Ezekiel 48:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And 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.

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  • Ezek 42:20 : 20 He 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 45:6 : 6 And 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.
  • 1 Tim 3:15 : 15 But if I am long in coming, this will make clear to you what behaviour is right for men in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of what is true.
  • Ezek 44:23 : 23 And they are to make clear to my people the division between what is holy and what is common, and to give them the knowledge of what is clean and what is unclean.
  • Ezek 22:26 : 26 Her priests have been acting violently against my law; they have made my holy things unclean: they have made no division between what is holy and what is common, and they have not made it clear that the unclean is different from the clean, and their eyes have been shut to my Sabbaths, and I am not honoured among them.

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  • Ezek 45:1-7
    7 verses
    85%

    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.

    5A 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.

    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.

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    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.

    19It will be farmed by workers of the town from all the tribes of Israel.

    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 48:7-14
    8 verses
    82%

    7And on the limit of Reuben, from the east side to the west side: Judah, one part.

    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.

    14And they are not to let any of it go for a price, or give it in exchange; and the part of the land given to the Lord is not to go into other hands: for it is holy to the Lord.

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    29This is the land of which distribution is to be made by the decision of the Lord, among the tribes of Israel for their heritage, and these are their heritages, says the Lord.

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

    31And the doors of the town are to be named by the names of the tribes of Israel; three doors on the north, one for Reuben, one for Judah, one for Levi;

    32And at the east side, four thousand five hundred by measure, and three doors, one for Joseph, one for Benjamin, one for Dan;

    33And at the south side, four thousand five hundred by measure, and three doors, one for Simeon, one for Issachar, one for Zebulun;

    34At the west side, four thousand five hundred by measure, with their three doors, one for Gad, one for Asher, one for Naphtali.

    35It is to be eighteen thousand all round: and the name of the town from that day will be, The Lord is there.

  • Num 35:2-5
    4 verses
    80%

    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.

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    15And when he had come to the end of measuring the inner house, he took me out to the doorway looking to the east, and took its measure all round.

    16He went round and took the measure of it on the east side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

    17And he went round and took the measure of it on the north side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

    18And he went round and took the measure of it on the south side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

    19And he went round and took the measure of it on the west side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

    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.

  • 3For these are the words of the Lord God: The town which was able to send out a thousand, will have only a hundred; and that which sent out a hundred, will have only ten, in Israel.

  • Rev 21:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15And he who was talking with me had a gold measuring-rod to take the measure of the town, and of its doors, and its wall.

    16And the town is square, as wide as it is long; and he took the measure of the town with the rod, one thousand and five hundred miles: it is equally long and wide and high.

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

  • 5This is what the Lord has said: This is Jerusalem: I have put her among the nations, and countries are round her on every side;

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

  • 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.

  • 16It is to be square, folded in two, a hand-stretch long and a hand-stretch wide.

  • 48Then he took me to the covered way before the house, and took the measure of its uprights, five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and the doorway was fourteen cubits wide; and the side-walls of the doorway were three cubits on one side and three cubits on the other.

  • 5And let them make division of it into seven parts: let Judah keep inside his limit on the south, and let the children of Joseph keep inside their limit on the north.

  • 13And on the east side the space is to be fifty cubits wide.