Numbers 18:23 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²³ 8 And of all the things of which you receive tithes, offer the firstfruits to the Lord, and give them to Aaron the priest.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ But the Levites shall do the [menial] service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear and remove the iniquity of the people [that is, be answerable for the legal pollutions of the holy things and offer the necessary atonements for unintentional offenses in these matters]. It shall be a statute forever in all your generations, that among the Israelites the Levites have no inheritance [of land].

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations; and among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

Common English Bible

²³ The Levites will perform the service of the meeting tent, and they will be responsible for their own sins. This is a permanent regulation for all time. But they will not inherit land among the Israelites

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ Only 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;

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ But only the sons of Levi may serve me in the tabernacle, and bear the sins of the people. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in your generations. They shall not possess any other thing:

Numbers 18:23 Cross References

Exodus 27:21

And thou shalt speak to all the wise of heart, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's vestments, in which he being consecrated may minister to me.

Ezekiel 44:10

8 They shall have linen mitres on their heads, and linen breeches on their loins, and they shall not be girded with any thing that causeth sweat.

Numbers 18:1

I have given you your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel, and have delivered them for a gift to the Lord, to serve in the ministries of the tabernacle.

Numbers 18:20

5 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Numbers 19:21

Why have you brought out the church of the Lord into the wilderness, that both we and our cattle should die?

Numbers 26:62

And they stood before Moses and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the people at the door of the tabernacle of the covenant, and said:

Numbers 3:7

2 I have taken the Levites from the children of Israel, for every firstborn that openeth the womb among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.

Numbers 35:29

4 And thus shall your possession he cleansed, myself abiding with you. For I am the Lord that dwell among the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy 10:9

4 Behold heaven is the Lord's thy God, and the heaven of heaven, the earth and all things that are therein.

Joshua 13:14

9 And Cariathaim, and Sabama, and Sarathasar in the mountain of the valley.