Ezekiel 48:29
New International Version
“This is the land you are to allot as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel, and these will be their portions,” declares the Sovereign LORD.

New Living Translation
“These are the allotments that will be set aside for each tribe’s exclusive possession. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!

English Standard Version
This is the land that you shall allot as an inheritance among the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, declares the Lord GOD.

Berean Standard Bible
This is the land you are to allot as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel, and these will be their portions,” declares the Lord GOD.

Berean Literal Bible
This is the land that you⁺ shall allot as an inheritance among the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions,” a declaration of the Lord YHWH.

King James Bible
This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord GOD.

New King James Version
This is the land which you shall divide by lot as an inheritance among the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions,” says the Lord GOD.

New American Standard Bible
This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for an inheritance, and these are their several portions,” declares the Lord GOD.

NASB 1995
“This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for an inheritance, and these are their several portions,” declares the Lord GOD.

NASB 1977
“This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for an inheritance, and these are their several portions,” declares the Lord GOD.

Legacy Standard Bible
This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for an inheritance, and these are their several portions,” declares Lord Yahweh.

Amplified Bible
This is the land which you shall divide by lot among the tribes of Israel as their inheritance, and these are their several portions,” says the Lord GOD.

Berean Annotated Bible
This is the land you⁺ are to allot as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel (he wrestles with God), and these will be their portions, declares the Lord GOD {Adonai YHWH}.

Christian Standard Bible
This is the land you are to allot as an inheritance to Israel’s tribes, and these will be their portions.” This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
This is the land you are to allot as an inheritance to Israel’s tribes, and these will be their portions.” This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.”

American Standard Version
This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Contemporary English Version
That's how the land of Israel will be divided among the twelve tribes. I, the LORD God, have spoken.

English Revised Version
This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, saith the Lord GOD.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
This is the land you will divide as your inheritance among the tribes of Israel, and these are their areas, declares the Almighty LORD.

Good News Translation
The Sovereign LORD said, "That is the way the land is to be divided into sections for the tribes of Israel to possess."

International Standard Version
This is the land that you are to allocate by lottery to the tribes of Israel as their inheritance, and these are their respective divisions," declares the Lord GOD.

NET Bible
This is the land which you will allot to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, declares the sovereign LORD.

New Heart English Bible
This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, says the Lord GOD.

Webster's Bible Translation
This is the land which ye shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord GOD.
Majority Text Translations
Majority Standard Bible
This is the land you are to allot as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel, and these will be their portions,” declares the Lord GOD.

World English Bible
“This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, says the Lord Yahweh.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
This [is] the land that you separate by inheritance to the tribes of Israel, and these [are] their divisions,” a declaration of Lord YHWH.

Berean Literal Bible
This is the land that you⁺ shall allot as an inheritance among the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions,” a declaration of the Lord YHWH.

Young's Literal Translation
This is the land that ye separate by inheritance to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

Smith's Literal Translation
This the land which ye shall cause to fall for inheritance to the tribes of Israel, and these their portions, says the Lord Jehovah.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Catholic Public Domain Version
This is the land that you shall distribute by lot to the tribes of Israel, and these shall be their portions, says the Lord God.

New American Bible
This is the land you shall apportion as a heritage among the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions—oracle of the Lord GOD.

New Revised Standard Version
This is the land that you shall allot as an inheritance among the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, says the Lord GOD.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
This is the land which you shall divide for a heritage to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, says the LORD God.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
This is the land that you shall divide an inheritance to the tribes of Israel, and these are their divisions, says THE LORD OF LORDS
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord GOD.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
This is the land, which ye shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, saith the Lord God.

Additional Translations ...



Context
The Portions for the Remaining Tribes
28The southern border of Gad will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, then along the Brook of Egypt and out to the Great Sea. 29This is the land you are to allot as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel, and these will be their portions,” declares the Lord GOD.

Cross References
This is the land you are to allot as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel,

Joshua 13:6-7
All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim—all the Sidonians—I Myself will drive out before the Israelites. Be sure to divide it by lot as an inheritance to Israel, as I have commanded you. / Now therefore divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”

Joshua 11:23
So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.

Numbers 26:53-56
“The land is to be divided among the tribes as an inheritance, according to the number of names. / Increase the inheritance for a large tribe and decrease it for a small one; each tribe is to receive its inheritance according to the number of those registered. / Indeed, the land must be divided by lot; they shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers. …
and these will be their portions,”

Joshua 18:4-10
Appoint three men from each tribe, and I will send them out to survey the land and map it out, according to the inheritance of each. Then they will return to me / and divide the land into seven portions. Judah shall remain in their territory in the south, and the house of Joseph shall remain in their territory in the north. / When you have mapped out the seven portions of land and brought it to me, I will cast lots for you here in the presence of the LORD our God. …

Ezekiel 47:13-14
This is what the Lord GOD says: “These are the boundaries by which you are to divide the land as an inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel; Joseph shall receive two portions. / You are to divide it equally among them. Because I swore with an uplifted hand to give it to your forefathers, this land will fall to you as an inheritance.

Numbers 34:13-15
So Moses commanded the Israelites, “Apportion this land by lot as an inheritance. The LORD has commanded that it be given to the nine and a half tribes. / For the tribes of the Reubenites and Gadites, along with the half-tribe of Manasseh, have already received their inheritance. / These two and a half tribes have received their inheritance across the Jordan from Jericho, toward the sunrise.”
declares the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 5:11
Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon you with pity, nor will I spare you.

Ezekiel 16:58
You will bear the consequences of your lewdness and your abominations, declares the LORD.

Ezekiel 23:49
They will repay you for your indecency, and you will bear the consequences of your sins of idolatry. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.’”
Joshua 13:1-7
Now Joshua was old and well along in years, and the LORD said to him, “You are old and well along in years, but very much of the land remains to be possessed. / This is the land that remains: All the territory of the Philistines and the Geshurites, / from the Shihor east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north (considered to be Canaanite territory)—that of the five Philistine rulers of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron, as well as that of the Avvites; …

Numbers 34:1-15
Then the LORD said to Moses, / “Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these boundaries: / Your southern border will extend from the Wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom. On the east, your southern border will run from the end of the Salt Sea, …

Genesis 15:18-21
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates— / the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, / Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, …

Deuteronomy 34:1-4
Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which faces Jericho. And the LORD showed him the whole land—from Gilead as far as Dan, / all of Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Western Sea, / the Negev, and the region from the Valley of Jericho (the City of Palms) all the way to Zoar. …

Joshua 14:1-5
Now these are the portions that the Israelites inherited in the land of Canaan, as distributed by Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of Israel. / Their inheritance was assigned by lot for the nine and a half tribes, as the LORD had commanded through Moses. / For Moses had given the inheritance east of the Jordan to the other two and a half tribes. But he granted no inheritance among them to the Levites. …

Numbers 26:52-56
Then the LORD said to Moses, / “The land is to be divided among the tribes as an inheritance, according to the number of names. / Increase the inheritance for a large tribe and decrease it for a small one; each tribe is to receive its inheritance according to the number of those registered. …

Joshua 19:49-51
When they had finished distributing the land into its territories, the Israelites gave Joshua son of Nun an inheritance among them, / as the LORD had commanded. They gave him the city of Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, as he requested. He rebuilt the city and settled in it. / These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families distributed by lot to the tribes of Israel at Shiloh before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. So they finished dividing up the land.


Treasury of Scripture

This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, said the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 47:13-22
Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions…

Numbers 34:2,13
Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof:) …

Joshua 13:1-21:45
Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the LORD said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed…

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Ezekiel 48
1. The portions of the twelve tribes;
8. of the sanctuary;
15. of the city and suburbs;
21. and of the prince.
23. The portions of the twelve tribes.
30. The dimensions and gates of the city.












This is the land you are to allot as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel,

The restored land is assigned to Israel’s tribes as a permanent inheritance, fulfilling God’s covenant promises to the descendants of Abraham. Like the earlier division of Canaan, the allotment establishes each tribe in a defined place under God’s rule.

Jos 13:6-7 All the inhabitants of the hill country…
Jos 11:23 So Joshua took the entire land, as the LORD had spoken…
Num 26:53-56 The land is to be divided among the tribes as an inheritance…

and these will be their portions,”

Each tribe receives its appointed share in the land described throughout the chapter. The ordered distribution reflects God’s justice and preserves the tribal identity of Israel in the restored nation.

Jos 18:4-10 Appoint three men from each tribe, and I will send them out…
Ezk 47:13-14 This is what the Lord GOD says: “These are the boundaries”…
Num 34:13-15 So Moses commanded the Israelites, “Apportion this land”…

declares the Lord GOD.

The division comes by God’s sovereign decree, not human arrangement. His covenant name guarantees that the promised restoration and inheritance will stand.

Ezk 5:11 Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD,…
Ezk 16:58 You will bear the consequences of your lewdness…
Ezk 23:49 They will repay you for your indecency…

Persons / Places / Events
1. Ezekiel
A prophet during the Babylonian exile who received visions and messages from God concerning the future of Israel and the restoration of the land.

2. Tribes of Israel
The twelve tribes descended from the sons of Jacob, each receiving a portion of the Promised Land as their inheritance.

3. The Land
Refers to the Promised Land, which God had promised to Abraham and his descendants, symbolizing God's faithfulness and covenant with Israel.

4. Inheritance
The division of the land among the tribes, representing God's provision and the fulfillment of His promises.

5. The Lord GOD
The sovereign and covenant-keeping God who declares and ensures the fulfillment of His promises to His people.
Teaching Points
God's Faithfulness
God's promises are sure and steadfast. Just as He promised the land to Israel, He fulfills His promises to us today.

Inheritance in Christ
As believers, we have an inheritance in Christ that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for us.

Unity and Diversity
The division of the land among the tribes highlights both the unity and diversity within the body of Christ. Each tribe had a unique portion, yet all were part of God's people.

Covenant Relationship
Our relationship with God is based on His covenant promises. We are called to live in obedience and faithfulness, trusting in His provision.

Hope for Restoration
Just as Israel looked forward to the restoration of their land, we look forward to the ultimate restoration and renewal of all things in Christ.
Bible Study Questions and Answers
1. What is the meaning of Ezekiel 48:29?

2. How does Ezekiel 48:29 reflect God's promise to Israel's tribes?

3. What does the land allocation in Ezekiel 48:29 teach about God's order?

4. How can Ezekiel 48:29 inspire our trust in God's faithfulness today?

5. How does Ezekiel 48:29 connect to God's covenant with Abraham in Genesis?

6. What practical steps can we take to honor God's promises like in Ezekiel 48:29?

7. What is the significance of the land division in Ezekiel 48:29 for Israel's future?

8. How does Ezekiel 48:29 reflect God's covenant with the tribes of Israel?

9. Why is the specific land allocation in Ezekiel 48:29 important for biblical prophecy?

10. What are the top 10 Lessons from Ezekiel 48?


Ezekiel 48:29 affirms that a literal parcel of land, meticulously surveyed and apportioned, will be granted by God as an irrevocable inheritance to the twelve tribes of Israel in the future kingdom. The verse stitches together the ancient promise to Abraham, the historical allotment under Joshua, and the prophetic hope of national restoration. By commanding Israel to allot the land, God entrusts His people with stewardship; by calling it an inheritance, He underscores grace; by listing the tribes, He highlights covenant continuity; and by declaring it Himself, He guarantees that every square mile will be delivered exactly as promised.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
This
זֹ֥את (zōṯ)
Pronoun - feminine singular
Strong's 2063: Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that,

is the land
הָאָ֛רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

you are to allot
תַּפִּ֥ילוּ (tap·pî·lū)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 5307: To fall, lie

as an inheritance
מִֽנַּחֲלָ֖ה (min·na·ḥă·lāh)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5159: Something inherited, occupancy, an heirloom, an estate, patrimony, portion

to the tribes
לְשִׁבְטֵ֣י (lə·šiḇ·ṭê)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 7626: Rod, staff, club, scepter, tribe

of Israel,
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

and these
וְאֵ֙לֶּה֙ (wə·’êl·leh)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - common plural
Strong's 428: These, those

will be their portions,
מַחְלְקוֹתָ֔ם (maḥ·lə·qō·w·ṯām)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 4256: Division, course

declares
נְאֻ֖ם (nə·’um)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 5002: An oracle

the Lord
אֲדֹנָ֥י (’ă·ḏō·nāy)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 136: The Lord

GOD.
יְהוִֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3069: YHWH


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