portion

¶ Moreouer, when yee shall diuide by lot the land for inheritance, yee shall offer an oblation vnto the LORD, an holy portion of the land: the length shall be the length of fiue and twentie thousand reedes, and the bredth shalbe ten thousand: this shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about.

1611 marginal noteHeb. when yee cause the land to fall.

1611 marginal noteHeb. holinesse.

The holy portion of the land shal bee for the priests the ministers of the Sanctuarie, which shall come neere to minister vnto the LORD, and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the Sanctuarie.

¶ And ye shall appoint the possession of the citie fiue thousand broad, and fiue and twentie thousand long ouer against the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.

¶ And a portion shalbe for the prince on the one side, and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the citie, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the citie from the West side Westward, and from the East side Eastward, and the length shalbe ouer against one of the portions from the West border vnto the East border.

¶ Now these are the names of the Tribes, from the North end to the coast of the way of Hathlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of Damascus Northward, to y e coast of Hamath (for these are his sides East & West) a portion for Dan.

And by the border of Dan, from the East side vnto the West, a portion for Asher.

And by the border of Asher, from the East side euen vnto the West side, a portion for Naphtali.

And by the border of Naphtali, from the East side vnto the West side, a portion for Manasseh.

And by the border of Manasseh, from the East side vnto the West side, a portion for Ephraim.

And by the border of Ephraim, from the East side euen vnto the West side, a portion for Reuben.