Numbers 18:23-24
English Standard Version Anglicised
23 But (A)the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, (B)and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the people of Israel they shall have no inheritance. 24 For the tithe of the people of Israel, which (C)they present as a contribution to the Lord, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said of them that they shall have no inheritance (D)among the people of Israel.”
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Numbers 18:23-24
New International Version
23 It is the Levites who are to do the work at the tent of meeting and bear the responsibility for any offenses they commit against it. This is a lasting ordinance(A) for the generations to come.(B) They will receive no inheritance(C) among the Israelites.(D) 24 Instead, I give to the Levites as their inheritance the tithes that the Israelites present as an offering to the Lord.(E) That is why I said concerning them: ‘They will have no inheritance among the Israelites.’”
Deuteronomy 10:9
English Standard Version Anglicised
9 (A)Therefore Levi has no portion or inheritance with his brothers. The Lord is his inheritance, as the Lord your God said to him.)
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Deuteronomy 10:9
New International Version
9 That is why the Levites have no share or inheritance among their fellow Israelites; the Lord is their inheritance,(A) as the Lord your God told them.)
Deuteronomy 12:12
English Standard Version Anglicised
12 And (A)you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male servants and your female servants, and the Levite who is within your towns, since (B)he has no portion or inheritance with you.
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Deuteronomy 12:12
New International Version
12 And there rejoice(A) before the Lord your God—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites(B) from your towns who have no allotment or inheritance(C) of their own.
Deuteronomy 14:27
English Standard Version Anglicised
27 And you shall not neglect (A)the Levite who is within your towns, for (B)he has no portion or inheritance with you.
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Deuteronomy 14:27
New International Version
27 And do not neglect the Levites(A) living in your towns, for they have no allotment or inheritance of their own.(B)
Deuteronomy 18:1-2
English Standard Version Anglicised
Provision for Priests and Levites
18 “The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, (A)shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They (B)shall eat the Lord's food offerings[a] as their[b] inheritance. 2 They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the Lord is their inheritance, as he promised them.
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- Deuteronomy 18:1 Or the offerings by fire to the Lord
- Deuteronomy 18:1 Hebrew his
Deuteronomy 18:1-2
New International Version
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 13:33
English Standard Version Anglicised
33 (A)But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the Lord God of Israel is their inheritance, (B)just as he said to them.
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Joshua 13:33
New International Version
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)
Joshua 14:3
English Standard Version Anglicised
3 (A)For Moses had given an inheritance to the two and a half tribes beyond the Jordan, (B)but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.
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Joshua 14:3
New International Version
3 Moses had granted the two and a half tribes their inheritance east of the Jordan(A) but had not granted the Levites an inheritance among the rest,(B)
Joshua 18:7
English Standard Version Anglicised
7 (A)The Levites have no portion among you, for the priesthood of the Lord is their heritage. (B)And Gad and Reuben and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastwards, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them.”
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Joshua 18:7
New International Version
7 The Levites, however, do not get a portion among you, because the priestly service of the Lord is their inheritance.(A) And Gad, Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have already received their inheritance on the east side of the Jordan. Moses the servant of the Lord gave it to them.(B)”
Ezekiel 44:28
English Standard Version Anglicised
28 (A)“This shall be their inheritance: I am their inheritance: and (B)you shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.
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Ezekiel 44:28
New International Version
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.
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