1-7. Each tribe will receive a section of land that runs from the eastern border of Israel west to the Mediterranean Sea. The northern border of Israel will run along the towns of Hethlon and Lebo-Hamath, and will end at Hazar-Enon, which is on the border between the kingdoms of Damascus and Hamath. The tribes will receive their share of land in the following order, from north to south: Dan, Asher, Naphtali, Manasseh, Ephraim, Reuben, and Judah.
8. South of Judah's territory will be a special section of land. Its length will be twelve and a half kilometres, and its width will run from the eastern border of Israel west to the Mediterranean Sea. My temple will be in this section of land.
9. An area in the centre of this land will belong to me. It will be twelve and a half kilometres long and ten kilometres wide.
10. I, the Lord, will give half of my sacred land to the priests. Their share will be twelve and a half kilometres long and five kilometres wide, and my temple will be right in the middle.
11. Only priests who are descendants of Zadok will receive a share of this sacred land, because they remained faithful to me when the Levites and the rest of the Israelites started sinning.
12. The land belonging to the priests will be the most sacred area and will lie south of the area that belongs to the Levites.
13. I will give the other half of my sacred land to the Levites. Their share will also be twelve and a half kilometres long and five kilometres wide,
14. and they must never sell or trade any of this land—it is the best land and belongs to me.
15. South of my sacred land will be a section twelve and a half kilometres long and three kilometres wide. It will not be sacred, but will belong to the people of Israel and will include the city of Jerusalem, together with its houses and pasture land.
16. The city will be a square: each side will be two kilometres long,
17. and an open area one hundred and twenty-five metres wide will surround the city.
18. The land on the east and west sides of the city boundaries will be farmland for the people of Jerusalem; both sections will be five kilometres long and three kilometres wide.
19. People from the city will farm the land, no matter which tribe they belong to.
20. And so the centre of this special section of land will be for my sacred land, as well as for the city and its property. The land will be a square, twelve and a half kilometres on each side.