1. When the land of Israel is divided among the twelve tribes, you must set aside an area that will belong to me. This sacred area will be twelve and a half kilometres long and ten kilometres wide.
2. The temple will be on a piece of land two hundred and fifty-five metres square, and the temple will be completely surrounded by an open space twenty-five metres wide.
5. I will give the other half of my land to the Levites who work in my temple, and the towns where they will live will be there.
6. Next to my sacred land will be an area twelve and a half kilometres long and three kilometres wide. This will belong to the people of Israel and will include the city of Jerusalem.
9. The Lord God said:You leaders of Israel have robbed and cheated my people long enough! I want you to stop sinning and start doing what is right and fair. You must never again force my people off their own land. I, the Lord, have spoken.
10. So from now on, you must use honest weights and measures.
11. The ephah will be the standard dry measure, and the bath will be the standard liquid measure. Their size will be based on the homer, which will equal ten ephahs or ten baths.
12. The standard unit of weight will be the shekel. One shekel will equal twenty gerahs, and sixty shekels will equal one mina.
13. Leaders of Israel, the people must bring you one sixtieth of their grain harvests as offerings to me.
14. They will also bring one per cent of their olive oil. These things will be measured according to the bath, and ten baths is the same as one homer or one cor.
15. Finally, they must bring one sheep out of every two hundred from their flocks.These offerings will be used as grain sacrifices, as well as sacrifices to please me and those to ask my blessing. I, the Lord, will be pleased with these sacrifices and will forgive the sins of my people.
16. The people of Israel will bring you these offerings.
17. But during New Moon Festivals, Sabbath celebrations, and other religious feasts, you leaders will be responsible for providing animals for the sacrifices, as well as the grain and wine. All these will be used for the sacrifices for sin, the grain sacrifices, the sacrifices to please me, and those to ask my blessing. I will be pleased and will forgive the sins of my people.
18. The Lord God said:On the first day of the first month, a young bull that has nothing wrong with it must be offered as a sacrifice to purify the temple.