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Intertextuality Pair
Allusion
Later text
You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners who dwell among you and who have children. You are to treat them as native-born Israelites; along with you, they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.
Earlier text
You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
Ezekiel 47:22 commands that foreigners (גֵּרִים, gerim) who dwell among Israel and have children are to be treated "as native-born Israelites" (כְּאֶזְרַח, ke'ezrach), directly echoing Leviticus 19:34 which uses the same key phrase: "You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born" (כְּאֶזְרָח מִכֶּם, ke'ezrach mikkem). However, Ezekiel goes far beyond the Levitical command: while Leviticus 19:34 mandates social equality and love toward the ger, Ezekiel 47:22 grants foreigners actual נַחֲלָה (nachalah, "inheritance") in the tribal land allotment — a right never extended to resident aliens in the Mosaic legislation. This escalation from social protection to landed inheritance within the eschatological vision signals a radical expansion of covenant community boundaries in the restored Israel.