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Ezekiel 46:17

15 Thus they shall provide the lamb, the grain offering, and the oil every morning as a regular burnt offering.’

16 This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘If the prince gives a gift to any of his sons as an inheritance, it will belong to his descendants. It will become their property by inheritance.

But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will belong to that servant until the year of freedom; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs only to his sons; it shall be theirs.

18 The prince must not take any of the inheritance of the people by evicting them from their property. He is to provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none of My people will be displaced from his property.’”

19 Then the man brought me through the entrance at the side of the gate into the holy chambers facing north, which belonged to the priests, and he showed me a place there at the far western end

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will belong to that servant until the year of freedom; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs only to his sons; it shall be theirs.
KJV
But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons’ for them.
WEB
But if he gives of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince; but as for his inheritance, it shall be for his sons.
ASV
But if he give of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince; but as for his inheritance, it shall be for his sons.
DARBY
But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until the year of liberty; and it shall return to the prince: to his sons alone shall his inheritance remain.
BLB
And if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will be unto him until the year of liberty; then it will return to the prince; surely [it is] his inheritance [for] his sons; unto them it shall be.
ÅB
Men når han gir en gave av sin arv til en av sine tjenere, så skal det tilhøre ham inntil frihetsåret, men så komme tilbake til fyrsten; bare hans sønner skal hans arv tilhøre.
OTB
Men hvis han gir en gave fra sin arv til en av sine tjenere, skal den være hans inntil frigivelsesåret; da skal den gå tilbake til fyrsten. Hans arv tilhører bare hans sønner; det er deres.
B1930
Men når han gir en gave av sin arv til en av sine tjenere, så skal det tilhøre ham inntil frihetsåret, men så komme tilbake til fyrsten; bare hans sønner skal hans arv tilhøre.

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Cross references

  • Leviticus 25:10

    So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan.

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  • Matthew 25:14–29

    For it is just like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted them with his possessions.

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  • Luke 19:25–26

    ‘Master,’ they said, ‘he already has ten!’

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  • Galatians 4:30–31

    But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”

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