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20 Then Yahweh said to Aaron, “You will not receive an inheritance in their land, and there will not be a plot of ground for you in the midst of the Israelites.[a]

21 “Behold, I have given to the descendants[b] of Levi every tithe in Israel as an inheritance in return for their service, which they are doing, the work of the tent of assembly. 22 The Israelites[c] will not come near again to the tent of assembly, or they will bear sin[d] and die.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 18:20 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  2. Numbers 18:21 Or “sons”
  3. Numbers 18:22 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  4. Numbers 18:22 The NRSV translates “they will incur guilt”