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Numbers 18:23

Numbers 18:23 is verse 23 of Numbers chapter 18, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

The Levites are to perform the work of the Tent of Meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come. The Levites will not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.

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King James Version

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.

World English Bible

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. Among the children of Israel, they shall have no inheritance.

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Numbers 18:21–25 · Berean Standard Bible

21 Behold, I have given to the Levites all the tithes in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work they do, the service of the Tent of Meeting.

22 No longer may the Israelites come near to the Tent of Meeting, or they will incur guilt and die.

23 The Levites are to perform the work of the Tent of Meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come. The Levites will not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.

24 For I have given to the Levites as their inheritance the tithe that the Israelites present to the LORD as a contribution. That is why I told them that they would not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.”

25 And the LORD instructed Moses,

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Hebrew words

וְעָבַ֨דand he will serve הַלֵּוִ֜יthe Levite[s]ה֗וּאhe אֶת<obj.>עֲבֹדַת֙[the] service of אֹ֣הֶל[the] tent of מוֹעֵ֔דmeeting וְהֵ֖םand they יִשְׂא֣וּthey will bear עֲוֹנָ֑םiniquity their חֻקַּ֤תa statute of עוֹלָם֙perpetuity לְדֹרֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔םto generations your וּבְתוֹךְ֙and in among בְּנֵ֣י[the] people of יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael לֹ֥אnot יִנְחֲל֖וּthey will inherit נַחֲלָֽהan inheritance

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Numbers 3:7
They are to perform duties for him and for the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, attending to the service of the tabernacle.

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