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Numbers 18:23

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18:23But the Levites must perform the service20 of the tent of meeting, and they must bear their iniquity.21 It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites22 have no inheritance.23

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Footnotes

  1. 20 The verse begins with the perfect tense of עָבַד (’avad) with vav (ו) consecutive, making the form equal to the instructions preceding it. As its object the verb has the cognate accusative “service.”
  2. 21 The Levites have the care of the tent of meeting, and so they are responsible for any transgressions against it.
  3. 22 Heb “they”; the referent (the Levites) has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
  4. 23 The Hebrew text uses both the verb and the object from the same root to stress the point: They will not inherit an inheritance. The inheritance refers to land.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the people of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

It is the Levites who are to do the work at the tent of meeting and bear the responsibility for any offenses they commit against it. This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. They will receive no inheritance among the Israelites.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The Levites will do the work of the tent of meeting, and they will bear the consequences of their iniquity. The Levites will not receive an inheritance among the Israelites; this is a permanent statute throughout your generations.

NLTNew Living Translation

Only the Levites may serve at the Tabernacle, and they will be held responsible for any offenses against it. This is a permanent law for you, to be observed from generation to generation. The Levites will receive no allotment of land among the Israelites,

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

The Levites will perform the service of the tent of assembly, and they will bear their guilt, an eternal decree for all your generations. But they will not receive an inheritance in the midst of the Israelites

KJV 1900King James Version

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.