8. The next section of the land is to be set apart for special use. It is to be 12.5 kilometres wide from north to south, and the same length from east to west as the sections given to the tribes. The Temple will be in this section.
9. In the centre of this section, a special area 12.5 kilometres by ten kilometres is to be dedicated to the Lord.
10. The priests are to have a portion of this holy area. From east to west their portion is to measure 12.5 kilometres, and from north to south, five kilometres. The Temple of the Lord is to be in the middle of this area.
11. This holy area is to be for the priests who are descendants of Zadok. They served me faithfully and did not join the rest of the Israelites in doing wrong, as the other members of the tribe of Levi did.
12. So they are to have a special area next to the area belonging to the Levites, and it will be the holiest of all.
13. The Levites also are to have a special area, south of that of the priests. It too is to be 12.5 kilometres from east to west, by five kilometres from north to south.
14. The area dedicated to the Lord is the best part of all the land, and none of it may be sold or exchanged or transferred to anyone else. It is holy and belongs to the Lord.
15. The part of the special area that is left, 12.5 kilometres by 2.5 kilometres, is not holy, but is for the general use of the people. They may live there and use the land. The city is to be in the centre of it,
16. and it will be a square, measuring 2,250 metres on each side.
17. All round the city on each side there will be an open space 125 metres across.
18. The land that is left after the city has been built in the area immediately to the south of the holy area — five kilometres by 2.5 kilometres on the east and five kilometres by 2.5 kilometres on the west — is to be used as farm land by the people who live in the city.
19. Anyone who lives in the city, no matter which tribe he comes from, may farm that land.
20. And so the total area in the centre of the section which was set apart will be a square measuring 12.5 kilometres on each side, and it will include the area occupied by the city.
28. On the south side of the portion given to the tribe of Gad, the boundary runs south-west from Tamar to the oasis of Kadesh, and then north-west along the Egyptian border to the Mediterranean Sea.
29. The Sovereign Lord said, “That is the way the land is to be divided into sections for the tribes of Israel to possess.”
35. The total length of the wall on all four sides of the city is 9,000 metres. The name of the city from now on will be, “The-Lord-is-Here!”