Ezekiel 45

1-9 The Holy District

1-5 An area of 25,000 cubits long and 20,000 cubits wide is to be set aside for a holy district, with a plot of 500 by 500 cubits for the sanctuary. Half the district (25,000 by 10,000) will be for the sanctuary and the priests and their houses, and the other half for the Levites who minister at the temple.

6 Beside this area will be another portion of 25,000 cubits by 5,000 that will belong to the whole house of Israel.

7-9 The prince will own the land around the holy district. He shall not interfere with the land that belongs to the tribes. His princes are to stop oppressing the people and evicting them from their tribal lands.

10-12 Weights and Measures

You shall have a standard measure for an ephah (1/10 homer), a bath (1/10 homer), the homer, the shekel (20 gerahs). A mina is a 20-shekel piece plus a 25-shekel piece plus a 15-shekel piece, or 60 shekels.According to commentator John Gill, an ephah was for measuring dry goods, a bath for liquid.

13-17 Offerings

13-16 All people, with the prince, are to give 1/6 ephah from each homer of wheat and barley, 1/10 bath from each cor (which is 10 baths), 1 sheep from every 200 – for grain, burnt and peace offerings.

17 The prince shall offer burnt, grain and drink offerings at festivals, new moons and sabbaths on behalf of all the people.

18-25 Festivals

18-20 1st month, 1st day – offer unblemished bull whose blood the priest will put on temple doorposts, altar and inner court. 1st month, 7th day – the same for one who sins out of ignorance, to atone for the temple.

21-25 1st month, 14th day – Passover and 7 days of unleavened bread. The prince shall offer a young bull for a sin offering, and each day for 7 days 7 young bulls and 7 rams and a male goat for sin offering, grain offering of an ephah and hin of oil for each bull and ram.

25 7th month, 15th day, and for 7 days, the same provisions for sin, burnt and grain offerings and oil.