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1094 Prophecy of Ezechiel

22 Neither shall they take to wife a widow, nor 2 And there shall be for the sanctuary on ev-
one that is divorced, but they shall take virgins ery side five hundred by five hundred, foursquare
of the seed of the house of Israel: but they may round about: and fifty cubits for the suburbs
take a widow also, that is, the widow of a priest. thereof round about.
23 And they shall teach my people the differ- 3 And with this measure thou shalt measure
ence between holy and profane, and shew them the length of five and twenty thousand, and the
how to discern between clean and unclean. breadth of ten thousand, and in it shall be the
24 And when there shall be a controversy, they temple and the holy of holies.
shall stand in my judgments, and shall judge: 4 The holy portion of the land shall be for the
they shall keep my laws, and my ordinances in priests the ministers of the sanctuary, who come
all my solemnities, and sanctify my sabbaths. near to the ministry of the Lord: and it shall be
25 And they shall come near no dead person, a place for their houses, and for the holy place
lest they be defiled, only their father and mother, of the sanctuary.
and son and daughter, and brother and sister, 5 And five and twenty thousand of length, and
that hath not had another husband: for whom ten thousand of breadth shall be for the Levites,
they may become unclean. that minister in the house: they shall possess
26 And after one is cleansed, they shall reckon twenty store chambers.
unto him seven days. 6 And you shall appoint the possession of the
27 And in the day that he goeth into the sanc- city five thousand broad, and five and twenty
tuary, to the inner court, to minister unto me in thousand long, according to the separation of the
the sanctuary, he shall offer for his sin, saith the sanctuary, for the whole house of Israel.
Lord God. 7 For the prince also on the one side and on
28 And they shall have no inheritance, I am the other side, according to the separation of the
their inheritance: neither shall you give them sanctuary, and according to the possession of the
any possession in Israel, for I am their possession. city, over against the separation of the sanctuary,
29 They shall eat the victim both for sin and and over against the possession of the city: from
the side of the sea even to the sea, and from the
for trespass: and every vowed thing in Israel shall
be theirs. side of the east even to the east. And the length
according to every part from the west border to
31 The priests shall not eat of any thing that
the east border.
is dead of itself or caught by a beast, whether it
8 He shall have a portion of the land in Israel:
be fowl or cattle.
and the princes shall no more rob my people:
but they shall give the land to the house of Israel
Chapter 45 according to their tribes:
9 Thus saith the Lord God: Let it suffice you,
And when you shall begin to divide the land by O princes of Israel: cease from iniquity and rob-
lot, separate ye firstfruits to the Lord, a por- beries, and execute judgment and justice, sep-
tion of the land to be holy, in length twenty-five arate your confines from my people, saith the
thousand and in breadth ten thousand: it shall Lord God.
be holy in all the borders thereof round about. 10 You shall have just balances, and a just