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Of this there shall belong to the sanctuary a square plot 500 by 500, and 50 cubits for the open space around it.

And in this sacred section you shall measure off a portion 25,000 [a]cubits in length and 10,000 cubits in breadth. And in it shall be the sanctuary which is most holy.

It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to the Lord; and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place (set apart as sacred) for the sanctuary.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 45:3 The Septuagint (Greek translation of the Old Testament) so reads. The term “cubits” rather than “reeds” is supplied throughout this chapter only as the more probable reading. Neither is definitely designated in the Hebrew.

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