3 “By the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west side, Naphtali, one portion.
4 “By the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one portion.
5 “By the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, Ephraim, one portion.
6 “By the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the west side, Reuben, one portion.
7 “By the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, Judah, one portion.
8 “By the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the offering which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand reeds in width, and in length as one of the portions, from the east side to the west side; and the sanctuary shall be in the middle of it.
9 “The offering that you shall offer to the LORD shall be twenty-five thousand reeds in length, and ten thousand in width. 10 For these, even for the priests, shall be the holy offering: towards the north twenty-five thousand in length, and towards the west ten thousand in width, and towards the east ten thousand in width, and towards the south twenty-five thousand in length; and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the middle of it. 11 It shall be for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my instruction, who didn’t go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray. 12 It shall be to them an offering from the offering of the land, a most holy thing, by the border of the Levites.
13 “Alongside the border of the priests, the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in width. All the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the width ten thousand. 14 They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first fruits of the land be alienated, for it is holy to the LORD.
15 “The five thousand cubits that are left in the width, in front of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for pasture lands; and the city shall be in the middle of it. 16 These shall be its measurements: the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred. 17 The city shall have pasture lands: towards the north two hundred and fifty, and towards the south two hundred and fifty, and towards the east two hundred and fifty, and towards the west two hundred and fifty. 18 The remainder of the length, alongside the holy offering, shall be ten thousand eastward and ten thousand westward; and it shall be alongside the holy offering. Its increase shall be for food to those who labour in the city. 19 Those who labour in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it. 20 All the offering shall be a square of twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand. You shall offer it as a holy offering, with the possession of the city.
21 “The remainder shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city; in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering towards the east border, and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand towards the west border, alongside the portions, it shall be for the prince. The holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the middle of it. 22 Moreover, from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the middle of that which is the prince’s, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.
23 “As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side, Benjamin, one portion.
24 “By the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon, one portion.
25 “By the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar, one portion.
26 “By the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun, one portion.
27 “By the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad, one portion.
28 “By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the brook, to the great sea.
29 “This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, says the Lord GOD.
30 “These are the exits of the city: On the north side four thousand and five hundred reeds by measure; 31 and the gates of the city shall be named after the tribes of Israel, three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.
32 “At the east side four thousand and five hundred reeds, and three gates: even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.
33 “At the south side four thousand and five hundred reeds by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.
34 “At the west side four thousand and five hundred reeds, with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.
35 “It shall be eighteen thousand reeds in circumference; and the name of the city from that day shall be, ‘The LORD is there.’
† 1:1: The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).
‡ 1:3: When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “LORD” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name (Hebrew “יהוה”, usually pronounced Yahweh).
§ 1:4: “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.
† 1:26: or, lapis lazuli
† 2:4: The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”
† 3:7: Literally, have a hard forehead
† 4:10: A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.
‡ 4:11: A hin is about 6.5 litres or 1.7 gallons.
† 10:1: or, lapis lazuli
† 17:13: or, seed
† 20:29: “Bamah” means “High Place”.
† 21:6: literally, the breaking of your thighs
‡ 21:21: teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.
† 22:7: Literally, made light of father and mother.
† 28:13: or, lapis lazuli
† 31:15: Sheol is the place of the dead.
‡ 31:16: Sheol is the place of the dead.
† 32:21: Sheol is the place of the dead.
† 40:5: A normal cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimetres. A handbreadth is about 4.3 inches or 11 centimetres, so the long cubit described here would be about 22.3 inches or 57 centimetres long. Thus, a 6 long cubit measuring reed would have been about 3 yards 26.6 inches or about 3.42 metres long.
† 41:2: A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimetres.
† 42:2: A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimetres.
† 43:13: A normal cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimetres. A hand width is about 4.3 inches or 11 cm.
‡ 43:13: A span is the length from the tip of a man’s thumb to the tip of his little finger when his hand is stretched out (about half a cubit, or 9 inches, or 22.8 cm.)
† 45:2: A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimetres.
‡ 45:10: 1 ephah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
§ 45:11: 1 homer is about 220 litres or 6 bushels
† 45:12: A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.
‡ 45:12: a gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains
§ 45:12: A mina is about 600 grams or 1.3 U. S. pounds.
† 45:14: 1 cor is the same as 1 homer in volume, and is about 211 litres, 55.9 gallons, or 6 bushels. 1 bath is about 21.1 litres, 5.59 gallons, or 2.4 pecks.
‡ 45:24: 1 ephah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
§ 45:24: A hin is about 6.5 litres or 1.7 gallons.
† 46:5: A hin is about 6.5 litres or 1.7 gallons.
‡ 46:5: 1 ephah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
§ 46:11: 1 ephah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
† 46:14: 1 ephah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
‡ 46:22: A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimetres.
† 47:3: A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimetres.
Daniel
The Book of Daniel
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1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. 2 The Lord† gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of
