Division of the Land
1 “Now these are the names of the tribes: aFrom the northern border along the road to Hethlon at the entrance of Hamath, to Hazar Enan, the border of Damascus northward, in the direction of Hamath, there shall be one section for bDan from its east to its west side;
2 by the border of Dan, from the east side to the west, one section for aAsher;
3 by the border of Asher, from the east side to the west, one section for aNaphtali;
4 by the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west, one section for aManasseh;
5 by the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west, one section for aEphraim;
6 by the border of Ephraim, from the east side to the west, one section for aReuben;
7 by the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west, one section for aJudah;
8 by the border of Judah, from the east side to the west, shall be athe district which you shall set apart, twenty-five thousand cubits in width, and in length the same as one of the other portions, from the east side to the west, with the bsanctuary in the center.
9 “The district that you shall set apart for the Lord shall be twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in width.
10 To these—to the priests—the holy district shall belong: on the north twenty-five thousand cubits in length, on the west ten thousand in width, on the east ten thousand in width, and on the south twenty-five thousand in length. The sanctuary of the Lord shall be in the center.
11 aIt shall be for the priests of the sons of Zadok, who are sanctified, who have kept My charge, who did not go astray when the children of Israel went astray, bas the Levites went astray.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
Commentaries:
No entry exists in John Wesley's Notes for Ezekiel 48:1.
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