Deuteronomy - 18:2



2 They shall have no inheritance among their brothers: Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.

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Explanation and meaning of Deuteronomy 18:2.

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And they shall receive nothing else. of the possession of their brethren: for the Lord himself is their inheritance, as he hath said to them.
and he hath no inheritance in the midst of his brethren; Jehovah Himself is his inheritance, as He hath spoken to him.
And they will have no heritage among their countrymen: the Lord is their heritage, as he has said to them.
And they shall receive nothing else from the possession of their brothers. For the Lord himself is their inheritance, just as he said to them.
Et haereditas non erit illi in medio fratrum suorum, Jehova est haereditas ejus, quemadmodum dixit illi.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

The Lord is their inheritance - He is the portion of their souls; and as to their bodies, they shall live by the offerings of the Lord made by fire, i. e., the meat-offering, the sin-offering, and the trespass-offering; and whatever was the Lord's right, in these or other offerings, he gave to the priests.

Therefore shall they have none inheritance among their brethren,.... Neither of the field, nor of the vineyard, as the above Targum, because provision was made for them otherwise, and especially because
the Lord is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them; see Gill on Numbers 18:20, which as it may be understood in a spiritual sense of their interest in God, as their covenant God, and of their enjoyment of him, and communion with him; so chiefly in a temporal sense of all those things in the sacrifices which the Lord claimed to himself, and these he gave unto them; so the same Targum interprets this of the twenty four gifts of the priesthood, enumerated Numbers 18:1.

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