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"And when you divide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer an allotment to the LORD, a holyportion of the land; the length shall be the length of 25,000** cubits, and the width shall be 20,000*. It shall be holy within all its boundaryroundabout.
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"It shall be the holyportion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who comenear to minister to the LORD, and it shall be a place for their houses and a holyplace for the sanctuary.
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"An area 25,000** cubits in length and 10,000* in width shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, and for their possession cities to dwell in.
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"You shall give the citypossession of an area 5,000* cubits wide and 25,000** cubits long, alongside the allotment of the holyportion; it shall be for the wholehouse of Israel.
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"The prince shall have land on eitherside of the holyallotment and the property of the city, adjacent* to the holyallotment and the property of the city, on the westside toward the west and on the eastside toward the east, and in lengthcomparable to one of the portions, from the westborder to the eastborder.
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"This shall be his land for a possession in Israel; so My princes shall nolongeroppress My people, but they shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes."
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'Thussays the LordGOD, "Enough, you princes of Israel; putawayviolence and destruction, and practicejustice and righteousness. Stop your expropriations from My people," declares the LordGOD.
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"The ephah and the bath shall be the samequantity, so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer and the ephah a tenth of a homer; their standard shall be according to the homer.
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and the prescribedportion of oil (namely, the bath of oil ), a tenth of a bath from each kor (which is tenbaths or a homer, for tenbaths are a homer );
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and onesheep from each flock of two hundred from the wateringplaces of Israel -for a grain offering, for a burntoffering and for peaceofferings, to makeatonement for them," declares the LordGOD.
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"It shall be the prince'spart to provide the burntofferings, the grain offerings and the drinkofferings, at the feasts, on the newmoons and on the sabbaths, at all the appointedfeasts of the house of Israel; he shall provide the sinoffering, the grain offering, the burntoffering and the peaceofferings, to makeatonement for the house of Israel."
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"The priest shall takesome of the blood from the sinoffering and put it on the doorposts of the house, on the fourcorners of the ledge of the altar and on the posts of the gate of the innercourt.
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"During the sevendays of the feast he shall provide as a burntoffering to the LORDsevenbulls and sevenramswithoutblemish on everyday of the sevendays, and a malegoatdaily for a sinoffering.
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"In the seventh month, on the fifteenth*day of the month, at the feast, he shall provide like this, sevendays for the sinoffering, the burntoffering, the grain offering and the oil."