“By the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the west side, Reuben, one portion.
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“By the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the west side, Reuben, one portion.
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And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Reuben.
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And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side: Reuben, one portion.
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 48:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Joshua 13:15-21 Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families. Their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba; Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the plain; Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon, Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath, Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar in the mount of the valley, Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, Beth Jeshimoth, all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.
- Genesis 29:32 Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”
- Genesis 49:3-4 “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power. Boiling over like water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 48:6 And by the border of Ephraim, from…
Eze 48:6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, a [portion for] Reuben.
Ver. 6. And by the border of Ephraim.] There is a continuity and conjunction of all the portions, to set forth the communion that is between the saints; a sweet mercy, a heaven beforehand.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain The oblation that ye shall offer to the Lord,....…
The oblation that ye shall offer to the Lord,.... That which belonged to the sanctuary, and to the priests, which was taken and separated for that use; which here, and in the following verses, is particularly and separately considered:
shall be of five and twenty thousand in length; that is, five and twenty thousand reeds from east to west:
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and of ten thousand in breadth; from north to south; see Eze 45:3.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Reuben--doomed formerly for incest and instability "not to excel"…
Reuben--doomed formerly for incest and instability "not to excel" (Gen 49:4). So no distinguished prophet, priest, or king had come from it. Of it were the notorious Dathan and Abiram, the mutineers. A pastoral and Bedouin character marked it and Gad (Jdg 5:16).
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