Numbers 18:6-9

6 I myself have selected your fellow Levites from among the Israelites as a gift to you, dedicated to the LORD to do the work at the tent of meeting.

7 But only you and your sons may serve as priests in connection with everything at the altar and inside the curtain. I am giving you the service of the priesthood as a gift. Anyone else who comes near the sanctuary is to be put to death.”

Offerings for Priests and Levites

8 Then the LORD said to Aaron, “I myself have put you in charge of the offerings presented to me; all the holy offerings the Israelites give me I give to you and your sons as your portion, your perpetual share.

9 You are to have the part of the most holy offerings that is kept from the fire. From all the gifts they bring me as most holy offerings, whether grain or sin^[a] or guilt offerings, that part belongs to you and your sons.

Numbers 18:6-9 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. S Numbers 3:9
• 2. Numbers 3:8
• 3. Hebrews 9:3,6
• 4. ver 20; Exodus 29:9; Exodus 40:13; Hebrews 5:4
• 5. ver 3; Numbers 3:10
• 6. S Leviticus 2:2
• 7. Leviticus 6:16; Leviticus 7:6,31-34,36; Deuteronomy 18:1; 2 Chronicles 31:4
• 8. S Leviticus 6:17
• 9. Leviticus 2:1
• 10. Leviticus 6:25
• 11. S Leviticus 5:15; Leviticus 7:7

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "purification"