As I watched, I noticed a form that appeared to be a man. From his waist downward was something like fire, and from his waist upward something like a brightness, like an amber glow.

Seventy men from the elders of the house of Israel (with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them) were standing in front of them, each with a censer in his hand, and fragrant vapors from a cloud of incense were swirling upward.

But upright men will punish them appropriately for their adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.

Because you push with your side and your shoulder, and thrust your horns at all the weak sheep until you scatter them abroad,

and the altar hearth, 7 feet, and from the altar hearth four horns projecting upward.

"'Alongside the portion set apart as the holy allotment, you will allot for the city an area one and two-thirds miles wide and eight and a quarter miles long; it will be for the whole house of Israel.

"Next to the border of Judah from the east side to the west will be the allotment you must set apart. It is to be eight and a quarter miles wide, and the same length as one of the tribal portions, from the east side to the west; the sanctuary will be in the middle of it.

The allotment you set apart to the Lord will be eight and a quarter miles in length and three and one-third miles in width.

This will be for the priests who are set apart from the descendants of Zadok who kept my charge and did not go astray when the people of Israel strayed off, like the Levites did.

They must not sell or exchange any of it; they must not transfer this choice portion of land, for it is set apart to the Lord.

The whole allotment will be eight and a quarter miles square, you must set apart the holy allotment with the possession of the city.