John Gill's Exposition on Deuteronomy 18:1

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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The priests, the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel, etc.] That is, in the land of Canaan, in the division of it among the tribes: they shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and his inheritance; the meat offerings, (see <030202>Leviticus 2:2,3 6:17,18), and whatsoever of the sin offerings and peace offerings which were the Lord’s; so Ben Melech says, the flesh of the offerings which belonged to the priests was called fire offerings, after part of it was consumed by fire. All these, with other things, (<041808>Numbers 18:8,9), were given, as the Targum of Jonathan expresses it, for their inheritance, in lieu of their having none in the land of Canaan.

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