holy oblation and of the possession of the city, in front of the holy oblation and 'in front of the possession of the city, 'on' the west side westward, and Ion the east side eastward: and 'in' length answerable unto one of the portions, from the west border unto (8) the east border. In the land 'it' shall be to him for a' possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

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Thus saith the Lord GOD: Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgement and justice; take away your exactions from my people, saith 10 the Lord GOD. Ye shall have just

balances, and a just ephah, and a just 11 bath. The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of 'an' homer, and the ephah the tenth part of 'an homer: the measure thereof shall be 12 after the homer. And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh. 13 This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah 'from an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah 'from 14) an homer of barley: and the 'set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, shall be the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is ten baths, 'even an homer; for ten baths are lan (15 homer: and one lamb of the flock,

out of two hundred, 'from the fat pastures of Israel; for a meal' offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make atonement! 16 for them, saith the Lord GOD. °All the people of the land shall give Junto this oblation for the prince in 17 Israel. And it shall be the prince's part to give the burnt offerings, and the meal offerings, and the drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all 'the appointed feasts of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meal offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.

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Thus saith the Lord GOD: In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish; and thou shalt *19 cleanse the sanctuary. "And the

priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the door' posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the "settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the 20 inner court. And so, thou shalt do on the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye Imake

21 atonement for the house. In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened 22 bread shall be eaten. And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering. 23 And the seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a 'he-goat' daily for a sin offering. (24 And he shall prepare a 'meal' offer

ing, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and 'an' hin of oil (25) to an ephah. In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, shall he do the like the seven days; according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the 'meal offering, and according to the oil.

461 Thus saith the Lord GOD: The

gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath day it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened. 2 °And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of 'the gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate; then he shall go forth: but the gate shall not be shut until the 3 evening. And the people of the land shall worship at the door of 'that' gate before the LORD in the sabbaths 4) and in the new moons. And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD shall be in the

The Sept. reads, in the seventh month, on the first day of the month.

sabbath day six lambs without blem5 ish and a ram without blemish; and the 'meal' offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and the 'meal' offering for the lambs as he is able to give, 6 and 'an hin of oil to an ephah. And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish ; and six lambs, and a ram; they shall 7 be without blemish: and he shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for the bullock, and an ephah for 'the' ram, and for the lambs according as

he is able', and 'an' hin of oil to an 8 ephah. And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and he shall (9 go forth by the way thereof. °But

when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the lappointed feasts, he that entereth by the way of the north gate to worship shall go forth by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth 10) straight before him. And the prince, when they go in, shall go in in the midst of them; and when they go forth, they shall go forth together. 11 And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meal offering shall be an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to give, and 'ani hin of oil to 12 an ephah. And when the prince shall prepare a freewill offering, a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering unto the LORD, one shall open for him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he doth on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going 13) forth one shall shut the gate. And thou shalt prepare a lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering unto the LORD daily: 'morning by morning shalt thou prepare it. 14) And thou shalt prepare a 'meal' offering with it morning by morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to moisten the fine flour; a 'meal' offering unto

1 Heb. his hand shall attain unto. 2 Some ancient authorities have, he shall go forth.

the LORD continually by a perpetual 15 ordinance. Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the 'meal' offering, and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt offering.

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Thus saith the Lord GOD: If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, it is his inheritance, 'it' shall belong to his sons'; it is their possession (17) by inheritance. "But if he give of his inheritance a gift to one of his serv ants, it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince; but as for his inheritance, (18) lit shall be for his 'sons'. Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance, to "thrust them out of their possession; he shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.

19 'Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which looked toward the north and behold, there was a place 20) on the 'hinder part! westward.

And

he said unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meal offering; that they bring them not 'forth into the outer court, to sanctify the peo21 ple. Then he brought me forth into the 'outer court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and behold, in every corner of the 22 court there was a court. In the four corners of the court there were courts

linclosed, forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four in the corners 23 were of one measure. And there was a row of building round about in them, round about the four, and it was made with boiling places under the 24 rows round about. "Then said he

unto me, These are the boiling houses', where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.

47 (1 And he brought me 'back' unto the door of the house; and behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward, for the forefront of the house was to

ward the east: and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, 'on' the south of the 2 altar. Then brought he me out 'by! the way of the gate northward, and led me 'round by the way without unto the outer gate, by the way of the gate that looketh 'toward the east'; and behold, there 1ran out waters on (3) the right side. When the man went forth eastward with the line in his hand, he measured a thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the 4 ankles. Again he measured a thousand, and 'caused' me 'to pass through the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and 'caused' me 'to pass through the waters, waters that were to the 5 loins. Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass through': for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed 6 through. And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to 7 return to the 'bank' of the river. Now when I had returned, behold, 'upon' the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other. 8) Then said he unto me, These waters issue 'forth toward the leastern region', and shall go down into the 'Arabah' : and they shall go toward the sea; into the sea shall the waters gol which were made to issue forth; (9 and the waters shall be healed. And

it shall come to pass, that every living creature which 'swarmeth, in every place whither the rivers come, shall live; and there shall be a very great multitude of fish: for these waters lare come thither, and the waters of the seal shall be healed, and every thing shall live whithersoever the (10 river cometh. And it shall come to pass, that fishers shall stand by it: from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, 11 exceeding many. But the miry places

1 Or, Itrickled forth

2 Heb. two rivers.

3 Or, that all things may be healed and live

thereof, and the marishes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be 12 given up to salt. And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow levery tree for meat, whose leaf shall not Iwither', neither shall the fruit thereof 'fail' it shall bring forth "new fruit levery month, because the waters Ithereof issue out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for healing'.

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Thus saith the Lord GOD: This shall be the border, whereby ye shall divide the land for inheritance according to the twelve tribes of Israel: 14 Joseph shall have portions. And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another; concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall 15 unto you for inheritance. And this shall be the border of the land: 'on! the north side, from the great sea, by the way of Hethlon, unto the 16 entering in of Zedad; Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer!-hatticon, which (17 is by the border of Hauran. And the border from the sea shall be Hazar-lenon at the border of Damascus, and on the north northward lis the border of Hamath. This is the (18) north side. And the east side, 'between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of Israel, 'shall bel Jordan; from the north border unto the east sea shall ye measure. (19 This is the east side. And the south side southward 'shall be from Tamar las far as the waters of 'Meriboth"kadesh, 'to the 'brook of Egypt, un-1 to the great sea. This is the south 20 side southward. And the west side shall be the great sea, from the 'south' border las far as over against the entering in of Hamath. This is the 21 west side. So shall ye divide this

land unto you according to the tribes 22 of Israel. And it shall come to pass,

that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which

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shall beget children among you; and they shall be unto you as the 'homeborn among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you 23 among the tribes of Israel. And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD.

48(1) Now these are the names of the

tribes: from the north end, 'beside the way of Hethlon to the entering in of Hamath, Hazar-enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath; and they shall have their sides east and west; Dan, lonel (2) portion. And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side; (3) Asher, one portion. And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side; Naphtali, (4) one portion. And by the border

of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side; Manasseh, lone por(5) tion. And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west (6) side; Ephraim, 'one' portion. And

by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side; (7) Reuben, one portion. And by the

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border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side; Judah, 'one' portion.

And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the loblation' which ye shall offer, five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the 'portions, from the east side unto the west side and the sanctuary shall (9 be in the midst of it. The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be five and twenty thousand reeds in length, and ten thousand 10 in breadth. And for thesel, even for the priests, shall be the holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be 11 in the midst thereof. It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, which have kept my charge; which went not astray

1 Or, The sanctified portion shall be for the priests of the sons &c.

when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray. 12) And it shall be unto them lan oblation from the oblation of the land, a thing most holy, by the border of the 13 Levites. And answerable unto the border of the priests, the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth 2ten thou14 sand. And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange it, nor shall the firstfruits of the land be alienated': 15 for it is holy unto the LORD. And the five thousand that are left in the breadth, in front of the five and twenty thousand, shall be for common use', for the city, for dwelling and for suburbs: and the city shall 16 be in the midst thereof. And these

shall be the measures thereof; the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thou(17) sand and five hundred. And the

city shall have suburbs; toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two hun(18) dred and fifty. And the residue in

the length, answerable unto the holy oblation, shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be answerable unto the holy oblation; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that 19) labour in the city. And they that

labour in the city, out of all the 20 tribes of Israel, shall till it. All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city.

21) And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation and of the possession of the city, in front of the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and westward in front of the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, 'answerable unto the portions,

2 The Sept. has, twenty. 3 See ch. xlv. 7.

it shall be for the prince: and the holy oblation and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst there22 of. Moreover from the possession

of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince. 23 And as for the rest of the tribes:

from the east side unto the west side;

24 Benjamin, 'onel portion. And by the

border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side; Simeon, 'one' 25 portion. And by the border of Sim

eon, from the east side unto the west 26 side; Issachar, lone portion. And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side; Zebu27 lun, 'one portion. And by the bor

der of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side; Gad, lonel por(28 tion. And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of Meribath'-kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, unto the great sea. 29 This is the land which ye shall divide

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by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their 'several' portions, saith the Lord God.

And these are the goings out of the city; on the north side four thousand and five hundred reeds by measure! : 31) and the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel; three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, 32) one; the gate of Levi, one: and at the east side four thousand and five hundred reeds; and three gates: leven the gate of Joseph, one; 'the' gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of 33) Dan, one: and at the south side four thousand and five hundred reeds by measure; and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one, the gate of Zebulun, 34) one at the west side four thousand and five hundred reeds', with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate 35) of Naphtali, one. "It shall be eighteen thousand reeds round about: and the name of the city from that day shall be, 'The LORD is there.

11 IN the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Je2 rusalem, and besieged it. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God; 'and' he carried Ithem into the land of Shinar to the house of his god: and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his 3 god. And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring in certain of the children of Israel, leven of the seed (4 royal and of the nobles; lyouths! in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had

ability to stand in the king's palace; and that he should' teach them the learning and the tongue of the Chal5 deans. And the king appointed 'for them a daily portion of the king's 2meat, and of the wine which he drank, and that they should be nourished three years; that at the end thereof they might stand before the 6 king. Now among these were, of the children of Judah, Daniel, Han(7) aniah, Mishael, and Azariah. And the prince of the eunuchs gave names unto them: unto Daniel he gave the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abed(8 nego. But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile him

2 Or, Idainties\