divideby lot] So the phrase originally signified, but probably it came to mean merely "divide" or assign portions to. Ezek. definitely fixes the positions of the tribes, and each tribe appears to have the same extent of territory assigned to it.

offer an oblation Cf. Ezekiel 44:30.

holy portion of the land i.e. out of, or fromthe land.

breadth … ten thousand Grammar as well as context seems to require twenty thousand, cf. Ezekiel 45:3; Ezekiel 45:5, Ezekiel 48:10; Ezekiel 48:18. In Ezekiel 45:3 this "measure" is divided into two portions each 10,000 broad. So LXX. For reeds, no doubt, cubits.

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