Numbers 31:30

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From the Israelites’ half-share you are to take one portion out of fifty of the people, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep– from every kind of animal– and you are to give them to the Levites, who are responsible for the care of the LORD’s tabernacle.”

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  • Num 3:7-8 : 7 They are responsible for his needs and the needs of the whole community before the tent of meeting, by attending to the service of the tabernacle. 8 And they are responsible for all the furnishings of the tent of meeting, and for the needs of the Israelites, as they serve in the tabernacle.
  • Num 3:25 : 25 And the responsibilities of the Gershonites in the tent of meeting included the tabernacle, the tent with its covering, the curtain at the entrance of the tent of meeting,
  • Num 3:31 : 31 Their responsibilities included the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, and the utensils of the sanctuary with which they ministered, the curtain, and all their service.
  • Num 3:36-39 : 36 The appointed responsibilities of the Merarites included the frames of the tabernacle, its crossbars, its posts, its sockets, its utensils, plus all the service connected with these things, 37 and the pillars of the courtyard all around, with their sockets, their pegs, and their ropes. 38 But those who were to camp in front of the tabernacle on the east, in front of the tent of meeting, were Moses, Aaron, and his sons. They were responsible for the needs of the sanctuary and for the needs of the Israelites, but the unauthorized person who approached was to be put to death. 39 All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered by the word of the LORD, according to their families, every male from a month old and upward, were 22,000.
  • Num 18:1-5 : 1 Responsibilities of the Priests The LORD said to Aaron,“You and your sons and your tribe with you must bear the iniquity of the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you must bear the iniquity of your priesthood. 2 “Bring with you your brothers, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, so that they may join with you and minister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony. 3 They must be responsible to care for you and to care for the entire tabernacle. However, they must not come near the furnishings of the sanctuary and the altar, or both they and you will die. 4 They must join with you, and they will be responsible for the care of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent, but no unauthorized person may approach you. 5 You will be responsible for the care of the sanctuary and the care of the altar, so that there will be no more wrath on the Israelites.
  • Num 18:23-28 : 23 But the Levites must perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites have no inheritance. 24 But I have given to the Levites for an inheritance the tithes of the Israelites that are offered to the LORD as a raised offering. That is why I said to them that among the Israelites they are to have no inheritance.” 25 Instructions for the Levites The LORD spoke to Moses: 26 “You are to speak to the Levites, and you must tell them,‘When you receive from the Israelites the tithe that I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you are to offer up from it as a raised offering to the LORD a tenth of the tithe. 27 And your raised offering will be credited to you as though it were grain from the threshing floor or as new wine from the winepress. 28 Thus you are to offer up a raised offering to the LORD of all your tithes which you receive from the Israelites; and you must give the LORD’s raised offering from it to Aaron the priest.
  • Num 31:28 : 28 “You must exact a tribute for the LORD from the fighting men who went out to battle: one life out of five hundred, from the people, the cattle, and from the donkeys and the sheep.
  • 1 Chr 9:27-29 : 27 They would spend the night in their posts all around God’s sanctuary, for they were assigned to guard it and would open it with the key every morning. 28 Some of them were in charge of the articles used by those who served; they counted them when they brought them in and when they brought them out. 29 Some of them were in charge of the equipment and articles of the sanctuary, as well as the flour, wine, olive oil, incense, and spices.
  • 1 Chr 23:32 : 32 They were in charge of the meeting tent and the holy place, and helped their relatives, the descendants of Aaron, in the service of the LORD’s temple.
  • 1 Chr 26:20-27 : 20 Supervisors of the Storehouses Their fellow Levites were in charge of the storehouses in God’s temple and the storehouses containing consecrated items. 21 The descendants of Ladan, who were descended from Gershon through Ladan and were leaders of the families of Ladan the Gershonite, included Jehieli 22 and the sons of Jehieli, Zetham and his brother Joel. They were in charge of the storehouses in the LORD’s temple. 23 As for the Amramites, Izharites, Hebronites, and Uzzielites: 24 Shebuel son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was the supervisor of the storehouses. 25 His relatives through Eliezer included: Rehabiah his son, Jeshaiah his son, Joram his son, Zikri his son, and Shelomith his son. 26 Shelomith and his relatives were in charge of all the storehouses containing the consecrated items dedicated by King David, the family leaders who led units of a thousand and a hundred, and the army officers. 27 They had dedicated some of the plunder taken in battles to be used for repairs on the LORD’s temple.
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.
  • 1 Cor 4:2 : 2 Now what is sought in stewards is that one be found faithful.
  • 1 Cor 9:13-14 : 13 Don’t you know that those who serve in the temple eat food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar receive a part of the offerings? 14 In the same way the Lord commanded those who proclaim the gospel to receive their living by the gospel.
  • Col 4:17 : 17 And tell Archippus,“See to it that you complete the ministry you received in the Lord.”
  • Heb 13:17 : 17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls and will give an account for their work. Let them do this with joy and not with complaints, for this would be no advantage for you.

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  • Num 31:46-47
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    91%

    46and 16,000 people.

    47From the Israelites’ share Moses took one of every fifty people and animals and gave them to the Levites who were responsible for the care of the LORD’s tabernacle, just as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • Num 31:25-29
    5 verses
    88%

    25The Distribution of Spoils Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

    26“You and Eleazar the priest, and all the family leaders of the community, take the sum of the plunder that was captured, both people and animals.

    27Divide the plunder into two parts, one for those who took part in the war– who went out to battle– and the other for all the community.

    28“You must exact a tribute for the LORD from the fighting men who went out to battle: one life out of five hundred, from the people, the cattle, and from the donkeys and the sheep.

    29You are to take it from their half-share and give it to Eleazar the priest for a raised offering to the LORD.

  • Num 31:36-44
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    36The half-portion of those who went to war numbered 337,500 sheep;

    37the LORD’s tribute from the sheep was 675.

    38The cattle numbered 36,000; the LORD’s tribute was 72.

    39The donkeys were 30,500, of which the LORD’s tribute was 61.

    40The people were 16,000, of which the LORD’s tribute was 32 people.

    41So Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD’s raised offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.

    42From the Israelites’ half-share that Moses had separated from the fighting men,

    43there were 337,500 sheep from the portion belonging to the community,

    4436,000 cattle,

  • Num 7:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    5“Receive these gifts from them, that they may be used in doing the work of the tent of meeting; and you must give them to the Levites, to every man as his service requires.”

    6So Moses accepted the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.

  • Num 18:30
    75%

    30“Therefore you will say to them,‘When you offer up the best of it, then it will be credited to the Levites as the product of the threshing floor and as the product of the winepress.

  • Num 31:31-33
    3 verses
    75%

    31So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.

    32The spoil that remained of the plunder which the fighting men had gathered was 675,000 sheep,

    3372,000 cattle,

  • Num 35:8-9
    2 verses
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    8The towns you will give must be from the possession of the Israelites. From the larger tribes you must give more; and from the smaller tribes fewer. Each must contribute some of its own towns to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance allocated to each.

    9The Cities of Refuge Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 3:41
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    41And take the Levites for me– I am the LORD– instead of all the firstborn males among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the livestock of the Israelites.”

  • Exod 30:12-15
    4 verses
    74%

    12“When you take a census of the Israelites according to their number, then each man is to pay a ransom for his life to the LORD when you number them, so that there will be no plague among them when you number them.

    13Everyone who crosses over to those who are numbered is to pay this: a half shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary(a shekel weighs twenty gerahs). The half shekel is to be an offering to the LORD.

    14Everyone who crosses over to those numbered, from twenty years old and up, is to pay an offering to the LORD.

    15The rich are not to pay more and the poor are not to pay less than the half shekel when giving the offering of the LORD, to make atonement for your lives.

  • Num 3:45-46
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    74%

    45“Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn males among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock. And the Levites will be mine. I am the LORD.

    46And for the redemption of the 273 firstborn males of the Israelites who exceed the number of the Levites,

  • Lev 27:32
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    32All the tithe of herd or flock, everything which passes under the rod, the tenth one will be holy to the LORD.

  • Num 1:49-50
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    49“Only the tribe of Levi you must not number or count with the other Israelites.

    50But appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, over all its furnishings and over everything in it. They must carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they must attend to it and camp around it.

  • Num 18:26
    74%

    26“You are to speak to the Levites, and you must tell them,‘When you receive from the Israelites the tithe that I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you are to offer up from it as a raised offering to the LORD a tenth of the tithe.

  • Num 18:6
    74%

    6I myself have chosen your brothers the Levites from among the Israelites. They are given to you as a gift from the LORD, to perform the duties of the tent of meeting.

  • Num 15:12
    74%

    12You must do so for each one according to the number that you prepare.

  • Num 29:15
    73%

    15and one-tenth for each of the fourteen lambs,

  • 2 Chr 31:19
    73%

    19As for the descendants of Aaron, the priests who lived in the outskirts of all their cities, men were assigned to disburse portions to every male among the priests and to every Levite listed in the genealogical records.

  • Num 4:30
    73%

    30You must number them from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, all who enter the company to do the work of the tent of meeting.

  • 2 Chr 31:6
    73%

    6The Israelites and people of Judah who lived in the cities of Judah also contributed a tenth of their cattle and sheep, as well as a tenth of the holy items consecrated to the LORD their God. They brought them and placed them in many heaps.

  • Num 34:13
    72%

    13Then Moses commanded the Israelites:“This is the land which you will inherit by lot, which the LORD has commanded to be given to the nine and a half tribes,

  • Exod 22:30
    72%

    30You must also do this for your oxen and for your sheep; seven days they may remain with their mothers, but give them to me on the eighth day.

  • Num 18:21
    72%

    21See, I have given the Levites all the tithes in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they perform– the service of the tent of meeting.

  • Num 31:11
    72%

    11They took all the plunder and all the spoils, both people and animals.

  • Josh 14:3
    72%

    3Now Moses had assigned land to the two and a half tribes east of the Jordan, but he assigned no land to the Levites.

  • Num 8:14
    72%

    14And so you are to separate the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.

  • Num 29:4
    72%

    4and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs,

  • Num 8:20
    72%

    20So Moses and Aaron and the entire community of the Israelites did this with the Levites. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, this is what the Israelites did with them.

  • Num 35:2
    72%

    2“Instruct the Israelites to give the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites will possess. You must also give the Levites grazing land around the towns.