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Ezekiel 45:11“‘When you allot the land as an inheritance, you will offer an allotment to the Lord, a holy portion from the land; the length will be 8¼ miles and the width 3⅓ miles. This entire area will be holy.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 48:29Num 34:13Zech 14:20-21Ezek 45:2-7Ezek 47:21-22Ezek 48:8-23Josh 13:6Josh 14:2Lev 25:23Prov 3:9
Ezekiel 45:22Of this area a square 875 feet by 875 feet will be designated for the sanctuary, with 87½ feet set aside for its open space round about.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 42:16-20Ezek 27:28
Ezekiel 45:33From this measured area you will measure a length of 8¼ miles and a width of 3⅓ miles; in it will be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 48:10
Ezekiel 45:44It will be a holy portion of the land; it will be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary who approach the Lord to minister to him. It will be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 40:45Ezek 43:19Num 16:5Ezek 44:13-14Ezek 44:28Ezek 45:1Ezek 48:10-11
Ezekiel 45:55An area 8¼ miles in length and 3⅓ miles in width will be for the Levites, who minister at the temple, as the place for the cities in which they will live.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 48:131 Chr 9:26-331 Cor 9:13-14Ezek 40:17Ezek 48:10Ezek 48:20Neh 10:38-39
Ezekiel 45:66“‘Alongside the portion set apart as the holy allotment, you will allot for the city an area 1⅔ miles wide and 8¼ miles long; it will be for the whole house of Israel.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 48:15-18Ezek 48:30-35
Ezekiel 45:77“‘For the prince there will be land on both sides of the holy allotment and the allotted city, on the west side and on the east side; it will be comparable in length to one of the portions, from the west border to the east borderCopy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 48:21Ezek 34:24Ezek 37:24Ezek 46:16-18Isa 9:5-6Luke 1:32-33Ps 2:8-9
Ezekiel 45:88of the land. This will be his property in Israel. My princes will no longer oppress my people, but the land will be allotted to the house of Israel according to their tribes.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 46:18Isa 11:3-5Ezek 22:27Jer 23:5Josh 11:23Ezek 19:3Ezek 19:7Isa 32:1-2Isa 60:17-18Jer 22:17
Ezekiel 45:99“‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Enough, you princes of Israel! Put away violence and destruction and do what is just and right. Put an end to your evictions of my people, declares the Sovereign Lord.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Zech 8:16Ezek 44:6Isa 1:17Jer 22:31 Pet 4:31 Cor 6:7-8Ezek 43:14-16Job 20:19Job 22:9Job 24:2-12
Ezekiel 45:1010You must use just balances, a just dry measure (an ephah), and a just liquid measure (a bath).Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 8:4-6Deut 25:15Lev 19:35-36Mic 6:10-11Prov 11:1Prov 20:10Prov 16:11Prov 21:3Isa 5:10
Ezekiel 45:1111The dry and liquid measures will be the same: The bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 5:10
Ezekiel 45:1212The shekel will be twenty gerahs. Sixty shekels will be a mina for you.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 30:13Lev 27:25Num 3:47
Ezekiel 45:1313“‘This is the offering you must offer: a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat, a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Ezekiel 45:1414and as the prescribed portion of olive oil, one-tenth of a bath from each cor (which is ten baths or a homer, for ten baths make a homer);Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Ezekiel 45:1515and one sheep from each flock of 200, from the watered places of Israel, for a grain offering, burnt offering, and peace offering, to make atonement for them, declares the Sovereign Lord.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 1:4Lev 6:302 Cor 5:19-21Col 1:21Dan 9:24Eph 2:16Heb 2:17Heb 9:22-23Mal 1:14Mal 1:8
Ezekiel 45:1616All the people of the land will contribute to this offering for the prince of Israel.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 30:14-15Isa 16:1
Ezekiel 45:1717It will be the duty of the prince to provide the burnt offerings, the grain offering, and the drink offering at festivals, on the new moons and Sabbaths, at all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel; he will provide the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 31:3Ezek 46:4-12Isa 66:231 Kgs 8:63-642 Chr 30:24Ezek 43:27Lev 23:1-44Num 28:1-291 Chr 16:2-31 Chr 29:3-9
Ezekiel 45:1818“‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you must take an unblemished young bull and purify the sanctuary.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 16:16Exod 12:2Ezek 43:22Heb 9:14Lev 16:33Lev 22:20Ezek 43:261 Pet 1:19Heb 10:19-22Heb 10:3-4
Ezekiel 45:1919The priest will take some of the blood of the sin offering and place it on the doorpost of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the doorpost of the gate of the inner court.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 43:20Ezek 43:14Lev 16:18-20Ezek 43:17
Ezekiel 45:2020This is what you must do on the seventh day of the month for anyone who sins inadvertently or through ignorance; so you will make atonement for the temple.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 19:12Ezek 45:15Ezek 45:18Lev 16:20Lev 4:27-35Heb 5:2Rom 16:18-19
Ezekiel 45:2121“‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you will celebrate the Passover, and for the seven days of the festival bread made without yeast will be eaten.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 23:5-81 Cor 5:7-8Deut 16:1-8Exod 12:1-51Num 28:16-25Num 9:2-14
Ezekiel 45:2222On that day the prince will provide for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 4:142 Cor 5:21Matt 20:28Matt 26:26-28
Ezekiel 45:2323And during the seven days of the feast he will provide as a burnt offering to the Lord seven bulls and seven rams, all without blemish, on each of the seven days, and a male goat daily for a sin offering.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 42:8Lev 23:8Num 23:1-2Heb 10:8-12Num 28:15-31Num 29:11-38Num 29:5
Ezekiel 45:2424He will provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull, an ephah for each ram, and a gallon of olive oil for each ephah of grain.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 46:5-7Num 28:12-15
Ezekiel 45:2525In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he will make the same provisions for the sin offering, burnt offering, and grain offering, and for the olive oil, for the seven days.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 23:33-43Num 29:12-382 Chr 5:32 Chr 7:8-10Deut 16:13-15John 7:2John 7:37-39Neh 8:14-18Zech 14:16-19
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