Deuteronomy 14:27

"And do not neglect the Levites living in your towns, for they have no allotment or inheritance of their own.”

From Background Notes [BN] for January 14^th/15^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

In effect the religious orders of Israel had given up the right to land ownership as such, and they lived instead on land owned by others.
 

We see in this a concrete illustration of how stewardship works in general terms. All of Israel, in one sense, lived on land really belonging to Yahweh and not to them. They were managers and beneficiaries of the land and its resources, but they were not the owners. When they gave a tithe — the tenth — they were saying, in effect, all of this ultimately belongs to God. The tithe was, symbolically, God’s signature on everything given to Israel for their use, and this signature meant that everything is titled to God. The Levites became signs of this stewardship and models of how all Israel was supposed to treat the things they only apparently “owned.” [BN,2 & 3]

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