Ezekiel 45 KJV Easy Read Bible

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The Holy District

1Moreover, when you^p shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, you^p shall offer an oblation to the Lord, a holy portion of the land: the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about. offering; Jehovah^s.f.

2Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof. holy place; countryside

3And of this measure shall you measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place.

4The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister to the Lord: and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary.

5And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers.

Properties of the City and the Prince

6And you^p shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, opposite the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.

7And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length shall be over against one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.

8In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and My princes shall no more oppress My people; and the rest of the land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

Laws Governing the Prince

9Thus says the Lord God; Let it suffice you^p, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your^p exactions from My people, says the Lord God. Adonai^p.f. Jehovah^s.f.; destruction; remove your violence

10You^p shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. fair; measurements

11The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

12And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your^p maneh. fixed weight

13This is the oblation that you^p shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of a homer of wheat, and you^p shall give the sixth part of an ephah of a homer of barley:

14Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, you^p shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is a homer of ten baths; for ten baths are a homer:

15And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burned offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, says the Lord God. rich; food

16All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince in Israel.

17And it shall be the prince’s part to give burned offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burned offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.

Keeping the Feasts

18Thus says the Lord God; In the first month, in the first day of the month, you shall take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary: defect

19And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court. ledge

20And so you shall do the seventh day of the month for every one that errs, and for him that is simple: so shall you^p reconcile the house. sins; ignorant

21In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, you^p shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten. yeast-free

22And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.

23And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burned offering to the Lord, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.

24And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil for an ephah.

25In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burned offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil. same

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