²⁰ The Lord said to Aaron, “You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any share among them;^(A) I am your share and your inheritance^(B) among the Israelites.

¹² And there rejoice^(A) before the Lord your God—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites^(B) from your towns who have no allotment or inheritance^(C) of their own.

²⁷ And do not neglect the Levites^(A) living in your towns, for they have no allotment or inheritance of their own.^(B)

²⁸ At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes^(C) of that year’s produce and store it in your towns,^{(D) 29} so that the Levites (who have no allotment^(E) or inheritance^(F) of their own) and the foreigners,^(G) the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied,^(H) and so that the Lord your God may bless^(I) you in all the work of your hands.

⁴ for Joseph’s descendants had become two tribes—Manasseh and Ephraim.^(A) The Levites received no share of the land but only towns to live in, with pasturelands for their flocks and herds.^(B)