Deuteronomy 18:2

2 They shall have no inheritance among their fellow Israelites; the LORD is their inheritance, as he promised them.

Deuteronomy 18:2 in Other Translations

KJV
2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.
ESV
2 They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the LORD is their inheritance, as he promised them.
NLT
2 They will have no land of their own among the Israelites. The LORD himself is their special possession, just as he promised them.
MSG
2 But they don't get land-inheritance like the rest of their kinsmen. God is their inheritance.
CSB
2 Although Levi has no inheritance among his brothers, the Lord is his inheritance, as He promised him.

Deuteronomy 18:2 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 18:2

Therefore shall they have none inheritance among their
brethren
Neither of the field, nor of the vineyard, as the above Targum, because provision was made for them otherwise, and especially because

the Lord is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them,
(See Gill on Numbers 18:20), which as it may be understood in a spiritual sense of their interest in God, as their covenant God, and of their enjoyment of him, and communion with him; so chiefly in a temporal sense of all those things in the sacrifices which the Lord claimed to himself, and these he gave unto them; so the same Targum interprets this of the twenty four gifts of the priesthood, enumerated ( Numbers 18:1-32 ) .

Deuteronomy 18:2 In-Context

1 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 fellow Israelites; the LORD is their inheritance, as he promised them.
3 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 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 them and their descendants out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the LORD’s name always.

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