 1 When you make the land fall by lot for inheritance, you shall offer an offering to the Lord, a holy portion of the land. The length shall be 25,000 cubits long and the width 10,000. It must be holy in all its borders all around. 2 Of this there shall be 500 by 500 cubits for the sanctuary, square all around. And 50 cubits around shall be for its open space. 3 From this measure you shall measure the length of 25,000 and the width of 10,000. The sanctuary and the most holy place shall be in it. 4 It is the holy portion of the land for the priests. It will be for the ministers of the sanctuary who come near to minister to the Lord. It will be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. 5 The 25,000 cubits in length, and the 10,000 in width, shall also be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, for themselves for a possession, twenty rooms. 6 You shall give the possession of the city 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 long beside the offering of the holy portion. It will be for the whole house of Israel. 7 A portion shall be for the ruler from here and from there, for the heave offering of the holy place and of the possession of the city in front of the heave offering of the holy place, and to the front of the city's possession, from the west side westward and from the east side eastward. And the length shall be alongside one of the portions, from the west border to the east border. 8 It will be a land to him for a possession in Israel. My rulers will never again oppress my people. They will give the rest of the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes. 9 Thus says the Lord God: Enough for you, O rulers of Israel. Remove violence and spoil, and do judgment and justice. Take away your demands on my people, says the Lord God. 10 You shall have a just balance, a just bushel and a just bath. 11 The bushel and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the bushel the tenth part of a homer. Its measure shall be according to the homer. 12 The shekel shall be 20 gerahs: 20 shekels, 25 shekels, 15 shekels, shall be your maneh. 13 This is the heave offering that you shall offer: the sixth of a bushel of a homer of wheat, and the sixth of a bushel of a homer of barley. 14 As to the statute of oil, the bath of oil, you shall offer the tenth of a bath out of the cor, which is a homer of ten baths. For ten baths are a homer; 15 and one lamb out of the flock, out of 200, out of the watered pasture of Israel. For a food offering, and 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 be at the heave offering for the ruler in Israel. 17 It shall be the ruler's part to give burnt offerings and food offerings and drink offerings in the feasts and in the new moons and in the Sabbaths and in all appointed feasts in the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering and the food offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel. 18 Thus says the Lord God: In the first month, in the first of the month, you shall take a bull without blemish, a son of the herd, and cleanse the sanctuary. 19 The priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the house, and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the gateposts of the inner court. 20 So you shall do on the seventh of the month for each man who goes astray, and for the simple. So you shall atone for the house. 21 In the first month on the fourteenth of the month you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days in which unleavened bread shall be eaten. 22 On that day the ruler shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering. 23 Seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the Lord, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish daily for the seven days, and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering. 24 He shall prepare a food offering of a bushel for a bull and a bushel for a ram and a hin of oil for a bushel. 25 In the seventh month on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast he shall prepare like these seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, according to the food offering, and according to the oil.
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