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Numbers 18:24

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

For I have given them the tenth that the Israelites present to the Lord as a contribution for their inheritance. That is why I told them that they would not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.’

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‘Speak to the Levites and tell them: When you receive from the Israelites the tenth that I have given you as your inheritance, you are to present part of it as an offering to the Lord  #– #a tenth of the tenth.


Those registered were 23,000, every male one month old or more; they were not registered among the other Israelites, because no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.


For this reason, Levi does not have a portion or inheritance like his brothers; the Lord is his inheritance, as the Lord your God told him.


‘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.


‘Every tenth of the land’s produce, grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the Lord;  it is holy to the Lord.


He did not, however, give any inheritance to the tribe of Levi. This was their inheritance, just as he had promised: the food offerings made to the Lord, the God of Israel.


A priest from Aaron’s descendants is to accompany the Levites when they collect the tenth,  and the Levites are to take a tenth of this offering to the storerooms of the treasury in the house of our God.


Then all Judah brought a tenth of the grain, new wine, and fresh oil into the storehouses.





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