Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They shall have a heritage; yea, I myself will be their heritage: else shall ye give them no possession in Israel, for I am their possession.
New American Standard Bible
“And it shall be with regard to an inheritance for them, that
King James Version
And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.
Holman Bible
“This will be their inheritance: I am their inheritance.
International Standard Version
"Now with respect to the priests' inheritances, I am to be their inheritance, and you are to give them no possession in Israel, since I am their possession.
A Conservative Version
And they shall have an inheritance: I am their inheritance. And ye shall give them no possession in Israel. I am their possession.
American Standard Version
And they shall have an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and ye shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.
Amplified
“It [their ministry to Me] shall be as an inheritance to them, for I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no property (land) in Israel, for I am their possession.
Bible in Basic English
And they are to have no heritage; I am their heritage: you are to give them no property in Israel; I am their property.
Darby Translation
And it shall be unto them for an inheritance; I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.
Julia Smith Translation
And it was to them for an inheritance; I am their inheritance: and a possession ye shall not give to there in Israel: I am their possession.
King James 2000
And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and you shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And [thus] it will be to them as [regards] inheritance, [that] I [am] their inheritance, and [so] you shall not give to them property in Israel; I [am] their property.
Modern King James verseion
And it shall be to them for an inheritance. I am their inheritance. And you shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.
NET Bible
"'This will be their inheritance: I am their inheritance, and you must give them no property in Israel; I am their property.
New Heart English Bible
"'They shall have an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.
The Emphasized Bible
So shall it become to them an inheritance, I, am their inheritance,- And possession, shall ye not give them in Israel, I am their possession.
Webster
And it shall be to them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.
World English Bible
They shall have an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.
Youngs Literal Translation
And it hath been to them for an inheritance; I am their inheritance: and a possession ye do not give to them in Israel; I am their possession.
Interlinear
Nachalah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 44:28
Verse Info
Context Readings
The People Serving In The New Temple
27 and if he go in to the Sanctuary again to do service, he shall bring a sin offering, sayeth the LORD God. 28 They shall have a heritage; yea, I myself will be their heritage: else shall ye give them no possession in Israel, for I am their possession. 29 The meat offering, sin offering, and trespass offering shall they eat, and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.
Phrases
Cross References
Numbers 18:20
And the LORD spake unto Aaron, "Thou shalt have none inheritance in their land, nor part among them. For I am thy part and thy inheritance among the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 10:9
Wherefore the Levites have no part nor inheritance with their brethren. The LORD he is their inheritance, as the LORD thy God hath promised them.
Deuteronomy 18:1-2
The priests the Levites, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel. The offerings of the LORD and his inheritance they shall eat,
Joshua 13:33
But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave none inheritance, "For the LORD God of Israel he is their inheritance," as he said unto them.
Ezekiel 45:4
The residue of that holy ground shall be the priests, which do service in the Sanctuary of the LORD, and go in before the LORD to serve him, that they may have room to dwell in.
Joshua 13:14
Only unto the tribe of Levi, he gave none inheritance: for the offering of the LORD God of Israel is their inheritance as he said unto them.
Ezekiel 48:9-11
As for the portion, that ye shall separate out for the LORD: it shall be twenty five thousand measuring rods long, and ten thousand broad.
1 Peter 5:2-4
see that ye feed Christ's flock, which is among you, taking the oversight of them: not as though ye were compelled thereto, but willingly; Not for the desire of filthy lucre, but of a good mind.