Numbers 18:24

being content with the oblation of tithes, which I have separated for their uses and necessities.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

In Context

23Only the sons of Levi may serve me in the tabernacle and may carry the sins of the people. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in your generations. They shall possess nothing else;

25And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

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Cross References

Leviticus 27:30All the tithes of the land, whether from the grain, or from the fruits of trees, are for the Lord and are sanctified to him.

Numbers 26:62And these were all who were numbered: twenty-three thousand of the male gender, from one month and above. For they were not counted among the sons of Israel, neither was a possession given to them with the others.

Joshua 13:14But to the tribe of Levi, he did not give a possession. Instead, the sacrifices and victims of the Lord, the God of Israel, these are his inheritance, just as he spoke to him.

Nehemiah 13:12And all of Judah brought the tithes of the grain, and the wine, and the oil into the storehouses.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 18:21-32

The Priests and Levites Provided For. ( b. c. 1490.) 20 And the Lord spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel. 21 And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. 22 Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the… Read the whole commentary →

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