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Numbers 18:20-32

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20 And the LORD said to Aaron, "You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. 1I am your portion and your inheritance among the people of Israel.
21 2"To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service that they do, their service in the tent of meeting,
22 3so that the people of Israel do not come near the tent of meeting, 4lest they bear sin and die.
23 But 5the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, 6and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the people of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
24 For the tithe of the people of Israel, which 7they present as a contribution to the LORD, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said of them that they shall have no inheritance 8among the people of Israel."
25 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
26 "Moreover, you shall speak and say to the Levites, 'When you take from the people of Israel the tithe that I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present a contribution from it to the LORD, 9a tithe of the tithe.
27 10And 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, 11then 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 12your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.
32 And you shall 13bear no sin by reason of it, when you have contributed the best of it. But you shall not 14profane the holy things of the people of Israel, lest you die.'"
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Numbers 18:20-32 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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 14

  • 1. ver. 23, 24; Deuteronomy 10:9; Deuteronomy 12:12; Deuteronomy 14:27; Deuteronomy 18:1, 2; Joshua 13:33; Joshua 14:3; Joshua 18:7; Ezekiel 44:28
  • 2. ver. 24, 26; Leviticus 27:30, 32; Deuteronomy 14:22; Nehemiah 10:37; Nehemiah 12:44; Heb. 7:5, 8, 9; [Genesis 14:20; Genesis 28:22]
  • 3. See Numbers 1:51
  • 4. Leviticus 22:9
  • 5. Numbers 3:7
  • 6. ver. 1
  • 7. ver. 19, 26, 29
  • 8. ver. 20, 21, 26
  • 9. Nehemiah 10:38
  • 10. ver. 30
  • 11. ver. 27
  • 12. [Matthew 10:10; Luke 10:7; 1 Timothy 5:17, 18]; See 1 Corinthians 9:4-14
  • 13. Leviticus 19:8; Leviticus 22:16
  • 14. Leviticus 22:2, 15
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