48:1 “Now these are the names of the tribes: from the northern extremity, ①beside the way of Hethlon to ②Lebo-hamath, as far as Hazar-enan at the border of Damascus, toward the north ③beside Hamath, ④running from east to west, Dan, one portion.
▷ ①Lit at the hand of ②Or the entrance of Hamath ③Lit at the hand of ④Lit and there shall be to it an east and the west side
48:2 Beside the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, Asher, one portion.
48:3 Beside the border of Asher, from the east side to the west side, Naphtali, one portion.
48:4 Beside the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one portion.
48:5 Beside the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, Ephraim, one portion.
48:6 Beside the border of Ephraim, from the east side to the west side, Reuben, one portion.
48:7 Beside the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, Judah, one portion.
48:8 “And beside the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the ①allotment which you shall ②set apart, twenty-five thousand ③cubits in width, and in length like one of the portions, from the east side to the west side; and the sanctuary shall be in the middle of it.
▷ ①Or contribution, and so throughout the ch ②Lit raise ③Each of these cubits equals about 21 in. or 53 cm
48:9 The allotment that you shall set apart to the LORD shall be twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in width.
48:10 The holy allotment shall be for these, namely for the priests, toward the north twenty-five thousand cubits in length, toward the west ten thousand in width, toward the east ten thousand in width, and toward the south twenty-five thousand in length; and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in its midst.
48:11 It shall be for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have ①taken the responsibility I gave them, who did not go astray when the sons of Israel went astray as the Levites went astray.
▷ ①Lit kept the duty to Me
48:12 It shall be an allotment to them from the allotment of the land, a most holy reserve, by the border of the Levites.
48:13 And alongside the border of the priests, the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in width. The entire length shall be twenty-five thousand cubits and the width ten thousand.
48:14 Moreover, they shall not sell or exchange any of it, or allow this ①choice portion of land to pass to others; for it is holy to the LORD.
▷ ①Lit first; or first fruits
48:15 “The remainder, five thousand cubits in width and twenty-five thousand ①in length, shall be for common use for the city, for homes and for ②open spaces; and the city shall be in its midst.
▷ ①Lit in front ②Or pasture land
48:16 And these shall be its measurements: the north side, 4,500 cubits, the south side 4,500 cubits, the east side 4,500 cubits, and the west side, 4,500 cubits.
48:17 The city shall have ①open spaces: on the north 250 cubits, on the south 250 cubits, on the east 250 cubits, and on the west 250 cubits.
▷ ①Or pasture land
48:18 The remainder of the length alongside the holy allotment shall be ten thousand cubits toward the east and ten thousand toward the west; and it shall be ①alongside the holy allotment. And its produce shall be food for the workers of the city.
▷ ①Or exactly as
48:19 And the workers of the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.
48:20 The whole allotment shall be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand cubits; you shall ①set apart the holy allotment, a ②square, with the ③property of the city.
▷ ①Lit raise ②Lit fourth ③Or possession
48:21 “The remainder shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy allotment and of the ①property of the city; in front of the twenty-five thousand cubits of the allotment toward the east border and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand toward the west border, alongside the portions, it shall be for the prince. And the holy allotment and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the middle of it.
▷ ①Or possession
48:22 And exclusive of the ①property of the Levites and the ②property of the city, which are in the middle of that which belongs to the prince, everything between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin shall belong to the prince.
▷ ①Or possession ②Or possession
48:23 “As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side, Benjamin, one portion.
48:24 Beside the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon, one portion.
48:25 Beside the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar, one portion.
48:26 Beside the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun, one portion.
48:27 Beside the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad, one portion.
48:28 And beside the border of Gad, at the south side toward the south, the border shall be from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, to the Great Sea.
48:29 This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for an inheritance, and these are their several portions,” declares the Lord ①GOD.
▷ ①Heb YHWH, usually rendered LORD
48:30 “Now these are the exits of the city: on the north side, 4,500 cubits by measurement,
48:31 ①shall be the gates of the city, ②named for the tribes of Israel, three gates toward the north: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; and the gate of Levi, one.
▷ ①Litand the gates ②Lit according to the names of
48:32 On the east side, 4,500 cubits, ①shall be three gates: the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; and the gate of Dan, one.
▷ ①Lit and three gates
48:33 On the south side, 4,500 cubits by measurement, ①shall be three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; and the gate of Zebulun, one.
▷ ①Lit and three gates
48:34 On the west side, 4,500 cubits, shall be three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; and the gate of Naphtali, one.
48:35 The city shall be eighteen thousand cubits all around; and the name of the city from that day shall be, ‘ ①The LORD is there.’ ”
▷ ①Heb YHWH-shammah