Ezekiel 48:2-23 The Message (MSG)

2. “Asher: one portion, bordering Dan from east to west.

3. “Naphtali: one portion, bordering Asher from east to west.

4. “Manasseh: one portion, bordering Naphtali from east to west.

5. “Ephraim: one portion, bordering Manasseh from east to west.

6. “Reuben: one portion, bordering Ephraim from east to west.

7. “Judah: one portion, bordering Reuben from east to west.

20. “This dedicated area, set apart for holy purposes, will be a square, seven miles by seven miles, a ‘holy square,’ which includes the part set aside for the city.

21-22. “The rest of this land, the country stretching east to the Jordan and west to the Mediterranean from the seven-mile sides of the ‘holy square,’ belongs to the prince. His land is sandwiched between the tribal portions north and south, and goes out both east and west from the ‘sacred square’ with its Temple at the center. The land set aside for the Levites on one side and the city on the other is in the middle of the territory assigned to the prince. The ‘sacred square’ is flanked east and west by the prince’s land and bordered on the north and south by the territories of Judah and Benjamin, respectively.

23. “And then the rest of the tribes:“Benjamin: one portion, stretching from the eastern to the western boundary.

Ezekiel 48