Deuteronomy 18:1-8

New King James Version

The Portion of the Priests and Levites

18 “The priests, the Levites—all the tribe of Levi—shall have ^[a]no part nor ^(A)inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and His portion. ²Therefore they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the Lord is their inheritance, as He said to them.

³“And this shall be the priest’s ^(B)due^[b] from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it is bull or sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder, the cheeks, and the stomach. ⁴^(C)The firstfruits of your grain and your new wine and your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him. ⁵For ^(D)the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribes ^(E)to stand to minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons forever.

⁶“So if a Levite comes from any of your ^[c]gates, from where he ^(F)dwells among all Israel, and comes with all the desire of his mind ^(G)to the place which the Lord chooses, ⁷then he may serve in the name of the Lord his God ^(H)as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there before the Lord. ⁸They shall have equal ^(I)portions to eat, besides what comes from the sale of his inheritance.