◄ Ezekiel 44:28 ►
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Good News Translation
"The priests have the priesthood as their share of what I have given Israel to be handed down from one generation to another. They are not to hold property in Israel; I am all they need.

New Revised Standard Version
This shall be their inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no holding in Israel; I am their holding.

Contemporary English Version
I myself will provide for my priests, and so they won't receive any land of their own.

New American Bible
I will be their heritage: I am their heritage! You shall not give them any property in Israel, for I am their property!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall have no inheritance, I am their inheritance: neither shall you give them any possession in Israel, for I am their possession.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they shall have no inheritance, I am their inheritance: neither shall you give them any possession in Israel, for I am their possession.

I am their inheritance

Ezekiel 45:4 The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to the ministry of the Lord: and it shall be a place for their houses, and for the holy place of the sanctuary.

Ezekiel 48:9-11 The firstfruits which you shall set apart for the Lord will be the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand. . . .

Numbers 18:20 And the Lord said to Aaron: You shall possess nothing in their land, neither shall you have a portion among them: I am thy portion and inheritance in the midst of the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy 10:9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor possession with his brethren: because the Lord himself is his possession, as the Lord thy God promised him.

Deuteronomy 18:1,2 The priests and Levites, and all that are of the same tribe, shall have no part nor inheritance with the rest of Israel, because they shall eat the sacrifices of the Lord, and his oblations, . . .

Joshua 13:14,33 But to the tribe of Levi he gave no possession: but the sacrifices and victims of thee Lord God of Israel, are his inheritance, as he spoke to him. . . .

1 Peter 5:2-4 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking care of it, not by constraint but willingly, according to God: not for filthy lucre's sake but voluntarily: . . .

Context
The Duties of the Priests
…27And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, to the inner court, to minister unto me in the sanctuary, he shall offer for his sin, saith the Lord God. 28And they shall have no inheritance, I am their inheritance: neither shall you give them any possession in Israel, for I am their possession.29They shall eat the victim both for sin and for trespass: and every vowed thing in Israel shall be theirs.…
Cross References
Numbers 18:20
And the Lord said to Aaron: You shall possess nothing in their land, neither shall you have a portion among them: I am thy portion and inheritance in the midst of the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy 10:9
Wherefore Levi hath no part nor possession with his brethren: because the Lord himself is his possession, as the Lord thy God promised him.

Deuteronomy 18:1
The priests and Levites, and all that are of the same tribe, shall have no part nor inheritance with the rest of Israel, because they shall eat the sacrifices of the Lord, and his oblations,

Deuteronomy 18:2
And they shall receive nothing else of the possession of their brethren: for the Lord himself is their inheritance, as he hath said to them.

Joshua 13:33
But to the tribe of Levi he gave no possession: because the Lord the God of Israel himself is their possession, as he spoke to them.

Ezekiel 48:10
And these shall be the firstfruits of the sanctuary for the priests: toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the sea ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east also ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the Lord shall be in the midst thereof.

Ezekiel 44:27
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