1 "These are the names of the tribes. At the northern end, beside the Hethlon road to the entrance of Hamath, up to Hazar-enan on the border of Damascus, with Hamath to the north, and running from the east side to the west: Dan, one portion.
2 Bordering the territory of Dan, from the east side to the west side: Asher, one portion.
3 Bordering the territory of Asher, from the east side to the west side: Naphtali, one portion.
4 Bordering the territory of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side: Manasseh, one portion.
5 Bordering the territory of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side: Ephraim, one portion.
6 Bordering the territory of Ephraim, from the east side to the west side: Reuben, one portion.
7 Bordering the territory of Reuben, from the east side to the west side: Judah, one portion.
8 "Bordering the territory of Judah, from the east side to the west side, will be the contribution you are to set aside, twenty-five thousand wide and as long as one of the tribal portions from the east side to the west side, with the sanctuary in its center.
9 The contribution you set aside for the LORD is to be twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide.
10 This holy contribution will belong to the priests: twenty-five thousand long on the north, ten thousand wide on the west, ten thousand wide on the east and twenty-five thousand long on the south, with the sanctuary of the LORD in its center.
11 It is for the consecrated priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept my charge and did not stray when the children of Israel strayed, as the Levites strayed.
12 It will be theirs as a special portion out of the contribution of the land, a most holy place, bordering the territory of the Levites.
13 Beside the territory of the priests the Levites will have an area twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide; the full length twenty-five thousand and the width ten thousand.
14 They must not sell or trade any of it, and this best part of the land must not change hands, for it is holy to the LORD.
15 "The five thousand left in width along the twenty-five thousand will be for the city's common use, for houses and for open land, with the city in its center.
16 Its measurements are these: the north side four thousand five hundred, the south side four thousand five hundred, the east side four thousand five hundred and the west side four thousand five hundred.
17 The city's open land will be two hundred and fifty on the north, two hundred and fifty on the south, two hundred and fifty on the east and two hundred and fifty on the west.
18 What is left of the length beside the holy contribution, ten thousand on the east and ten thousand on the west, will run alongside the holy contribution; its produce will feed those who work in the city.
19 Those who work in the city, drawn from all the tribes of Israel, will farm it.
20 The whole contribution will be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand; you are to set aside the holy contribution as a square, together with the possession of the city.
21 "What is left on either side of the holy contribution and the possession of the city will belong to the prince. From the twenty-five thousand of the contribution eastward to the eastern border, and from the twenty-five thousand westward to the western border, alongside the tribal portions, it will be the prince's; the holy contribution and the sanctuary of the house will be in its center.
22 So the possession of the Levites and the possession of the city will lie in the middle of what belongs to the prince; what lies between the territory of Judah and the territory of Benjamin will belong to the prince.
23 "As for the remaining tribes: from the east side to the west side, Benjamin, one portion.
24 Bordering the territory of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side: Simeon, one portion.
25 Bordering the territory of Simeon, from the east side to the west side: Issachar, one portion.
26 Bordering the territory of Issachar, from the east side to the west side: Zebulun, one portion.
27 Bordering the territory of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side: Gad, one portion.
28 Bordering the territory of Gad, on the south side toward the Negev, the border will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, then along the Brook to the Great Sea.
29 This is the land you are to allot as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, declares the Lord GOD.
30 "These are the exits of the city. On the north side, which measures four thousand five hundred,
31 the gates of the city, named after the tribes of Israel, will be three on the north: one gate for Reuben, one for Judah and one for Levi.
32 On the east side, four thousand five hundred, three gates: one gate for Joseph, one for Benjamin and one for Dan.
33 On the south side, measuring four thousand five hundred, three gates: one gate for Simeon, one for Issachar and one for Zebulun.
34 On the west side, four thousand five hundred, their three gates: one gate for Gad, one for Asher and one for Naphtali.
35 All the way around it will measure eighteen thousand. And from that day on the city's name will be, The LORD Is There."