Verse 28
Ezekiel 44:28
Bible in Basic English
28
And they are to have no heritage; I am their heritage: you are to give them no property in Israel; I am their property.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/הָיְתָ֤ה לָ/הֶם֙ לְֽ/נַחֲלָ֔ה אֲנִ֖י נַֽחֲלָתָ֑/ם וַ/אֲחֻזָּ֗ה לֹֽא תִתְּנ֤וּ לָ/הֶם֙ בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֲנִ֖י אֲחֻזָּתָֽ/ם
English Translation
And it shall be to them for a possession; I am their possession, and you shall not give them a holding in Israel; I am their holding.
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Chapter 44 Context
1
And he took me back to the outer doorway of the holy place, looking to the east; and it was shut.
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And the Lord said to me, This doorway is to be shut, it is not to be open, and no man is to go in by...
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3
But the ruler will be seated there to take his food before the Lord; he will go in by the covered wa...
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4
And he took me to the north doorway in front of the house; and, looking, I saw that the house of the...
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5
And the Lord said to me, Son of man, take to heart, and let your eyes see and your ears be open to e...
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6
And say to the uncontrolled children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: O you children of Is...
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7
To have let men from strange lands, without circumcision of heart or flesh, come into my holy place,...
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8
And you have not taken care of my holy things; but you have put them as keepers to take care of my w...
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9
For this cause the Lord has said, No man from a strange land, without circumcision of heart and fles...
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10
But as for the Levites, who went far from me, when Israel went out of the right way, turning away fr...
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11
But they may be caretakers in my holy place, and overseers at the doors of the house, doing the work...
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12
Because they did this work for them before their images, and became a cause of sin to the children o...
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13
And they will not come near me to do the work of priests to me, or come near any of my holy things,...
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14
But I will make them responsible for the care of the house and all its work and everything which is...
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15
But as for the priests, the sons of Zadok, who took care of my holy place when the children of Israe...
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16
They are to come into my holy place and they are to come near to my table, to do my work and have th...
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17
And when they come in by the doorways of the inner square, they are to be clothed in linen robes; th...
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18
They are to have linen head-dresses on their heads and linen trousers on their legs, and they are to...
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19
And when they go out into the outer square to the people, they are to take off the robes in which th...
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20
They are not to have all the hair cut off their heads, and they are not to let their hair get long,...
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21
The priests are not to take wine when they go into the inner square.
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22
And they are not to take as wives any widow or woman whose husband has put her away: but they may ta...
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23
And they are to make clear to my people the division between what is holy and what is common, and to...
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24
In any cause, they are to be in the position of judges, judging in harmony with my decisions: they a...
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25
They are not to come near any dead person so as to become unclean: but for a father or mother or son...
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26
And after he has been made clean, seven days are to be numbered for him.
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27
And on the day when he goes into the inner square, to do the work of the holy place, he is to make h...
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28
And they are to have no heritage; I am their heritage: you are to give them no property in Israel; I...
29
Their food is to be the meal offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error; and everythin...
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30
And the best of all the first-fruits of everything, and every offering which is lifted up of all you...
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31
The priests may not take for food any bird or beast which has come to a natural death or whose death...
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