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1 "The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the LORD's food offerings as their inheritance.
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The Levitical priests—indeed, the whole tribe of Levi—are to have no allotment or inheritance with Israel. They shall live on the food offerings presented to the LORD, for that is their inheritance.
2 They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the LORD is their inheritance, as he promised them.
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They shall have no inheritance among their fellow Israelites; the LORD is their inheritance, as he promised them.
3 And this shall be the priests' due from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach.
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This is the share due the priests from the people who sacrifice a bull or a sheep: the shoulder, the internal organs and the meat from the head.
4 The 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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You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the first wool from the shearing of your sheep,
5 For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for all time.
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for the LORD your God has chosen them and their descendants out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the LORD’s name always.
6 "And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, where he lives--and he may come when he desires--to the place that the LORD will choose,
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If a Levite moves from one of your towns anywhere in Israel where he is living, and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,
7 and ministers in the name of the LORD his God, like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the LORD,
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he may minister in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who serve there in the presence of the LORD.
8 then he may have equal portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony.
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He is to share equally in their benefits, even though he has received money from the sale of family possessions.
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