◄ Numbers 18:21 ►
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Good News Translation
The LORD said, "I have given to the Levites every tithe that the people of Israel present to me. This is in payment for their service in taking care of the Tent of my presence.

New Revised Standard Version
To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for a possession in return for the service that they perform, the service in the tent of meeting.

Contemporary English Version
Ten percent of the Israelites' crops and one out of every ten of their newborn animals belong to me. But I am giving all this to the Levites as their pay for the work they do at the sacred tent.

New American Bible
To the Levites, however, I hereby assign all tithes in Israel as their heritage in recompense for the labor they perform, the labor pertaining to the tent of meeting.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I have given to the sons of Levi all the tithes of Israel for a possession, for the ministry wherewith they serve me in the tabernacle of the covenant:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I have given to the sons of Levi all the tithes of Israel for a possession, for the ministry wherewith they serve me in the tabernacle of the covenant:

the tenth

Numbers 18:24-26 But be content with the oblation or tithes, which I have separated for their uses and necessities. . . .

Leviticus 27:30-32 All tithes of the land, whether of corn, or of the fruits of trees, are the Lord's, and are sanctified to him. . . .

Deuteronomy 12:17-19 Thou mayst not eat in thy towns the tithes of thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, the firstborn of thy herds and thy cattle, nor any thing that thou vowest, and that thou wilt offer voluntarily, and the firstfruits of thy hands: . . .

Deuteronomy 14:22-29 Every year thou shalt set aside the tithes of all thy fruits that the earth bringeth forth, . . .

2 Chronicles 31:5,6,12 Which when it was noised abroad in the ears of the people, the children of Israel offered in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey: and brought the tithe of all things which the ground bringeth forth. . . .

Nehemiah 10:37-29 And that we would bring the firstfruits of our meats, and of our libations, and the fruit of every tree, of the vintage also and of oil to the priests, to the storehouse of our God, and the tithes of our ground to the Levites. The Levites also shall receive the tithes of our works out of all the cities. . . .

Nehemiah 12:44 And they kept the watch of their God, and the observance of expiation, and the singing men, and the porters, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.

Nehemiah 13:12 And all Juda brought the tithe of the corn, and the wine, and the oil into the storehouses.

even the service

Numbers 18:6 I have given you your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel, and have delivered them for a gift to the Lord, to serve in the ministries of the tabernacle.

Numbers 3:7,8 And observe whatsoever appertaineth to the service of the multitude before the tabernacle of the testimony, . . .

1 Corinthians 9:13,14 Know you not that they who work in the holy place eat the things that are of the holy place; and they that serve the altar partake with the altar? . . .

Galatians 6:6 And let him that is instructed in the word communicate to him that instructeth him, in all good things.

Context
Offerings for Priests and Levites
…20And the Lord said to Aaron: You shall possess nothing in their land, neither shall you have a portion among them: I am thy portion and inheritance in the midst of the children of Israel. 21And I have given to the sons of Levi all the tithes of Israel for a possession, for the ministry wherewith they serve me in the tabernacle of the covenant:22That the children of Israel may not approach any more to the tabernacle, nor commit deadly sin,…
Cross References
Hebrews 7:5
And indeed they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is to say, of their brethren: though they themselves also came out of the loins of Abraham.

Leviticus 27:30
All tithes of the land, whether of corn, or of the fruits of trees, are the Lord's, and are sanctified to him.

Numbers 18:26
Command the Levites, and declare unto them: When you shall receive of the children of Israel the tithes, which I have given you, offer the firstfruits of them to the Lord, that is to say, the tenth part of the tenth:

Numbers 31:28
And thou shalt separate a portion to the Lord from them that fought and were in the battle, one soul of five hundred as well of persons as of oxen and asses and sheep.

Deuteronomy 14:22
Every year thou shalt set aside the tithes of all thy fruits that the earth bringeth forth,

Deuteronomy 18:8
He shall receive the same portion of food that the rest do: besides that which is due to him in his own city, by succession from his fathers.

Nehemiah 10:37
And that we would bring the firstfruits of our meats, and of our libations, and the fruit of every tree, of the vintage also and of oil to the priests, to the storehouse of our God, and the tithes of our ground to the Levites. The Levites also shall receive the tithes of our works out of all the cities.

Nehemiah 12:47
And all Israel, in the days of Zorobabel, and in the days of Nehemias gave portions to the singing men, and to the porters, day by day, and they sanctified the Levites, and the Levites sanctified the sons of Aaron.

Nehemiah 13:5
And he made him a great storeroom, where before him they laid up gifts, and frankincense, and vessels, and the tithes of the corn, of the wine, and of the oil, the portions of the Levites, and of the singing men, and of the porters, and the firstfruits of the priests.

Malachi 2:4
And you shall know that I sent you this commandment, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.

Malachi 3:10
Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in my house, and try me in this, saith the Lord: if I open not unto you the flood-gates of heaven, and pour you out a blessing even to abundance.

Numbers 18:20
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