Leviticus 25:32-34
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32 “‘The Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the Levitical towns,(A) which they possess. 33 So the property of the Levites is redeemable—that is, a house sold in any town they hold—and is to be returned in the Jubilee, because the houses in the towns of the Levites are their property among the Israelites. 34 But the pastureland belonging to their towns must not be sold; it is their permanent possession.(B)
Numbers 18:20
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20 The Lord said to Aaron, “You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any share among them;(A) I am your share and your inheritance(B) among the Israelites.
Numbers 26:62
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62 All the male Levites a month old or more numbered 23,000.(A) They were not counted(B) along with the other Israelites because they received no inheritance(C) among them.(D)
Deuteronomy 18:1-2
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Offerings for Priests and Levites
18 The Levitical(A) priests—indeed, the whole tribe of Levi—are to have no allotment or inheritance with Israel. They shall live on the food offerings(B) presented to the Lord, for that is their inheritance.(C) 2 They shall have no inheritance among their fellow Israelites; the Lord is their inheritance,(D) as he promised them.(E)
Joshua 13:14
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14 But to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance, since the food offerings presented to the Lord, the God of Israel, are their inheritance, as he promised them.(A)
Joshua 13:33
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33 But to the tribe of Levi, Moses had given no inheritance;(A) the Lord, the God of Israel, is their inheritance,(B) as he promised them.(C)
Ezekiel 44:28-30
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28 “‘I am to be the only inheritance(A) the priests have. You are to give them no possession in Israel; I will be their possession. 29 They will eat(B) the grain offerings, the sin offerings and the guilt offerings; and everything in Israel devoted[a] to the Lord(C) will belong to them.(D) 30 The best of all the firstfruits(E) and of all your special gifts will belong to the priests. You are to give them the first portion of your ground meal(F) so that a blessing(G) may rest on your household.(H)
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 44:29 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord.
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