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As for the prince, as prince he shall sit in it to eat bread before Jehovah. He shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and by his way shall go out.

And you have not kept the charge of My holy things, but you have set them as keepers of My charge in My sanctuary, for themselves.

Yet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary, overseers at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house. They shall slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them, to minister to them.

But I will give them to be keepers of the charge of the house for all its service, and for all that shall be done in it.

And they shall not take a widow or a divorcee, for wives for themselves, but they shall only take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

And he shall not come to a dead man, to defile himself ; but for father, or for mother, or for a son, or for a daughter, for a brother, or for a sister who has not had a husband, they may defile themselves.

And after he is cleansed, they shall count seven days for him.

And it shall be to them for an inheritance; I am their inheritance; and you shall not give them possession in Israel; I am their possession.

And the first of all the firstfruits of all, and every one of the heave offerings of all, of all your heave offerings, shall be for the priests. And you shall give to the priest the firstof your dough, to cause a blessing to rest onyour house.

And when you shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance, you shall offer a heave offering to Jehovah, a holy portion of the land. The length shall be twenty five thousand cubits long and the width ten thousand. It

Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred by five hundred cubits , square all around, and fifty cubits of open space shall be all around.

It is the holy portion of the land for the priests, it shall be for the ministers of the sanctuary who come near to minister to Jehovah. And it shall be for them a place for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary.

And twenty five thousand cubits in length, and ten thousand in width shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, for them for a possession, twenty rooms.

And you shall give the possession of the city, five thousand cubits wide and twenty five thousand long, beside the heave offering of the holy lot . It shall be for the whole house of Israel.

And a portion shall be for the prince from here, and from there, for the heave offering of the holy place and of the possession of the city, to the face of the heave offeringof the holy place, from the west side westward,and from the east side eastward. And the length shall be alongside one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.

It shall be for a land to him, for a possession in Israel, and My rulers shall not oppress My people any more. And they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

So says the Lord Jehovah: Enough for you, O rulers of Israel! Turn away violence and oppression, and do justice and righteousness. Lift away your acts of violence from My people, declares the Lord Jehovah.

And the statute of oil, the bath of oil, the tenth of the bath out of the cor; (ten baths, a homer, for ten baths are a homer);

and one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the watered land of Israel for a food offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to atone for them, declares the Lord Jehovah.

All the people of the land shall be at this heave offering for the prince in Israel.