TOPICAL BIBLE
Levites
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Numbers 8:20Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel did so to the Levites. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them.Numbers 8:21The Levites purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them for a wave offering before Yahweh; and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.Numbers 8:23Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,Numbers 8:24“This is that which belongs to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting;Numbers 8:25and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting on the work, and shall serve no more,Numbers 8:26but shall minister with their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to perform the duty, and shall do no service. You shall do thus to the Levites concerning their duties.”Numbers 10:17The tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, went forward.Numbers 16:9Is it a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of Yahweh, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;Numbers 17:1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,Numbers 17:2“Speak to the children of Israel, and take of them rods, one for each fathers’ house, of all their princes according to their fathers’ houses, twelve rods: write every man’s name on his rod.Numbers 17:3You shall write Aaron’s name on the rod of Levi; for there shall be one rod for each head of their fathers’ houses.Numbers 17:4You shall lay them up in the Tent of Meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.Numbers 17:8It happened on the next day, that Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.Numbers 18:1Yahweh said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your fathers’ house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.Numbers 18:3They shall keep your commands, and the duty of all the Tent: only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they, nor you.Numbers 18:4They shall be joined to you, and keep the responsibility of the Tent of Meeting, for all the service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not come near to you.Numbers 18:5“You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary, and the duty of the altar; that there be no more wrath on the children of Israel.Numbers 18:6I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are a gift, given to Yahweh, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting.Numbers 18:24For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a wave offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance: therefore I have said to them, ‘Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.’”Numbers 18:26“Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, ‘When you take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a wave offering of it for Yahweh, a tithe of the tithe.Numbers 18:27Your wave offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.Numbers 18:28Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to Yahweh of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and of it you shall give Yahweh’s wave offering to Aaron the priest.Numbers 18:29Out of all your gifts you shall offer every wave offering of Yahweh, of all its best, even the holy part of it out of it.’Numbers 18:30“Therefore you shall tell them, ‘When you heave its best from it, then it shall be reckoned to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the winepress.Numbers 18:31You shall eat it in every place, you and your households: for it is your reward in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting.Numbers 18:32You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it its best: and you shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that you not die.’”Numbers 26:57These are those who were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.Numbers 26:58These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. Kohath became the father of Amram.Numbers 26:59The name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt: and she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.Numbers 26:60To Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.Numbers 26:61Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before Yahweh.Numbers 26:62Those who were numbered of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.Numbers 31:30Of the children of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of the tabernacle of Yahweh.”Numbers 31:42Of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided off from the men who warredNumbers 31:43(now the congregation’s half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,Numbers 31:44and thirty-six thousand head of cattle,Numbers 31:45and thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,Numbers 31:46and sixteen thousand persons),Numbers 31:47even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of the tabernacle of Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.Numbers 35:2“Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and you shall give suburbs for the cities around them to the Levites.Numbers 35:3The cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their livestock, and for their substance, and for all their animals.Numbers 35:4“The suburbs of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits around it.Numbers 35:5You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.Numbers 35:6“The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to: and besides them you shall give forty-two cities.Numbers 35:7All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities together with their suburbs.Numbers 35:8Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many; and from the few you shall take few: everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give of his cities to the Levites.”Deuteronomy 10:8At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, to stand before Yahweh to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.Deuteronomy 10:9Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance, according as Yahweh your God spoke to him.)Deuteronomy 12:12You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your male servants, and your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.Deuteronomy 12:18but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to.Deuteronomy 12:19Take heed to yourself that you don’t forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.Deuteronomy 14:27The Levite who is within your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.Deuteronomy 14:28At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates:Deuteronomy 14:29and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.Deuteronomy 17:9and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days: and you shall inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of judgment.Deuteronomy 18:1The priests the Levites, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and his inheritance.Deuteronomy 18:2They shall have no inheritance among their brothers: Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.Deuteronomy 18:3This shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.Deuteronomy 18:4The first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.Deuteronomy 18:5For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, him and his sons for ever.