“Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the Lord, an holy portion of the land: the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about.”
When you allot the land as an inheritance, you shall set apart for the Lord a portion of the land as a holy district, twenty-five thousand cubits long and twenty thousand cubits wide; the whole of it shall be holy'—introducing the holy district surrounding the temple that occupies the central portion of Israel. The enormous dimensions (25,000 cubits x 20,000 cubits) indicate a vast sacred precinct. The requirement that the whole be holy emphasizes comprehensive sanctification. This verse introduces the holy district's dimensions.
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