¹“Now these are the names of the tribes : From the north end , beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath , Hazar Enan at the border of Damascus , northward beside Hamath (and they shall have their sides east and west ), Dan , one portion .

²“By the border of Dan , from the east side to the west side , Asher, one portion.

³“By the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west side , Naphtali , one portion.

⁴“By the border of Naphtali , from the east side to the west side , Manasseh , one portion.

⁵“By the border of Manasseh , from the east side to the west side , Ephraim, one portion.

⁶“By the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the west side , Reuben , one portion.

⁷“By the border of Reuben , from the east side to the west side , Judah , one portion.

⁸“By the border of Judah , from the east side to the west side , shall be the offering which you shall offer , twenty-five thousand reeds in width , and in length as one of the portions , from the east side to the west side ; and the sanctuary shall be in the middle of it .

⁹“The offering that you shall offer to the LORD shall be twenty-five thousand reeds in length, and ten thousand in width .

¹⁰For these, even for the priests , shall be the holy offering : towards the north twenty-five thousand in length, and towards the west ten thousand in width , and towards the east ten thousand in width , and towards the south twenty-five thousand in length; and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the middle of it .

¹¹It shall be for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok , who have kept my instruction, who didn’t go astray when the children of Israel went astray , as the Levites went astray .

¹²It shall be to them an offering from the offering of the land , a most holy thing , by the border of the Levites .

¹³“Alongside the border of the priests , the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in width . All the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the width ten thousand.

¹⁴They shall sell none of it , nor exchange it , nor shall the first fruits of the land be alienated, for it is holy to the LORD .

¹⁵“The five thousand cubits that are left in the width , in front of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use , for the city , for dwelling and for pasture lands ; and the city shall be in the middle of it .

¹⁶These shall be its measurements : the north side four thousand and five hundred , and the south side four thousand and five hundred , and on the east side four thousand and five hundred , and the west side four thousand and five hundred .

¹⁷The city shall have pasture lands : towards the north two hundred and fifty , and towards the south two hundred and fifty , and towards the east two hundred and fifty , and towards the west two hundred and fifty .

¹⁸The remainder of the length, alongside the holy offering , shall be ten thousand eastward and ten thousand westward ; and it shall be alongside the holy offering . Its increase shall be for food to those who labour in the city .

¹⁹Those who labour in the city , out of all the tribes of Israel , shall cultivate it .

²⁰All the offering shall be a square of twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand. You shall offer it as a holy offering , with the possession of the city .

²¹“The remainder shall be for the prince , on the one side and on the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city ; in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering towards the east border , and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand towards the west border , alongside the portions , it shall be for the prince . The holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the middle of it .

²²Moreover , from the possession of the Levites , and from the possession of the city , being in the middle of that which is the prince ’s, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin , shall be for the prince .

²³“As for the rest of the tribes : from the east side to the west side , Benjamin , one portion.

²⁴“By the border of Benjamin , from the east side to the west side , Simeon , one portion.

²⁵“By the border of Simeon , from the east side to the west side , Issachar , one portion.

²⁶“By the border of Issachar , from the east side to the west side , Zebulun , one portion.

²⁷“By the border of Zebulun , from the east side to the west side , Gad , one portion.

²⁸“By the border of Gad , at the south side southward , the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh , to the brook , to the great sea .

²⁹“This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance , and these are their several portions , says the Lord GOD .

³⁰“These are the exits of the city : On the north side four thousand and five hundred reeds by measure ;

³¹and the gates of the city shall be named after the tribes of Israel , three gates northward : the gate of Reuben , one ; the gate of Judah , one ; the gate of Levi , one .

³²“At the east side four thousand and five hundred reeds, and three gates : even the gate of Joseph , one ; the gate of Benjamin , one ; the gate of Dan , one .

³³“At the south side four thousand and five hundred reeds by measure , and three gates : the gate of Simeon , one ; the gate of Issachar , one ; the gate of Zebulun , one .

³⁴“At the west side four thousand and five hundred reeds, with their three gates : the gate of Gad , one ; the gate of Asher, one ; the gate of Naphtali , one .

³⁵“It shall be eighteen thousand reeds in circumference; and the name of the city from that day shall be , ‘The LORD is there .’