Deuteronomy 18:1

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The priests, the Levites, that is, all the tribe of Levi, will have no part or heritage with Israel: their food and their heritage will be the offerings of the Lord made by fire.

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  • Deut 10:9 : 9 For this reason Levi has no part or heritage for himself among his brothers: the Lord is his heritage, as the Lord your God said to him.)
  • Deut 12:19 : 19 See that you do not give up caring for the Levite as long as you are living in your land.
  • Josh 13:14 : 14 Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no heritage; the offerings of the Lord, the God of Israel, made by fire are his heritage, as he said to him.
  • Num 18:8-9 : 8 And the Lord said to Aaron, See, I have given into your care my lifted offerings; even all the holy things of the children of Israel I have given to you and to your sons as your right for ever, because you have been marked with the holy oil. 9 This is to be yours of the most holy things, out of the fire offerings; every offering of theirs, every meal offering and sin-offering, and every offering which they make on account of error, is to be most holy for you and your sons.
  • Num 18:20 : 20 And the Lord said to Aaron, You will have no heritage in their land, or any part among them; I am your part and your heritage among the children of Israel.
  • Num 26:62 : 62 Of these, twenty-three thousand males, from one month old and over, were numbered: they were not numbered with the rest of the children of Israel, for they had no heritage among the children of Israel.
  • Josh 13:33 : 33 But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no heritage: the Lord, the God of Israel, is their heritage, as he said to them.
  • Josh 18:7 : 7 For the Levites have no part among you; to be the Lord's priests is their heritage; and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have had their heritage on the east side of Jordan, given to them by Moses, the servant of the Lord.
  • 1 Cor 9:13-14 : 13 Do you not see that the servants of the holy things get their living from the Temple, and the servants of the altar have their part in the food which is offered on the altar? 14 Even so did the Lord give orders that the preachers of the good news might get their living from the good news.
  • 1 Pet 5:2-4 : 2 Keep watch over the flock of God which is in your care, using your authority, not as forced to do so, but gladly; and not for unclean profit but with a ready mind; 3 Not as lords over God's heritage, but making yourselves examples to the flock. 4 And at the coming of the chief Keeper of the sheep, you will be given the eternal crown of glory.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 18:2-3
    2 verses
    90%

    2 And they will have no heritage among their countrymen: the Lord is their heritage, as he has said to them.

    3 And this is to be the priests' right: those who make an offering of a sheep or an ox are to give to the priest the top part of the leg and the two sides of the head and the stomach.

  • Josh 13:14
    86%

    14 Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no heritage; the offerings of the Lord, the God of Israel, made by fire are his heritage, as he said to him.

  • Deut 10:8-9
    2 verses
    84%

    8 At that time the Lord had the tribe of Levi marked out to take up the ark of the Lord's agreement, to be before the Lord and to do his work and to give blessings in his name, to this day.

    9 For this reason Levi has no part or heritage for himself among his brothers: the Lord is his heritage, as the Lord your God said to him.)

  • Num 18:23-25
    3 verses
    84%

    23 But the Levites are to do the work of the Tent of meeting, and be responsible for errors in connection with it: this is a law for ever through all your generations; and among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.

    24 For the tenths which the children of Israel give as a lifted offering to the Lord I have given to the Levites as their heritage. and so I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.

    25 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Josh 13:33
    82%

    33 But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no heritage: the Lord, the God of Israel, is their heritage, as he said to them.

  • Josh 18:7
    80%

    7 For the Levites have no part among you; to be the Lord's priests is their heritage; and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have had their heritage on the east side of Jordan, given to them by Moses, the servant of the Lord.

  • Num 18:20-21
    2 verses
    79%

    20 And the Lord said to Aaron, You will have no heritage in their land, or any part among them; I am your part and your heritage among the children of Israel.

    21 And to the children of Levi I have given as their heritage all the tenths offered in Israel, as payment for the work they do, the work of the Tent of meeting.

  • Deut 18:5-8
    4 verses
    76%

    5 For he, and his sons after him for ever, have been marked out by the Lord your God from all your tribes, to do the work of priests in the name of the Lord.

    6 And if a Levite, moved by a strong desire, comes from any town in all Israel where he is living to the place marked out by the Lord;

    7 Then he will do the work of a priest in the name of the Lord his God, with all his brothers the Levites who are there before the Lord.

    8 His food will be the same as theirs, in addition to what has come to him as the price of his property.

  • Num 18:6
    76%

    6 Now, see, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: they are given to you and to the Lord, to do the work of the Tent of meeting.

  • Ezek 44:28-29
    2 verses
    75%

    28 And they are to have no heritage; I am their heritage: you are to give them no property in Israel; I am their property.

    29 Their food is to be the meal offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error; and everything given specially to the Lord in Israel will be theirs.

  • Jer 33:18
    75%

    18 And the priests and the Levites will never be without a man to come before me, offering burned offerings and perfumes and meal offerings and offerings of beasts at all times.

  • Num 8:14-15
    2 verses
    75%

    14 So you are to make the Levites separate from the children of Israel, and the Levites will be mine.

    15 After that, the Levites will go in to do whatever has to be done in the Tent of meeting; you are to make them clean and give them as a wave offering.

  • Josh 14:3
    75%

    3 For Moses had given their heritage to the two tribes and the half-tribe on the other side of Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no heritage among them.

  • Deut 14:27
    74%

    27 And give a thought to the Levite who is living among you, for he has no part or heritage in the land.

  • Num 1:49
    73%

    49 Only the tribe of Levi is not to be numbered among the children of Israel,

  • Num 3:9
    72%

    9 Give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; so that they may be his without question from among the children of Israel.

  • Num 8:26
    72%

    26 But be with their brothers in the Tent of meeting, taking care of it but doing no work. This is what you are to do in connection with the Levites and their work.

  • Num 5:9
    72%

    9 And every offering lifted up of all the holy things which the children of Israel give to the priest, will be his.

  • Num 8:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18 And in place of the first sons among the children of Israel, I have taken the Levites.

    19 And I have given them to Aaron and to his sons, from among the children of Israel, to undertake for them all the work of the Tent of meeting, and to take away sin from the children of Israel so that no evil may come on them when they come near the holy place.

  • Num 4:18
    72%

    18 Do not let the family of the Kohathites be cut off from among the Levites;

  • Num 18:11
    72%

    11 And this is yours: the lifted offering which they give and all the wave offerings of the children of Israel I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters as your right for ever: everyone in your house who is clean may have them for food.

  • Lev 6:17
    72%

    17 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 36:7
    72%

    7 And so no property will be handed from tribe to tribe among the children of Israel; but every one of the children of Israel will keep the heritage of his father's tribe.

  • Num 18:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2 Let your brothers, the family of Levi, come near with you, so that they may be joined with you and be your servants: but you and your sons with you are to go in before the ark of witness.

    3 They are to do your orders and be responsible for the work of the Tent; but they may not come near the vessels of the holy place or the altar, so that death may not overtake them or you.

  • Num 3:6
    72%

    6 Make the tribe of Levi come near, and put them before Aaron the priest, to be his helpers,

  • Num 36:9
    72%

    9 And no property will be handed from one tribe to another, but every tribe of the children of Israel will keep its heritage.

  • 2 Chr 23:6
    71%

    6 But let no one come into the house of the Lord but only the priests and those of the Levites who have work to do there; they may go in for they are holy; but the rest of the people are to keep the orders of the Lord.

  • Ezek 48:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11 For the priests who have been made holy, those of the sons of Zadok who kept the orders I gave them, who did not go out of the right way when the children of Israel went from the way, as the Levites did,

    12 Even for them will be the offering from the offering of the land, a thing most holy, on the limit of the land given to the Levites.

  • Lev 10:13
    71%

    13 It is to be for your food in a holy place, because it is your right and your sons' right, from the offerings of the Lord made by fire: for so am I ordered.

  • Num 3:12
    71%

    12 See, I have taken the Levites out of the children of Israel to be mine in place of the first sons of the children of Israel;

  • Deut 14:29
    71%

    29 And the Levite, because he has no part or heritage in the land, and the man from a strange country, and the child who has no father, and the widow, who are living among you, will come and take food and have enough; and so the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.

  • Lev 22:10
    71%

    10 No outside person may take of the holy food, or one living as a guest in the priest's house, or a servant working for payment.

  • Num 2:33
    71%

    33 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel, as the Lord said to Moses.

  • Num 18:30
    71%

    30 Say to them, then, When the best of it is lifted up on high, it is to be put to the account of the Levites as the increase of the grain-floor and of the place where the grapes are crushed.

  • Ezek 48:14
    71%

    14 And they are not to let any of it go for a price, or give it in exchange; and the part of the land given to the Lord is not to go into other hands: for it is holy to the Lord.

  • Num 8:11
    71%

    11 And Aaron is to give the Levites to the Lord as a wave offering from the children of Israel, so that they may do the Lord's work.