Numbers 18:27-32

27 1And your contribution shall be counted to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.
28 So you shall also present a contribution to the LORD from all your tithes, which you receive from the people of Israel. And from it you shall give the LORD's contribution to Aaron the priest.
29 Out of all the gifts to you, you shall present every contribution due to the LORD; from each its best part is to be dedicated.'
30 Therefore you shall say to them, 'When you have offered from it the best of it, 2then the rest shall be counted to the Levites as produce of the threshing floor, and as produce of the winepress.
31 And you may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is 3your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.
32 And you shall 4bear no sin by reason of it, when you have contributed the best of it. But you shall not 5profane the holy things of the people of Israel, lest you die.'"

Numbers 18:27-32 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 18

This chapter gives an account of the distinct work and service of the priests and Levites, Nu 18:1-7; and of several things given to the priests for their maintenance, Nu 18:8-19; and of the tithes the Levites should have to live upon, since they were to have no inheritance in the land of Israel, Nu 18:20-24; and of the tenth out of those tithes they were to give to the high priest, Nu 18:25-32.

Cross References 5

  • 1. ver. 30
  • 2. ver. 27
  • 3. [Matthew 10:10; Luke 10:7; 1 Timothy 5:17, 18]; See 1 Corinthians 9:4-14
  • 4. Leviticus 19:8; Leviticus 22:16
  • 5. Leviticus 22:2, 15
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