Bible Reading
April 13
The World English Bible
Apr.
13
Numbers
17, 18
Num
17:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Num
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.
Num
17:3 You shall write Aaron's name on the rod of Levi; for there
shall be one rod for each head of their fathers' houses.
Num
17:4 You shall lay them up in the Tent of Meeting before the
testimony, where I meet with you.
Num
17:5 It shall happen, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose
shall bud: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the
children of Israel, which they murmur against you.
Num
17:6 Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and all their princes
gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers'
houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.
Num
17:7 Moses laid up the rods before Yahweh in the tent of the
testimony.
Num
17:8 It 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.
Num
17:9 Moses brought out all the rods from before Yahweh to all the
children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.
Num
17:10 Yahweh said to Moses, Put back the rod of Aaron before the
testimony, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion;
that you may make an end of their murmurings against me, that they
not die.
Num
17:11 Moses did so. As Yahweh commanded him, so he did.
Num
17:12 The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we
perish, we are undone, we are all undone.
Num
17:13 Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of
Yahweh, dies: shall we perish all of us?
Num
18:1 Yahweh 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.
Num
18:2 Your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your
father, bring near with you, that they may be joined to you, and
minister to you: but you and your sons with you shall be before the
tent of the testimony.
Num
18:3 They 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.
Num
18:4 They 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.
Num
18:5 You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary, and the duty of
the altar; that there be wrath no more on the children of Israel.
Num
18:6 I, 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.
Num
18:7 You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for
everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and you shall
serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the
stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
Num
18:8 Yahweh spoke to Aaron, I, behold, I have given you the command
of my wave offerings, even all the holy things of the children of
Israel; to you have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to
your sons, as a portion forever.
Num
18:9 This shall be your of the most holy things, reserved
from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of
theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering
of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you
and for your sons.
Num
18:10 You shall eat of it like the most holy things. Every male
shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you.
Num
18:11 This is yours, too: the wave offering of their gift, even all
the wave offerings of the children of Israel. I have given them to
you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a portion
forever. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.
Num
18:12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and
of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to Yahweh, to
you have I given them.
Num
18:13 The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they
bring to Yahweh, shall be yours; everyone who is clean in your house
shall eat of it.
Num
18:14 Everything devoted in Israel shall be yours.
Num
18:15 Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer
to Yahweh, both of man and animal shall be yours: nevertheless you
shall surely redeem the firstborn of man, and you shall redeem the
firstborn of unclean animals.
Num
18:16 You shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them from a
month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of money,
after the shekel of the sanctuary (the same is twenty gerahs).
Num
18:17 But you shall not redeem the firstborn of a cow, or the
firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat. They are holy. You
shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for
an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
Num
18:18 Their flesh shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and as
the right thigh, it shall be yours.
Num
18:19 All the wave offerings of the holy things, which the children
of Israel offer to Yahweh, have I given you, and your sons and your
daughters with you, as a portion forever: it is a covenant of salt
forever before Yahweh to you and to your seed with you.
Num
18:20 Yahweh said to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in their
land, neither shall you have any portion among them: I am your
portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.
Num
18:21 To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in
Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they
serve, even the service of the Tent of Meeting.
Num
18:22 Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent
of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.
Num
18:23 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; and among the children of Israel they
shall have no inheritance.
Num
18:24 For 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.
Num
18:25 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Num
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.
Num
18:27 Your wave offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were
the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the
winepress.
Num
18:28 Thus 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.
Num
18:29 Out 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.
Num
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.
Num
18:31 You 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.
Num
18:32 You 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.
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