Joshua 13:33

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However, Moses did not assign land as an inheritance to the Levites; their inheritance is the LORD God of Israel, as he instructed them.

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  • Josh 18:7 : 7 But the Levites will not have an allotted portion among you, for their inheritance is to serve the LORD. Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have already received their allotted land east of the Jordan which Moses the LORD’s servant assigned them.”
  • Josh 13:14 : 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.
  • Num 18:20 : 20 Duties of the Levites 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.
  • Deut 10:9 : 9 Therefore Levi has no allotment or inheritance among his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance just as the LORD your God told him.
  • Deut 18:1-2 : 1 Provision for Priests and Levites The Levitical priests– indeed, the entire tribe of Levi– will have no allotment or inheritance with Israel; they may eat the burnt offerings of the LORD and of his inheritance. 2 They will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; the LORD alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.

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  • Josh 13:14-15
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    14However, 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.

    15Moses assigned land to the tribe of Reuben by its clans.

  • Deut 10:8-9
    2 verses
    86%

    8At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the LORD’s covenant, to stand before the LORD to serve him, and to formulate blessings in his name, as they do to this very day.

    9Therefore Levi has no allotment or inheritance among his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance just as the LORD your God told him.

  • Deut 18:1-2
    2 verses
    85%

    1Provision for Priests and Levites The Levitical priests– indeed, the entire tribe of Levi– will have no allotment or inheritance with Israel; they may eat the burnt offerings of the LORD and of his inheritance.

    2They will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; the LORD alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.

  • Josh 14:1-4
    4 verses
    84%

    1Judah’s Tribal Lands The following is a record of the territory assigned to the Israelites in the land of Canaan by Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the Israelite tribal leaders.

    2The land assignments to the nine and a half tribes were made by drawing lots, as the LORD had instructed Moses.

    3Now Moses had assigned land to the two and a half tribes east of the Jordan, but he assigned no land to the Levites.

    4The 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.

  • Num 18:23-25
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    23But 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.

    24But 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.”

    25Instructions for the Levites The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Josh 18:7
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    7But the Levites will not have an allotted portion among you, for their inheritance is to serve the LORD. Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have already received their allotted land east of the Jordan which Moses the LORD’s servant assigned them.”

  • Josh 13:32
    78%

    32These are the land assignments made by Moses in the rift valley plains of Moab east of the Jordan River opposite Jericho.

  • Num 34:13
    78%

    13Then Moses commanded the Israelites:“This is the land which you will inherit by lot, which the LORD has commanded to be given to the nine and a half tribes,

  • Num 18:20-21
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    20Duties of the Levites 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.

    21See, I have given the Levites all the tithes in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they perform– the service of the tent of meeting.

  • Num 2:33
    76%

    33But the Levites were not numbered among the other Israelites, as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • Ezek 44:28
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    28“‘This will be their inheritance: I am their inheritance, and you must give them no property in Israel; I am their property.

  • Josh 21:3
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    3So the Israelites assigned these cities and their grazing areas to the Levites from their own holdings, as the LORD had instructed.

  • Ps 135:12
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    12He gave their land as an inheritance, as an inheritance to Israel his people.

  • Num 36:9
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    9No inheritance may pass from tribe to tribe. But every one of the tribes of the Israelites must retain its inheritance.”

  • Deut 14:27
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    27As for the Levites in your villages, you must not ignore them, for they have no allotment or inheritance along with you.

  • Josh 13:29
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    29Moses assigned land to the half-tribe of Manasseh by its clans.

  • Num 36:7
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    7In this way the inheritance of the Israelites will not be transferred from tribe to tribe. But every one of the Israelites must retain the ancestral heritage.

  • Josh 13:7-8
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    7Now, divide up this land among the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”

    8Tribal Lands East of the Jordan The other half of Manasseh, Reuben, and Gad received their allotted tribal lands on east side of the Jordan, just as Moses, the LORD’s servant, had assigned them.

  • Num 26:55
    73%

    55The land must be divided by lot; and they will inherit in accordance with the names of their ancestral tribes.

  • Num 1:47-49
    3 verses
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    47The Exemption of the Levites But the Levites, according to the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.

    48The LORD had said to Moses,

    49“Only the tribe of Levi you must not number or count with the other Israelites.

  • Num 27:11
    73%

    11and if his father has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his relative nearest to him from his family, and he will possess it. This will be for the Israelites a legal requirement, as the LORD commanded Moses.’”

  • Num 34:16
    72%

    16Appointed Officials The LORD said to Moses:

  • Num 35:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1The Levitical Cities Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the rift valley plains of Moab along the Jordan near Jericho. He said:

    2“Instruct the Israelites to give the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites will possess. You must also give the Levites grazing land around the towns.

  • Num 33:54
    72%

    54You must divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families. To a larger group you must give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group you must give a smaller inheritance. Everyone’s inheritance must be in the place where his lot falls. You must inherit according to your ancestral tribes.

  • Ezek 47:23
    72%

    23In whatever tribe the resident foreigner lives, there you will give him his inheritance,” declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • Josh 17:4
    72%

    4They went before Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders and said,“The LORD told Moses to assign us land among our relatives.” So Joshua assigned them land among their uncles, as the LORD had commanded.

  • Num 26:53
    72%

    53“To these the land must be divided as an inheritance according to the number of the names.

  • Num 36:4
    72%

    4And when the Jubilee of the Israelites is to take place, their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe.”

  • Deut 32:9
    72%

    9For the LORD’s allotment is his people, Jacob is his special possession.

  • Josh 13:24
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    24Moses assigned land to the tribe of Gad by its clans.

  • Num 34:29
    72%

    29These are the ones whom the LORD commanded to divide up the inheritance among the Israelites in the land of Canaan.

  • Num 13:1
    72%

    1Spies Sent Out The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Deut 12:9
    72%

    9for you have not yet come to the final stop and inheritance the LORD your God is giving you.

  • Ps 105:11
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    11saying,“To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”

  • Num 32:19
    71%

    19For we will not accept any inheritance on the other side of the Jordan River and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this eastern side of the Jordan.”

  • Num 35:9
    71%

    9The Cities of Refuge Then the LORD spoke to Moses: