Priests and Levites

18 Neither the levitical priests nor any Levite tribe member will have a designated inheritance in Israel. They can eat the sacrifices offered to the Lord, which are the Lord’s portion,^{[a] 2} but they won’t share an inheritance with their fellow Israelites. The Lord alone is the Levites’ inheritance—just as God promised them.

³ Now this is what the priests may keep from the people’s sacrifices of oxen or sheep: They must give the priest the shoulder, the jaws, and the stomach. ⁴ You must also give the priest the first portions of your grain, wine, and oil, and the first of your sheep’s shearing ⁵ because the Lord your God selected Levi from all of your tribes to stand and minister in the Lord’s name—both him and his descendants for all time.

⁶ Now if a Levite leaves one of your cities or departs from any location in Israel where he’s been living and, because he wants to, comes to the location the Lord selects ⁷ and ministers in the Lord his God’s name, just like his relatives—the other Levites serving there in the Lord’s presence— ⁸ he is allowed to eat equal portions, despite the finances he has from his family.^[b]