C. The Place of Aliens in the Land 47:22-23

TRANSLATION

(22) And it shall come to pass, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you and to the strangers that sojourn among you, who shall beget children among you; and they shall be unto you as the home-born among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. (23) And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourns, there shall you give him his inheritance, (oracle of the Lord GOD.

COMMENTS

Aliens who lived among the Israelites would receive an inheritance within the restored Israel of the future (Ezekiel 47:22-23). Proselytes who embraced the worship of the true God would have the same privileges as native-born Israelites. Similar broadminded statements are found in Ezekiel 14:7 and Ezekiel 22:7. The unification of Jew and Gentile in the kingdom of Jesus Christ is thus foreshadowed.

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