Глава 45

God commands the priests to separate the lands in the city suburbs: from the rising of the sun to the west, ten thousand reeds, from the north to noon, twenty-five thousand, so that, as it is said, they, using tithes, firstfruits, the offering of the firstborn, and having consolation from the land, and therefore living in contentment, love the truth, do not desire more, and do not offend the people. Why did he add: “May it be sufficient for you, elders of Israel, to put away untruth and bitterness, to do justice and justice, to remove violence from people, says Adonai the Lord” (Ezek. 45:9). Then he gives laws about weights, weights and measures, says that equality and justice should be observed in this too, and commands that there should be one measure in both admission and leave. And he lets us know that the “kor” contained ten “gomors”, and each gomor ten “hinixes”, so that in the bark there were one hundred hinixes, and it says that “ephi” was a measure equal to a hinix. He commands that there be fifty shekels in a mina, and twenty ovols in each shekel. And he calls ten "kotils" of oil omer, which he determined to be a tenth of a kor. He commands that the first-fruits of wheat and barley be one-sixth of an omer, half of what we call “medimna,” because there are thirty medimnas in a bark, and an omer is a tenth of the named bark; why is it necessary for a gomer to contain three medimns, and the sixth part of three medimns will be half a medimn. He commands that out of ten kotyls one should be brought, and also the tenth sheep from the sheep. All this, it is said, let the people give to the elder for necessary sacrifices, so that on holidays, and on new moons, and on Saturdays, he may make sacrifices and pray to God for the people. Then he teaches what should be done on the new moon of the tenth month, what on the fourteenth day, and what also on the seventh month. And what is brought is called a sacrifice. For it is said: “You shall make a sacrifice of unleavened bread for the bull and unleavened bread for the ram, and oil for unleavened bread” (Ezek. 45:24), and “in”, as I found from the Syrian translator, is the same as “hemina”.