Ezekiel - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 593
The Books of the Prophets
29 their holding. They shall eat the food—offerings, and the simofferings, and trespass·0fferin gs, and everything dedicated in Israel shall be theirs;
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with the first product of all cattle of all kinds, and every offering of all kinds,——from all of your offerings of every kind there shall be made offer- ings to the priests. You must also give the iirst fruits of your grain to the priests, to bring a blessing upon your house. The priests may not eat of any dead carcase, or what has been torn by bird or beast. ‘And when you allot the countryinto estates, you must give to the EVER-LIVING asa sanctification from the <:ountry,~—-»a length of twenty-Hve thousand rodslong, and te:11 thousand broad,~··which shall be sacred all around its borders. From this there shall be taken for the Sanctuary a surface of five hundred by five hundred, with tifty cubits round it for a suburb. So by this measure- ment, measure a length of twenty- five thousand, and a breadth of ten thousand, and the Holiest Sanctuary shall be in it. It shall be dedicated by the country to the priests who officiate in the Sanctuary of the EvER~LxvING, and shall be a place for their homes, and be most sacred. And twenty-tive thousand rods long and ten thousand broad shall be assigned for the Levites who officiate in the Temple, for them to hold as twenty residential towns. And give as township holdings tive thousand broad, and twenty~five thousand long; it must be alongside that con- secrated by the Parliament of the House of Israel. ‘ And assign to the Prince, on each
side of the consecrated endowment, and of the township holdings, on each side, at the front of the con- secrated endowment, and at the front
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thousand, which is being copied by the omission of two letters repre- senting the plural, Le., F* in Hebrew- the dou le of ten.- ·. F. 45-27
of the township holdings,—·—on the western side, westwards, and on the eastern side, eastwards, and along each side of the estates;-·from the western boundary to the eastern boundary. That land shall be his estate in Israel, so that the princes may no more oppress My People, but they shall assign the country to the House of Israel by their tribes. says the
let this be enough for you! Reject oppression and violence; and practise the just and the right! Remove your confisca- tions from My People/' says the Let there be right scales, and right ephah, and a right bath; let the ephah and the bath be proportionate;~—··the bath to carry the tenth of a homer,·—~and the ephah the tenth of ahomer. Let the homer itself be the standard. 'And the shekel shall be twenty
grains. Your Manah shall be twenty- five shekels, and twenty shekels, and five shekels. ‘ And this is the taxation which shall
be imposed. The sixth of an ephah from the homer of wheat, and the sixth of an ephah from the homer of barley. ‘ And the proportion fromabath of
oil ;·—-the tenth of a bath from a cor, of ten baths, that is a homer, because the baths are a homer. ‘ And one lamb out of a flock of two
hundred, from the water meadows of Israel, for food-offerings,and burnt- offerings, and thanloofferings, to the MIGHTY LORD commands. ‘ All the population of the country
shall be subject to this taxation to the Prince of Israel. And it shall be incumbent upon the Prince to provide the burnt-offerings, and thank—ofl`erings, and drink-offerings, IO II I2 16 at the Festivals, and months, and on the Sabbaths; and at all the Assem- blies of the House of Israel he shall provide the sin-offerings, and the foocbofferings, and the than loofierings l o fif ‘1 Norn.·—·Ch. 45» v. rz. Equatty shekels, which were the accurate Mana (about 5l. 14s.), The ordinary reading of the passage makes the enumeration 55 shekels-·· twenty and five shekels, and twenty shekel5, heke1s=shekels-——but
and ten and five s?5 this is a. manifest error 0 some ancient by a slip of eye or memory.-—F. F. GQ?
