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Primary Verses:
- Num. 18:20-24
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"And YHVH spake unto Aaron, Thou
shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt
thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine
inheritance among the children of Israel. 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.
Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh
the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin,
and die. 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.
But the tithes of the
children of Israel, which they offer as an heave
offering unto YHVH, I have given to the Levites to
inherit: therefore I have said unto
them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no
inheritance."
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Lev. 27:30
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"And
all the tithe of the land,
whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the
tree, is YHVH's: it
is holy unto YHVH."
Supporting Verses:
- Gen. 14:18-20
- "And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread
and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the
most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: And
blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine
enemies into thy hand.
And he gave him tithes of all."
- Deut. 12:19
- "Take heed to thyself that thou
forsake not the
Levite as long as thou livest upon the
earth."
- 2 Chron. 31:4-6
- "Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in
Jerusalem to give the
portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might
be encouraged in the law of YHVH. And
as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of
Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn,
wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the
field; and the tithe of all things brought they in
abundantly. And concerning the children of Israel and
Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also
brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and
the tithe of holy
things which were consecrated unto YHVH their God,
and laid them by heaps."
- 2 Chron. 31:11-19
- "Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the
house of YHVH; and they prepared them,
And brought in the
offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things
faithfully: over which Cononiah the
Levite
was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next. And
Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and
Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and
Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of
Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of
Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of
God. And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter
toward the east, was over the freewill offerings of God,
to distribute the oblations of YHVH, and the most holy
things. And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and
Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the
cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to
their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to
the small: Beside their genealogy of males, from three
years old and upward, even unto every one that entereth
into the house of YHVH, his daily portion for their
service in their charges according to their courses;
Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of
their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and
upward, in their charges by their courses; And to the
genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and
their sons, and their daughters, through all the
congregation: for in their set office they sanctified
themselves in holiness: Also of the sons of Aaron the
priests, which were in the fields of the suburbs of
their cities, in every several city, the men that were
expressed by name, to give portions to all the males
among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by
genealogies among the
Levites. ."
- Neh. 10:37-39
- "And that we should bring the firstfruits of our
dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of
trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the
chambers of the house of our God; and
the tithes of our
ground unto the Levites, that the same
Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our
tillage. And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with
the Levites, when the
Levites take tithes: and the Levites
shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of
our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house. For
the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall
bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the
oil, unto the chambers, where are the vessels of the
sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the
porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the
house of our God."
- Heb. 7:5
- "And verily they that are of
the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the
priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the
people according to the law, that is, of
their brethren, though they come out of the loins of
Abraham:"
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