CHAPTER 48

¹And these are the names of the tribes: From the northern end by the way of Hethlon, Lebo-Hamath, Hazar-Enan, the border of Damascus to the north, and from the eastern side to the west—Dan, one. ²And by the boundary of Dan from the eastern end to the western end—Asher, one. ³And by the boundary of Asher from the eastern end to the western end—Naphtali, one. ⁴And by the boundary of Naphtali from the eastern end to the western end—Manasseh, one. ⁵And by the boundary of Manasseh from the eastern end to the western end—Ephraim, one. ⁶And by the boundary of Ephraim from the eastern end to the western end—Reuben, one. ⁷And by the boundary of Reuben from the eastern end to the western end—Judah, one. ⁸And by the boundary of Judah from the eastern end to the western end there shall be a donation that you shall set aside—twenty-five thousand cubits in width and length like one of the portions from the eastern end to the western end, and the sanctuary shall be within it. ⁹The donation that you shall set aside for the LORD is to be twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand cubits wide. ¹⁰And for these shall the sacred donation be: for the priests on the north twenty-five thousand cubits long and to the west ten thousand cubits wide and to the east ten thousand cubits wide and to the south twenty-five thousand cubits long, and the LORD’s sanctuary shall be within it, ¹¹for the consecrated priests of the sons of Zadok, who kept My watch, who did not stray when the Israelites strayed as the Levites strayed. ¹²And it shall be a donation to them from the donation of the land, holy of holies, by the territory of the Levites. ¹³And the Levites are opposite the territory of the priests, twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand cubits wide, the whole length twenty-five thousand cubits and the whole width ten thousand cubits. ¹⁴And they shall not sell any of it nor shall they exchange nor shall it be transferred. It is the best of the land, sacred to the LORD. ¹⁵And the remaining five thousand cubits in width by twenty-five thousand in length is profane ground for the city for dwellings and for open fields, and the city shall be within it. ¹⁶And these are its measurements: on the north side four thousand five hundred cubits and on the south side four thousand five hundred cubits and on the east side four thousand five hundred cubits and on the west side four thousand five hundred cubits. ¹⁷And there shall be an open field for the city to the north, two hundred fifty cubits, and to the south, two hundred fifty cubits and to the east, two hundred fifty cubits and to the west, two hundred fifty cubits. ¹⁸And the remaining area in length opposite the sacred donation shall be ten thousand cubits on the east and ten thousand cubits on the west, and it shall be opposite the sacred donation. And its produce shall be for bread for the city workers. ¹⁹And the city workers shall work in it from all the tribes of Israel. ²⁰The whole donation, twenty-five thousand cubits by twenty-five thousand cubits square, you shall set aside as a sacred donation in addition to the city’s holding. ²¹And what is remaining is for the prince on both sides of the sacred donation and of the city’s holding, facing the twenty-five thousand cubits of the donation to the eastern and western borders facing the twenty-five thousand cubits on the western border opposite the tribal portions. This is the prince’s, and the sacred donation and the sanctuary of the house shall be within it. ²²And the Levites’ holding and the city’s holding shall be within what is the prince’s between the territory of Judah and the territory of Benjamin. For the prince it shall be. ²³As for the remaining tribes, from the eastern end to the western end: Benjamin, one. ²⁴And by the territory of Benjamin from the eastern end to the western end: Simeon, one. ²⁵And by the territory of Simeon from the eastern end to the western end: Issachar, one. ²⁶And by the territory of Issachar from the eastern end to the western end: Zebulun, one. ²⁷And by the territory of Zebulun from the eastern end to the western end: Gad, one. ²⁸And by the territory of Gad to the southern end, the boundary shall be from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-Kodesh, to the wadi, as far as the Great Sea. ²⁹This is the land that you shall cast in lots for the tribes of Israel, and these are its portions, said the Master, the LORD. ³⁰And this is the span of the city: from the eastern side four thousand five hundred cubits in measure. ³¹And the gates of the city are after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates on the north—the Gate of Reuben, one; the Gate of Judah, one; the Gate of Levi, one. ³²And on the eastern side, four thousand five hundred cubits and three gates—the Gate of Joseph, one; the Gate of Benjamin, one; the Gate of Dan, one. ³³And the southern side, four thousand five hundred cubits and three gates—the Gate of Simeon, one; the Gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one. ³⁴The western side, four thousand five hundred cubits. Their gates are three—the Gate of Gad, one; the Gate of Asher, one; the Gate of Naphtali, one. ³⁵All around it is eighteen thousand cubits. And the name of the city from that day shall be “The LORD Is There.”