Ezekiel 48:13

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezekiel 48:13 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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Answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    The Levites’ land along the border with the priests’ land will be twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand cubits in width. The entire length of the two tracts of land will be twenty-five thousand cubits in length and twenty thousand cubits in width.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    Bordering the territory of the priests, the Levites shall have an area 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide. The whole length will be 25,000 cubits, and the width 10,000 cubits.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    Bordering the territory of the priests, the Levites shall have an area 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide. The whole length will be 25,000 cubits, and the width 10,000 cubits.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And answerable unto the border of the priests, the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And answerable unto the border of the priests, the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And ouer against the border of the Priests the Leuites shall haue fiue and twentie thousande long, and ten thousande broade: all the length shalbe fiue and twentie thousand, and the breadth ten thousande.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And the Levites in like manner shall have by the borders of the priests five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth. All the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    `And `to' the Levites over-against the border of the priests `are' five and twenty thousand `in' length, and `in' breadth ten thousand, all the length `is' five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And [to] the Levites alongside the border of the priests [are] twenty-five thousand [in] length, and ten thousand [in] breadth, all the length [is] twenty-five thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    The Levites' land along the border with the priests' land will be twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand cubits in width. The entire length of the two tracts of land will be twenty-five thousand cubits in length and twenty thousand cubits in width.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    The Levites’ land along the border with the priests’ land will be twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand cubits in width. The entire length of the two tracts of land will be twenty-five thousand cubits in length and twenty thousand cubits in width.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And answering to the border of the priests, the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: the whole length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    “Alongside the border of the priests, the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in width. All the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the width ten thousand.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    The Levites shall have an area 25,000 cubits by 10,000 cubits adjacent to the allocation of the priests. Its entire length will be 25,000 cubits, and its width 10,000 cubits.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And the Levites are to have a part of the land equal to the limit of the priests', twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide, all of it together to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty thousand wide.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And answerable unto the border of the priests, the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth; all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.

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לְעֻמַּת֙
ʻummâh
H5980
“to/for · beside of”
Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
Part of Speech
Preposition + Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Feminine
Number
Singular
State
Construct
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H6004

TWOT: 1640f

juxtaposition - used only as a preposition - close by, side by side with, alongside of, parallel with - agreeing with, corresponding to, exactly as, close beside - correspondingly to
  1. וְהַלְוִיִּ֗ם Lêvîyîy H3881 “and · the · Levites” Conjunction + Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  2. גְּב֣וּל gᵉbûwl H1366 “border of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  3. הַכֹּהֲנִ֔ים kôhên H3548 “the · priests” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  4. חֲמִשָּׁ֨ה châmêsh H2568 “five” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  5. וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים ʻesrîym H6242 “and · twenty” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
  6. אֶ֨לֶף֙ ʼeleph H505 “thousand” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Singular, Absolute
  7. אֹ֔רֶךְ ʼôrek H753 “length” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  8. וְרֹ֖חַב rôchab H7341 “and · breadth” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  9. עֲשֶׂ֣רֶת ʻeser H6235 “ten” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  10. אֲלָפִ֑ים ʼeleph H505 “thousand” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
  11. כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  12. אֹ֗רֶךְ ʼôrek H753 “length” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  13. חֲמִשָּׁ֤ה châmêsh H2568 “five” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  14. וְעֶשְׂרִים֙ ʻesrîym H6242 “and · twenty” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
  15. אֶ֔לֶף ʼeleph H505 “thousand” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Singular, Absolute
  16. וְרֹ֖חַב rôchab H7341 “and · breadth” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  17. עֲשֶׂ֥רֶת ʻeser H6235 “ten” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  18. אֲלָפִֽים ʼeleph H505 “thousand” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute

About this verse

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19
words
11
distinct lemmas
Prophets
section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

לְעֻמַּת֙ beside H5980 occurs in 28 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 9 nouns
  • 10 adjectives

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • אֶ֨לֶף֙ thousand H505 ×4
  • חֲמִשָּׁ֨ה five H2568 ×2
  • וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים twenty H6242 ×2
  • אֹ֔רֶךְ length H753 ×2
  • וְרֹ֖חַב breadth H7341 ×2
  • עֲשֶׂ֣רֶת ten H6235 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 32 words from the Hebrew and 37 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 19 Hebrew tokens and 29 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Ezekiel 48:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 12:19 Take heed to yourself that you don't forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.
  • Ezekiel 45:3 Of this measure shall you measure a length of twenty-five thousand, and a breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary, which is most holy.
  • Ezekiel 45:5 Twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth, shall be to the Levites, the ministers of the house, for a possession to themselves, [for] twenty chambers.
  • Luke 10:7 Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don't go from house to house.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Ezekiel 48:13 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְהַלְוִיִּ֗ם לְעֻמַּת֙ גְּב֣וּל הַכֹּהֲנִ֔ים חֲמִשָּׁ֨ה וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים אֶ֨לֶף֙ אֹ֔רֶךְ וְרֹ֖חַב עֲשֶׂ֣רֶת אֲלָפִ֑ים כָּל אֹ֗רֶךְ חֲמִשָּׁ֤ה וְעֶשְׂרִים֙ אֶ֔לֶף וְרֹ֖חַב עֲשֶׂ֥רֶת אֲלָפִֽים

Answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezekiel 48:13 Septuagint · lemma form

ὁ δέ λευίτης ὁ ἔχω ὁ ὅριον ὁ ἱερεύς μῆκος πέντε καί εἴκοσι χιλιάς καί εὖρος δέκα χιλιάς πᾶς ὁ μῆκος πέντε καί εἴκοσι χιλιάς καί εὖρος εἴκοσι χιλιάς

And the Levites shall have the part, next to the borders of the priests, in length twenty-five thousand, and in breadth ten thousand: the whole length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth twenty thousand.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, The Pulpit Commentary discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
    וְלֵיוְאֵי לָקֳבֵיל תְּחוּם כַּהֲנַיָא עַסְרִין וְחַמְשָׁא אַלְפִין אוּרְכָּא וּפוּתְיָא עַסְרָא אַלְפִין כָּל אוּרְכָּא עַסְרִין וְחַמְשָׁא אַלְפִין וּפוּתְיָא עַסְרִין אַלְפִין:

    (no public-domain English translation for this verse)

    Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Ezekiel 48:13 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Eze 48:13 And over against the border of the priests the Levites [shall have] five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length [shall be] five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.

Ver. 13. The Levites shall have.] But after the priests. There are degrees of officers in the Church, and good order must be well observed there.

Five and twenty thousand in length.] These different portions set together make up a perfect square, which serveth well to set forth the beauty and firmity of the Church of Christ.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Joseph Benson's Commentary

Eze 48:13-14. Over against the border of the priests — It might be better translated, just by, or beside the border of the priests. The words import, that the border of the Levites should run parallel to that of the priests. And in the same sense the words should be translated in the 15th, 18th, and 21st verses of this chapter. And they shall not sell it, neither exchange — Or, transfer, &c. As it was God’s portion, they were not to sell, or part with it, upon any pretence of advantage, or of greater convenience. This portion of land is called the first-fruits, as it is styled an oblation, Eze 48:8; Eze 48:12, to denote that the whole land was God’s property.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

13. The portion of the oblation of land assigned to the Levites.—The portion of the Levites is of the same extent as that of the priests, 25,000 long (E. to W.) by 10,000 broad (N. to S.). It runs “over against,” i.e. along side of the priests’ domain, and lies to the north of it.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty,.... That is, so many reeds: and

toward the south two hundred and fifty; which make five hundred; and these being added to four thousand five hundred, north and south, make five thousand:

and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two hundred and fifty; which being added to four thousand five hundred, east and west, make five thousand; and so an equilateral square on each side, length and breadth.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Ten. Their city was only 18,000 cubits in circumference, ver. 16.

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

See this verse explained Eze 45:5. The Levites’ portion ran parallel with the priest’s, whose northern limits were next to the southern limits of the Levites.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

13, 14. The Levites’ portion adjoins that of the priests to the north and is exactly equal to it. This territory and its first fruits were sacred to Jehovah and could not be disposed of at the will of its occupants (xlv, 1; compare Lev_25:24; Lev_25:32).

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Vers. 13, 14 The Levites" portion is next described by its situation, as lying over against tMul, "at or near," answerable to (Revised Version), parallel with (Keil)the border of the priests; by its dimensions, as twenty-five thousand reeds in length, from east to west, and ten thousand reeds in breadth, or from north to south, i.e. it should be as large as the priests" portion in point of fact larger, since the space necessary for the sanctuary required to be deducted from the former; by its tenure, which was such that the Levites could neither sell, exchange, nor alienate it, any more than under the Law the Levites could sell the field of the suburbs or pasture-lands of their cities; (Lev_25:34) and by its character, which, as consisting of the firstfruits of the land, i.e. of the first portion of the land heaved up or presented in offering, (see Eze_45:1) was holy unto the Lord (cf. Eze_44:30) The changes in the text made by the LXX and favored by Hitzig and Smend the Levites" instead of "the Levites" (ver. 13), and "twenty" instead of "ten thousand" (ver. 13) are unnecessary.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

twenty-five thousand cubits ... ten thousand cubits

Each long cubit was about 54 centimeters. See how you translated this in Ezekiel 40:5. AT: "25,000 cubits ... 10,000 cubits" or "13.5 kilometers ... 5.4 kilometers" (See: Biblical Distance)

this firstfruits

"this land which is the firstfruits." Here "firstfruits" probably means the best things among all the offerings set aside to give to God. This land is spoken of in that way, as land set aside for Yahweh's use. (See: Metaphor)

translationWords

firstfruits

holy

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

And the Levites: opposite the border of the priests Alongside the strips of the priests, like the measurement of the priests, parallel to its entire length.

every length The length of all the strips is 25,000.

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

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Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 19 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻummâh (“beside”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word ʻummâh carries the sense “beside.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. How does Exodus 25:27, which shares the word «beside», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “thousand” (4× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  5. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Joseph Benson's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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