Ezekiel 47:22

47:22 You must allot it as an inheritance among yourselves and for the foreigners who reside among you, who have fathered sons among you. You must treat them as native-born among the people of Israel; they will be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. ¹ 

Ezekiel 46:16

46:16 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: If the prince should give a gift to one of his sons as ²  his inheritance, it will belong to his sons, it is their property by inheritance.

Ezekiel 47:14

47:14 You must divide it equally just as I vowed to give it to your forefathers; ³  this land will be assigned as your inheritance. ⁴ 

Ezekiel 45:1

The Lord’s Portion of the Land

45:1 “‘When you allot the land as an inheritance, you will offer an allotment ⁵  to the Lord, a holy portion from the land; the length will be eight and a quarter miles ⁶  and the width three and one-third miles. ⁷  This entire area will be holy. ⁸ 

[47:22]  ¹ sn A similar attitude toward non-Israelites is found in Isa 56:3-8.

[46:16]  ² tn The Hebrew text has no preposition; the LXX reads “from” (see v. 17).

[47:14]  ³ sn Gen 15:9-21.

[47:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “will fall to you as an inheritance.”

[45:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “a contribution.”

[45:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers). The measuring units here are the Hebrew “long” cubit, consisting of a cubit (about 18 inches or 45 cm) and a handbreadth (about 3 inches or 7.5 cm), for a total of 21 inches (52.5 cm). Because modern readers are not familiar with the cubit as a unit of measurement, and due to the additional complication of the “long” cubit as opposed to the regular cubit, all measurements have been converted to American standard miles (one mile = 5,280 feet), with the Hebrew measurements and the metric equivalents given in the notes.

[45:1]  ⁶ tc The LXX reads “twenty thousand cubits.”

[45:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “holy it is in all its territory round about.”