John Gill's Exposition on Deuteronomy 10:9

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren, etc.] In the division of the land of Canaan, because being separated to the service of the sanctuary, he had no leisure to plough and sow, as Jarchi observes: the Lord is his inheritance, as the Lord thy God promised him; not in a spiritual sense, for so the Lord was an inheritance and portion of other Israelites; though these being taken off of worldly employments, and devoted to sanctuary service, might have more communion with God than others; but in a temporal sense, provision being made particularly by tithes, which were the Lord’s, for their maintenance; and so the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan paraphrase the words; “gifts which the Lord gave him are his inheritance;” (see <041820>Numbers 18:20,21).

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