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Anonymous prince at simple estate courtyard, two sons and a servant receiving distinct plain unlettered clay land tokens without asserting their identities; no modern deeds or written calendar.
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Ezekiel 46:16-17

Inheritance with limits

The Gate, the Prince, and the Kitchens · Ezekiel 46

Story guide: The land tokens distinguish gifts to sons, which remain theirs, from a servant’s gift that returns in the year of liberty.

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16Thus says the Lord GOD: If the prince gives a gift to any one of his sons, it is his inheritance; it shall belong to his sons as their property by inheritance.

17But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall belong to him until the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince. Only his inheritance belongs to his sons; it shall be theirs.

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