All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city.
Parallel translations
- WEB All the offering shall be a square of twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand: you shall offer it as a holy offering, with the possession of the city.
- BSB The entire portion will be a square, 25,000 cubits by 25,000 cubits. You are to set apart the holy portion, along with the city property.
- NKJV The entire district shall be twenty-five thousand cubits by twenty-five thousand cubits, foursquare. You shall set apart the holy district with the property of the city.
- NASB The whole allotment shall be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand cubits; you shall set apart the holy allotment, a square, with the property of the city.
- NLT This entire area—including the sacred lands and the city—is a square that measures 8-1/3 miles on each side.
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Quick answer
The whole offering, including the city, forms a perfect square of twenty-five thousand units. The dedicated central district is complete and symmetrical.
Overview
Combining the holy portions and the city, the total district is a perfect square, presented as a holy offering to God. The squared completeness again signals divine order and wholeness at the center of the land. This God-centered, perfectly ordered heart of the nation foreshadows the new creation, ordered wholly around God's presence.
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Cross-references · 2
- Heb 12:17For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
- Rev 21:16And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
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