Joshua 13:14

Only the tribe of Levi were assigned no property, for the Levites’ inheritance is the sacrificial offerings made by fire to the Lord God of Israel, as he told Moses.

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Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as he said unto them.

In Context

13though the Israelites never expelled the Geshurites or the Maacathites, who live among the Israelites to this day.

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

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Cross References

Joshua 14:3Moses had assigned the other two and a half tribes their property and inheritance to the east of the Jordan, and assigned nothing to the Levites.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 13:8-33

7 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh, 8 With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of the Lord gave them; 9 From Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon; 10 And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of… Read the whole commentary →

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