Numbers 18:20
Duties of the Levites
18:20 The Lord spoke to Aaron, “You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any portion of property among them – I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites.
Numbers 18:23-24
18:23 But the Levites must perform the service
of the tent of meeting, and they must bear their iniquity.
It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites
have no inheritance.
18:24 But I have given
to the Levites for an inheritance the tithes of the Israelites that are offered
to the
Lord as a raised offering. That is why I said to them that among the Israelites they are to have no inheritance.”
Numbers 18:26
18:26 “You are to speak to the Levites, and you must tell them, ‘When you receive from the Israelites the tithe that I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you are to offer up
from it as a raised offering to the
Lord a tenth of the tithe.
Joshua 13:14
13:14 However, Moses
did not assign land as an inheritance
to the Levites; their inheritance
is the sacrificial offerings
made to the
Lord God of Israel, as he instructed
them.
Joshua 13:33
13:33 However, Moses did not assign land as an inheritance
to the Levites; their inheritance
is the
Lord God of Israel, as he instructed
them.
Joshua 14:4
14:4 The descendants of Joseph were considered as two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. The Levites were allotted no territory, though they were assigned cities in which to live, along with the grazing areas for their cattle and possessions.