[18:1] “The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the Lord’s food offerings as their inheritance.
[18:2] They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the Lord is their inheritance, as he promised them.
[18:3] And this shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach.
[18:4] The firstfruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.
[18:5] For the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons for all time.
[18:6] “And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, where he lives—and he may come when he desires —to the place that the Lord will choose,
[18:7] and ministers in the name of the Lord his God, like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the Lord,
[18:8] then he may have equal portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony.