Levites
The tribe with no land — given cities scattered through everyone else's territory instead.
Levi received no tribal allotment. Instead the Levites were given forty-eight towns distributed across the other tribes, with pasture around each, and lived on the tithe rather than on farming. The priesthood came from one family within the tribe, Aaron's; the rest of the Levites did everything else the sanctuary needed — carrying it, guarding it, singing in it. The arrangement means there was no part of Israel without them, which is the intent: the tribe that had no place of its own was in every place.
Where it appears
See also
- Sabbath day's journey — Reasoned from the pasture round these towns