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For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a heave-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.
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A Divine Inheritance
Commentators explain that the tithe was not a direct payment from the Israelites to the Levites. Instead, the people offered the tithe to God as a sacred 'heave-offering,' and then God gave it to the Levites. This established the Levites' provision as a divine right, as secure as the other tribes' land inheritance, coming directly from God himself.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Here the tithes (and in Numbers 18:26 the priestly tithes) are to be dedicated to their purpose by the ceremony of heaving them to the Lord. The ti…
19th Century
Anglican
But the tithes ... — Better, for the tithes ... This verse assigns the reason why the Levites were to have no inheritance…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But the tithe of the children of Israel The tenth of the produce of their land, as before:
which …
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As Israel was a people not to be numbered among the nations, so Levi was a tribe to be distinguished from the rest. Those who have God for their In…
