An INHERITANCE — specifically a heritable landholding, ground that passes down a family and is not supposed to leave it. It is a word about TIME: a nachalah is the piece of the world your descendants will still be standing on. Distinct from chelek, the allotted share, which is about the moment of division rather than the generations after it. ⚠ Numbers 18:20 takes it away from the priests and then hands it back transformed: in their land you shall have no inheritance… I am your portion and your inheritance, the consolation built out of the two nouns just withdrawn. The same arrangement is restated at Deuteronomy 18:1-2 and carried out at Joshua 13:14 and 33 (neither yet on these pages), where the land is actually divided and Levi is actually skipped. It is also the word behind Naboth's refusal to sell his vineyard to a king — the nachalah of my fathers — which is why that story is a legal outrage and not a real-estate dispute. ⚠ Numbers 34:13-15 sets two verbs side by side and the difference is audible: the nine tribes get land Jehovah commanded ‘to GIVE’ them, while Reuben, Gad and half Manasseh ‘have TAKEN’ their nachalah — three times in two verses. Whether the text is passing judgment is genuinely open; that it changes verb is not. The NWT (both editions), the TNM 1987 and both Reina-Valeras keep the taking; the KJV, ASV, Geneva, Douay-Rheims, NIV, NVI and TNM 2019 all flatten it to receiving. → first discussed at Num 18:20