SEV Biblia, Chapter 18:20
¶ Y el SEÑOR dijo a Aarón: De la tierra de ellos no tendrás heredad, ni entre ellos tendrás parte. Yo soy tu parte y tu heredad en medio de los hijos de Israel.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Numbers 18:20
Verse 20. I am thy part and thine inheritance] The principal part of what was offered to God was the portion of the priests, therefore they had no inheritance of land in Israel; independently of that they had a very ample provision for their support. The rabbins say twenty-four gifts were given to the priests, and they are all expressed in the law. Eight of those gifts the priests ate nowhere but in the sanctuary: these eight are the following:- 1. The flesh of the SIN- OFFERING, whether of beasts or fowls, Lev. vi. 25, 26. 2. The flesh of the TRESPASS-OFFERING, Lev. vii. 1, 6.
3. The PEACE-OFFERINGS of the congregation, Leviticus xxiii. 19, 20.
4. The remainder of the OMER or SHEAF, Lev. xxiii. 10, &c.
5. The remnants of the MEAT-OFFERINGS of the Israelites, Lev. vi. 16.
6. The two LOAVES, Lev. xxiii. 17.
7. The SHEW-BREAD, Lev. xxiv. 9.
8. The LOG of OIL offered by the leper, Lev. xiv. 10, &c.
Five of those gifts they ate only in Jerusalem:- 1. The breast and shoulder of the PEACE-OFFERINGS, Lev. vii. 31, 34.
2. The HEAVE-OFFERING of the sacrifice of confession, Lev. vii. 12-14.
3. The HEAVE-OFFERING of the Nazarite's ram, Lev. vi. 17-20.
4. The FIRSTLING of the clean beast, ver. 15; Deut. xv. 19, 20.
5. The FIRST-FRUITS, ver. 13.
FIVE gifts were not due unto them by the law, but in the land of Israel only:- 1. The heave-offering or FIRST-FRUITS, Numbers xviii. 12.
2. The heave-offering of the TITHE, ver. 28.
3. The CAKE, chap. xv. 20.
These three were holy.
4. The first-fruits of the FLEECE, Deut. xviii. 4.
5. The FIELD of POSSESSION, Numbers 35.
These two were common.
FIVE gifts were due unto them both within and without the land:- 1. The gifts of the BEASTS SLAIN, Deut. xviii. 3.
2. The redemption of the FIRST-BORN SON, ver. 15.
3. The LAMB for the firstling of an ass, Exod. iv. 20; Numbers 18.
4. The restitution of that taken by violence from a stranger, chap. v. 8.
5. All DEVOTED things, ver. 14.
ONE gift was due unto them from the sanctuary:- 1. The skins of the burnt-offering, and all the skins of the other most holy things, Lev. vii. 8.
In all 24. See Ainsworth.
The gifts which the females of the priests' families had a part in were these:- 1. The heave-offering, or first-fruits.
2. The heave-offering of the tithe.
3. The cake.
4. The gifts of the beast, Deut. xviii. 3.
5. The first of the fleece.- See Mishna, Tract. Biccurim, and Ainsworth on the Pentateuch.
Besides all this the priests had the tribute money mentioned chap. xxxi. 28, 29.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 20. And the Lord spake unto Aaron , etc.] What is said, being what concerned the tribe of Levi, at the head of which Aaron was, even concerning the maintenance of the Levites: thou shalt have no inheritance in their land ; in the land of Israel when they come to possess it, as the rest of the tribes had: neither shalt thou have any part among them ; any part of the land when it is divided by lot, as it was in the times of Joshua, when taken from the Canaanites; no tract of land was peculiarly assigned to them as were to the other tribes, as fields, nor vineyards; they had cities appointed them, and they had houses and fields devoted to the Lord which fell to them, and others they had by gift or legacy, or by purchase, as had Jeremiah the priest and Barnabas the Levite, ( Jeremiah 32:9) ( Acts 4:36,37); but they had no share in the distribution of the land of Canaan at the time of the division of it among the tribes; no, not even in the spoil of the cities of the land of Canaan, when they were conquered; this Maimonides says they were warned not to take; and a son of Levi that took any part of the spoil was to be beaten; but the spoil of other lands, subdued by the kings of Israel, they might take, as other Israelites did: the reason of all this was, because they had a sufficient provision made for them in another way, and that they might not be entangled in worldly affairs, or spend their time in the culture of fields and vineyards, but wholly give themselves to the service of God in his house: I [am] thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel ; in things temporal, the offerings, tithes, firstfruits, etc. which were given to the Lord, being bestowed upon them; and in things spiritual, they being employed in the work and service of God, and having a peculiar nearness to him, and communion with him: so all that are made priests unto God, as all believers in Christ are, ( 1 Peter 2:5,9), have God for their portion and inheritance; God, in his persons and in all his perfections, and under every character, as the God of nature, providence, and grace, is the portion of his people; and a rich, large, and satisfying portion he is, and which is inexhaustible, and will endure for ever; he is their portion in life and at death, in time and to all eternity; (see Psalm 73:26 142:5 Leviticus 3:14).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 20-32 - As Israel was a people not to be numbered among the nations, so Lev was a tribe to be distinguished from the rest. Those who have God for their Inheritance and their Portion for ever, ought to look with holy contempt and indifference upon the possessions of this world. The Levites were to give God his dues out of their tithes, as well as the Israelites out of their increase. See, in ver. #(31), the way to have comfort in all our worldly possessions, so as to bear no sin by reaso of them. 1. We must be sure that what we have is got honestly and in the service of God. That meat is best eaten which is first earned; but if any will not work, neither shall he eat, 2Th 3:10. 2. We must be sure that God has his dues out of it. We have the comfort of ou substance, when we have honoured the Lord with it. Ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved the best from it. We should giv alms of such things as we have, that all may be holy and comfortable to us __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויאמר 559 יהוה 3068 אל 413 אהרן 175 בארצם 776 לא 3808 תנחל 5157 וחלק 2506 לא 3808 יהיה 1961 לך בתוכם 8432 אני 589 חלקך 2506 ונחלתך 5159 בתוך 8432 בני 1121 ישׂראל׃ 3478
