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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. In whatever tribe a foreigner dwells, you are to assign his inheritance there," declares the Lord GOD.
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 47:22-23 prescribes that the גֵּר (ger, "foreigner") dwelling among Israel's tribes shall receive a נַחֲלָה (nachalah, "inheritance") alongside native Israelites, intensifying the principle established in Leviticus 19:34 that the foreigner must be treated "as native-born" (כְּאֶזְרָח, ke'ezrach) and loved "as yourself." Leviticus 19:34 grounds this obligation in Israel's own experience as foreigners in Egypt; Ezekiel transforms this social ethic into a concrete land-tenure provision, granting the ger inheritable territory within the tribal allotments. This represents a significant escalation: Mosaic law protected the foreigner's dignity and livelihood but never granted landed inheritance, which was tied to tribal genealogy. Ezekiel's eschatological vision thus envisions a restored community where the boundary between native and foreigner is dissolved at the level of covenant inheritance itself.