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other portions, from the east side to the west, sanctuary of the temple shall be in the center.
with the sanctuary in the center. 22 Moreover, apart from the possession of the
9 “The district that you shall set apart for the Levites and the possession of the city which
LORD shall be twenty-five thousand cubits in are in the midst of what belongs to the prince,
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length and ten thousand in width. To the area between the border of Judah and the
these—to the priests—the holy district shall border of Benjamin shall belong to the prince.
belong: on the north twenty-five thousand cu- 23 “As for the rest of the tribes, from the east
bits in length, on the west ten thousand in side to the west, Benjamin shall have one sec-
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width, on the east ten thousand in width, and tion; by the border of Benjamin, from the
on the south twenty-five thousand in length. east side to the west, Simeon shall have one
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The sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the cen- section; by the border of Simeon, from the
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ter. It shall be for the priests of the sons of east side to the west, Issachar shall have one
Zadok, who are sanctified, who have kept My section; by the border of Issachar, from the
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charge, who did not go astray when the chil- east side to the west, Zebulun shall have one
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dren of Israel went astray, as the Levites went section; by the border of Zebulun, from the
astray. And this district of land that is set east side to the west, Gad shall have one sec-
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apart shall be to them a thing most holy by the tion; by the border of Gad, on the south side,
border of the Levites. toward the South, the border shall be from
13 “Opposite the border of the priests, the Tamar to the waters of Meribah by Kadesh,
Levites shall have an area twenty-five thou- along the brook to the Great Sea. This is the
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sand cubits in length and ten thousand in land which you shall divide by lot as an inher-
width; its entire length shall be twenty-five itance among the tribes of Israel, and these
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thousand and its width ten thousand. And are their portions,” says the Lord GOD.
they shall not sell or exchange any of it; they 30 “These are the exits of the city. On the
may not alienate this best part of the land, for north side, measuring four thousand five hun-
it is holy to the LORD. dred cubits 31 (the gates of the city shall be
15 “The five thousand cubits in width that named after the tribes of Israel), the three
remain, along the edge of the twenty-five gates northward: one gate for Reuben, one
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thousand, shall be for general use by the city, gate for Judah, and one gate for Levi; on the
for dwellings and common-land; and the city east side, four thousand five hundred cubits,
shall be in the center. These shall be its mea- three gates: one gate for Joseph, one gate for
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surements: the north side four thousand five Benjamin, and one gate for Dan; on the south
hundred cubits, the south side four thousand side, measuring four thousand five hundred
five hundred, the east side four thousand five cubits, three gates: one gate for Simeon, one
hundred, and the west side four thousand five gate for Issachar, and one gate for Zebulun;
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hundred. The common-land of the city shall
be: to the north two hundred and fifty cubits, cubits with their three gates: one gate for Gad,
to the south two hundred and fifty, to the east one gate for Asher, and one gate for Naphtali.
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two hundred and fifty, and to the west two
hundred and fifty. The rest of the length, sand cubits; and the name of the city from that
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alongside the district of the holy section, shall day shall be: THE LORD IS THERE.”
be ten thousand cubits to the east and ten thou-
sand to the west. It shall be adjacent to the dis-
trict of the holy section, and its produce shall
be food for the workers of the city. The work- 48:35 the name. The city is called YHWH
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ers of the city, from all the tribes of Israel, shall Shammah, “The LORD Is There.” The departed
cultivate it. The entire district shall be twenty- glory of God (chaps. 8–11) has returned
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five thousand cubits by twenty-five thousand cu- (44:1,2), and His dwelling, the temple, is in the
bits, foursquare. You shall set apart the holy dis- very center of the district given over to the
trict with the property of the city. Lord.With this final note, all of the uncondi-
21 “The rest shall belong to the prince, on one tional promises which God had made to Israel
side and on the other of the holy district and of in the Abrahamic Covenant (Gen. 12), the
the city’s property, next to the twenty-five thou- Levitic Covenant (Num. 25), the Davidic
sand cubits of the holy district as far as the east- Covenant (2 Sam.7),and the New Covenant (Jer.
ern border, and westward next to the twenty- 31) have been fulfilled. So this final verse pro-
five thousand as far as the western border, vides the consummation of Israel’s history—the
returned presence of God!
adjacent to the tribal portions; it shall belong to
the prince. It shall be the holy district, and the
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