Numbers 18:21Modern English VersionI have given the Levites all the tithes in Israel for an inheritance, for their service, which they serve, even the service of the tent of meeting. See the chapter |
have decisively joined in with their countrymen and their nobles, and obligated themselves—by both a curse and an oath —to walk in the Law of God, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord who is our Lord, along with His judgments and His statutes,
Moreover, the first of our fresh dough, our contributions, the fruit of every tree, and the new wine and oil we will bring to the priests at the chambers of the house of our God, but the tithe of our crops we will bring to the Levites, since they themselves receive the tithes in all our agricultural cities.
At that time men were appointed to govern over the chambers for the treasures, for the contributions, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, so that they might gather into them out of the fields of the cities the legal portions belonging to the priests and Levites. This was because the celebration of Judah survived on the basis of the priests and the Levites