Yehezkiel 44:30

44:30 The first of all the first fruits and all contributions of any kind ¹  will be for the priests; you will also give to the priest the first portion of your dough, so that a blessing may rest on your house.

Yehezkiel 45:1

The Lord’s Portion of the Land

45:1 “‘When you allot the land as an inheritance, you will offer an allotment ²  to the Lord, a holy portion from the land; the length will be eight and a quarter miles ³  and the width three and one-third miles. ⁴  This entire area will be holy. ⁵ 

Yehezkiel 48:18

48:18 The remainder of the length alongside the holy allotment will be three and one-third miles ⁶  to the east and three and one-third miles toward the west, and it will be beside the holy allotment. Its produce will be for food for the workers of the city.

[44:30]  ¹ tn Heb has in addition “from your contributions,” a repetition unnecessary in English.

[45:1]  ² tn Heb “a contribution.”

[45:1]  ³ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers). The measuring units here are the Hebrew “long” cubit, consisting of a cubit (about 18 inches or 45 cm) and a handbreadth (about 3 inches or 7.5 cm), for a total of 21 inches (52.5 cm). Because modern readers are not familiar with the cubit as a unit of measurement, and due to the additional complication of the “long” cubit as opposed to the regular cubit, all measurements have been converted to American standard miles (one mile = 5,280 feet), with the Hebrew measurements and the metric equivalents given in the notes.

[45:1]  ⁴ tc The LXX reads “twenty thousand cubits.”

[45:1]  tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

[45:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “holy it is in all its territory round about.”

[48:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers); the phrase occurs again later in this verse.