Numbers 18:23

Webster's Bible (1833)

But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations; and among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 3:7 : 7 They shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.
  • Num 18:1 : 1 Yahweh said to Aaron, You and your sons and your fathers' house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
  • Num 18:20 : 20 Yahweh said to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them: I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 18:24
    84%

    24For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a heave-offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance: therefore I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

  • Deut 18:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

    1The priests the Levites, [even] all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and his inheritance.

    2They shall have no inheritance among their brothers: Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.

  • Num 18:20-22
    3 verses
    81%

    20Yahweh said to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them: I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.

    21To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the tent of meeting.

    22Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.

  • Num 8:24-26
    3 verses
    80%

    24"This is that which belongs to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting;

    25and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting on the work, and shall serve no more,

    26but shall minister with their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shall you do to the Levites concerning their duties."

  • Num 18:1-7
    7 verses
    80%

    1Yahweh said to Aaron, You and your sons and your fathers' house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

    2Your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring you near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you: but you and your sons with you shall be before the tent of the testimony.

    3They shall keep your charge, and the charge of all the Tent: only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they, nor you.

    4They shall be joined to you, and keep the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not come near to you.

    5You shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar; that there be wrath no more on the children of Israel.

    6I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are a gift, given to Yahweh, to do the service of the tent of meeting.

    7You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and you shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

  • 1 Chr 23:26
    78%

    26and also the Levites shall no more have need to carry the tent and all the vessels of it for the service of it.

  • Num 8:18-20
    3 verses
    78%

    18I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel.

    19I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel; that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come near to the sanctuary."

    20Thus did Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the Levites. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them.

  • Num 3:7-9
    3 verses
    78%

    7They shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.

    8They shall keep all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and the obligations of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.

    9You shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons. They are wholly given to him on the behalf of the children of Israel.

  • Num 1:49-51
    3 verses
    78%

    49"Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;

    50but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle, and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.

    51When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

  • Num 1:53
    78%

    53But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony."

  • Deut 10:8-9
    2 verses
    77%

    8At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, to stand before Yahweh to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.

    9Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance, according as Yahweh your God spoke to him.)

  • Josh 13:14
    77%

    14Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance; the offerings of Yahweh, the God of Israel, made by fire are his inheritance, as he spoke to him.

  • Num 8:14-15
    2 verses
    77%

    14Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.

    15"After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting: and you shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.

  • Exod 28:43
    77%

    43They shall be on Aaron, and on his sons, when they go in to the tent of meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place; that they don't bear iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute forever to him and to his descendants after him.

  • 1 Chr 23:32
    76%

    32and that they should keep the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the service of the house of Yahweh.

  • Josh 18:7
    76%

    7For the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood of Yahweh is their inheritance: and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them.

  • Josh 13:33
    75%

    33But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance: Yahweh, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as he spoke to them.

  • Num 8:22
    75%

    22After that, the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before Aaron, and before his sons: as Yahweh had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.

  • Num 18:31-32
    2 verses
    75%

    31You shall eat it in every place, you and your households: for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.

    32You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it the best of it: and you shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that you not die.

  • Ezek 44:10
    75%

    10But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.

  • Num 7:5
    74%

    5"Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing the service of the Tent of Meeting; and you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service."

  • Exod 27:21
    74%

    21In the tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

  • Num 4:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

    18"Don't cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;

    19but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them everyone to his service and to his burden;

  • Num 8:11
    73%

    11and Aaron shall offer the Levites before Yahweh for a wave offering, on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of Yahweh.

  • Ezek 44:28
    73%

    28They shall have an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.

  • Num 7:9
    73%

    9But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary belonged to them; they carried it on their shoulders.

  • 1 Chr 6:48
    72%

    48Their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tent of the house of God.

  • Ezek 48:11
    72%

    11[It shall be] for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my charge, who didn't go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.