Numbers 18:23 - Easy To Read Version

²³ The Levite people who are working in the Meeting Tent are responsible for any sins against it. This is a law that will continue forever. The Levite people will not get any of the land that I promised to the other people of Israel.

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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

Aaron and his sons will have the job of caring for the lamp. They will go into {the first room of} the Meeting Tent. [234] This is outside {the room with} the Agreement [235] that is behind the curtain {that separates the two rooms}. In this place they will make sure the lamp continues burning before the Lord from evening till morning. The people of Israel and their descendants [236] must obey this law forever.”

Ezekiel 44:10

In the past, the Levites left me when Israel turned away from me. Israel left me to follow their idols. {\cf2\super [419]} The Levites will be punished for their sin.

Numbers 18:1

The Lord said to Aaron, “You, your sons, and all the people in your father’s family are now responsible for any wrong things that are done against the holy place. You and your sons are responsible for wrong things that are done against the priests.

Numbers 18:20

The Lord also said to Aaron, “You will not get any of the land. And you will not own anything that the other people own. I, the Lord, will be yours. The Israelite people will get the land that I promised. But I am my gift to you.

Numbers 19:21

This rule will be for you forever. If a person is sprinkled with the special water, then he must also wash his clothes. Any person who touches the special water will be unclean until evening.

Numbers 26:62

The total number of men from Levi’s family group was 23,000. But these men were not counted with the other people of Israel. They did not get a share of the land that the Lord gave to the other people.

Numbers 3:7

The Levites will help Aaron when he serves at the Meeting Tent. [28] And the Levites will help all the people {of Israel} when they come to worship at the Holy Tent. [29]

Numbers 35:29

Those rules will be the law forever in all of the towns of your people.

Deuteronomy 10:9

That is why the Levites [59] did not get any share of land like the other family groups did. The Levites have the Lord for their share. That is what the Lord your God promised them.)

Joshua 13:14

The family group of Levi is the only family group that did not get any land. Instead, the people of Levi get all the animals that are offered made by fire to the Lord God of Israel. That is what the Lord promised them.