3. In the holy area you will measure a part about 7 miles long and 3 miles wide. The Most Holy Place will be in this holy area.
4. This holy part of the land will be for the priests who serve in the Temple. This is where they come near to serve the Lord. It will be a place for the priests’ houses. And it will be the place for the Temple.
5. Another area will be about 7 miles long and more than 3 miles wide. It will be for the Levites, who serve in the Temple. It will belong to them so they will have cities in which to live.
6. “‘And you will give the city an area that is about 1½ miles wide and about 7 miles long. It will be along the side of the holy area. It will belong to all the people of Israel.
7. “‘The ruler will have land on both sides of the holy area and the city. On the west of the holy area, his land will reach to the Mediterranean Sea. On the east of the holy area, his land will reach to the eastern border. It will be as long as the land given to each tribe.
8. This land will be the ruler’s property in Israel. So my rulers will not be cruel to my people anymore. But they will give land to each tribe in the nation of Israel.
9. “‘This is what the Lord God says: You have gone far enough, you rulers of Israel! Stop being cruel and hurting people. Do what is right and fair. Stop forcing my people out of their homes, says the Lord God.
10. You must have honest scales, an honest dry measurement and an honest liquid measurement.
11. The dry measure and the liquid measure will be the same: The liquid measure will always be a tenth of a homer. The ephah will always be a tenth of a homer. The measurement they follow will be the homer.
12. The shekel will be worth 20 gerahs. A mina will be worth 60 shekels.
13. “‘This is the gift you will offer: a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat; a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley.
14. The amount of oil you are to offer is a tenth of a bath from each cor. (Ten baths make a homer and also make a cor.)