It shall be to them an offering from the offering of the land, a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.
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It shall be to them an offering from the offering of the land, a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.
And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.
The offering for them will be a portion of this most holy land, extending to the border of the Levites.
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It shall be to them an offering from the offering of the land, a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.
It will be a special portion for them set apart from the land, a most holy portion adjacent to the territory of the Levites.
It will be a special portion for them set apart from the land, a most holy portion adjacent to the territory of the Levites.
And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.
And it shall be unto them an oblation from the oblation of the land, a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.
And it shall be unto them an oblation from the oblation of the land, a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.
Therefore this oblation of the land that is offred, shalbe theirs, as a thing most holy by the border of the Leuites.
And for them shall be the firstfruits of the firstfruits of the land holy of holies, by the border of the Levites.
even the heave-offering hath been to them, out of the heave-offering of the land, most holy, by the border of the Levites.
even the raised-offering has been for them, out of the raised-offering of the land, most holy, by the border of the Levites.
The offering for them will be a portion of this most holy land, extending to the border of the Levites.
The offering for them will be a portion of this most holy land, extending to the border of the Levites.
And this offering heaved from the heave-offering of the land shall be unto them a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.
It shall be to them an offering from the offering of the land, a most holy thing, by the border of the Levites.
And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be to them a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.
It will be a special part of the land provided for them, a most holy allocation next to that of the Levites.
Even for them will be the offering from the offering of the land, a thing most holy, on the limit of the land given to the Levites.
And it shall be unto them a portion set apart from the offering of the land, a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 23 words from the Hebrew and 28 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וְהָיְתָ֨ה לָהֶ֧ם תְּרוּמִיָּ֛ה מִתְּרוּמַ֥ת הָאָ֖רֶץ קֹ֣דֶשׁ קָדָשִׁ֑ים אֶל גְּב֖וּל הַלְוִיִּֽם
It shall be to them an offering from the offering of the land, a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί εἰμί αὐτός ὁ ἀπαρχή δίδωμι ἐκ ὁ ἀπαρχή ὁ γῆ ἅγιος ἅγιος ἀπό ὁ ὅριον ὁ λευίτης
And the first fruits shall be given to them out of the first fruits of the land, even a most holy portion from the borders of the Levites.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
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וּתְהֵי לְהוֹן אַפְרָשׁוּתָא מֵאַפְרָשׁוּת אַרְעָא קוֹדֶשׁ קוּדְשִׁין עַל תְּחוּם לֵיוָאֵי:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 10 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is tᵉrûwmîyâh (“portion”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Ezekiel 48:12 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.