.
24 And from the borders of Benjamin,
from the eastern parts to the western, Symeon, one.
25 And from the borders of Symeon,
from the eastern parts to the western, Issachar, one.
26 And from the borders of Issachar,
from the eastern parts to the western, Zabulon, one.
27 And from the borders of Zabulon,
from the east to the western parts, Gad, one.
28 And from the borders of Gad, from
the eastern to the south-western parts; his coasts shall even be from Thæman,
and the water of Barimoth Cades, for an inheritance, unto the great sea.
29 This is the land, which ye shall
divide by lot to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, saith the
Lord God.
30 And these are the goings out of
the city northward, four thousand and five hundred by measure.
31 And the gates of the city
shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel:
three gates northward; the gate of Ruben, one, and the gate of Juda, one, and
the gate of Levi, one. 32 And
eastward four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; the gate of Joseph,
one, and the gate of Benjamin, one, and the gate of Dan, one.
33 And southward, four thousand and
five hundred by measure: and three gates; the gate of Symeon, one, and the
gate of Issachar, one, and the gate of Zabulon, one.
34 And westward, four thousand and
five hundred by measure: and three gates; the gate of
Gad, one, and the gate of Asser, one, and the gate of Nephthalim, one.
35 The circumference, eighteen
thousand measures: and the name of the city, from the
day that it shall be finished, shall be the name thereof.