Numbers 18:23-24

23 "Only the Levites shall perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall ¹bear their iniquity; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the sons of Israel ²they 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, '³They shall have no inheritance among the sons of Israel.' "

Numbers 18:23-24 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

• 1. Numbers 18:1
• 2. Numbers 18:20
• 3. Deuteronomy 10:9