◄ Ezekiel 48:12 ►
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Good News Translation
So they are to have a special area next to the area belonging to the Levites, and it will be the holiest of all.

New Revised Standard Version
It shall belong to them as a special portion from the holy portion of the land, a most holy place, adjoining the territory of the Levites.

Contemporary English Version
The land belonging to the priests will be the most sacred area and will lie south of the area that belongs to the Levites.

New American Bible
shall have their own tract set apart, next to the territory of the Levites, separate from the most holy tract.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And for them shall be the firstfruits of the firstfruits of the land holy of holies, by the border of the Levites,

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And for them shall be the firstfruits of the firstfruits of the land holy of holies, by the border of the Levites,

a thing.

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.

Leviticus 27:21 For when the day of jubilee cometh, it shall be sanctified to the Lord, and as a possession consecrated, pertaineth to the right of the priest.

Context
The Portion for the Priests
…11The sanctuary shall be for the priests of the sons of Sadoc, who kept my ceremonies, and went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites also went astray. 12And for them shall be the firstfruits of the firstfruits of the land holy of holies, by the border of the Levites,13And the Levites in like manner shall have by the borders of the priests five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth. All the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 48:11
The sanctuary shall be for the priests of the sons of Sadoc, who kept my ceremonies, and went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites also went astray.

Ezekiel 48:13
And the Levites in like manner shall have by the borders of the priests five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth. All the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.

Ezekiel 48:11
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