Deuteronomy 10:9
Therefore Levi has no allotment or inheritance among his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance just as the LORD your God told him.
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- Deut 18:1-2 : 1 Provision for Priests and Levites The Levitical priests– indeed, the entire tribe of Levi– will have no allotment or inheritance with Israel; they may eat the burnt offerings of the LORD and of his inheritance. 2 They will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; the LORD alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.
- Ezek 44:28 : 28 “‘This will be their inheritance: I am their inheritance, and you must give them no property in Israel; I am their property.
- Josh 14:3 : 3 Now Moses had assigned land to the two and a half tribes east of the Jordan, but he assigned no land to the Levites.
- Num 18:20-24 : 20 Duties of the Levites The LORD spoke to Aaron,“You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any portion of property among them– I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites. 21 See, I have given the Levites all the tithes in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they perform– the service of the tent of meeting. 22 No longer may the Israelites approach the tent of meeting, or else they will bear their sin and die. 23 But the Levites must perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites have no inheritance. 24 But I have given to the Levites for an inheritance the tithes of the Israelites that are offered to the LORD as a raised offering. That is why I said to them that among the Israelites they are to have no inheritance.”
- Num 26:62 : 62 Those of them who were numbered were 23,000, all males from a month old and upward, for they were not numbered among the Israelites; no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.
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- Deut 18:1-22 verses87%
1 Provision for Priests and Levites The Levitical priests– indeed, the entire tribe of Levi– will have no allotment or inheritance with Israel; they may eat the burnt offerings of the LORD and of his inheritance.
2 They will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; the LORD alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.
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33 However, Moses did not assign land as an inheritance to the Levites; their inheritance is the LORD God of Israel, as he instructed them.
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14 However, Moses did not assign land as an inheritance to the Levites; their inheritance is the sacrificial offerings made to the LORD God of Israel, as he instructed them.
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8 At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the LORD’s covenant, to stand before the LORD to serve him, and to formulate blessings in his name, as they do to this very day.
- Num 18:20-212 verses81%
20 Duties of the Levites The LORD spoke to Aaron,“You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any portion of property among them– I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites.
21 See, I have given the Levites all the tithes in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they perform– the service of the tent of meeting.
- Num 18:23-253 verses81%
23 But the Levites must perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites have no inheritance.
24 But I have given to the Levites for an inheritance the tithes of the Israelites that are offered to the LORD as a raised offering. That is why I said to them that among the Israelites they are to have no inheritance.”
25 Instructions for the Levites The LORD spoke to Moses:
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27 As for the Levites in your villages, you must not ignore them, for they have no allotment or inheritance along with you.
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7 But the Levites will not have an allotted portion among you, for their inheritance is to serve the LORD. Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have already received their allotted land east of the Jordan which Moses the LORD’s servant assigned them.”
- Josh 14:3-42 verses79%
3 Now Moses had assigned land to the two and a half tribes east of the Jordan, but he assigned no land to the Levites.
4 The descendants of Joseph were considered as two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. The Levites were allotted no territory, though they were assigned cities in which to live, along with the grazing areas for their cattle and possessions.
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6 I myself have chosen your brothers the Levites from among the Israelites. They are given to you as a gift from the LORD, to perform the duties of the tent of meeting.
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14 And so you are to separate the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.
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5 For the LORD your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand and serve in his name permanently.
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9 For the LORD’s allotment is his people, Jacob is his special possession.
- Deut 18:7-82 verses75%
7 and serves in the name of the LORD his God like his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD.
8 He must eat the same share they do, despite any profits he may gain from the sale of his family’s inheritance.
- Num 27:9-113 verses75%
9 and if he has no daughter, then you are to give his inheritance to his brothers;
10 and if he has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his father’s brothers;
11 and if his father has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his relative nearest to him from his family, and he will possess it. This will be for the Israelites a legal requirement, as the LORD commanded Moses.’”
- Num 1:48-492 verses75%
48 The LORD had said to Moses,
49 “Only the tribe of Levi you must not number or count with the other Israelites.
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2 “Bring with you your brothers, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, so that they may join with you and minister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.
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5 And those of the sons of Levi who receive the priestly office have authorization according to the law to collect a tithe from the people, that is, from their fellow countrymen, although they too are descendants of Abraham.
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10 He has brought you near and all your brothers, the sons of Levi, with you. Do you now seek the priesthood also?
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29 Then the Levites(because they have no allotment or inheritance with you), the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows of your villages may come and eat their fill so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work you do.
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8 Blessing on Levi Of Levi he said: Your Thummim and Urim belong to your godly one, whose authority you challenged at Massah, and with whom you argued at the waters of Meribah.
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9 No inheritance may pass from tribe to tribe. But every one of the tribes of the Israelites must retain its inheritance.”
- Num 3:11-122 verses74%
11 Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
12 “Look, I myself have taken the Levites from among the Israelites instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the Israelites. So the Levites belong to me,
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4 Then you will know that I sent this commandment to you so that my covenant may continue to be with Levi,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
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10 As for me, I stayed at the mountain as I did the first time, forty days and nights. The LORD listened to me that time as well and decided not to destroy you.
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9 You are to assign the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they will be assigned exclusively to him out of all the Israelites.
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9 for you have not yet come to the final stop and inheritance the LORD your God is giving you.
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6 “Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may serve him.
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19 Be careful not to overlook the Levites as long as you live in the land.
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7 In this way the inheritance of the Israelites will not be transferred from tribe to tribe. But every one of the Israelites must retain the ancestral heritage.
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33 But the Levites were not numbered among the other Israelites, as the LORD commanded Moses.
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45 “Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn males among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock. And the Levites will be mine. I am the LORD.
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15 The thigh of the contribution offering and the breast of the wave offering they must bring in addition to the gifts of the fat parts to wave them as a wave offering before the LORD, and it will belong to you and your sons with you for a perpetual statute just as the LORD has commanded.”
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28 “‘This will be their inheritance: I am their inheritance, and you must give them no property in Israel; I am their property.
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12 You shall rejoice in the presence of the LORD your God, along with your sons, daughters, male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages(since they have no allotment or inheritance with you).
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16 The LORD, who is the inheritance of Jacob’s descendants, is not like them. He is the one who created everything. And the people of Israel are those he claims as his own. His name is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.”
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19 I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the Israelites, to do the work for the Israelites in the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the Israelites, so there will be no plague among the Israelites when the Israelites come near the sanctuary.”