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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Deuteronomy 18:2

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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18:2 The Lord himself is their special possession: The allotment of the Levites was spiritual, not territorial or material. They possessed the Lord by giving their whole lives to his service. This idea is a remarkable inverse of the idea that Israel was the Lord’s possession (see 7:6).
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