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Numbers 18:17-27

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17 "But 1the firstborn of an ox or the firstborn of a sheep or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy. 2You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar and shall offer up their fat in smoke as an offering by fire, for a soothing aroma to the LORD.
18 "Their meat shall be yours; it shall be yours like the 3breast of a wave offering and like the right thigh.
19 "4All the offerings of the holy gifts, which the sons of Israel offer to the LORD, I have given to you and your sons and your daughters with you, as a perpetual allotment. It is 5an everlasting covenant of salt before the LORD to you and your descendants with you."
20 Then the LORD said to Aaron, "6You shall have no inheritance in their land nor own any portion among them; 7I am your portion and your inheritance among the sons of Israel.
21 "To the sons of Levi, behold, I have given all the 8tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they perform, the service of the tent of meeting.
22 "9The sons of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting again, or they will bear sin and die.
23 "Only the Levites shall perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall 10bear their iniquity; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the sons of Israel 11they shall have no inheritance.
24 "For the tithe of the sons of Israel, which they offer as an offering to the LORD, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance; therefore * I have said concerning them, '12They shall have no inheritance among the sons of Israel.' "
25 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
26 "Moreover, you shall speak to the Levites and say to them, 'When you take from the sons of Israel 13the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present an offering from it to the LORD, a 14tithe of the tithe.
27 'Your offering shall be reckoned to you as the grain from the threshing floor or the full produce from the wine vat.
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Numbers 18:17-27 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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 14

  • 1. Deuteronomy 15:19
  • 2. Leviticus 3:2
  • 3. Leviticus 7:31
  • 4. Numbers 18:11
  • 5. 2 Chronicles 13:5
  • 6. Deuteronomy 10:9; Deuteronomy 12:12; Deuteronomy 14:27, 29
  • 7. Deuteronomy 18:2; Joshua 13:33; Ezekiel 44:28
  • 8. Leviticus 27:30-33; Deuteronomy 14:22-29
  • 9. Numbers 1:51
  • 10. Numbers 18:1
  • 11. Numbers 18:20
  • 12. Deuteronomy 10:9
  • 13. Numbers 18:21
  • 14. Nehemiah 10:38

Footnotes 2

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