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"‘You are to provide a lamb in its first year that has no defect for a daily burnt offering to Adonai ; do this each morning.

Also each morning, provide with it a grain offering, one-sixth of a bushel, and one-third of a gallon of olive oil to moisten the fine flour; this is the ongoing grain offering for Adonai , by a permanent regulation.

Next, he brought me through the entry at the side of the gate into the holy rooms facing north that were for the cohanim. At their far west end I saw a place

Then he brought me back to the entrance of the house, and I saw water flowing eastward from under the threshold of the house, for the house faced east. The water flowed down from under the right side of the house, south of the altar.

When this happens, swarms of all kinds of living creatures will be able to live in it wherever the streams flow; so that there will be a vast number of fish; for this water is flowing there, so that, wherever the river goes, everything will be restored and able to live.

On both riverbanks will grow all kinds of trees for food; their leaves will not dry up, nor will their fruit fail. There will be a different kind of fruit each month, because the water flows from the sanctuary, so that this fruit will be edible, and the leaves will have healing properties."

"Adonai Elohim says this: ‘These are the borders of the land you are to distribute for inheritance by the twelve tribes of Isra'el, with Yosef receiving two portions.

For inheritance you will each have equal shares. I swore to your ancestors that I would give them this land, and now it falls to you to inherit it.

You are to divide it by lot as an inheritance both to you and to the foreigners living among you who give birth to children living among you; for you they are to be no different from the native-born among the people of Isra'el — they are to have an inheritance with you among the tribes of Isra'el.

The offering you are to set aside for Adonai is to be eight [miles] long and three wide.

This holy offering will be for the cohanim; it will be eight [miles] in length along its north and south sides and three in width along its west and east sides; Adonai 's sanctuary will be inside it.

The portion set aside as holy will be for the cohanim who are descendants of Tzadok that remained faithful to my commission and did not go astray when the people of Isra'el and the L'vi'im went astray.

It is to be an especially holy portion set apart for them and taken from the offering of the land, next to the border of the L'vi'im.

" ‘Alongside the territory for the cohanim, the L'vi'im are to have a portion eight [miles] long and three wide — its total length will be eight and its width three.

They may not sell, exchange or alienate any of this choice land; because it is holy, for Adonai .

"‘The 5,000 [cubits, that is, the one-and-a-half miles] that are left of the width is to be for the common use of the city, for housing and for open fields. The city will be inside it.

A strip next to the holy offering extending three [miles] to the east and three to the west is to be left. This area by the holy offering is to be used to grow food for those serving the city.

The entire offering will be eight [miles] square, including the section for the city.

"‘What remains will be for the prince — the land on the two sides of the holy offering and section for the city, that is, the portion eastward from the eight [miles] of the offering's eastern border to the land's eastern border and the portion westward from the eight [miles] of the offering's western border to the land's western border — this land adjacent to the [tribal] portions will be for the prince, with the holy offering and the sanctuary of the house inside it.

Thus the land belonging to the L'vi'im and the section for the city will be inside that which belongs to the prince. "‘The territory belonging to the prince will be between the territory of Y'hudah and the territory of Binyamin —