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1 "'Following is the list of tribes: "'This is Dan's territory: from the north end, through Hetlon to the entrance of Hamat, Hatzar-'Einan (at the border of Dammesek), northward, next to Hamat; and they will have their sides east and west.
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Now these are the names of the tribes: from the north end, from the west on the way of Hethlon to the way into Hamath, in the direction of Hazar-enon, with the limit of Damascus to the north, by Hamath; and on the limit from the east side to the west side: Dan, one part.
2 "'Asher's territory will run alongside the territory of Dan from east to west.
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And on the limit of Dan, from the east side to the west side: Asher, one part.
3 "'Naftali's territory will run alongside the territory of Asher from east to west.
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And on the limit of Asher, from the east side to the west side: Naphtali, one part.
4 "'M'nasheh's territory will run alongside the territory of Naftali from east to west.
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And on the limit of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side: Manasseh, one part.
5 "'Efrayim's territory will run alongside the territory of M'nasheh from east to west.
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And on the limit of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side: Ephraim, one part.
6 "'Re'uven's territory will run alongside the territory of Efrayim from east to west.
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And on the limit of Ephraim, from the east side to the west side: Reuben, one part.
7 "'Y'hudah's territory will run alongside the territory of Re'uven from east to west.
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And on the limit of Reuben, from the east side to the west side: Judah, one part.
8 "'Alongside the territory of Y'hudah, from east to west, will be the offering you are to set aside, 25,000 [cubits] wide [eight miles], and in length equal to distance between the east and west boundaries of one of the portions, with the sanctuary inside it.
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And on the limit of Judah, from the east side to the west side, will be the offering which you are to make, twenty-five thousand wide, and as long as one of the parts, from the east side to the west side: and the holy place will be in the middle of it.
9 The offering you are to set aside for ADONAI is to be eight [miles] long and three wide.
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The offering you will give to the Lord is to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty-five thousand wide.
10 This holy offering will be for the cohanim; it will be eight [miles] in length along its north and south sides and three in width along its west and east sides; ADONAI's sanctuary will be inside it.
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And for these, that is the priests, the holy offering is to be twenty-five thousand long to the north, ten thousand wide to the west, ten thousand wide to the east and twenty-five thousand long to the south; and the holy place of the Lord will be in the middle of it.
11 The portion set aside as holy will be for the cohanim who are descendants of Tzadok that remained faithful to my commission and did not go astray when the people of Isra'el and the L'vi'im went astray.
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For the priests who have been made holy, those of the sons of Zadok who kept the orders I gave them, who did not go out of the right way when the children of Israel went from the way, as the Levites did,
12 It is to be an especially holy portion set apart for them and taken from the offering of the land, next to the border of the L'vi'im.
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Even for them will be the offering from the offering of the land, a thing most holy, on the limit of the land given to the Levites.
13 " 'Alongside the territory for the cohanim, the L'vi'im are to have a portion eight [miles] long and three wide - its total length will be eight and its width three.
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And the Levites are to have a part of the land equal to the limit of the priests', twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide, all of it together to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty thousand wide.
14 They may not sell, exchange or alienate any of this choice land; because it is holy, for ADONAI.
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And they are not to let any of it go for a price, or give it in exchange; and the part of the land given to the Lord is not to go into other hands: for it is holy to the Lord.
15 "'The 5,000 [cubits, that is, the one-and-a-half miles] that are left of the width is to be for the common use of the city, for housing and for open fields. The city will be inside it.
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And the other five thousand, measured from side to side, in front of the twenty-five thousand, is to be for common use, for the town, for living in and for a free space: and the town will be in the middle of it.
16 and will measure 4,500 cubits [just under one-and-a-half miles] along each of its sides - north, south, east and west.
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And these will be its measures: the north side, four thousand five hundred, and the south side, four thousand five hundred, and on the east side, four thousand five hundred, and on the west side, four thousand five hundred.
17 The city is to have outside it a border of land 440 feet wide on each side - north, south, east and west.
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And the town will have a free space on the north of two hundred and fifty, on the south of two hundred and fifty, on the east of two hundred and fifty, and on the west of two hundred and fifty.
18 A strip next to the holy offering extending three [miles] to the east and three to the west is to be left. This area by the holy offering is to be used to grow food for those serving the city.
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And the rest, in measure as long as the holy offering, will be ten thousand to the east and ten thousand to the west: and its produce will be for food for the workers of the town.
19 The people from all the tribes of Isra'el who serve in the city will farm it.
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It will be farmed by workers of the town from all the tribes of Israel.
20 The entire offering will be eight [miles] square, including the section for the city.
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The size of the offering all together is to be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand: you are to make the holy offering a square, together with the property of the town.
21 "'What remains will be for the prince - the land on the two sides of the holy offering and section for the city, that is, the portion eastward from the eight [miles] of the offering's eastern border to the land's eastern border and the portion westward from the eight [miles] of the offering's western border to the land's western border - this land adjacent to the [tribal] portions will be for the prince, with the holy offering and the sanctuary of the house inside it.
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And the rest is to be for the prince, on this side and on that side of the holy offering and of the property of the town, in front of the twenty-five thousand to the east, as far as the east limit, and to the west, in front of the twenty-five thousand, as far as the west limit, and of the same measure as those parts; it will be the property of the prince: and the holy offering and holy place of the house will be in the middle of it.
22 Thus the land belonging to the L'vi'im and the section for the city will be inside that which belongs to the prince. "'The territory belonging to the prince will be between the territory of Y'hudah and the territory of Binyamin -
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And the property of the Levites and the property of the town will be in the middle of the prince's property; between the limit of Judah's part and the limit of Benjamin's part will be for the prince.
23 which brings us to the rest of the tribes: "'Binyamin's territory will run from east to west.
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And as for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side: Benjamin, one part.
24 "'Shim'on's territory will run alongside the territory of Binyamin from east to west.
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And on the limit of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side: Simeon, one part.
25 "'Yissakhar's territory will run alongside the territory of Shim'on from east to west.
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And on the limit of Simeon, from the east side to the west side: Issachar, one part.
26 "'Z'vulun's territory will run alongside the territory of Yissakhar from east to west.
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And on the limit of Issachar, from the east side to the west side: Zebulun, one part.
27 "'Gad's territory will run alongside the territory of Z'vulun from east to west.
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And on the limit of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side: Gad one part.
28 "'Alongside the territory of Gad, from the Negev southward, the border will run from Tamar to the water at M'rivat-Kadesh, then to the Vadi [of Egypt], and on to the Great Sea.
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And on the limit of Gad, on the south side and to the south of it, the limit will be from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the stream, to the Great Sea.
29 This is the land you are to distribute by lot to the tribes of Isra'el for inheritance, and these are their portions,' says Adonai ELOHIM.
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This is the land of which distribution is to be made by the decision of the Lord, among the tribes of Israel for their heritage, and these are their heritages, says the Lord.
30 "'These are the city exits; they are to be named after the tribes of Isra'el, three gates on each of the four sides; the four sides each measure just under one-and-a-half [miles]: on the north, gates named after Re'uven, Y'hudah and Levi; on the east, gates named after Yosef, Binyamin and Dan; on the south, gates named after Shim'on, Yissakhar and Z'vulun; and on the west, gates named after Gad, Asher and Naftali.
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And these are the outskirts of the town: on the north side, four thousand five hundred by measure;
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And the doors of the town are to be named by the names of the tribes of Israel; three doors on the north, one for Reuben, one for Judah, one for Levi;
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And at the east side, four thousand five hundred by measure, and three doors, one for Joseph, one for Benjamin, one for Dan;
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And at the south side, four thousand five hundred by measure, and three doors, one for Simeon, one for Issachar, one for Zebulun;
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At the west side, four thousand five hundred by measure, with their three doors, one for Gad, one for Asher, one for Naphtali.
35 "'The perimeter of [the city] will be just under six [miles] long. And from that day on the name of the city will be ADONAI Shamah [ADONAI is there].'"
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It is to be eighteen thousand all round: and the name of the town from that day will be, The Lord is there.
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