Ezekiel 45:1

The Lord’s Portion of the Land

45:1 “‘When you allot the land as an inheritance, you will offer an allotment ¹  to the Lord, a holy portion from the land; the length will be eight and a quarter miles ²  and the width three and one-third miles. ³  This entire area will be holy. ⁴ 

Ezekiel 45:7

45:7 “‘For the prince there will be land on both sides of the holy allotment and the allotted city, alongside the holy allotment and the allotted city, on the west side and on the east side; it will be comparable in length to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border

Ezekiel 48:8

48:8 “Next to the border of Judah from the east side to the west will be the allotment you must set apart. It is to be eight and a quarter miles ⁵  wide, and the same length as one of the tribal portions, from the east side to the west; the sanctuary will be in the middle of it.

Ezekiel 48:15

48:15 “The remainder, one and two-thirds miles ⁶  in width and eight and a quarter miles ⁷  in length, will be for common use by the city, for houses and for open space. The city will be in the middle of it;

Ezekiel 48:18

48:18 The remainder of the length alongside the holy allotment will be three and one-third miles ⁸  to the east and three and one-third miles toward the west, and it will be beside the holy allotment. Its produce will be for food for the workers of the city.

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¹ tn Heb “a contribution.”

² tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers). The measuring units here are the Hebrew “long” cubit, consisting of a cubit (about 18 inches or 45 cm) and a handbreadth (about 3 inches or 7.5 cm), for a total of 21 inches (52.5 cm). Because modern readers are not familiar with the cubit as a unit of measurement, and due to the additional complication of the “long” cubit as opposed to the regular cubit, all measurements have been converted to American standard miles (one mile = 5,280 feet), with the Hebrew measurements and the metric equivalents given in the notes.

³ tc The LXX reads “twenty thousand cubits.”

tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

⁴ tn Heb “holy it is in all its territory round about.”

⁵ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

⁶ tn Heb “five thousand cubits” (i.e., 2.625 kilometers).

⁷ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

⁸ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers); the phrase occurs again later in this verse.