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Numbers 18
Numbers 18:1 And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy
father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and
thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
2 And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of
thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and
minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister
before the tabernacle of witness.
3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the
tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary
and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.
4 And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of
the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the
tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.
5 And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the
charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children
of Israel.
6 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from
among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the
LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your
priest's office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and
ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service
of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
8 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given
thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of
the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the
anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.
9 This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from
the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and
every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs,
which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy
sons.
10 In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall
eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.
11 And this is thine; the heave offering of their gift, with
all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto
thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for
ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.
12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and
of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the
LORD, them have I given thee.
13 And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall
bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine
house shall eat of it.
14 Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.
15 Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which
they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be
thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and
the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.
16 And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt
thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.
17 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep,
or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou
shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for
an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
18 And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast
and as the right shoulder are thine.
19 All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the
children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons
and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of
salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
20 And the LORD 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.
21 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.
22 Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh
the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.
23 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.
24 But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer
as an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to
inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel
they shall have no inheritance.
25 And the LORD spake unto
Moses, saying,
26 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye
take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from
them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of
it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe.
27 And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you,
as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of
the winepress.
28 Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD
of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye
shall give thereof the LORD'S heave offering to Aaron the priest.
29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering
of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out
of it.
30 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved
the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as
the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the
winepress.
31 And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your
households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of
the congregation.
32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have
heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things
of the children of Israel, lest ye die.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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