You shall divide it equally means each tribe should get an equal share of land. The Hebrew pronouns for you and your are plural, referring again to the people of Israel or their leaders.

I swore to give it to your fathers: God promised to give the land to the people’s ancestors. The Hebrew expression for I swore (literally “I lifted my hand” [similarly King James Version]) does not imply that God used bad language (see the comments on 20.5).

And this land shall fall to you as your inheritance means the land will belong to them as their family possession. The Hebrew uses the term fall as if the process of dividing the land was to be done by lot (compare Revised English Bible “it must be assigned to you by lot as your holding”), even though God makes the allocation directly in chapter 48. Many English translations do not make the reference to the “lot” explicit, but instead they use the English idiom “fall to someone” (which means that something will come into someone’s possession, often by chance) to reflect the Hebrew idiom. Other languages may have their own ways of describing this process of something coming into someone’s possession. If not, New Century Version provides a helpful model here, saying “this land will belong to you as family property” (similarly New International Reader’s Version).

Quoted with permission from Gross, Carl & Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on Ezekiel. (UBS Helps for Translators). Miami: UBS, 2016. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .