Numbers 18:21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.

The tenth

Even the service

General references

Leviticus 27:30

Deuteronomy 10:9

Deuteronomy 14:22

Bible References

The tenth

For the tenths which the children of Israel give as a lifted offering to the Lord I have given to the Levites as their heritage. and so I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.

And every tenth part of the land, of the seed planted, or of the fruit of trees, is holy to the Lord.

In your towns you are not to take as food the tenth part of your grain, or of your wine or your oil, or the first births of your herds or of your flocks, or anything offered under an oath, or freely offered to the Lord, or given as a lifted offering;

Put on one side a tenth of all the increase of your seed, produced year by year.

And when the order was made public, straight away the children of Israel gave, in great amounts, the first-fruits of their grain and wine and oil and honey, and of the produce of their fields; and they took in a tenth part of everything, a great store.

They were united with their brothers, their rulers, and put themselves under a curse and an oath, to keep their steps in the way of God's law, which was given by Moses, the servant of God, and to keep and do all the orders of the Lord, our Lord, and his decisions and his rules;

And on that day certain men were put over the rooms where the things which had been given were stored, for the lifted offerings and the first-fruits and the tenths, and to take into them the amounts, from the fields of every town, fixed by the law for the priests and the Levites: for Judah was glad on account of the priests and the Levites who were in their places.

Then all Judah came with the tenth part of the grain and wine and oil and put it into the store-houses.

Even the service

Now, see, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: they are given to you and to the Lord, to do the work of the Tent of meeting.

In order that they may be responsible to him and to all Israel for the care of the Tent of meeting, and to do the work of the House;

Do you not see that the servants of the holy things get their living from the Temple, and the servants of the altar have their part in the food which is offered on the altar?

But let him who gets teaching in the word give a part in all good things to his teacher.

General references

And every tenth part of the land, of the seed planted, or of the fruit of trees, is holy to the Lord.

For this reason Levi has no part or heritage for himself among his brothers: the Lord is his heritage, as the Lord your God said to him.)

Put on one side a tenth of all the increase of your seed, produced year by year.