¹ Quando spartirete a sorte il paese per esser vostra eredità, preleverete come offerta all’Eterno una parte consacrata del paese, della lunghezza di venticinquemila cubiti e della larghezza di diecimila; sarà sacra in tutta la sua estensione.

² Di questa parte prenderete per il santuario un quadrato di cinquecento per cinquecento cubiti, e cinquanta cubiti per uno spazio libero, tutt’attorno.

³ Su quest’estensione di venticinquemila cubiti di lunghezza per diecimila di larghezza misurerai un’area per il santuario, per il luogo santissimo.

⁴ E’ la parte consacrata del paese, la quale apparterrà ai sacerdoti, che fanno il servizio del santuario, che s’accostano all’Eterno per servirlo; sarà un luogo per le loro case, un santuario per il santuario.

⁵ Venticinquemila cubiti di lunghezza e diecimila di larghezza saranno per i Leviti che faranno il servizio della casa; sarà il loro possesso, con venti camere.

⁶ Come possesso della città destinerete cinquemila cubiti di larghezza venticinquemila di lunghezza, parallelamente alla parte sacra prelevata; esso sarà per tutta la casa d’Israele.

⁷ Per il principe riserberete uno spazio ai due lati della parte sacra e del possesso della città, difaccia alla parte sacra offerta, e difaccia al possesso della città, dal lato d’occidente verso occidente, e dal lato d’oriente verso oriente, per una lunghezza parallela a una delle divisioni del paese, dal confine occidentale al confine orientale.

⁸ Questo sarà territorio suo, suo possesso in Israele; e i miei principi non opprimeranno più il mio popolo, ma lasceranno il paese alla casa d’Israele secondo le sue tribù.

⁹ Così parla il Signore, l’Eterno: Basta, o principi d’Israele! Lasciate da parte la violenza e le rapine, praticate il diritto e la giustizia, liberate il mio popolo dalle vostre estorsioni! dice il Signore, l’Eterno.

¹⁰ Abbiate bilance giuste, efa giusto, bat giusto.

¹¹ L’efa e il bat avranno la stessa capacità: il bat conterrà la decima parte d’un omer e l’efa la decima parte d’un omer; la loro capacità sarà regolata dall’omer.

¹² Il siclo sarà di venti ghere; venti sicli, venticinque sicli, quindici sicli, formeranno la vostra mina.

¹³ Questa è l’offerta che preleverete: la sesta parte d’un efa da un omer di frumento, e la sesta parte d’un efa da un omer d’orzo.

¹⁴ Questa è la norma per l’olio: un decimo di bat d’olio per un cor, che è dieci bati, cioè un omer; poiché dieci bati fanno un omer.

¹⁵ Una pecora su di un gregge di dugento capi nei grassi pascoli d’Israele sarà offerta per le oblazioni, gli olocausti e i sacrifizi di azioni di grazie, per fare la propiziazione per essi, dice il Signore, l’Eterno.

¹⁶ Tutto il popolo del paese dovrà prelevare quest’offerta per il principe d’Israele.

¹⁷ E al principe toccherà di fornire gli olocausti, le oblazioni e le libazioni per le feste, per i noviluni, per i sabati, per tutte le solennità della casa d’Israele; egli provvederà i sacrifizi per il peccato, l’oblazione, l’olocausto e i sacrifizi di azioni di grazie, per fare la propiziazione per la casa d’Israele.

¹⁸ Così parla il Signore, l’Eterno: Il primo mese, il primo giorno del mese, prenderai un giovenco senza difetto, e purificherai il santuario.

¹⁹ Il sacerdote prenderà del sangue della vittima per il peccato, e ne metterà sugli stipiti della porta della casa, sui quattro angoli de’ gradini dell’altare, e sugli stipiti della porta del cortile interno.

²⁰ Farai lo stesso il settimo giorno del mese per chi avrà peccato per errore, e per il semplice; e così purificherete la casa.

²¹ Il quattordicesimo giorno del primo mese avrete la Pasqua. La festa durerà sette giorni; si mangeranno pani senza lievito.

²² In quel giorno, il principe offrirà per sé e per tutto il popolo del paese un giovenco, come sacrifizio per il peccato.

²³ Durante i sette giorni della festa, offrirà in olocausto all’Eterno, sette giovenchi e sette montoni senza difetto, ognuno de’ sette giorni, e un capro per giorno come sacrifizio per il peccato.

²⁴ E v’aggiungerà l’offerta d’un efa per ogni giovenco e d’un efa per ogni montone, con un hin d’olio per efa.

²⁵ Il settimo mese, il quindicesimo giorno del mese, alla festa, egli offrirà per sette giorni gli stessi sacrifizi per il peccato, gli stessi olocausti, le stesse oblazioni e la stessa quantità d’olio.

¹ You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of Yahweh.

² Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the enemy has said against you, Aha! and, The ancient high places are ours in possession;

³ therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;

⁴ therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around;

⁵ therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.

⁶ Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations:

⁷ therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I have sworn, [saying], Surely the nations that are around you, they shall bear their shame.

⁸ But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come.

⁹ For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and you shall be tilled and sown;

¹⁰ and I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built;

¹¹ and I will multiply on you man and animal; and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and will do better [to you] than at your beginnings: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

¹² Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no more henceforth bereave them of children.

¹³ Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because they say to you, You are a devourer of men, and have been a bereaver of your nation;

¹⁴ therefore you shall devour men no more, neither bereave your nation any more, says the Lord Yahweh;

¹⁵ neither will I let you hear any more the shame of the nations, neither shall you bear the reproach of the peoples any more, neither shall you cause your nation to stumble any more, says the Lord Yahweh.

¹⁶ Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

¹⁷ Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their way and by their doings: their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.

¹⁸ Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols;

¹⁹ and I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.

²⁰ When they came to the nations, where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the people of Yahweh, and are gone forth out of his land.

²¹ But I had respect for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations, where they went.

²² Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I don't do [this] for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations, where you went.

²³ I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, says the Lord Yahweh, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

²⁴ For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.

²⁵ I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

²⁶ I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

²⁷ I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.

²⁸ You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

²⁹ I will save you from all your uncleanness: and I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you.

³⁰ I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations.

³¹ Then you shall remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

³² Nor for your sake do I [this], says the Lord Yahweh, be it known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel.

³³ Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built.

³⁴ The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.

³⁵ They shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.

³⁶ Then the nations that are left around you shall know that I, Yahweh, have built the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate: I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I will do it.

³⁷ Thus says the Lord Yahweh: For this, moreover, will I be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.

³⁸ As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.