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Num 18:20 — And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I [am] thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Thou shalt have		The principal part of what was offered to God was the portion of the priests; who had no inheritance of land in Israel. The Rabbins say, 24 gifts were given to the priests; all of which are expressed in the law. Eight were only eaten in the sanctuary: 1. The flesh of the sin-offering. (Lev 6:25,26.) 2. The flesh of the trespass-offering. (Lev 7:1,6.) 3. The peace-offering of the congregation. (Lev 23:19,20.) 4. The remainder of the sheaf. (Lev 23:10.) 5. The remnants of the meat-offerings. (Lev 6:16.) 6. The two loaves. (Lev 23:17.) 7. The shew-bread. (Lev 24:9.) 8. The log of oil offered by the leper. (Lev 14:10.) Five they ate only at Jerusalem: 1. The breast and shoulder of the peace-offerings. (Lev 7:31-34.) 2. The heave-offering of confession. (Lev 7:12-14.) 3. The heave-offering of the Nazarite's ram. (Lev 6:17-20.) 4. The firstling. (Num 18:15.) 5. The first-fruits. (18:13.) Five were due to them only in the land of Israel: 1. The heave-offering of first-fruits. (Num 18:12.) 2. Of the tithe. (Num 18:28
no inheritance		Num 18:23,24; Num 26:62; Deu 10:9; Deu 12:12; Deu 14:27,29; Jos 14:3
I am thy part		Deu 18:1,2; Jos 13:14,33; Jos 14:3; Jos 18:7; Psa 16:5; Psa 73:26; Psa 142:5; Lam 3:24; Eze 44:28; 1Cr 3:21-23; Rev 21:3

Correlating Passages

Thou shalt have

	Lev 6:25	Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This [is] the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it [is] most holy.
	Lev 6:26	The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.
	Lev 7:1	Likewise this [is] the law of the trespass offering: it [is] most holy.
	Lev 7:6	Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it [is] most holy.
	Lev 23:19	Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
	Lev 23:20	And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits [for] a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
	Lev 23:10	Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
	Lev 6:16	And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.
	Lev 23:17	Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; [they are] the firstfruits unto the LORD.
	Lev 24:9	And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it [is] most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.
	Lev 14:10	And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour [for] a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
	Lev 7:31	And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.
	Lev 7:32	And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest [for] an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
	Lev 7:33	He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for [his] part.
	Lev 7:34	For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of Israel.
	Lev 7:12	If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.
	Lev 7:13	Besides the cakes, he shall offer [for] his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.
	Lev 7:14	And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation [for] an heave offering unto the LORD, [and] it shall be the priest's that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings.
	Lev 6:17	It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it [unto them for] their portion of my offerings made by fire; it [is] most holy, as [is] the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.
	Lev 6:18	All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. [It shall be] a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy.
	Lev 6:19	And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
	Lev 6:20	This [is] the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.
	Num 18:15	Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, [whether it be] of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.
	Num 18:12	All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given thee.
	Num 18:28	Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the LORD'S heave offering to Aaron the priest.

no inheritance

	Num 18:23	But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: [it shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.
	Num 18:24	But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer [as] an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
	Num 26:62	And those that were numbered of them were twenty and 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.
	Deu 10:9	Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD [is] his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.
	Deu 12:12	And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that [is] within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.
	Deu 14:27	And the Levite that [is] within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.
	Deu 14:29	And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which [are] within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
	Jos 14:3	For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them.

I am thy part

	Deu 18:1	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.
	Deu 18:2	Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD [is] their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.
	Jos 13:14	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.
	Jos 13:33	But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not [any] inheritance: the LORD God of Israel [was] their inheritance, as he said unto them.
	Jos 14:3	For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them.
	Jos 18:7	But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD [is] their inheritance: and Gad, and 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.
	Psa 16:5	The LORD [is] the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
	Psa 73:26	My flesh and my heart faileth: [but] God [is] the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
	Psa 142:5	I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou [art] my refuge [and] my portion in the land of the living.
	Lam 3:24	The LORD [is] my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
	Eze 44:28	And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I [am] their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I [am] their possession.
	1Cr 3:21	Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
	1Cr 3:22	Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
	1Cr 3:23	And ye are Christ's; and Christ [is] God's.
	Rev 21:3	And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, [and be] their God.

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