19. Those who serve the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.
20. All the allotment shall be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand cubits. You shall set apart the holy allotment foursquare, with the property of the city.
21. The rest shall belong to the prince, on both sides of the holy allotment and the city property, next to the twenty-five thousand cubits of the allotment toward the eastern border, and westward next to the twenty-five thousand toward the western border, next to the portions for the prince. And the holy allotment and the sanctuary of the temple shall be in its midst.
22. Moreover excluding the property of the Levites and the property of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince’s, everything 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 shall have one portion.
24. By the border of Benjamin from the east side to the west side, Simeon shall have one portion.
25. By the border of Simeon from the east side to the west side, Issachar shall have one portion.
26. By the border of Issachar from the east side to the west side, Zebulun shall have one portion.
27. By the border of Zebulun from the east side to the west side, Gad shall have one portion.
28. By the border of Gad at the south side southward the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribah Kadesh and to the brook of Egypt toward the Mediterranean Sea.