Deuteronomy 18:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

The priests, the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part or inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and His inheritance.

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  • Deut 10:9 : 9 Therefore Levi has no part nor inheritance with his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, just as the LORD your God promised him.
  • Deut 12:19 : 19 Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live on the earth.
  • Josh 13:14 : 14 Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as he said to them.
  • Num 18:8-9 : 8 And the LORD spoke to Aaron, Behold, I also have given you the charge of my heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; to you have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, by an ordinance forever. 9 This shall be yours of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, every grain offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons.
  • Num 18:20 : 20 And the LORD spoke to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any part among them: I am your part and your inheritance among the children of Israel.
  • Num 26:62 : 62 And those that were numbered of them were twenty-three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
  • Josh 13:33 : 33 But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the LORD God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said to them.
  • Josh 18:7 : 7 But the Levites have no part among you, for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance. And Gad, Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.
  • 1 Cor 9:13-14 : 13 Do you not know that those who minister the holy things eat of the things of the temple, and those who serve at the altar partake of the offerings of the altar? 14 Even so the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel.
  • 1 Pet 5:2-4 : 2 Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by compulsion, but willingly; not for dishonest gain, but with a ready mind; 3 Neither as being lords over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock. 4 And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you shall receive a crown of glory that does not fade away.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 18:2-3
    2 verses
    90%

    2Therefore, they shall have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as He has said to them.

    3And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give to the priest the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the stomach.

  • Josh 13:14
    86%

    14Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as he said to them.

  • Deut 10:8-9
    2 verses
    84%

    8At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.

    9Therefore Levi has no part nor inheritance with his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, just as the LORD your God promised him.

  • Num 18:23-25
    3 verses
    84%

    23But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.

    24But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as a heave offering to the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

    25And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Josh 13:33
    82%

    33But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the LORD God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said to them.

  • Josh 18:7
    80%

    7But the Levites have no part among you, for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance. And Gad, Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.

  • Num 18:20-21
    2 verses
    79%

    20And the LORD spoke to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any part among them: I am your part and your inheritance among the children of Israel.

    21And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.

  • Deut 18:5-8
    4 verses
    76%

    5For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons forever.

    6And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and comes with all the desire of his mind to the place which the LORD shall choose;

    7Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there before the LORD.

    8They shall have equal portions to eat, besides what comes from the sale of his patrimony.

  • Num 18:6
    76%

    6And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel; to you they are given as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.

  • Ezek 44:28-29
    2 verses
    75%

    28And it shall be to them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.

    29They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.

  • Jer 33:18
    75%

    18Neither shall the priests, the Levites, lack a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle grain offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.

  • Num 8:14-15
    2 verses
    75%

    14Thus shall you separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.

    15After that, the Levites shall go in to perform the service of the tabernacle of meeting, and you shall cleanse them and offer them as a wave offering.

  • Josh 14:3
    75%

    3For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and a half-tribe on the other side of the Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.

  • Deut 14:27
    74%

    27And the Levite that is within your gates; you shall not forsake him; for he has no part nor inheritance with you.

  • Num 1:49
    73%

    49Only you shall not number the tribe of Levi, nor take a census of them among the children of Israel;

  • Num 3:9
    72%

    9And you shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons; they are completely given to him from among the children of Israel.

  • Num 8:26
    72%

    26But they may minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of meeting, to attend to needs, but shall do no work. Thus shall you do to the Levites regarding their duties.

  • Num 5:9
    72%

    9And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring to the priest, shall be his.

  • Num 8:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18And I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the children of Israel.

    19And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the children of Israel, to perform the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel, that there be no plague among the children of Israel when they come near the sanctuary.

  • Num 4:18
    72%

    18Do not cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:

  • Num 18:11
    72%

    11And this is yours; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, by a statute forever: everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.

  • Lev 6:17
    72%

    17It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it to them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.

  • Num 36:7
    72%

    7So the inheritance of the children of Israel shall not transfer from tribe to tribe; for each of the children of Israel shall keep to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

  • Num 18:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2And your brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring with you, that they may be joined to you and minister to you: but you and your sons with you shall minister before the tabernacle of witness.

    3And they shall keep your charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come near the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor you also, die.

  • Num 3:6
    72%

    6Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, so that they may serve him.

  • Num 36:9
    72%

    9Thus the inheritance shall not transfer from one tribe to another tribe; but each tribe of the children of Israel shall keep to its own inheritance.

  • 2 Chr 23:6
    71%

    6But let none come into the house of the LORD, except the priests, and those that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.

  • Ezek 48:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; who have kept my charge, and did not go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

    12And this offering of the land that is offered shall be to them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.

  • Lev 10:13
    71%

    13You shall eat it in a holy place because it is your due and your sons' due of the sacrifices of the Lord made by fire, for so I am commanded.

  • Num 3:12
    71%

    12Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; therefore the Levites shall be mine;

  • Deut 14:29
    71%

    29And the Levite, (because he has no part nor inheritance with you,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

  • Lev 22:10
    71%

    10No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a temporary resident of the priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

  • Num 2:33
    71%

    33But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • Num 18:30
    71%

    30Therefore you shall say to them, When you have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the winepress.

  • Ezek 48:14
    71%

    14And they shall not sell it, nor exchange it, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy to the LORD.

  • Num 8:11
    71%

    11And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the children of Israel, that they may perform the service of the LORD.