Numbers 18



  1. Then the Lord said to Aaron:  "You and your sons and your father's house with you shall bear the iniquity related to the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity associated with your priesthood.  (Ex. 28:38)
  2. "Also bring with you your brethren of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may be joined with you and serve you while you and your sons are with you before the tabernacle of witness.  (Num. 3:5;   Heb. 9:6)
  3. "They shall attend to your needs and all the needs of the tabernacle; but they shall not come near the articles of the sanctuary and the altar, lest they die - - they and you also.
  4. They shall be joined with you and attend to the needs of the tabernacle of meeting, for all the works of the tabernacle; but an outsider shall not come near you.  (Num. 3:10)
  5. "And you shall attend to the duties of the sanctuary and the duties of the altar, that there may be no more wrath on the children of Israel.  (Lev. 24:3;   Num. 8:19)
  6. "Behold, I Myself have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel; they are a gift to you, given by the Lord, to do the work of the tabernacle of meeting.  (Num. 3:9;   Heb. 9:6)
  7. "Behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tithes in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work which they perform, the work of the tabernacle of meeting.  (Lev. 27:30-33;   Heb. 7:5)
  8. "Hereafter the children of Israel shall not come near the tabernacle of meeting, lest they bear sin and die.  (Lev. 22:9;   Num. 1:51)
  9. "But the Levites shall perform the work of the tabernacle of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity; it shall be a statute forever, throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
  10. "For the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer up as a heave offering to the Lord, I have given to the Levites as an inheritance; therefore I have said to them, 'Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.'"
  11. Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
  12. "Speak thus to the Levites, and say to them:  'When you take from the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you shall offer up a heave offering of it to the Lord, a tenth of the tithe.  (Neh. 10:38;   Heb. 7:5)
  13. 'And your heave offering shall be reckoned to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor and as the fullness of the winepress.  (Num. 15:20)
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