lSee Num. 18:20
rSee Num. 18:20
Numbers 18:20-24
20And the Lord said to Aaron, “You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. aI am your portion and your inheritance among the people of Israel.21 b“To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service that they do, their service in the tent of meeting, 22 cso that the people of Israel do not come near the tent of meeting, dlest they bear sin and die. 23But ethe Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, fand they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the people of Israel they shall have no inheritance. 24For the tithe of the people of Israel, which gthey present as a contribution to the Lord, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said of them that they shall have no inheritance hamong the people of Israel.”
Numbers 26:62
62And those listed were i23,000, every male from a month old and upward. For jthey were not listed among the people of Israel, because kthere was no inheritance given to them among the people of Israel.Deuteronomy 18:1-2
Provision for Priests and Levites
1“The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, lshall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They mshall eat the Lord’s food offerings ▼ as their ▼▼Hebrew his
inheritance. 2They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the Lord is their inheritance, as he promised them. Joshua 14:3
3 pFor Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan, qbut to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.Ezekiel 44:28
28 r“This shall be their inheritance: I am their inheritance: and syou shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.
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