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Numbers 18:1
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And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons
and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and
thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. |
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| Numbers 18:2 |
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And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi,
the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee,
and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before
the tabernacle of witness. |
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| Numbers 18:3 |
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And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge
of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary
and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die. |
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| Numbers 18:4 |
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And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep
the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle:
and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you. |
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| Numbers 18:5 |
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And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary,
and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children
of Israel. |
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| Numbers 18:6 |
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And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the
Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for
the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. |
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| Numbers 18:7 |
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Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall
keep your priest's office for everything of the altar, and within the vail; and
ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift:
and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death. |
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| Numbers 18:8 |
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And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also
have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things
of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing,
and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever. |
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| Numbers 18:9 |
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This shall be thine of the most holy things,
reserved from the fire: every oblation of their's, every meat offering of their's,
and every sin offering of their's, and every trespass offering of their's which
they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons. |
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| Numbers 18:10 |
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In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every
male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee. |
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| Numbers 18:11 |
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And this is thine; the heave offering of their
gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them
unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever:
every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it. |
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| Numbers 18:12 |
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All the best of the oil, and all the best of
the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto
the LORD, them have I given thee. |
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| Numbers 18:13 |
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And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which
they shall bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine
house shall eat of it. |
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| Numbers 18:14 |
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Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine. |
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| Numbers 18:15 |
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Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh,
which they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine:
nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling
of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem. |
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| Numbers 18:16 |
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And those that are to be redeemed from a month
old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs. |
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| Numbers 18:17 |
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But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling
of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy:
thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an
offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD. |
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| Numbers 18:18 |
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And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the
wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine. |
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| Numbers 18:19 |
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All the heave offerings of the holy things,
which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons
and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for
ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee. |
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| Numbers 18:20 |
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And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have
no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am
thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel. |
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| Numbers 18:21 |
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And, behold, I have given the children of Levi
all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve,
even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. |
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| Numbers 18:22 |
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Neither must the children of Israel henceforth
come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die. |
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| Numbers 18:23 |
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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. |
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| Numbers 18:24 |
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But the tithes of the children of Israel, which
they offer as an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to
inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall
have no inheritance. |
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| Numbers 18:25 |
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
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| Numbers 18:26 |
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Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them,
When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from
them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for
the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe. |
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| Numbers 18:27 |
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And this your heave offering shall be reckoned
unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness
of the winepress. |
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| Numbers 18:28 |
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Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto
the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye
shall give thereof the LORD'S heave offering to Aaron the priest. |
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| Numbers 18:29 |
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Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave
offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof
out of it. |
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| Numbers 18:30 |
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Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye
have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites
as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress. |
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| Numbers 18:31 |
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And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your
households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation. |
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| Numbers 18:32 |
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And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when
ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things
of the children of Israel, lest ye die. |
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