Ezekiel - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 596
The Books of the Prophets
the Hethlon Road, to the Pass of towards the side of Hamath,--they shall face east and west. Dan one. And on the border of Dan, facing east and west,———Ashur one. by districts. And this shall be the boundary of the country on the Northern side From the Great Sea towards
Hathlon to the Pass of Zeda i, Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is nook, on the Pass of Hamram. And And the Eastern side shall be from And South side, on the right hand ,
Kadesh, that Hows to the Great Sea. And the West side shall be the
tothe Pass of Hamath. That is the West side, And you shall divide this country
for yourselves amongst the tribes of Israel. And you shall divide it into the foreigners who reside amongst you, who have begotten children amongst you, for they shall be the same as the natives of the sons of Israel. They shall be allotted pro- 'I`heM1G1»1*rY LORD commands this. tribes. From the north end at the side of
I-Iamath, at Kazawamon on the border of Damascus northward shall face east and west. Dan first; and the border of Dan 48-17 47***4 48 estates, within these boundaries, to the twelve tribes of Israel. ‘ Togoseph two districts. An the others each equal to their
brothers;-since I lifted up My hand allot the country thus to yourselves between the border of Damask and the border of Ramath. Kazar-in-the the boundary farthest from the sea shall be Hazer—Amon upon the borders of Damascus to the north of the border of Hamath. That shall be the north boundary. between Horan and Damask, and Gilad, with the jordan between the land of Israel. Measure for the border to the east of the lake of the Kadmonites. That is the Eastern side. from Thamar to the dividing brook of This is the right hand side to the south. Great Sea, from the border stretching ‘ And on the border of Ashur, facing 3 east and west,·—Naphthali one. And on the border of Naphthali,
facing east and west;-—Manasseh one. And on the border of Manasseh, facing east and west,·——Ephraim one. And on the border of Ephraim, facing east and west,··—-Reuben one. And on the border of Reuben, facing east and west,—]udah one. ‘ And on the border of judah, facing
east and west, there shall be the Grant which you must grant of twenty·five thousand rods broad, and the length thesame as the portion from east to west;-·and the Sanctuary shall be the centre, of the Grant that you grant to the EvnR·1..1v1no of twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand broad. And alongside this shall be the
Sacred Grant for the priests. On the north twenty—five thousand reeds long. On the west ten thousand broad. And on the east ten thousand, and on the south twentydive thousand long. And it shall be consecrated to th_e EVER-LIVING amongst you, for the consecrated priests of the descen- dants of Zadok, who guarded My 'I`r1zsts,—-who did not revolt to the depravities of the children of Israel, when the Levites revolted. Con- sequen tly the boundaries of the Grant, granted from the land, shall be most sacred to you. And alongside the borders of the
priests, there shall be for the Levites twenty·five thousand reeds long, and ten thousand broad;-—all the length shall be twenty~hve thousand, and the breadth ten thousand, and they shall not sell it from themselves, nor exchange nor transfer the first fruits of the land, for it is consecrated to the Evan-1.1v1No. And five thousand reeds in
breadth shall be left in the frontof the twenty—five thousand. It shall be as common to build villages, and for pasture, and with a town in the centre, whose measurements shall be these. The north face four thousand five hundred ; and the south face four thousand tive hundred, and the eastern face four thousand five hundred, and the western face four thousand five hundred. There shall also be suburbs for the town towards the north two hundred and fifty,—·—and on the south two hundred and fifty, and on the east two hundred and soo I0 II I2 16
