²¹“Behold, ^lI have given the children of Levi all the tithes in Israel as ⁹an inheritance in return for the work which they perform, ^mthe work of the tabernacle of meeting. ²²ⁿHereafter the children of Israel shall not come near the tabernacle of meeting, ^olest they bear sin and die. ²³But the Levites shall perform the work of the tabernacle of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity; it shall be a statute forever, throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance. ²⁴For the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer up as a heave offering to the Lord, I have given to the Levites ¹as an inheritance; therefore I have said to them, ‘Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.’ ”

The Tithe of the Levites

²⁵Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁶“Speak thus to the Levites, and say to them: ‘When you take from the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you shall offer up a heave offering of it to the Lord, ^pa tenth of the tithe.

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Footnotes

9a possession
1for a possession

Cross references

l Lev. 27:30–33; Deut. 14:22–29; Neh. 10:37; 12:44; Mal. 3:8–10; [Heb. 7:4–10]
m Num. 3:7, 8
n Num. 1:51
o Lev. 22:9
p Neh. 10:38