Ezekiel 47:14
Good News Translation
I solemnly promised your ancestors that I would give them possession of this land; now divide it equally among you.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall divide it equally; I swore to give it to your ancestors, and this land shall fall to you as your inheritance.

New American Bible
You shall apportion it equally because I swore to give it to your ancestors as a heritage; this land, then, is your heritage.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you shall possess it, every man in like manner as his brother: concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for a possession.

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And you shall possess it, every man in like manner as his brother: concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for a possession.

lifted up mine hand.

Ezekiel 20:5,6,28,42 And say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up my hand for the race of the house of Jacob: and appeared to them in the land of Egypt, and lifted up my hand for them, saying: I am the Lord your God: . . .

Genesis 12:7 And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 13:15 All the land which thou seest, I will give to thee, and to thy seed for ever.

Genesis 15:7 And he said to him: I am the Lord who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land, and that thou mightest possess it.

Genesis 17:8 And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy sojournment, all the land of Chanaan, for a perpetual possession, and I will be their God.

Genesis 26:3 And sojourn in it, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for to thee and to thy seed I will give all these countries, to fulfil the oath which I swore to Abraham thy father.

Genesis 28:13 And the Lord leaning upon the ladder saying to him: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: The land, wherein thou sleepest, I will give to thee and to thy seed.

Numbers 14:16,20 He could not bring the people into the land for which he had sworn, therefore did he kill them in the wilderness. . . .

fall.

Ezekiel 48:29 This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel: and these are the portions of them, saith the Lord God.

Proverbs 16:33 Lots are cast into the lap, but they are disposed of by the Lord.

Context
The Borders of the Land
13Thus saith the Lord God: This is the border, by which you shall possess the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: for Joseph hath a double portion. 14And you shall possess it, every man in like manner as his brother: concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for a possession.15And this is the border of the land: toward the north side, from the great sea by the way of Hethalon, as men go to Sedada,…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:8
Behold, said he, I have delivered it to you: go in and possess it, concerning which the Lord swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he would give it to them, and to their seed after them.

Ezekiel 20:6
In that day I lifted up my hand for them to bring them out of the land of Egypt, into a land which I had provided for them, flowing with milk and honey, which excelled amongst all lands.

Ezekiel 36:12
And I will bring men upon you, my people Israel, and they shall possess thee for their inheritance: and thou shalt be their inheritance, and shalt no more henceforth be without them.

Ezekiel 47:13
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