1. These are the names of the tribes:At the northern end, along the side of the way to Hethlon, Lebo-hamath, and Hazar-enon, the border of Damascus, and northward up to the frontier with Hamath, from the eastern border to the western: Dan, one portion.
2. Along the territory of Dan from the eastern border to the western border: Asher, one portion.
3. Along the territory of Asher from the eastern border to the western border: Naphtali, one portion.
4. Along the territory of Naphtali from the eastern border to the western border: Manasseh, one portion.
5. Along the territory of Manasseh from the eastern border to the western border: Ephraim, one portion.
6. Along the territory of Ephraim from the eastern border to the western border: Reuben, one portion.
7. Along the territory of Reuben from the eastern border to the western border: Judah, one portion.
8. Along the territory of Judah from the eastern border to the western border is the tract you shall set apart, twenty-five thousand cubits wide and as long as one of the portions from the eastern border to the western border. The sanctuary shall stand in the center of the tract.
9. The tract you set apart for the Lord shall be twenty-five thousand cubits long by twenty thousand wide.
10. The sacred tract will be given to the following: the priests shall have twenty-five thousand cubits on the north, ten thousand on the west, ten thousand on the east, and twenty-five thousand on the south. The sanctuary of the Lord shall be in its center.
11. The consecrated priests, the Zadokites, who fulfilled my service and did not stray with the Israelites as the Levites did,
12. shall have their own tract set apart, next to the territory of the Levites, separate from the most holy tract.
13. The Levites shall have territory corresponding to that of the priests, twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand cubits wide. The whole tract shall be twenty-five thousand cubits long and twenty thousand wide.
14. They may not sell or exchange or transfer any of it, the best part of the land, for it is sacred to the Lord.
15. The remaining section, five thousand cubits long and twenty-five thousand cubits wide, is profane land, assigned to the city for dwellings and pasture. The city is at its center.
16. These are the dimensions of the city: the north side, forty-five hundred cubits; the south side, forty-five hundred cubits; the east side, forty-five hundred cubits; and the west side, forty-five hundred cubits.
17. The pasture land for the city extends north two hundred fifty cubits, south two hundred fifty cubits, east two hundred fifty cubits, and west two hundred fifty cubits.