Numbers 18 (NET)

Numbers 18:1¹The 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 28:381 Pet 2:24Acts 20:26-27Ezek 3:18-19Heb 13:17Heb 4:15Isa 53:11Isa 53:6Lev 22:9Num 14:34

Numbers 18:2²“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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 29:341 Chr 16:39-402 Chr 30:16Ezek 44:15Num 16:40Num 17:7Num 18:4Num 3:6-13Num 4:15Num 8:19

Numbers 18:3³They 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 4:15Num 16:40Num 3:25Num 3:31Num 3:36Num 4:19-20Num 1:51Num 18:7

Numbers 18:4⁴They 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 6:192 Sam 6:6-7Num 1:51Num 3:10

Numbers 18:5⁵You 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 27:21Lev 24:3Num 16:461 Chr 24:51 Chr 9:191 Chr 9:231 Chr 9:331 Tim 1:181 Tim 3:151 Tim 5:21

Numbers 18:6⁶I 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 3:9Num 3:12Num 3:45Exod 14:17Exod 31:6Ezek 34:11Ezek 34:20Gen 6:17Gen 9:9Isa 48:15

Numbers 18:7⁷But you and your sons with you are responsible for your priestly duties, for everything at the altar and within the curtain. And you must serve. I give you the priesthood as a gift for service, but the unauthorized person who approaches must be put to death.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 3:27Num 3:10Rom 15:15-16Num 16:40Num 16:5-7Num 18:20Num 18:4-51 Sam 2:28Eph 3:8Exod 29:9

Numbers 18:8⁸The Lord spoke to Aaron, “See, I have given you the responsibility for my raised offerings; I have given all the holy things of the Israelites to you as your priestly portion and to your sons as a perpetual ordinance.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 6:16Exod 29:29Exod 40:13Exod 40:15Lev 6:18Lev 7:61 John 2:201 John 2:27Deut 12:11Deut 12:6

Numbers 18:9⁹Of all the most holy offerings reserved from the fire this will be yours: Every offering of theirs, whether from every grain offering or from every purification offering or from every reparation offering which they bring to me, will be most holy for you and for your sons.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 7:7Lev 14:13Lev 6:25-26Lev 4:22Lev 4:27Lev 5:1Lev 10:12-13Lev 10:17Lev 2:1-3Lev 5:6

Numbers 18:10¹⁰You are to eat it as a most holy offering; every male may eat it. It will be holy to you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 6:29Lev 7:6Lev 6:16Exod 29:31-32Lev 10:13Lev 10:17Lev 14:13Lev 21:22Lev 6:18Lev 6:26

Numbers 18:11¹¹“And this is yours: the raised offering of their gift, along with all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given them to you and to your sons and daughters with you as a perpetual ordinance. Everyone who is ceremonially clean in your household may eat of it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 18:3Exod 29:27-28Lev 10:14Lev 22:1-16Lev 7:14Lev 7:30-34Num 18:8

Numbers 18:12¹²“All the best of the olive oil and all the best of the wine and of the wheat, the firstfruits of these things that they give to the Lord, I have given to you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 18:4Exod 23:19Exod 34:26Deut 26:2Exod 22:29Lev 2:14Lev 23:17Lev 23:20Neh 10:35-37Num 15:19-21

Numbers 18:13¹³And whatever first ripe fruit in their land they bring to the Lord will be yours; everyone who is ceremonially clean in your household may eat of it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 22:29Exod 23:19Hos 9:10Jer 24:2Mic 7:1

Numbers 18:14¹⁴“Everything devoted in Israel will be yours.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 27:28Ezek 44:29

Numbers 18:15¹⁵The firstborn of every womb which they present to the Lord, whether human or animal, will be yours. Nevertheless, the firstborn sons you must redeem, and the firstborn males of unclean animals you must redeem.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 34:20Exod 13:2Exod 13:12-13Exod 22:29Lev 27:26-27Num 3:13Num 3:46

Numbers 18:16¹⁶And those that must be redeemed you are to redeem when they are a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of silver according to the sanctuary shekel (which is twenty gerahs).Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 30:13Num 3:47Ezek 45:12Lev 27:2-7Lev 27:25

Numbers 18:17¹⁷But you must not redeem the firstborn of a cow or a sheep or a goat; they are holy. You must splash their blood on the altar and burn their fat for an offering made by fire for a pleasing aroma to the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 15:19-22Exod 29:16Lev 3:2-5

Numbers 18:18¹⁸And their meat will be yours, just as the breast and the right hip of the raised offering is yours.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 29:26-28Lev 7:31-34

Numbers 18:19¹⁹All the raised offerings of the holy things that the Israelites offer to the Lord, I have given to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual ordinance. It is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord for you and for your descendants with you.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 13:5Lev 2:13Num 18:112 Chr 31:4Deut 12:6Lev 7:14Num 15:19-21Num 18:8Num 31:29Num 31:41

Numbers 18:20²⁰The Lord spoke to Aaron, “You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any portion of property among them—I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 44:28Deut 10:9Josh 13:33Deut 18:1-2Lam 3:24Deut 12:12Deut 14:27Josh 14:3Josh 18:7Ps 142:5

Numbers 18:21²¹See, I have given the Levites all the tithes in Israel for an inheritance, for their service that they perform—the service of the tent of meeting.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 14:22-29Neh 10:37Neh 12:442 Chr 31:12Heb 7:5Neh 10:29Neh 13:12Num 18:62 Chr 31:5-6Deut 12:17-19

Numbers 18:22²²No longer may the Israelites approach the tent of meeting, or else they will bear their sin and die.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 22:9Lev 20:20Num 1:51-52Num 18:7Num 3:10Num 3:38

Numbers 18:23²³But 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 3:7Num 18:1Num 18:20

Numbers 18:24²⁴But 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.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 18:26Mal 3:8-10

Numbers 18:25²⁵The Lord spoke to Moses:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 18:26²⁶“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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 10:38Num 18:21

Numbers 18:27²⁷And your raised offering will be credited to you as though it were grain from the threshing floor or as new wine from the winepress.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 18:302 Kgs 6:27Deut 15:14Hos 9:1-2Lev 6:19-23Num 15:20

Numbers 18:28²⁸Thus you are to offer up a raised offering to the Lord of all your tithes that you receive from the Israelites; and you must give the Lord ’s raised offering from it to Aaron the priest.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 14:18Heb 6:20-7:10

Numbers 18:29²⁹From all your gifts you must offer up every raised offering due the Lord, from all the best of it, and the holiest part of it.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 18:30³⁰“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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 6:5Gen 43:11Mal 1:8Matt 10:37-39Matt 6:33Num 18:27-28Phil 3:8-9Prov 3:9-10

Numbers 18:31³¹And you may eat it in any place, you and your household, because it is your wages for your service in the tent of meeting.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 9:10-141 Tim 5:17-18Luke 10:7Matt 10:102 Cor 12:13Deut 14:22-23Gal 6:6

Numbers 18:32³²And you will bear no sin concerning it when you offer up the best of it. And you must not profane the holy things of the Israelites, or else you will die.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 19:8Lev 22:21 Cor 11:271 Cor 11:29Lev 22:15-16Mal 1:7Num 18:22