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Also an area twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand cubits wide will be set aside for the Levites, the servants of the temple, as their possession, to provide them with cities to live in.[a][b]

As the city’s property, you are to assign an area five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand cubits long[c] along one side of the holy contribution.[d] It will belong to the whole house of Israel.

For the prince, an area is to be set aside on both sides of the holy contribution and of the area for the city. It will run alongside the holy contribution and alongside the city’s property. On the west side of the city, it will extend west along the tribal boundaries to the western boundary of the land, and on the east side, it will extend eastward in the same way.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 45:5 The translation follows the Greek text. The Hebrew reads they will have as their possession twenty rooms.
  2. Ezekiel 45:5 This area covers the 40% of the special area that lies south of the area for the priests and the temple.
  3. Ezekiel 45:6 About 1.6 miles by 8.3 miles
  4. Ezekiel 45:6 Along the south side