1 MOREOVER, WHEN you shall divide the land by apportioned and assigned lots for inheritance, you shall set apart as an offering to the Lord a portion of the land to be used for holy purposes. The length shall be 25,000 1 cubits, and the breadth 20,000. It shall be holy (set apart and consecrated to sacred use) in its every area. 2 Of this there shall belong to the sanctuary a square plot 500 by 500, and 50 cubits for the open space around it. 3 And in this sacred section you shall measure off a portion 25,000 2 cubits in length and 10,000 cubits in breadth. And in it shall be the sanctuary which is most holy. 4 It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to the Lord; and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place (set apart as sacred) for the sanctuary. 5 And another portion of land, 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide, shall also be for the Levites, the ministers of the temple, and they shall possess it as a place in which to live.
6 And you shall appoint for the possession of the city an area of 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, along beside the portion set aside as a holy section. It shall belong to the whole house of Israel.