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Deuteronomy 18:1

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Provision for Priests and Levites

18“The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, nshall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They oshall eat the Lord’s food offerings1 as their2 inheritance.

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Footnotes

  1. 1Or the offerings by fire to the Lord
  2. 2Hebrew his

Cross references

  1. nSee Num. 18:20
  2. oNum. 18:8, 9; Josh. 13:14; 1 Sam. 2:28; [1 Cor. 9:13]

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

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.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“The Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, will have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They will eat the Lord’s food offerings; that is their inheritance.

NLTNew Living Translation

“Remember that the Levitical priests—that is, the whole of the tribe of Levi—will receive no allotment of land among the other tribes in Israel. Instead, the priests and Levites will eat from the special gifts given to the Lord, for that is their share.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“And there shall not be for the Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, a plot of ground and an inheritance with Israel, rather they may eat an offering made by fire as their inheritance, for Yahweh.

KJV 1900King James Version

The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and his inheritance.