And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.
The Lord spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land ... In the institutions of the Levitical hierarchy there were several points of close resemblance to the priestly establishment in Egypt; but at the same time there were many differences, and in no respect more striking than in the perpetual exclusion of the Israelite priesthood from patrimonial possessions, (Pritchard's 'Egyptian Mythology,' p. 409, etc.)