Transfer of Royal Lands

16 “This is what the Lord God says: If the prince gives a gift to each of his sons as their inheritance, it will belong to his sons. It will become their property by inheritance. 17 But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will belong to that servant until the year of freedom,(A) when it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs only to his sons; it is theirs. 18 The prince must not take any of the people’s inheritance, evicting them from their property.(B) He is to provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none of my people will be displaced from his own property.”

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16 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: If the prince should give a gift to one of his sons as[a] his inheritance, it will belong to his sons; it is their property by inheritance. 17 But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will be his until the year of liberty;[b] then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance will only remain with his sons. 18 The prince will not take away any of the people’s inheritance by oppressively removing them from their property. He will give his sons an inheritance from his own possessions so that my people will not be scattered, each from his own property.’”

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Notas al pie

  1. Ezekiel 46:16 tn The Hebrew text has no preposition; the LXX reads “from” (see v. 17).
  2. Ezekiel 46:17 sn That is, the Year of Jubilee (Lev 25:8-15).