Chapter 45
1 "‘"Moreover, when you divide by lot the land for inheritance , you shall offer an offering to the LORD , a holy portion of the land . The length shall be the length of twenty-five thousand reeds, and the width shall be ten thousand. It shall be holy in all its border all around .
2 Of this there shall be a five hundred by five hundred square for the holy place , and fifty cubits for its pasture lands all around .
3 Of this measure you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand, and a width of ten thousand. In it shall be the sanctuary , which is most holy .
4 It is a holy portion of the land ; it shall be for the priests , the ministers of the sanctuary , who come near to minister to the LORD . It shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary .
5 Twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in width shall be for the Levites , the ministers of the house , as a possession for themselves , for twenty rooms .
6 "‘" You shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand long , side by side with the offering of the holy portion . It shall be for the whole house of Israel .
7 "‘" What is for the prince shall be on the one side and on the other side of the holy allotment and of the possession of the city , in front of the holy allotment and in front of the possession of the city , on the west side westward , and on the east side eastward , and in length corresponding to one of the portions , from the west border to the east border .
8 In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel . My princes shall no more oppress my people , but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes ."
9 "‘ The Lord GOD says : " Enough , you princes of Israel ! Remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness ! Stop dispossessing my people !" says the Lord GOD .
10 " You shall have just balances , a just ephah, and a just bath .
11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure , that the bath may contain one tenth of a homer , and the ephah one tenth of a homer . Its measure shall be the same as the homer .
12 The shekel shall be twenty gerahs . Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
13 "‘" This is the offering that you shall offer : the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of wheat , and you shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of barley ,
14 and the set portion of oil , of the bath of oil , one tenth of a bath out of the cor , which is ten baths , even a homer ( for ten baths are a homer ),
15 and one lamb of the flock out of two hundred , from the well-watered pastures of Israel — for a meal offering , for a burnt offering , and for peace offerings , to make atonement for them ," says the Lord GOD .
16 " All the people of the land shall give to this offering for the prince in Israel .
17 It shall be the prince ’s part to give the burnt offerings , the meal offerings , and the drink offerings , in the feasts , and on the new moons , and on the Sabbaths , in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel . He shall prepare the sin offering , the meal offering , the burnt offering , and the peace offerings , to make atonement for the house of Israel ."
18 "‘ The Lord GOD says : " In the first month , on the first day of the month , you shall take a young bull without defect , and you shall cleanse the sanctuary .
19 The priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the door posts of the house , and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar , and on the posts of the gate of the inner court .
20 So you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who errs, and for him who is simple . So you shall make atonement for the house .
21 "‘" In the first month , on the fourteenth day of the month , you shall have the Passover , a feast of seven days ; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
22 On that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering .
23 The seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD , seven bulls and seven rams without defect daily the seven days ; and a male goat daily for a sin offering .
24 He shall prepare a meal offering , an ephah for a bull , an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
25 "‘" In the seventh month , on the fifteenth day of the month , during the feast , he shall do like that for seven days . He shall make the same provision for sin offering , the burnt offering , the meal offering , and the oil ."