The Portion for the Prince
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i "The prince shall have a section on one side and the other of the holy district and the city's property; and bordering on the holy district and the city's property, extending westward on the west side and eastward on the east side, the length shall be side by side with one of the tribal portions, from the west border to the east border.
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"The land shall be his possession in Israel; and j My princes shall no more oppress My people, but they shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel, according to their tribes."
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'Thus says the Lord GOD: k "Enough, O princes of Israel! l Remove violence and plundering, execute justice and righteousness, and stop dispossessing My people," says the Lord GOD.
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"You shall have m honest scales, an honest ephah, and an honest bath.
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"The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, so that the bath contains one-tenth of a homer, and the ephah one-tenth of a homer; their measure shall be according to the homer.
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"The n shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
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"This is the offering which you shall offer: you shall give one-sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat, and one-sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley.
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"The ordinance concerning oil, the bath of oil, is one-tenth of a bath from a kor. A kor is a homer or ten baths, for ten baths are a homer.
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"And one lamb shall be given from a flock of two hundred, from the rich pastures of Israel. These shall be for grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, o to make atonement for them," says the Lord GOD.
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"All the people of the land shall give this offering for the prince in Israel.
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"Then it shall be the p prince's part to give burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings, at the feasts, the New Moons, the Sabbaths, and at all the appointed seasons of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel."
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'Thus says the Lord GOD: "In the first month, on the first day of the month, you shall take a young bull without blemish and q cleanse the sanctuary.
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r "The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the gateposts of the gate of the inner court.
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"And so you shall do on the seventh day of the month s for everyone who has sinned unintentionally or in ignorance. Thus you shall make atonement for the temple.
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t "In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall observe the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
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"And on that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land u a bull for a sin offering.
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"On the v seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish, daily for seven days, w and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.
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x "And he shall prepare a grain offering of one ephah for each bull and one ephah for each ram, together with a hin of oil for each ephah.
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"In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the y feast, he shall do likewise for seven days, according to the sin offering, the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the oil."
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Cross References
Ezekiel 48:21
The rest shall belong to the prince, on one side and on the other of the holy district and of the city's property, next to the twenty-five thousand cubits of the holy district as far as the eastern border, and westward next to the twenty-five thousand as far as the western border, adjacent to the tribal portions; it shall belong to the prince. It shall be the holy district, and the sanctuary of the temple shall be in the center.
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Cross References
Isaiah 11:3 - 5
His delight is in the fear of the LORD, And He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, Nor decide by the hearing of His ears.
Jeremiah 22:17
"Yet your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your covetousness, For shedding innocent blood, And practicing oppression and violence."
Ezekiel 22:27
Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy people, and to get dishonest gain.
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Cross References
Ezekiel 44:6
Now say to the rebellious, to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "O house of Israel, let Us have no more of all your abominations.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 22:3
Thus says the LORD: "Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong and do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
Zechariah 8:16
These are the things you shall do: Speak each man the truth to his neighbor; Give judgment in your gates for truth, justice, and peace.
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Cross References
Leviticus 19:36
You shall have honest scales, honest weights, a...
Deuteronomy 25:15
You shall have a perfect and just weight, a per...
Proverbs 16:11
Honest weights and scales are the LORD's; All t...
Amos 8:4 - 6
Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, And ma...
Micah 6:10
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness In th...
Micah 6:11
Shall I count pure those with the wicked scales...
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Cross References
Exodus 30:13
This is what everyone among those who are numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (a shekel is twenty gerahs). The half-shekel shall be an offering to the LORD.
Leviticus 27:25
And all your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs to the shekel.
Numbers 3:47
You shall take five shekels for each one individually; you shall take them in the currency of the shekel of the sanctuary, the shekel of twenty gerahs.
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Cross References
Leviticus 1:4
Then he shall put his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him.
Leviticus 6:30
But no sin offering from which any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of meeting, to make atonement in the holy place, shall be eaten. It shall be burned in the fire.
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Cross References
Ezekiel 46:4 - 12
The burnt offering that the prince offers to the LORD on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.
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Cross References
Leviticus 16:16
So he shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions, for all their sins; and so he shall do for the tabernacle of meeting which remains among them in the midst of their uncleanness.
Leviticus 16:33
Then he shall make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary, and he shall make atonement for the tabernacle of meeting and for the altar, and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.
Ezekiel 43:22
On the second day you shall offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.
Ezekiel 43:26
Seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it, and so consecrate it.
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Cross References
Leviticus 16:18 - 20
And he shall go out to the altar that is before the LORD, and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and put it on the horns of the altar all around.
Ezekiel 43:20
You shall take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge, and on the rim around it; thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.
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Cross References
Leviticus 4:27
If anyone of the common people sins unintentionally by doing something against any of the commandments of the LORD in anything which ought not to be done, and is guilty.
Psalms 19:12
Who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from secret faults.
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Cross References
Exodus 12:18
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of th...
Leviticus 23:5
On the fourteenth day of the first month at twi...
Leviticus 23:6
And on the fifteenth day of the same month is t...
Numbers 9:2
Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at...
Numbers 9:3
"On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilig...
Numbers 28:16
On the fourteenth day of the first month is the...
Numbers 28:17
And on the fifteenth day of this month is the f...
Deuteronomy 16:1
Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passove...
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Cross References
Leviticus 4:14
When the sin which they have committed becomes known, then the assembly shall offer a young bull for the sin, and bring it before the tabernacle of meeting.
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Cross References
Leviticus 23:8
'But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD for seven days. The seventh day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it.'"
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Cross References
Numbers 28:15
Also one kid of the goats as a sin offering to ...
Numbers 28:22
Also one goat as a sin offering, to make atonem...
Numbers 28:30
Also one kid of the goats, to make atonement fo...
Numbers 29:5
Also one kid of the goats as a sin offering, to...
Numbers 29:11
Also one kid of the goats as a sin offering, be...
Numbers 29:16
Also one kid of the goats as a sin offering, be...
Numbers 29:19
Also one kid of the goats as a sin offering, be...
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Cross References
Numbers 28:12 - 15
Three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil, for each bull; two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram.
Ezekiel 46:5
And the grain offering shall be one ephah for a ram, and the grain offering for the lambs, as much as he wants to give, as well as a hin of oil with every ephah.
Ezekiel 46:7
He shall prepare a grain offering of an ephah for a bull, an ephah for a ram, as much as he wants to give for the lambs, and a hin of oil with every ephah.
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Cross References
Leviticus 23:34
Speak to the children of Israel, saying: 'The f...
Numbers 29:12
On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you s...
Deuteronomy 16:13
You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles seve...
2 Chronicles 5:3
Therefore all the men of Israel assembled with ...
2 Chronicles 7:8
At that time Solomon kept the feast seven days,...
2 Chronicles 10:1
And Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel ha...
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