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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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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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The workers of the city, from all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.
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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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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 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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As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west, Benjamin, one portion.
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Adjoining the territory of Benjamin, from the east side to the west, Simeon, one portion.
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Adjoining the territory of Simeon, from the east side to the west, Issachar, one portion.
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Adjoining the territory of Issachar, from the east side to the west, Zebulun, one portion.
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Adjoining the territory of Zebulun, from the east side to the west, Gad, one portion.