Yehezkiel 44:11

44:11 Yet they will be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the temple, and serving the temple. They will slaughter the burnt offerings and the sacrifices for the people, and they will stand before them to minister to them.

Yehezkiel 45:1

The Lord’s Portion of the Land

45:1 “‘When you allot the land as an inheritance, you will offer an allotment ¹  to the Lord, a holy portion from the land; the length will be eight and a quarter miles ²  and the width three and one-third miles. ³  This entire area will be holy. ⁴ 

Yehezkiel 48:10

48:10 These will be the allotments for the holy portion: for the priests, toward the north eight and a quarter miles ⁵  in length, toward the west three and one-third miles ⁶  in width, toward the east three and one-third miles ⁷  in width, and toward the south eight and a quarter miles ⁸  in length; the sanctuary of the Lord will be in the middle.

[45:1]  ¹ tn Heb “a contribution.”

[45:1]  ² tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers). The measuring units here are the Hebrew “long” cubit, consisting of a cubit (about 18 inches or 45 cm) and a handbreadth (about 3 inches or 7.5 cm), for a total of 21 inches (52.5 cm). Because modern readers are not familiar with the cubit as a unit of measurement, and due to the additional complication of the “long” cubit as opposed to the regular cubit, all measurements have been converted to American standard miles (one mile = 5,280 feet), with the Hebrew measurements and the metric equivalents given in the notes.

[45:1]  ³ tc The LXX reads “twenty thousand cubits.”

[45:1]  tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

[45:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “holy it is in all its territory round about.”

[48:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

[48:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

[48:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

[48:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).