Deuteronomy 18:1-8

Provision for Priests and Levites

1“The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, ashall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They bshall eat the Lord’s food offerings
Or  the offerings by fire to the Lord
as their
Hebrew his
inheritance.
2They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the Lord is their inheritance, as he promised them. 3And this shall be the priestsdue from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep: ethey shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach. 4 fThe firstfruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep, you shall give him. 5For the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribes gto stand and minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons for all time.

6“And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, hwhere he lives—and he may come when he desires
Or  lives—if he comes enthusiastically
jto the place that the Lord will choose,
7and ministers in the name of the Lord his God, klike all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the Lord, 8then he may have equal lportions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony.
The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain


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