Yehezkiel 45:4-5

45:4 It will be a holy portion of the land; it will be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary who approach the Lord to minister to him. It will be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. ¹  45:5 An area eight and a quarter miles ²  in length and three and one-third miles ³  in width will be for the Levites, who minister at the temple, as the place for the cities ⁴  in which they will live.

[45:4]  ¹ tc The LXX apparently understood “open land” instead of “sanctuary.”

[45:5]  ² tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

[45:5]  ³ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

[45:5]  ⁴ tc The translation follows the LXX here. The MT reads “twenty.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:246.