Deuteronomy 18:2
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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- Gen 15:1 : 1 The Cutting of the Covenant After these things the LORD’s message came to Abram in a vision:“Fear not, Abram! I am your shield and the one who will reward you in great abundance.”
- Ps 16:5 : 5 LORD, you give me stability and prosperity; you make my future secure.
- Ps 73:24-26 : 24 You guide me by your wise advice, and then you will lead me to a position of honor. 25 Whom do I have in heaven but you? I desire no one but you on earth. 26 My flesh and my heart may grow weak, but God always protects my heart and gives me stability.
- Ps 84:11 : 11 For the LORD God is our sovereign protector. The LORD bestows favor and honor; he withholds no good thing from those who have integrity.
- Ps 119:57 : 57 ח(Khet) The LORD is my source of security. I have determined to follow your instructions.
- Isa 61:6 : 6 You will be called,‘the LORD’s priests, servants of our God.’ You will enjoy the wealth of nations and boast about the riches you receive from them.
- Lam 3:24 : 24 “My portion is the LORD,” I have said to myself, so I will put my hope in him.
- 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 you yourselves, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood and to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
- 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
- Rev 1:5-6 : 5 and from Jesus Christ– the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has set us free from our sins at the cost of his own blood 6 and has appointed us as a kingdom, as priests serving his God and Father– to him be the glory and the power for ever and ever! Amen.
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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.
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9 Therefore Levi has no allotment or inheritance among his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance just as the LORD your God told him.
- Num 18:20-256 verses85%
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.”
25 Instructions for the Levites The LORD spoke to Moses:
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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.
- Ezek 44:28-292 verses83%
28 “‘This will be their inheritance: I am their inheritance, and you must give them no property in Israel; I am their property.
29 They may eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, and every devoted thing in Israel will be theirs.
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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.”
- Deut 18:7-82 verses79%
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.
- Josh 14:2-43 verses78%
2 The land assignments to the nine and a half tribes were made by drawing lots, as the LORD had instructed Moses.
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.
- Num 27:9-113 verses77%
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.’”
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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.”
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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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5 Therefore no one will assign you land in the LORD’s community.
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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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17 He assigns them their allotment; he measures out their assigned place. They will live there permanently; they will settle in it through successive generations.
- Num 36:3-42 verses75%
3 Now if they should be married to one of the men from another Israelite tribe, their inheritance would be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. As a result, it will be taken from the lot of our inheritance.
4 And when the Jubilee of the Israelites is to take place, their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe.”
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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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4 They went before Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders and said,“The LORD told Moses to assign us land among our relatives.” So Joshua assigned them land among their uncles, as the LORD had commanded.
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9 For the LORD’s allotment is his people, Jacob is his special possession.
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19 For we will not accept any inheritance on the other side of the Jordan River and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this eastern side of the Jordan.”
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55 The land must be divided by lot; and they will inherit in accordance with the names of their ancestral tribes.
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14 And so you are to separate the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.
- Ezek 47:22-232 verses73%
22 You must allot it as an inheritance among yourselves and for the resident foreigners who live among you, who have fathered sons among you. You must treat them as native-born among the people of Israel; they will be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
23 In whatever tribe the resident foreigner lives, there you will give him his inheritance,” declares the Sovereign LORD.
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14 You must divide it equally just as I vowed to give it to your forefathers; this land will be assigned as your inheritance.
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4 However, there should not be any poor among you, for the LORD will surely bless you in the land that he is giving you as an inheritance,
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2 “Instruct the Israelites to give the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites will possess. You must also give the Levites grazing land around the towns.
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3 This shall be the priests’ fair allotment from the people who offer sacrifices, whether bull or sheep– they must give to the priest the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach.
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3 So the Israelites assigned these cities and their grazing areas to the Levites from their own holdings, as the LORD had instructed.
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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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54 You must divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families. To a larger group you must give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group you must give a smaller inheritance. Everyone’s inheritance must be in the place where his lot falls. You must inherit according to your ancestral tribes.
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33 But the Levites were not numbered among the other Israelites, as the LORD commanded Moses.
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46 You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly.
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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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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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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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12 He gave their land as an inheritance, as an inheritance to Israel his people.