among the tribes: they shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and his inheritance; the meat offerings, see Lev 2:2 , and whatsoever of the sin offerings and peace offerings which were the Lord's; so Ben Melech says, the flesh of the offerings which belonged to the priests was called fire offerings, after part of it was consumed by fire. All these, with other things, Num 18:8 , were given, as the Targum of Jonathan expresses it, for their inheritance, in lieu of their having none in the land of Canaan.