Hebrews 7:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The sons of Levi who receive the priestly office have a command according to the law to collect a tenth from the people   #– #that is, from their brothers and sisters #– #though they have also descended from Abraham.

Cross References

Hebrews 7:10

for he was still within his ancestor  when Melchizedek met him.

Nehemiah 13:10

I also found out that because the portions for the Levites had not been given,  each of the Levites and the singers performing the service had gone back to his own field.

1 Kings 8:19

Yet you are not the one to build it; instead, your son, your own offspring, will build it for my name.’

Numbers 18:7

But you and your sons will carry out your priestly responsibilities  for everything concerning the altar and for what is inside the curtain, and you will do that work. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift,  but an unauthorised person who comes near the sanctuary will be put to death.’

Hebrews 5:4

No one takes this honour on himself; instead, a person is called by God, just as Aaron was.

Exodus 28:1

‘Let your brother Aaron, with his sons, come to you from the Israelites to serve me as priest #– #Aaron, his sons Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

Genesis 46:26

The total number of persons belonging to Jacob #– #his direct descendants,  not including the wives of Jacob’s sons #– #who came to Egypt: sixty-six.

Exodus 1:5

The total number of Jacob’s descendants  was seventy;  , Joseph was already in Egypt.

Genesis 35:11

God also said to him, ‘I am God Almighty.  Be fruitful and multiply.  A nation, indeed an assembly of nations, will come from you,  and kings will descend from you.  ,

Deuteronomy 26:12

‘When you have finished paying all the tenth of your produce in the third year,  the year of the tenth, you are to give it to the Levites, resident foreigners, fatherless children, and widows, so that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied.