“Moreover, when you divide the land by lot into inheritance, you shall set apart a district for the Lord, a holy section of the land; its length shall be twenty-five thousand cubits, and the width ten thousand. It shall be holy throughout its territory all around." v.1
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When I first read this chapter in the NIV I thought of the Hunger Games. Because of the wording "district" and their being a sacred district and everyone else living off from that. Now it's not the Hunger Games where the capitol district hates the other districts and keeps all the other districts at disadvantages, it's an areas where the sanctuary will be and land of the priests (priest's allotment/inheritance was serving in the temple and teaching all the tribes so were to be in a central location of the temple). Now we don't know what exactly is a cubit but some commentaries suggest this was around 722 square miles, Butte, Montana is close to this size of 716 sq miles. This wasnt the size of their promised land when they entered Canaan after Moses, nor was it after exile, so then this must be still to come and this only the land of Israel mentioned in this chapter. Like the Hunger Games the capitol district was what controlled all the land and governing powers came from, yet to travel to see the capitol will be possible and everyone will be blessed by the laws and judgments that come out of this sacred district yet to come.
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