THEOSISDeuteronomy 10:9Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Wherefore Levi hath no part nor possession with his brethren: because the Lord himself is his possession, as the Lord thy God promised him.
עַל־כֵּ֞ן לֹֽא־הָיָ֧ה לְלֵוִ֛י חֵ֥לֶק וְנַחֲלָ֖ה עִם־אֶחָ֑יו יְהוָה֙ ה֣וּא נַחֲלָת֔וֹ כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר דִּבֶּ֛ר יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ לֽוֹ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Num 18:20And the Lord said to Aaron: You shall possess nothing in their land, neither shall you have a portion among them: I am thy portion and inheritance in the midst of the children of Israel.
- Num 18:24But be content with the oblation or tithes, which I have separated for their uses and necessities.
- Ezek 44:28And they shall have no inheritance, I am their inheritance: neither shall you give them any possession in Israel, for I am their possession.
- Deut 18:1The priests and Levites, and all that are of the same tribe, shall have no part nor inheritance with the rest of Israel, because they shall eat the sacrifices of the Lord, and his oblations,
- Deut 18:2And they shall receive nothing else of the possession of their brethren: for the Lord himself is their inheritance, as he hath said to them.
- Num 26:62And all that were numbered, were twenty-three thousand males from one month old and upward: for they were not reckoned up among the children of Israel, neither was a possession given to them with the rest.
- Josh 14:3For to two tribes and a half Moses had given possession beyond the Jordan: besides the Levites, who received no land among their brethren: