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Ezekiel 48:2-14 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

2. Along the territory of Dan from the eastern border to the western border: Asher, one portion.

3. Along the territory of Asher from the eastern border to the western border: Naphtali, one portion.

4. Along the territory of Naphtali from the eastern border to the western border: Manasseh, one portion.

5. Along the territory of Manasseh from the eastern border to the western border: Ephraim, one portion.

6. Along the territory of Ephraim from the eastern border to the western border: Reuben, one portion.

7. Along the territory of Reuben from the eastern border to the western border: Judah, one portion.

8. Along the territory of Judah from the eastern border to the western border is the tract you shall set apart, twenty-five thousand cubits wide and as long as one of the portions from the eastern border to the western border. The sanctuary shall stand in the center of the tract.

9. The tract you set apart for the Lord shall be twenty-five thousand cubits long by twenty thousand wide.

10. The sacred tract will be given to the following: the priests shall have twenty-five thousand cubits on the north, ten thousand on the west, ten thousand on the east, and twenty-five thousand on the south. The sanctuary of the Lord shall be in its center.

11. The consecrated priests, the Zadokites, who fulfilled my service and did not stray with the Israelites as the Levites did,

12. shall have their own tract set apart, next to the territory of the Levites, separate from the most holy tract.

13. The Levites shall have territory corresponding to that of the priests, twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand cubits wide. The whole tract shall be twenty-five thousand cubits long and twenty thousand wide.

14. They may not sell or exchange or transfer any of it, the best part of the land, for it is sacred to the Lord.

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