Numbers 18:20

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Numbers 18:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible

18 And their meat belongs to you, just as the breast and right thigh of the wave offering belong to you.

19 All the holy offerings that the Israelites present to the LORD I give to you and to your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. It is a permanent covenant of salt before the LORD for you and your offspring.”

20 Then the LORD said to Aaron, “You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites.

21 Behold, I have given to the Levites all the tithes in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work they do, the service of the Tent of Meeting.

22 No longer may the Israelites come near to the Tent of Meeting, or they will incur guilt and die.

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Numbers 18:23

The Levites are to perform the work of the Tent of Meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come. The Levites will not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.

Numbers 18:24

For I have given to the Levites as their inheritance the tithe that the Israelites present to the LORD as a contribution. That is why I told them that they would not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.”

Numbers 26:62

The registration of the Levites totaled 23,000, every male a month old or more; they were not numbered among the other Israelites, because no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.

Deuteronomy 10:9

That is why Levi has no portion or inheritance among his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, as the LORD your God promised him.

Deuteronomy 12:12

And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.

Deuteronomy 14:27

And do not neglect the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.

Deuteronomy 14:29

Then the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.

Joshua 14:3

For Moses had given the inheritance east of the Jordan to the other two and a half tribes. But he granted no inheritance among them to the Levites.

Deuteronomy 18:1

The Levitical priests—indeed the whole tribe of Levi—shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They are to eat the offerings made by fire to the LORD; that is their inheritance.

Deuteronomy 18:2

Although they have no inheritance among their brothers, the LORD is their inheritance, as He promised them.

Joshua 13:14

To the tribe of Levi, however, Moses had given no inheritance. The offerings made by fire to the LORD, the God of Israel, are their inheritance, just as He had promised them.

Joshua 13:33

To the tribe of Levi, however, Moses had given no inheritance. The LORD, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, just as He had promised them.

Joshua 18:7

The Levites, however, have no portion among you, because their inheritance is the priesthood of the LORD. And Gad, Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh have already received the inheritance that Moses the servant of the LORD gave them beyond the Jordan to the east.”

Psalms 16:5

The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; You have made my lot secure.

Psalms 73:26

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Psalms 142:5

I cry to You, O LORD: “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

Lamentations 3:24

“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”

Ezekiel 44:28

In regard to their inheritance, I am their inheritance. You are to give them no possession in Israel, for I am their possession.

1 Corinthians 3:21

Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours,

1 Corinthians 3:22

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you,

1 Corinthians 3:23

and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

Revelation 21:3

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.