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you allot the land as an inheritance, you must set aside a portion for the Lord as a sacred district, twenty-five thousand cubits long and twenty thousand cubits wide. This entire area will be holy. 2 Of this, a square plot of land will be for the sanctuary, five hundred cubits by five hundred cubits, with an open space around it fifty cubits wide. 3 In the sacred district, you are to measure off a section twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand cubits wide. This will be for the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place. 4 It will be a sacred portion of the land, to be used by the priests who minister in the sanctuary, who draw near to minister before the Lord. It will be a place for their houses, as well as holy ground for the sanctuary. 5 Another area twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand cubits wide will belong to the Levites who minister in the temple. It will be their possession for towns to live in.
6 “Alongside the sacred portion of ground, you must set aside an area as the space for the city five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand cubits long; it will belong to the whole house of Israel.
7 “To the prince will belong an area of land bordering both sides of the sector formed by the sacred district and the property for the city. It will extend westward on the west side, and eastward on the east side. Its length will correspond to one of the tribal portions from the western boundary to the eastern boundary. 8 This land will be his possession in Israel. And my princes must not oppress My people any longer, but they must leave the rest of the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes”.
9 ‘This is what the Lord God says: “Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing My people”, says the Lord God.
10 “You shall use honest scales—an honest ephah, and an accurate bath. 11 The ephah and the bath are to be the same measure, so that the bath contains a tenth of a homer and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer is to be the standard measure for both. 12 The shekel is to weigh of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels and ten plus five shekels equal one mina.
13 “This is the contribution you are to make: a sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat and a sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley. 14 The due portion of olive oil, with the oil measured by the bath, will be a tenth of a bath from each kor. A kor is equal to ten baths or one homer, for ten baths are equivalent to a homer. 15 And the due contribution from the flock is one sheep of every two hundred, from the rich pastures of Israel. These will be used for the grain offerings, burnt offerings, and fellowship offerings, to make atonement for the people”, says the Lord God.
16 “All the people of the land must participate in this contribution for the prince in Israel. 17 Then it will be the obligation of the prince to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings, at the festivals, New Moons, and the Sabbaths—for all the appointed festivals of the house of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings, the grain offerings, the burnt offerings, and the fellowship offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel”.
18 ‘This is what the Lord God says: “In the first month, on the first day of the month, you are to take a young bull without defect and cleanse the sanctuary. 19 The priest is to take some of the blood of the sin offering and apply it to the doorposts of the temple, to the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and to the gateposts of the gate at the inner court. 20 You must do the same on the seventh day of the month for everyone who sins unintentionally or through ignorance. In this way you will make atonement for the temple.
21 “In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you must observe the Passover, a festival of seven days during which unleavened bread is to be eaten. 22 On that day the prince is to provide a bull as a sin offering for himself and for all the people of the land. 23 During the seven days of the festival, each day he is to provide seven bulls and seven rams without defect, for a burnt offering to the Lord, and a male goat for a sin offering. 24 He will also provide a grain offering of one ephah for each bull and one ephah for each ram, along with a hin of oil for every ephah.
25 “At the festival that begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, he is to make the same provision for seven days—the same sin offerings, the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the oil.”