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The Levitical priests - that's the entire tribe of Levi - don't get any land-inheritance with the rest of Israel. They get the Fire-Gift-Offerings of God - they will live on that inheritance.
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But they don't get land-inheritance like the rest of their kinsmen. God is their inheritance.
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This is what the priests get from the people from any offering of an ox or a sheep: the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the stomach.
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You must also give them the firstfruits of your grain, wine, and oil and the first fleece of your sheep,
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because God, your God, has chosen only them and their children out of all your tribes to be present and serve always in the name of God, your God.
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If a Levite moves from any town in Israel - and he is quite free to move wherever he desires - and comes to the place God designates for worship,
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he may serve there in the name of God along with all his brother Levites who are present and serving in the Presence of God.
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And he will get an equal share to eat, even though he has money from the sale of his parents' possessions.
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When you enter the land that God, your God, is giving you, don't take on the abominable ways of life of the nations there.