Provision for Priests and Levites

Deuteronomy 18:1-8

The cohanim, who are L'vi'im, and indeed the whole tribe of Levi, is not to have a share or an inheritance with Isra'el. Instead, their support will come from the food offered by fire to ADONAI and from whatever else becomes his.

They will have no inheritance with their brothers, because ADONAI is their inheritance - as he has said to them.

"The cohanim will have the right to receive from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether ox or sheep, the shoulder, the jowls and the stomach.

You will also give him the firstfruits of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep.

For ADONAI your God has chosen him from all your tribes to stand and serve in the name of ADONAI, him and his sons forever.

"If a Levi from one of your towns anywhere in Isra'el where he is living comes, highly motivated, to the place which ADONAI will choose,

then he will serve there in the name of ADONAI his God, just like his kinsmen the L'vi'im who stand and serve in the presence of ADONAI.

Such a Levi will receive the same share as they do, in addition to what he may receive from selling his inherited ancestral property.

Provision for Priests and Levites

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