These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Numbers 18
Tanakh 32 verses
- 1 And said unto : ‘Thou and thy sons and thy fathers’ house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the ; and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your .
- 2 And thy brethren also, the tribe of , the tribe of thy father, bring thou near with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee, thou and thy sons with thee being before the tent of the .
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And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the Tent; only they shall not come nigh unto the furniture and unto the , that they die not, neither they, nor ye.
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And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tent of meeting, whatsoever the service of the Tent may be; but a common man shall not draw nigh unto you.
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- 5 And ye shall keep the charge of the things, and the charge of the , that there be wrath no more upon the children of .
- 6 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of ; for you they are given as a unto , to do the service of the tent of meeting.
- 7 And thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your in everything that pertaineth to the , and to that within the veil; and ye shall ; I give you the as a service of ; and the common man that draweth nigh shall be put to death.’
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And spoke unto : ‘And I, behold, I have given thee the charge of My heave-offerings; even of all the hallowed things of the children of unto thee have I given them for a consecrated portion, and to thy sons, as a due for ever.
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Leviticus 6:16 Leviticus 7:6 Exodus 40:15 Exodus 29:29 Leviticus 6:18 Exodus 40:13 Deuteronomy 12:6 Leviticus 8:30 Leviticus 6:26 Leviticus 21:10 Leviticus 7:31-35 Leviticus 6:20 1 John 2:20 Deuteronomy 26:13 1 John 2:27 Numbers 18:9 Deuteronomy 12:11 Hebrews 1:9 Isaiah 10:27 Leviticus 10:14-15 Exodus 29:21 - 9 This shall be thine of the most things, reserved from the fire: every of theirs, even every meal- of theirs, and every sin- of theirs, and every guilt- of theirs, which they may render unto Me, shall be most for thee and for thy sons.
- 10 In a most place shalt thou eat thereof; every male may eat thereof; it shall be unto thee.
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And this is thine: the heave- of their , even all the wave-offerings of the children of ; I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, as a due for ever; every one that is in thy house may eat thereof.
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- 12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the corn, the first part of them which they give unto , to thee have I given them.
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The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring unto , shall be thine; every one that is in thy house may eat thereof.
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Every thing devoted in shall be thine.
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Every thing that openeth the womb, of all which they offer unto , both of man and beast, shall be thine; howbeit the first-born of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.
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And their redemption-money—from a month old shalt thou redeem them—shall be, according to thy valuation, five shekels of silver, after the shekel of the —the same is twenty gerahs.
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But the firstling of an ox, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are : thou shalt dash their against the , and shalt make their fat smoke for an made by fire, for a sweet savour unto .
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And the of them shall be thine, as the wave-breast and as the right thigh, it shall be thine.
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- 19 All the heave-offerings of the things, which the children of offer unto , have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, as a due for ever; it is an of salt before unto thee and to thy seed with thee.’
- 20 And said unto : ‘Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any portion among them; I am thy portion and thine inheritance among the children of .
- 21 And unto the children of , behold, I have given all the in for an inheritance, in return for their service which they , even the service of the tent of meeting.
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And henceforth the children of shall not come nigh the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.
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But the Levites alone shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity; it shall be a for ever throughout your generations, and among the children of they shall have no inheritance.
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For the of the children of , which they set apart as a unto , I have given to the Levites for an inheritance; therefore I have said unto them: Among the children of they shall have no inheritance.’
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- 25 And spoke unto , saying:
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Moreover thou shalt speak unto the Levites, and say unto them: When ye take of the children of the which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall set apart of it a for , even a of the .
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And the which ye set apart shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshing-floor, and as the fulness of the wine-press.
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Thus ye also shall set apart a unto of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of ; and thereof ye shall give the which is set apart unto to the .
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- 29 Out of all that is given you ye shall set apart all of that which is due unto , of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.
- 30 Therefore thou shalt say unto them: When ye set apart the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshing-floor, and as the increase of the wine-press.
- 31 And ye may eat it in every place, ye and your households; for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.
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And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, seeing that ye have set apart from it the best thereof; and ye shall not profane the things of the children of , that ye die not.’
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