WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.840 Nancy: Welcome to immerse: the daily bible reading experience. 00:00:02.920 --> 00:00:04.340 day 200 and 78 00:00:04.663 --> 00:00:08.623 Then the man brought me back to the East Gateway in the outer wall of the temple 00:00:08.628 --> 00:00:15.133 area, but it was closed, and the Lord said to me, this gate must remain closed. 00:00:15.673 --> 00:00:17.383 It will never again be opened. 00:00:18.193 --> 00:00:21.913 No one will ever open it and pass through for the Lord. 00:00:21.973 --> 00:00:24.403 The God of Israel has entered here. 00:00:25.123 --> 00:00:27.163 Therefore, it must always remain shut. 00:00:27.913 --> 00:00:32.413 Only the prince himself may sit inside this gateway to feast in the Lord's 00:00:32.413 --> 00:00:37.303 presence, but he may come and go only through the entry room of the gateway. 00:00:38.623 --> 00:00:41.743 Then the man brought me through the north gateway to the front of the temple. 00:00:42.343 --> 00:00:46.093 I looked and saw that the glory of the Lord filled the temple of the 00:00:46.093 --> 00:00:50.653 Lord, and I fell face down on the ground and the Lord said to me, 00:00:51.583 --> 00:00:53.803 son of man, take careful notice. 00:00:54.733 --> 00:00:59.053 Use your eyes and ears and listen to everything I tell you about the 00:00:59.058 --> 00:01:01.333 regulations concerning the Lord's temple. 00:01:01.993 --> 00:01:05.563 Take careful note of the procedures for using the temple's, entrances 00:01:05.563 --> 00:01:10.033 and exits, and give these rebels the people of Israel. 00:01:10.423 --> 00:01:14.833 This message from the sovereign Lord oh people of Israel. 00:01:15.343 --> 00:01:17.563 Enough of your detestable sins. 00:01:18.223 --> 00:01:21.703 You have brought uncircumcised foreigners into my sanctuary. 00:01:22.288 --> 00:01:25.738 People who have no heart for God in this way. 00:01:25.738 --> 00:01:30.298 You defiled my temple even as you offered me my food, the 00:01:30.298 --> 00:01:32.188 fat and blood of sacrifices. 00:01:32.878 --> 00:01:37.708 In addition to all your other detestable sins, you have broken my covenant. 00:01:38.608 --> 00:01:42.748 Instead of safeguarding my sacred rituals, you have hired foreigners 00:01:42.748 --> 00:01:44.638 to take charge of my sanctuary. 00:01:45.748 --> 00:01:48.118 So this is what the sovereign Lord says. 00:01:49.018 --> 00:01:53.788 No foreigners, including those who live among the people of Israel, will enter 00:01:53.788 --> 00:01:57.778 my sanctuary if they have not been circumcised and have not surrendered 00:01:57.778 --> 00:02:02.848 themselves to the Lord and the men of the tribe of Levi who abandoned me when 00:02:02.848 --> 00:02:04.978 Israel strayed away from me to worship. 00:02:04.983 --> 00:02:08.818 Idols must bear the consequences of their unfaithfulness. 00:02:09.628 --> 00:02:13.738 They may still be temple guards and gatekeepers, and they may slaughter 00:02:13.738 --> 00:02:17.698 the animals brought for burnt offerings and be present to help the people. 00:02:18.568 --> 00:02:24.508 They encouraged my people to worship idols causing Israel to fall into deep sin. 00:02:25.618 --> 00:02:29.458 So I have taken a solemn oath that they must bear the consequences for 00:02:29.458 --> 00:02:31.948 their sins, says the sovereign Lord. 00:02:32.548 --> 00:02:35.008 They may not approach me to minister as priests. 00:02:35.698 --> 00:02:40.108 They may not touch any of my holy things or the holy offerings for, 00:02:40.108 --> 00:02:44.128 they must bear the shame of all the detestable sins they have committed. 00:02:45.088 --> 00:02:47.218 They are to serve as the temple caretakers. 00:02:47.818 --> 00:02:51.208 Taking charge of the maintenance work and performing general duties. 00:02:52.138 --> 00:02:56.818 However, the Levitical priests of the family of Zadak continued to 00:02:56.818 --> 00:03:01.018 minister faithfully in the temple when Israel abandoned me for idols, 00:03:01.648 --> 00:03:04.018 these men will serve as my ministers. 00:03:04.288 --> 00:03:08.968 They will stand in my presence and offer the fact and blood of the 00:03:08.968 --> 00:03:11.638 sacrifices, says the sovereign Lord. 00:03:12.328 --> 00:03:16.828 They alone will enter my sanctuary and approach my table to serve me. 00:03:17.533 --> 00:03:20.143 They will fulfill all my requirements. 00:03:21.193 --> 00:03:23.953 When they enter the gateway to the inner courtyard, they 00:03:23.953 --> 00:03:25.723 must wear only linen clothing. 00:03:26.413 --> 00:03:29.563 They must wear no wool while on duty in the inner courtyard 00:03:29.833 --> 00:03:31.123 or in the temple itself. 00:03:31.993 --> 00:03:35.413 They must wear linen turbans, and linen undergarments. 00:03:36.103 --> 00:03:38.953 They must not wear anything that would cause them to perspire. 00:03:40.123 --> 00:03:42.613 When they return to the outer courtyard where the people are, 00:03:42.973 --> 00:03:45.993 they must take off the clothes they wear while ministering To me. 00:03:46.933 --> 00:03:50.863 They must leave them in the sacred rooms and put on other clothes so they 00:03:50.863 --> 00:03:54.793 do not endanger anyone By transmitting holiness to them through this clothing, 00:03:56.083 --> 00:03:59.893 they must neither shave their heads, nor let their hair grow too long. 00:04:00.553 --> 00:04:02.953 Instead, they must trim it regularly. 00:04:03.243 --> 00:04:07.183 The priests must not drink wine before entering the inner courtyard. 00:04:07.963 --> 00:04:11.743 They may choose their wives only from among the virgins of Israel 00:04:12.013 --> 00:04:13.723 or the widows of the priests. 00:04:14.458 --> 00:04:17.128 They may not marry other widows or divorced women. 00:04:18.088 --> 00:04:22.198 They will teach my people the difference between what is holy and what is common. 00:04:22.708 --> 00:04:25.798 What is ceremonially, clean and unclean. 00:04:26.878 --> 00:04:30.388 They will serve as judges to resolve any disagreements among my people. 00:04:30.528 --> 00:04:35.308 Their decisions must be based on my regulations, and the priests 00:04:35.338 --> 00:04:40.288 themselves must obey my instructions and decrees at all the sacred festivals. 00:04:41.053 --> 00:04:44.353 And see to it that the Sabbaths are set apart as holy days. 00:04:45.673 --> 00:04:50.263 A priest must not defile himself by being in the presence of a dead person 00:04:50.743 --> 00:04:55.993 unless it is his father, mother, child, brother, or unmarried sister. 00:04:56.593 --> 00:05:02.443 In such cases, it is permitted even then he can return to his temple duties 00:05:02.503 --> 00:05:06.873 only after being ceremonially cleansed and then waiting for seven days. 00:05:08.278 --> 00:05:10.708 The first day he returns to work and enters the inner 00:05:10.708 --> 00:05:12.448 courtyard and the sanctuary. 00:05:12.958 --> 00:05:16.978 He must offer a sin offering for himself, says the sovereign Lord. 00:05:18.208 --> 00:05:21.988 The priests will not have any property or possession of land for 00:05:21.993 --> 00:05:24.268 I alone am their special possession. 00:05:25.168 --> 00:05:28.708 Their food will come from the gifts and sacrifices brought to the temple 00:05:28.708 --> 00:05:33.808 by the people, the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings. 00:05:34.783 --> 00:05:38.323 Whenever anyone sets apart, for the Lord will belong to the priests. 00:05:39.043 --> 00:05:42.073 The first of the ripe fruits and all the gifts brought to 00:05:42.073 --> 00:05:43.753 the Lord will go to the priests. 00:05:44.383 --> 00:05:47.653 The first batch of dough must also be given to the priests, so 00:05:47.658 --> 00:05:49.453 the Lord will bless your homes. 00:05:50.143 --> 00:05:54.583 The priests may not eat meat from any bird or animal that dies in natural 00:05:54.583 --> 00:06:00.133 death or the dies after being attacked by another animal when you divide 00:06:00.133 --> 00:06:01.993 the land among the tribes of Israel. 00:06:02.563 --> 00:06:05.893 You must set aside a section for the Lord as his holy portion. 00:06:06.823 --> 00:06:10.813 This piece of land will be eight and a third miles long and 00:06:10.818 --> 00:06:12.883 six and two thirds miles wide. 00:06:13.333 --> 00:06:15.433 The entire area will be holy. 00:06:16.333 --> 00:06:22.153 A section of this land measuring 875 feet by 875 feet will 00:06:22.153 --> 00:06:23.713 be set aside for the temple. 00:06:24.433 --> 00:06:28.273 An additional strip of land 87 and a half feet wide is to 00:06:28.273 --> 00:06:30.043 be left empty all around it. 00:06:30.898 --> 00:06:35.668 Within the larger sacred area, measure out a portion of land eight and a third miles 00:06:35.668 --> 00:06:38.518 long and three and one third miles wide. 00:06:39.328 --> 00:06:42.988 Within it, the sanctuary of the most holy place will be located. 00:06:43.768 --> 00:06:48.028 This area will be holy set aside for the priests who minister 00:06:48.028 --> 00:06:49.408 to the Lord and the sanctuary. 00:06:50.398 --> 00:06:54.328 They will use it for their homes, and my temple will be located within it. 00:06:55.093 --> 00:06:56.923 The strip of sacred land next to it. 00:06:57.343 --> 00:07:01.123 Also eight and one third miles long and three and one third miles 00:07:01.123 --> 00:07:04.783 wide will be a living area for the Levites who work at the temple. 00:07:05.473 --> 00:07:08.593 It'll be their possession and a place for their towns. 00:07:09.853 --> 00:07:13.183 Adjacent to the larger sacred area will be a section of land 00:07:13.183 --> 00:07:17.383 eight and one third miles long and one and two thirds miles wide. 00:07:17.983 --> 00:07:22.063 This will be set aside for a city where anyone in Israel can live. 00:07:23.578 --> 00:07:26.578 Two special sections of land will be set apart for the prince. 00:07:27.448 --> 00:07:30.928 One section will share a border with the east side of the sacred lands 00:07:30.928 --> 00:07:34.588 and city, and the second section will share a border on the west side. 00:07:35.458 --> 00:07:39.148 Then the far eastern and western borders of the prince's lands will 00:07:39.153 --> 00:07:42.448 line up with the eastern and western boundaries of the tribal areas. 00:07:43.198 --> 00:07:45.598 These sections of land will be the prince's allotment. 00:07:46.588 --> 00:07:50.608 Then my princes will no longer oppress and rob my people. 00:07:51.388 --> 00:07:54.418 They will assign the rest of the land to the people giving an 00:07:54.418 --> 00:07:58.978 allotment to each tribe for this is what the Sovereign Lord says. 00:07:59.758 --> 00:08:04.288 Enough, you, princes of Israel, stop your violence and oppression 00:08:04.348 --> 00:08:06.448 and do what is just and right. 00:08:07.258 --> 00:08:09.778 Quit robbing and cheating my people out of their land. 00:08:10.468 --> 00:08:13.978 Stop expelling them from their homes, says the sovereign Lord. 00:08:14.638 --> 00:08:19.468 Use only honest weights and scales and honest measures, both dry and liquid. 00:08:20.158 --> 00:08:23.458 The Homer will be your standard unit for measuring volume. 00:08:23.998 --> 00:08:27.478 The EFA and the bath will each measure one 10th of a homer. 00:08:28.228 --> 00:08:32.788 The standard unit for weight will be the silver shekel one shekel 00:08:32.788 --> 00:08:37.978 will consist of 20 giras and 60 shekels will be equal to one meina. 00:08:38.998 --> 00:08:43.588 You must give this tax to the prince, one bushel of wheat or barley. 00:08:43.588 --> 00:08:45.358 For every 60 you harvest. 00:08:46.018 --> 00:08:51.088 1% of your olive oil and one sheep or goat for every 200 in your flocks In 00:08:51.088 --> 00:08:56.638 Israel, these will be the grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings 00:08:56.638 --> 00:09:00.718 that will make atonement for the people who bring them says the sovereign Lord. 00:09:01.558 --> 00:09:05.368 All the people of Israel must join in bringing these offerings to the prince. 00:09:06.418 --> 00:09:09.088 The Prince will be required to provide offerings that are given 00:09:09.088 --> 00:09:14.098 at the religious festivals, the New Moon celebrations, the Sabbath days. 00:09:14.653 --> 00:09:19.573 All other similar occasions, he will provide the sin offerings, burnt 00:09:19.573 --> 00:09:24.313 offerings, grain offerings, liquid offerings, and peace offerings 00:09:24.343 --> 00:09:28.453 to purify the people of Israel, making them right with the Lord. 00:09:29.593 --> 00:09:33.373 This is what the sovereign Lord says in early spring. 00:09:33.433 --> 00:09:37.693 On the first day of each new year, sacrifice a young bull with 00:09:37.693 --> 00:09:39.793 no defects to purify the temple. 00:09:40.618 --> 00:09:44.968 The priest will take blood from this sin offering and put it on the doorposts of 00:09:44.968 --> 00:09:49.588 the temple, the four corners of the upper ledge of the altar, and the gate posts 00:09:49.648 --> 00:09:51.388 at the entrance to the inner courtyard. 00:09:52.108 --> 00:09:54.808 Do this also on the seventh day of the new year. 00:09:55.078 --> 00:09:58.138 For anyone who has sinned through error or ignorance. 00:09:58.888 --> 00:10:01.468 In this way, you will purify the temple. 00:10:02.518 --> 00:10:06.958 On the 14th day of the first month, you must celebrate the Passover. 00:10:07.378 --> 00:10:09.718 This festival will last for seven days. 00:10:10.588 --> 00:10:13.828 The bread you eat during that time must be made without yeast. 00:10:14.428 --> 00:10:18.748 On the day of Passover, the Prince will provide a young bull as a sin offering 00:10:18.748 --> 00:10:21.088 for himself and the people of Israel. 00:10:22.138 --> 00:10:26.068 On each of the seven days of the feast, he will prepare a burnt offering to 00:10:26.068 --> 00:10:31.228 the Lord consisting of seven young bulls and seven rams without defects. 00:10:32.098 --> 00:10:35.308 A male goat will also be given each day for a sin offering. 00:10:35.938 --> 00:10:39.028 The prince will provide a basket of flour as a grain offering. 00:10:39.403 --> 00:10:42.463 And a gallon of olive oil with each young bull and ram. 00:10:43.543 --> 00:10:48.253 During the seven days of the festival of shelters, which occurs every year in early 00:10:48.253 --> 00:10:53.053 autumn, the Prince will provide these same sacrifices for the sin offering, the 00:10:53.053 --> 00:10:57.403 burnt offering, and the grain offering, along with the required olive oil. 00:10:58.663 --> 00:11:00.793 This is what the sovereign Lord says. 00:11:01.633 --> 00:11:04.783 The east gateway of the inner courtyard will be closed during 00:11:04.783 --> 00:11:06.253 the six work days each week. 00:11:06.943 --> 00:11:10.783 But it will be open on Sabbath days and the days of New Moon celebrations. 00:11:11.503 --> 00:11:14.803 The prince will enter the entry room of the gateway from the outside. 00:11:15.733 --> 00:11:17.563 Then he will stand by the gatepost. 00:11:17.863 --> 00:11:22.723 While the priest offers his burnt offering and peace offering, he will bow down and 00:11:22.723 --> 00:11:28.093 worship inside the gateway passage and then go back out The way he came, the 00:11:28.093 --> 00:11:30.163 gateway will not be closed until evening. 00:11:31.093 --> 00:11:34.633 The common people will bow down and worship the Lord in front of this gateway. 00:11:35.398 --> 00:11:40.558 On Sabbath days and the days of new moon celebrations, each Sabbath 00:11:40.558 --> 00:11:44.608 day, the prince will present to the Lord a burnt offering of six lambs 00:11:44.638 --> 00:11:47.308 and one ram all with no defects. 00:11:48.118 --> 00:11:51.988 He will present a grain offering of a basket of choice flour to go with the ram 00:11:52.408 --> 00:11:56.938 and whatever amount of flour he chooses to go with each lamb, and he is to offer 00:11:56.938 --> 00:12:02.158 one gallon of olive oil for each basket of flour at the new Moon celebrations, 00:12:02.518 --> 00:12:04.378 he will bring one young bull. 00:12:04.948 --> 00:12:08.758 Six lambs and one ram all with no defects. 00:12:09.658 --> 00:12:12.628 With a young bull, he must bring a basket of choice flour. 00:12:12.628 --> 00:12:17.428 For a grain offering with the ram, he must bring another basket of flour. 00:12:18.118 --> 00:12:20.548 And with each lamb, he is to bring whatever amount of 00:12:20.548 --> 00:12:21.988 flour he chooses to give. 00:12:22.178 --> 00:12:26.698 With each basket of flour, he must offer one gallon of olive oil. 00:12:27.658 --> 00:12:30.328 The prince must enter the gateway through the entry room, 00:12:30.658 --> 00:12:32.278 and he must leave the same way. 00:12:33.103 --> 00:12:35.833 But when the people come in through the North Gateway to worship the 00:12:35.833 --> 00:12:40.303 Lord during the religious festivals, they must leave by the South Gateway. 00:12:41.173 --> 00:12:45.073 And those who entered through the South gateway must leave by the North gateway. 00:12:45.703 --> 00:12:49.123 They must never leave by the same gateway they came in, but must 00:12:49.123 --> 00:12:50.923 always use the opposite gateway. 00:12:51.733 --> 00:12:55.063 The Prince will enter and leave with the people on these occasions. 00:12:56.203 --> 00:13:00.223 So at the special feasts and sacred festivals, the grain offering will 00:13:00.223 --> 00:13:04.243 be a basket of choice flour with each young bull, another basket of 00:13:04.243 --> 00:13:08.593 flour with each ram and as much flour as the worshiper chooses to give 00:13:08.593 --> 00:13:13.213 with each lamb, give one gallon of olive oil with each basket of flour. 00:13:14.083 --> 00:13:17.743 When the prince offers a voluntary burnt offering or peace offering to 00:13:17.743 --> 00:13:22.003 the Lord, the east gateway to the inner courtyard will be opened for him. 00:13:22.663 --> 00:13:26.263 He will offer his sacrifices as he does on Sabbath days. 00:13:27.013 --> 00:13:32.593 Then he will leave and the gateway will be shut behind him each morning. 00:13:32.593 --> 00:13:36.313 You must sacrifice a one year old lamb with no defects as a burnt 00:13:36.313 --> 00:13:38.953 offering to the Lord with the lamb. 00:13:39.313 --> 00:13:43.573 A grain offering must also be given to the Lord about three quarts of 00:13:43.573 --> 00:13:47.923 flour, with a third of a gallon of olive oil to moisten the choice flour. 00:13:48.853 --> 00:13:50.773 This will be a permanent law for you. 00:13:51.433 --> 00:13:55.993 The lamb, the grain offering, and the olive oil must be given as a daily 00:13:55.993 --> 00:13:58.423 sacrifice every morning without fail. 00:13:59.533 --> 00:14:01.663 This is what the sovereign Lord says. 00:14:02.413 --> 00:14:06.523 If the prince gives a gift of land to one of his sons as his inheritance, it will 00:14:06.523 --> 00:14:09.043 belong to him and his descendants forever. 00:14:09.883 --> 00:14:12.733 But if the Prince gives a gift of land from his inheritance to one 00:14:12.733 --> 00:14:16.333 of his servants, the servant may keep it only until the year of 00:14:16.333 --> 00:14:19.453 Jubilee, which comes every 50th year. 00:14:20.428 --> 00:14:24.388 At that time, the land will return to the prince, but when the prince 00:14:24.388 --> 00:14:29.638 gives gifts to his sons, those gifts will be permanent, and the prince may 00:14:29.638 --> 00:14:31.738 never take anyone's property by force. 00:14:32.698 --> 00:14:36.358 If he gives property to his sons, it must be from his own land. 00:14:36.928 --> 00:14:41.158 For I do not want any of my people unjustly evicted from their property. 00:14:42.538 --> 00:14:46.738 In my vision, the man brought me through the entrance beside the gateway. 00:14:47.173 --> 00:14:51.523 And led me to the sacred rooms assigned to the priests, which faced toward the north. 00:14:52.423 --> 00:14:55.633 He showed me a place at the extreme west end of these rooms. 00:14:56.203 --> 00:15:00.073 He explained this is where the priests will cook the meat from the guilt 00:15:00.078 --> 00:15:04.813 offerings and sin offerings, and bake the flour from the grain offerings into bread. 00:15:05.093 --> 00:15:09.163 They will do it here to avoid carrying the sacrifices through the outer 00:15:09.163 --> 00:15:13.303 courtyard and endangering the people by transmitting holiness to them. 00:15:14.698 --> 00:15:17.578 Then he brought me back to the outer courtyard and led me 00:15:17.578 --> 00:15:19.108 to each of its four corners. 00:15:19.888 --> 00:15:22.018 In each corner, I saw an enclosure. 00:15:22.918 --> 00:15:26.938 Each of these enclosures was 70 feet long and 52 and a half 00:15:26.938 --> 00:15:29.278 feet wide, surrounded by walls. 00:15:30.058 --> 00:15:34.228 Along the inside of these walls was a ledge of stone with fireplaces 00:15:34.228 --> 00:15:35.998 under the ledge all the way around. 00:15:36.838 --> 00:15:41.458 The man said to me, these are the kitchens to be used by the temple assistance. 00:15:41.803 --> 00:15:47.503 To boil the sacrifices offered by the people in my vision, the man brought 00:15:47.503 --> 00:15:49.183 me back to the entrance of the temple. 00:15:49.843 --> 00:15:53.233 There I saw a stream flowing east from beneath the door of the 00:15:53.233 --> 00:15:56.803 temple and passing to the right of the altar on its south side. 00:15:57.553 --> 00:16:01.363 The man brought me outside the wall through the North gateway and led me 00:16:01.363 --> 00:16:04.093 around to the Eastern entrance there. 00:16:04.333 --> 00:16:08.503 I could see the water flowing out through the south side of the East Gateway. 00:16:09.688 --> 00:16:14.758 Measuring as he went, he took me along the stream for 1,750 00:16:14.758 --> 00:16:16.768 feet and then led me across. 00:16:17.638 --> 00:16:19.138 The water was up to my ankles. 00:16:19.768 --> 00:16:24.508 He measured off another 1,750 feet and led me across again. 00:16:25.258 --> 00:16:27.298 This time the water was up to my knees. 00:16:28.228 --> 00:16:32.878 After another 1,750 feet, it was up to my waist. 00:16:33.658 --> 00:16:36.598 Then he measured another 1,750 feet. 00:16:37.093 --> 00:16:39.523 And the river was too deep to walk across. 00:16:40.153 --> 00:16:43.483 It was deep enough to swim in, but too deep to walk through. 00:16:44.533 --> 00:16:48.673 He asked me, have you been watching Son of Man? 00:16:49.783 --> 00:16:51.853 Then he led me back along the riverbank. 00:16:52.693 --> 00:16:56.653 When I returned, I was surprised by the side of many trees growing 00:16:56.653 --> 00:16:58.003 on both sides of the river. 00:16:58.753 --> 00:17:02.503 Then he said to me, this river flows east through the desert 00:17:02.503 --> 00:17:04.123 into the Valley of the Dead Sea. 00:17:04.918 --> 00:17:07.648 The waters of this stream will make the salty waters of 00:17:07.648 --> 00:17:10.228 the dead sea, fresh and pure. 00:17:10.858 --> 00:17:14.188 There will be swarms of living things wherever the water of this river 00:17:14.188 --> 00:17:19.648 flows, fish will abound in the dead sea, for its waters will become fresh. 00:17:20.428 --> 00:17:22.888 Life will flourish wherever this water flows. 00:17:23.668 --> 00:17:27.238 Fishermen will stand along the shores of the dead sea, all 00:17:27.238 --> 00:17:30.088 the way from nge I to an egm. 00:17:30.448 --> 00:17:33.478 The shores will be covered with nets drying in the sun. 00:17:34.498 --> 00:17:37.978 Fish of every kind will fill the dead sea just as they fill the 00:17:37.978 --> 00:17:42.328 Mediterranean, but the marshes and swamps will not be purified. 00:17:42.748 --> 00:17:44.158 They will still be salty. 00:17:44.848 --> 00:17:48.148 Fruit trees of all kinds will grow along both sides of the river. 00:17:48.868 --> 00:17:53.008 The leaves of these trees will never turn brown and fall, and there will 00:17:53.008 --> 00:17:54.718 always be fruit on their branches. 00:17:55.618 --> 00:17:59.128 There will be a new crop every month for they are watered by the 00:17:59.128 --> 00:18:00.688 river, flowing from the temple. 00:18:01.378 --> 00:18:02.788 The fruit will be for food. 00:18:03.283 --> 00:18:04.993 The leaves for healing. 00:18:06.343 --> 00:18:10.783 This is what the sovereign Lord says, divide the land in this way. 00:18:10.783 --> 00:18:14.863 For the 12 tribes of Israel, the descendants of Joseph will 00:18:14.863 --> 00:18:16.513 be given two shares of land. 00:18:16.993 --> 00:18:19.933 Otherwise, each tribe will receive an equal share. 00:18:20.803 --> 00:18:24.433 I took a solemn oath and swore that I would give this land to 00:18:24.433 --> 00:18:28.273 your ancestors and it will now come to you as your possession. 00:18:29.473 --> 00:18:31.213 These are the boundaries of the land. 00:18:31.933 --> 00:18:36.193 The northern border will run from the Mediterranean tort Helon, then 00:18:36.193 --> 00:18:38.863 on through Libo Hamath to Zda. 00:18:39.823 --> 00:18:45.823 Then it'll run to Roha and Sibr, which are on the border between Damascus and Hamath. 00:18:46.603 --> 00:18:50.053 And finally to Hazer Hadan on the border of Haran. 00:18:51.313 --> 00:18:55.303 So the northern border will run from the Mediterranean to Hazer on 00:18:55.303 --> 00:18:59.473 the border between Hamath to the north and Damascus to the south. 00:19:00.673 --> 00:19:04.933 The eastern border starts at a point between Haran and Damascus and 00:19:04.933 --> 00:19:09.253 runs south along the Jordan River, between Israel and Gilead past the 00:19:09.253 --> 00:19:11.923 Dead Sea, and as far south as Tamar. 00:19:12.613 --> 00:19:14.053 This will be the eastern border. 00:19:15.013 --> 00:19:19.573 The southern border will go west from Tamar to the waters of Marba at Kadish, 00:19:20.173 --> 00:19:23.233 and then follow the course of the brook of Egypt to the Mediterranean. 00:19:23.893 --> 00:19:25.303 This will be the southern border. 00:19:26.428 --> 00:19:30.508 On the west side, the Mediterranean itself will be your border from the southern 00:19:30.508 --> 00:19:35.248 border to the point where the northern border begins opposite Libo Hamath. 00:19:36.808 --> 00:19:40.828 Divide the land within these boundaries among the tribes of Israel. 00:19:41.668 --> 00:19:45.478 Distribute the land as an allotment for yourselves and for the foreigners 00:19:45.478 --> 00:19:48.118 who have joined you and are raising their families among you. 00:19:49.078 --> 00:19:53.098 They will be like native born Israelites to you and will receive 00:19:53.098 --> 00:19:54.748 an allotment among the tribes. 00:19:55.513 --> 00:19:58.693 These foreigners are to be given land within the territory of the 00:19:58.693 --> 00:20:00.733 tribe with whom they now live. 00:20:01.783 --> 00:20:04.303 I the sovereign Lord have spoken. 00:20:05.533 --> 00:20:09.583 Here is the list of the tribes of Israel and the territory each is to receive. 00:20:10.813 --> 00:20:13.333 The territory of Dan is in the extreme north. 00:20:13.873 --> 00:20:18.553 Its boundary line follows the heathland road to Lebo, Hamath, and then runs 00:20:18.553 --> 00:20:22.573 on to Hayes Arena on the border of Damascus with Hamath to the north. 00:20:24.088 --> 00:20:28.198 Dan's territory extends all the way across the land of Israel from east to west. 00:20:29.368 --> 00:20:33.808 Asher's territory lies south of Dan's and also extends from east to west. 00:20:34.438 --> 00:20:34.768 Nafta. 00:20:34.768 --> 00:20:39.118 Lies, land, lies south of Asher's, also extending from east to west. 00:20:39.688 --> 00:20:43.618 Then comes Manasses south of nafta, lie, and its territory 00:20:43.618 --> 00:20:45.718 also extends from east to west. 00:20:46.648 --> 00:20:50.818 South of Manassa is Eef and then Ruben and then Judah. 00:20:51.208 --> 00:20:56.458 All of whose boundaries extend from east to west, south of Judah is the 00:20:56.458 --> 00:20:58.528 land set aside for a special purpose. 00:20:59.278 --> 00:21:03.208 It will be eight and one third miles wide and will extend as far east 00:21:03.208 --> 00:21:05.068 and west as the tribal territories. 00:21:05.428 --> 00:21:09.838 With the temple at the center, the area set aside for the Lord's temple 00:21:09.838 --> 00:21:14.158 will be eight and one third miles long and six and two thirds miles wide. 00:21:15.073 --> 00:21:18.943 For the priests, there will be a strip of land measuring eight and one third miles 00:21:18.948 --> 00:21:23.893 long by three and one third miles wide with the Lord's temple at the center. 00:21:24.553 --> 00:21:28.783 This area is set aside for the ordained priests, the descendants of 00:21:28.783 --> 00:21:33.073 Zadak who served me faithfully and did not go astray with the people of 00:21:33.073 --> 00:21:35.113 Israel and the rest of the Levites. 00:21:35.923 --> 00:21:39.223 It'll be their special portion when the land is distributed. 00:21:39.613 --> 00:21:41.713 The most sacred land of all. 00:21:42.568 --> 00:21:45.328 Next to the priest's territory will lie, the land where 00:21:45.328 --> 00:21:46.738 the other Levites will live. 00:21:47.728 --> 00:21:51.898 The land allotted to the Levites will be the same size and shape as that belonging 00:21:51.903 --> 00:21:57.238 to the priests eight and one third miles long and three and one third miles wide. 00:21:57.898 --> 00:22:01.408 Together, these portions of land will measure eight and one third miles 00:22:01.408 --> 00:22:04.108 long by six and two thirds miles wide. 00:22:04.858 --> 00:22:09.238 None of this special land may ever be sold or traded or used by others. 00:22:09.898 --> 00:22:11.398 For It belongs to the Lord. 00:22:11.788 --> 00:22:13.708 It is set apart as holy. 00:22:14.878 --> 00:22:19.228 An additional strip of land, eight and a third miles long by one and two thirds 00:22:19.233 --> 00:22:24.388 miles wide south of the Sacred Temple area will be allotted for public use 00:22:24.688 --> 00:22:27.238 homes, pasture lands, and common lands. 00:22:27.598 --> 00:22:32.188 With a city at the center, the city will measure one and one half miles on 00:22:32.188 --> 00:22:35.098 each side, north, south, east, and west. 00:22:35.728 --> 00:22:42.238 Open Lands will surround the city for 150 yards in every direction outside the city. 00:22:42.238 --> 00:22:46.288 There will be a farming area that stretches three in one third miles to the 00:22:46.288 --> 00:22:51.388 east and three in one third miles to the west along the border of the sacred area. 00:22:52.258 --> 00:22:55.558 This farmland will produce food for the people working in the city. 00:22:56.398 --> 00:22:59.698 Those who come from the various tribes to work in the city may 00:22:59.698 --> 00:23:04.888 farm it this entire area, including the sacred lands and the city. 00:23:05.353 --> 00:23:10.273 Is a square that measures eight and one third miles on each side, the 00:23:10.273 --> 00:23:14.083 areas that remain to the east and to the west of the sacred lands, and 00:23:14.088 --> 00:23:16.393 the city will belong to the prince. 00:23:17.113 --> 00:23:21.523 Each of these areas will be eight and one third miles wide, extending in 00:23:21.523 --> 00:23:25.443 opposite directions to the eastern and western borders of Israel with 00:23:25.483 --> 00:23:28.873 the sacred lands and the sanctuary of the temple in the center. 00:23:29.773 --> 00:23:32.623 So the prince's land will include everything between the 00:23:32.628 --> 00:23:34.393 territories allotted to Judah. 00:23:34.798 --> 00:23:39.388 And Benjamin, except for the areas set aside for the sacred lands and the city. 00:23:40.648 --> 00:23:43.708 These are the territories allotted to the rest of the tribes. 00:23:44.938 --> 00:23:49.468 Benjamin's territory lies just south of the Prince's lands, and it extends across 00:23:49.468 --> 00:23:54.508 the entire land of Israel from east to west, south of Benjamin's territory 00:23:54.508 --> 00:23:59.128 lies that of Simeon also extending across the land from east to west. 00:23:59.998 --> 00:24:01.918 Next is the territory of Iscar. 00:24:02.398 --> 00:24:04.768 With the same Eastern and Western boundaries. 00:24:05.848 --> 00:24:11.038 Then comes a territory of Zein, which also extends across the land from east to west. 00:24:12.148 --> 00:24:15.388 The territory of Gadd is just south of Zein with the same 00:24:15.388 --> 00:24:16.828 borders to the east and west. 00:24:17.578 --> 00:24:21.688 The southern border of Gadd runs from Tamar to the waters of Marba 00:24:21.688 --> 00:24:25.948 at Kadish, and then follows the brook of Egypt to the Mediterranean. 00:24:27.058 --> 00:24:29.908 These are the allotments that will be set aside for each 00:24:29.908 --> 00:24:31.708 tribe's exclusive possession. 00:24:32.473 --> 00:24:35.233 I the sovereign Lord have spoken. 00:24:36.493 --> 00:24:39.853 These will be the exits to the city on the north wall, which 00:24:39.858 --> 00:24:41.413 is one and a half miles long. 00:24:41.713 --> 00:24:45.193 There will be three gates, each one named after a tribe of Israel. 00:24:45.943 --> 00:24:49.783 The first will be named for Reuben, the second for Judah, and the 00:24:49.788 --> 00:24:52.573 third for Levi on the east wall. 00:24:52.783 --> 00:24:54.733 Also one and a half miles long. 00:24:54.823 --> 00:24:58.063 The gates will be named for Joseph, Benjamin, and Dan. 00:24:58.963 --> 00:25:03.253 The South Wall, also one and a half miles long will have gates named for Simeon. 00:25:03.583 --> 00:25:08.653 It's a car in Zebulon and on the West Wall, also one and a half miles long. 00:25:09.103 --> 00:25:12.763 The gates will be named for Gadd, Asher and Naftaly. 00:25:13.693 --> 00:25:19.273 The distance around the entire city will be six miles, and from that day, 00:25:19.813 --> 00:25:22.933 the name of the city will be the Lord. 00:25:23.053 --> 00:25:23.983 Is there. 00:25:29.743 --> 00:25:32.593 This concludes today's Immerse Reading experience. 00:25:32.743 --> 00:25:33.943 Thank you for joining us.