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1 These are the names of the tribes: Beginning at the northern border, on the Hethlon road, from Lebo-hamath, as far as Hazar-enon (which is on the border of Damascus, with Hamath to the north), and extending from the east side to the west, Dan, one portion.
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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 Adjoining the territory of Dan, from the east side to the west, Asher, one portion.
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And on the limit of Dan, from the east side to the west side: Asher, one part.
3 Adjoining the territory of Asher, from the east side to the west, Naphtali, one portion.
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And on the limit of Asher, from the east side to the west side: Naphtali, one part.
4 Adjoining the territory of Naphtali, from the east side to the west, Manasseh, one portion.
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And on the limit of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side: Manasseh, one part.
5 Adjoining the territory of Manasseh, from the east side to the west, Ephraim, one portion.
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And on the limit of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side: Ephraim, one part.
6 Adjoining the territory of Ephraim, from the east side to the west, Reuben, one portion.
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And on the limit of Ephraim, from the east side to the west side: Reuben, one part.
7 Adjoining the territory of Reuben, from the east side to the west, Judah, one portion.
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And on the limit of Reuben, from the east side to the west side: Judah, one part.
8 Adjoining the territory of Judah, from the east side to the west, shall be the portion that you shall set apart, twenty-five thousand cubits in width, and in length equal to one of the tribal portions, from the east side to the west, with the sanctuary in the middle of 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 portion that you shall set apart for the Lord shall be twenty-five thousand cubits in length, and twenty thousand in width.
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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 These shall be the allotments of the holy portion: the priests shall have an allotment measuring twenty-five thousand cubits on the northern side, ten thousand cubits in width on the western side, ten thousand in width on the eastern side, and twenty-five thousand in length on the southern side, with the sanctuary of the Lord in the middle of 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 This shall be for the consecrated priests, the descendants of Zadok, who kept my charge, who did not go astray when the people of Israel went astray, as the Levites did.
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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 shall belong to them as a special portion from the holy portion of the land, a most holy place, adjoining the territory of the Levites.
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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 of the priests, the Levites shall have an allotment twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in width. The whole length shall be twenty-five thousand cubits and the width twenty thousand.
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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 shall not sell or exchange any of it; they shall not transfer this choice portion of the land, for it is holy to the Lord.
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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 remainder, five thousand cubits in width and twenty-five thousand in length, shall be for ordinary use for the city, for dwellings and for open country. In the middle of it shall be the city;
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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 these shall be its dimensions: the north side four thousand five hundred cubits, the south side four thousand five hundred, the east side four thousand five hundred, and the west side four thousand five hundred.
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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 shall have open land: on the north two hundred fifty cubits, on the south two hundred fifty, on the east two hundred fifty, on the west two hundred fifty.
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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 The remainder of the length alongside the holy portion shall be ten thousand cubits to the east, and ten thousand to the west, and it shall be alongside the holy portion. Its produce shall be food for the workers of 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 workers of the city, from all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.
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It will be farmed by workers of the town from all the tribes of Israel.
20 The whole portion that you shall set apart shall be twenty-five thousand cubits square, that is, the holy portion together with the property of 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 on both sides of the holy portion and of the property of the city shall belong to the prince. Extending from the twenty-five thousand cubits of the holy portion to the east border, and westward from the twenty-five thousand cubits to the west border, parallel to the tribal portions, it shall belong to the prince. The holy portion with the sanctuary of the temple in the middle of 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 and the property of the Levites and of the city, shall be in the middle of that which belongs to the prince. The portion of the prince shall lie between the territory of Judah and the territory of Benjamin.
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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 As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west, Benjamin, one portion.
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And as for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side: Benjamin, one part.
24 Adjoining the territory of Benjamin, from the east side to the west, Simeon, one portion.
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And on the limit of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side: Simeon, one part.
25 Adjoining the territory of Simeon, from the east side to the west, Issachar, one portion.
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And on the limit of Simeon, from the east side to the west side: Issachar, one part.
26 Adjoining the territory of Issachar, from the east side to the west, Zebulun, one portion.
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And on the limit of Issachar, from the east side to the west side: Zebulun, one part.
27 Adjoining the territory of Zebulun, from the east side to the west, Gad, one portion.
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And on the limit of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side: Gad one part.
28 And adjoining the territory of Gad to the south, the boundary shall run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, from there along the Wadi of Egypt 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 that you shall allot as an inheritance among the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, says the Lord God.
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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 shall be the exits of the city: On the north side, which is to be four thousand five hundred cubits by measure,
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And these are the outskirts of the town: on the north side, four thousand five hundred by measure;
31 three gates, the gate of Reuben, the gate of Judah, and the gate of Levi, the gates of the city being named after the tribes of Israel.
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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;
32 On the east side, which is to be four thousand five hundred cubits, three gates, the gate of Joseph, the gate of Benjamin, and the gate of Dan.
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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;
33 On the south side, which is to be four thousand five hundred cubits by measure, three gates, the gate of Simeon, the gate of Issachar, and the gate of Zebulun.
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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;
34 On the west side, which is to be four thousand five hundred cubits, three gates, the gate of Gad, the gate of Asher, and the gate of Naphtali.
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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 circumference of the city shall be eighteen thousand cubits. And the name of the city from that time on shall be, The Lord 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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