Verse Lens · Context pointer
Ezekiel 45:1 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 1. 1Moreover, 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.
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Role in This Section
Ezekiel's measured final vision introduces or commands “Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the…” at Ezekiel 45:1 as “A Holy Allotment Provides Temple, Priests, Levites, and City Land” develops.
Read It With
- Ezekiel 45:1–6
Read Ezekiel 45:1 with 45:1–6. By itself, “Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the…” can be detached from the speaker, addressee, date, exilic horizon, visionary movement, or outcome that gives it force. The complete unit establishes: The land offering reserves measured areas for sanctuary, priests, Levites, and a common city possession alongside tribal land.
Why It Needs Context
The verse is a premise, action, image, response, or transition within Ezekiel 45:1–6, not an independent maxim. Ezekiel's measured final vision introduces or commands “Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the…” at Ezekiel 45:1 as “A Holy Allotment Provides Temple, Priests, Levites, and City Land” develops.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Ezekiel 45:1–6 — A Holy Allotment Provides Temple, Priests, Levites, and City LandSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Ezekiel 45:1–6, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Ezekiel
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a critical apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ezek.xml, OSIS 45:1–6
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