Holy Scripture

Ezekiel 48:22

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 21, 22.) But what remains will belong to the prince on all sides, either from here or from there ((The Vulgate is silent whether from here or from there)) as the firstfruits of the sanctuary and the possession of the city, bordering (or facing) twenty-five thousand firstfruits to the eastern boundary, and also…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Ezekiel

Source: Septuagint

Original

22And there shall be a portion taken from the Levites, from the possession of the city in the midst of the princes between the borders of Judah and the borders of Benjamin, and it shall be the portion of the princes.

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20The whole offering shall be a square of twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand: ye shall separate again part of it, the firstfruits of the sanctuary, from the possession of the city.

21And the prince shall have the remainder on this side and on that side from the firstfruits of the sanctuary, and there shall be a possession of the city, for five and twenty thousand cubits in length, to the eastern and western borders, for five and twenty thousand to the western borders, next to the portions of the prince; and the firstfruits of the holy things and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst of it.

— Ezekiel 48:22 —

23And as for the rest of the tribes, from the eastern parts as far as the western, Benjamin shall have one portion.

24And from the borders of Benjamin, from the eastern parts to the western, Simeon, one.

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