Provision for Priests and Levites
1 “The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi,
1shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They
2shall eat the Lord’s food offerings as their inheritance.
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They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the Lord is their inheritance, as he promised them.
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And this shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep:
3they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach.
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4The firstfruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.
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For the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribes
5to stand and minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons for all time.
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“And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel,
6where he lives—and he may come when he desires—
7to the place that the Lord will choose,
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and ministers in the name of the Lord his God,
8like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the Lord,
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then he may have equal
9portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony.