Numbers 18:24
Good News Translation
because I have given to them as their possession the tithe which the Israelites present to me as a special contribution. That is why I told them that they would have no permanent property in Israel."

New Revised Standard Version
because I have given to the Levites as their portion the tithe of the Israelites, which they set apart as an offering to the LORD. Therefore I have said of them that they shall have no allotment among the Israelites.

Contemporary English Version
they will be given the crops and newborn animals that the Israelites offer to me.

New American Bible
for I have assigned to the Levites as their heritage the tithes which the Israelites put aside as a contribution to the LORD. That is why I have said, they will not have any heritage among the Israelites.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But be content with the oblation or tithes, which I have separated for their uses and necessities.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But be content with the oblation or tithes, which I have separated for their uses and necessities.

Malachi 3:8-10 Shall a man afflict God, for you afflict me. And you have said: Wherein do we afflict thee? in tithes and in firstfruits. . . .

Context
Offerings for Priests and Levites
23But only the sons of Levi may serve me in the tabernacle, and bear the sins of the people. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in your generations. They shall not possess any other thing, 24But be content with the oblation or tithes, which I have separated for their uses and necessities.25And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:…
Cross References
Numbers 18:25
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Numbers 26:62
And all that were numbered, were twenty-three thousand males from one month old and upward: for they were not reckoned up among the children of Israel, neither was a possession given to them with the rest.

Deuteronomy 10:9
Wherefore Levi hath no part nor possession with his brethren: because the Lord himself is his possession, as the Lord thy God promised him.

Deuteronomy 26:12
When thou hast made an end of tithing all thy fruits, in the third year of tithes thou shalt give it to the Levite, and to the stranger, and to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled:

Numbers 18:23
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