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Numbers 18:23
New English Translation
Numbers 18:23
New English Translation
23 But the Levites must perform the service[a] of the tent of meeting, and they must bear their iniquity.[b] It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites[c] have no inheritance.[d]
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- Numbers 18:23 tn The verse begins with the perfect tense of עָבַד (ʿavad) with vav (ו) consecutive, making the form equal to the instructions preceding it. As its object the verb has the cognate accusative “service.”
- Numbers 18:23 sn The Levites have the care of the tent of meeting, and so they are responsible for any transgressions against it.
- Numbers 18:23 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Levites) has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
- Numbers 18:23 tn The Hebrew text uses both the verb and the object from the same root to stress the point: They will not inherit an inheritance. The inheritance refers to land.
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