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¹ And when ye shall by lot divide the land as an inheritance, ye shall offer up as a heave-offering to Yahweh a holy portion out of the land, in length, five and twenty thousand long, and in breadth, twenty thousand, - holy shall it be throughout all the territory thereof round about.² There shall be out of this for the holy place, five hundred by five hundred, four-square round about, - and fifty cubits, as an open space to it, round about,³ And out of this measure, shalt thou measure, a length of five and twenty thousand and a breadth of ten thousand, - and therein, shall be the sanctuary, the holy of holies:⁴ a holy portion out of the land, it is for the priests who wait in the sanctuary, shall it be, who draw near to wait upon Yahweh,- so shall it be theirs as a place for houses, and a sanctuary for the sanctuary.⁵ And five and twenty thousand, in length, and ten thousand, in breadth, - and it shall be for the Levites who wait upon the house theirs as a possession of cities to dwell in⁶ And the possession of the city, shall ye give, five thousand, in breadth, and in length, five and twenty thousand answering to the heave-offering⁷ And to the prince - on his side and on that, shall belong a portion of the heave-offering of the holy portion and of the possession of the city, facing the heave-offering of the holy portion and facing the possession of the city, on the west side westward and on the east side eastward, - and in length, answering to one of the portions, from the west boundary to the east boundary,⁸ Of the land, it shall be his for a possession in Israel, - and so my princes shall no more oppress my people, but the land itself, shall they give to the house of Israel, by their tribes.

⁹ Thus saith My Lord Yahweh, Let it more than suffice you O princes of Israel, Violence and spoil, remove ye And justice and righteousness, execute, - Lift off your acts of expulsion from upon my people, Urgeth My Lord Yahweh.¹⁰ Balances of righteousness, and an ephah of righteousness, and A bath of righteousness, have ye:¹¹ the ephah and the bath of one fixed measure, shall be, to contain the tenth of a homer, the bath, - and the tenth of a homer, the ephah, unto the homer, shall be the proportion thereof;¹² and the shekel shall be twenty gerahs, - twenty shekels five and twenty shekels and fifteen shekels, the weight shall be to you.

¹³ This is the heave-offering which ye shall offer up,- the sixth of an ephah, out of a homer of wheat, and the sixth of an ephah, out of a homer of barley;¹⁴ And the statutory portion of oil shall be - per bath for oil - a tenth part of a bath out of a cot, which is ten baths even a homer; for ten baths are a homer.¹⁵ And one lamb out of the flock out of two hundred out of the watered pastures of Israel, for a gift and for an ascending- sacrifice and for peace-offerings, - To pat a propitiatory-covering over them, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.¹⁶ All the people of the land shall give to this heave-offering, - for the prince in Israel.¹⁷ But on the prince himself, shall rest the ascending-sacrifices and the meal-offering, and the drink-offering, on the festivals, and on the new moons, and on the sabbaths, in all the appointed meetings of the house of Israel, - he, shall offer the sin-bearer. and the meal-offering, and the ascending sacrifice, and the peace-offerings, To put a propitiatory-covering about the house of Israel.¹⁸ Thus saith My Lord. Yahweh, In the first month on the first day of the month, shalt thou take a young bullock without defect, - and shalt cleanse the sanctuary from sin;¹⁹ then shall the priest take of the blood of the sin-bearer and put upon the door-posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the ledge of the altar and upon the door-posts of the gate of the inner court.²⁰ And so shalt thou do in the seventh of the month, for any man that wavereth or is of feeble mind, - so shall ye cleanse the house by propitiation.²¹ In the first month on the fourteenth day of the month, shall ye have the passover, - a festival of seven days, unleavened cakes shall be, eaten;²² therefore shall the prince offer, on that day, for himself, and for all the people of the land, - a bullock as a sin-bearer;²³ and the seven days of the festival, shall he offer as an ascending-sacrifice to Yahweh seven bullocks and seven rams without defect, day, for the seven days, - and as a sin- bearer, a young goat day;²⁴ and a meal-offering of an ephah to each bullock. and an ephah to each ram, shall he offer, - and of oil a hin to an ephah.²⁵ In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, throughout the festival, he shall offer like these seven days, - like the sin-bearer like the ascending-sacrifice, and like the meal offering, and like the.