Numbers 18: No Inheritance

All of the tribes would get an inheritance! This had been the promise all the way back to the early chapters of Genesis (12,15). Every one of them would get their own land—except Levi (v. 20). But in the same verse—even the same sentence—Jehovah tells them that He would be their inheritance. Having God is always better than having land. They would have places to live, scattered all through Canaan. But their role as the tribe of priests was different, so their promise was in the connection they would have with God through their work. So it is with New Testament priests (1Peter 2:5-9).