Ezekiel 45:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

A space of land twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide is to be for the Levites, the servants of the house, a property for themselves, for towns for their living-places.

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  • Ezek 48:13 : 13 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.
  • Ezek 48:20 : 20 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.
  • 1 Cor 9:13-14 : 13 Do you not see that the servants of the holy things get their living from the Temple, and the servants of the altar have their part in the food which is offered on the altar? 14 Even so did the Lord give orders that the preachers of the good news might get their living from the good news.
  • 1 Chr 9:26-33 : 26 For the four chief door-keepers, who were Levites, had a special position, looking after the rooms and the store-houses of the house of God. 27 Their sleeping-rooms were round the house of God, for they had the care of it, and were responsible for opening it morning by morning. 28 Certain of them had the care of the vessels used in worship, to keep an account of them when they came in and when they were taken out again. 29 And some of them were responsible for the holy things and for the vessels of the holy place, and the meal and the wine and the oil and the perfume and the spices. 30 And some of the sons of the priests were responsible for crushing the spices. 31 And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, the oldest son of Shallum the Korahite, was responsible for cooking the flat cakes. 32 And some of their brothers, sons of the Kohathites, were responsible for the holy bread which was put in order before the Lord, to get it ready every Sabbath. 33 And these were those who had the ordering of the music and songs, heads of families of the Levites, who were living in the rooms, and were free from other work, for their work went on day and night.
  • Neh 10:38-39 : 38 And the priest, the son of Aaron, is to be with the Levites, when the Levites take the tenths: and the Levites are to take a tenth of the tenths into the house of our God, to the rooms, into the store-house; 39 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi are to take the lifted offering of the grain and wine and oil into the rooms where the vessels of the holy place are, together with the priests and the door-keepers and the makers of music: and we will not give up caring for the house of our God.
  • Ezek 40:17 : 17 Then he took me into the outer square, and there were rooms and a stone floor made for the open square all round: there were thirty rooms on the stone floor.
  • Ezek 48:10 : 10 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.

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  • Ezek 45:6-7
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    6And as the property for the town you are to have a part five thousand wide and twenty-five thousand long, by the side of the offering of the holy part of the land: this is to be for all the children of Israel.

    7And for the ruler there is to be a part on one side and on the other side of the holy offering and of the property of the town, in front of the holy offering and in front of the property of the town on the west of it and on the east: measured in the same line as one of the parts of the land, from its limit on the west to its limit on the east of the land.

  • Ezek 48:8-13
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    8And 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.

    9The offering you will give to the Lord is to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty-five thousand wide.

    10And 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.

    11For 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,

    12Even 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.

    13And 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.

  • Ezek 45:1-4
    4 verses
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    1And when you are making a distribution of the land, by the decision of the Lord, for your heritage, you are to make an offering to the Lord of a part of the land as holy: it is to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty thousand wide: all the land inside these limits is to be holy.

    2Of this, a square five hundred long and five hundred wide is to be for the holy place, with a space of fifty cubits all round it.

    3And of this measure, let a space be measured, twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide: in it there will be the holy place, even the most holy.

    4This holy part of the land is to be for the priests, the servants of the holy place, who come near to the Lord to do his work; it is to be a place for their houses and for grass-land and for cattle.

  • Ezek 48:15-18
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    15And 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.

    16And 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.

    17And 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.

    18And 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.

  • Ezek 48:20-22
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    20The 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.

    21And 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.

    22And 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.

  • Ezek 41:10-11
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    10And between the rooms was a space twenty cubits wide all round the house.

    11And the free space had doors opening from the side-rooms, one door on the north and one door on the south: and the free space was five cubits wide all round.

  • Num 35:2-5
    4 verses
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    2Give orders to the children of Israel to give to the Levites, from the heritage which is theirs, towns for themselves, with land on the outskirts of the towns.

    3These towns are to be their living-places, with land round them for their cattle and their food and all their beasts,

    4Stretching from the wall of the towns a distance of a thousand cubits all round.

    5The measure of this space of land is to be two thousand cubits outside the town on the east, and two thousand cubits on the south and on the west and on the north, the town being in the middle. This space will be the outskirts of their towns.

  • Ezek 40:45-46
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    45And he said to me, This room, facing south, is for the priests who have the care of the house.

    46And the room facing north is for the priests who have the care of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok, who, from among the sons of Levi, come near to the Lord to do the work of his house.

  • Ezek 42:20
    72%

    20He took its measure on the four sides: and it had a wall all round, five hundred long and five hundred wide, separating what was holy from what was common.

  • Ezek 40:29-30
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    29And the rooms in it and the uprights and the covered ways, by these measures:

    30And there were windows in it and in the covered way all round: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

  • Neh 13:5
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    5Had made ready for him a great room, where at one time they kept the meal offerings, the perfume, and the vessels and the tenths of the grain and wine and oil which were given by order to the Levites and the music-makers and the door-keepers, and the lifted offerings for the priests.

  • Lev 25:32-34
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    72%

    32But the houses in the towns of the Levites may be got back by the Levites at any time.

    33And if a Levite does not give money to get back his property, his house in the town which was exchanged for money will come back to him in the year of Jubilee. For the houses of the towns of the Levites are their property among the children of Israel.

    34But the land on the outskirts of their towns may not be exchanged for money, for it is their property for ever.

  • Ezek 40:36
    71%

    36Its rooms, its uprights, and its covered way had the same measures, and its covered way had windows all round: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

  • Ezek 40:33
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    33And of the rooms in it and its uprights and its covered ways, by these measures: and there were windows in it and in the covered way round about: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

  • Ezek 42:8
    71%

    8For the rooms in the outer square were fifty cubits long: and in front of the Temple was a space of a hundred cubits.

  • 1 Chr 28:13
    71%

    13And for the divisions of the priests and Levites, and for all the work in connection with the worship of the house of the Lord, and all the vessels used in the house of the Lord;

  • Num 7:5
    70%

    5Take the things from them, to be used for the work of the Tent of meeting; and give them to the Levites, to every man what is needed for his work.

  • 2 Kgs 22:5
    70%

    5And let it be given to the overseers of the work of the Lord's house, to give to the workmen who are making good what was damaged in the house of the Lord;

  • Num 35:7-8
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    7Forty-eight towns are to be given to the Levites, all with land round them.

    8And these towns are to be given out of the heritage of the children of Israel, taking the greater number from those who have much, and a smaller number from those who have little: everyone, in the measure of his heritage, is to give of his property to the Levites.

  • Ezek 41:5
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    5Then he took the measure of the wall of the house, which was six cubits; and of the side-rooms round the house, which were four cubits wide.

  • Exod 27:12
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    12And for the open space on the west side, the hangings are to be fifty cubits wide, with ten pillars and ten bases;

  • 1 Kgs 6:3
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    3The covered way before the Temple of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and ten cubits wide in front of the house.

  • Ezek 40:21
    70%

    21And it had three rooms on this side of it and three on that; its uprights and its covered ways were the same size as those of the first doorway: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

  • Ezek 40:12
    70%

    12And the space in front of the rooms, a cubit on this side and a cubit on that side; and the rooms six cubits on this side and six cubits on that.

  • 1 Kgs 6:17
    69%

    17And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long.

  • Ezek 48:30
    69%

    30And these are the outskirts of the town: on the north side, four thousand five hundred by measure;

  • Num 31:30
    69%

    30And from the part given to the children of Israel, take one out of every fifty, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep, and give it to the Levites who have the care of the House of the Lord.