Numbers 35:2
Give orders to the children of Israel to give to the Levites, from the heritage which is theirs, towns for themselves, with land on the outskirts of the towns.
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Numbers 35:2
Give orders to the children of Israel to give to the Levites, from the heritage which is theirs, towns for themselves, with land on the outskirts of the towns.
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Genesis 46:11
And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari;
Exodus 6:16
And these are the names of the sons of Levi in the order of their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari: and the years of Levi's life were a hundred and thirty-seven.
Exodus 6:17
The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, in the order of their families.
Exodus 6:18
And the sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel: and the years of Kohath's life were a hundred and thirty-three.
Exodus 6:19
And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi: these are the families of the Levites, in the order of their generations.
1 Chronicles 6:1
The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
1 Chronicles 6:16
The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
1 Chronicles 6:17
And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.
1 Chronicles 6:18
And the sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
1 Chronicles 6:19
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites listed by the names of their fathers.
1 Chronicles 6:20
Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,
1 Chronicles 6:21
Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son.
1 Chronicles 6:22
The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,
1 Chronicles 6:23
Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son,
1 Chronicles 6:24
Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.
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Genesis 47:7
Then Joseph made his father Jacob come before Pharaoh, and Jacob gave him his blessing.
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Exodus 32:26
Then Moses took his place at the way into the tents, and said, Whoever is on the Lord's side, let him come to me. And all the sons of Levi came together to him.
Numbers 1:49
Only the tribe of Levi is not to be numbered among the children of Israel,
Numbers 1:50
But to them you are to give the care of the Tent of meeting with its vessels and everything in it: they are to take up the Tent, and be responsible for everything to do with it, and put up their tents round it.
Numbers 3:6
Make the tribe of Levi come near, and put them before Aaron the priest, to be his helpers,
Numbers 8:18
And in place of the first sons among the children of Israel, I have taken the Levites.
Numbers 8:24
This is the rule for the Levites: those of twenty-five years old and over are to go in and do the work of the Tent of meeting;
Numbers 18:3
They are to do your orders and be responsible for the work of the Tent; but they may not come near the vessels of the holy place or the altar, so that death may not overtake them or you.
1 Chronicles 23:27
So among the last acts of David was the numbering of the sons of Levi, from twenty years old and over.
2 Chronicles 23:2
And they went through Judah, getting together the Levites and the heads of families in Israel from all the towns of Judah, and they came to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 29:34
There were not enough priests for the work of cutting up all the burned offerings; so their brothers the Levites gave them help till the work was done and the priests had made themselves holy: for the Levites were more upright in heart to make themselves holy than the priests.
Luke 10:32
And in the same way, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, went by on the other side.
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Leviticus 25:49
Or his father's brother, or the son of his father's brother, or any near relation; or if he gets money, he may make himself free.
Ruth 4:4
And it was in my mind to give you the chance of taking it, with the approval of those seated here and of the responsible men of my people. If you are ready to do what it is right for a relation to do, then do it: but if you will not do it, say so to me now; for there is no one who has the right to do it but you, and after you myself. And he said, I will do it.
Ruth 4:5
Then Boaz said, On the day when you take this field, you will have to take with it Ruth, the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, so that you may keep the name of the dead living in his heritage.
Ruth 4:6
And the near relation said, I am not able to do the relation's part, for fear of damaging the heritage I have: you may do it in my place, for I am not able to do it myself.
Ruth 4:7
Now, in earlier times this was the way in Israel when property was taken over by a near relation, or when there was a change of owner. To make the exchange certain one man took off his shoe and gave it to the other; and this was a witness in Israel.
Ruth 4:8
So the near relation said to Boaz, Take it for yourself. And he took off his shoe.
Ruth 4:9
Then Boaz said to the responsible men and to all the people, You are witnesses today that I have taken at a price from Naomi all the property which was Elimelech's, and everything which was Chilion's and Mahlon's.
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Numbers 4:27
From the mouth of Aaron and his sons the Gershonites will have word about all the things they are to do and take up; you are to give them their orders.
Numbers 4:48
Came to eight thousand, five hundred and eighty.
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Deuteronomy 26:12
When you have taken out a tenth from the tenth of all your produce in the third year, which is the year when this has to be done, give it to the Levite, and the man from a strange land, and the child without a father, and the widow, so that they may have food in your towns and be full;
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Numbers 18:8
And the Lord said to Aaron, See, I have given into your care my lifted offerings; even all the holy things of the children of Israel I have given to you and to your sons as your right for ever, because you have been marked with the holy oil.
Numbers 18:9
This is to be yours of the most holy things, out of the fire offerings; every offering of theirs, every meal offering and sin-offering, and every offering which they make on account of error, is to be most holy for you and your sons.
Numbers 18:10
As most holy things they are to be your food: let every male have them for food; it is to be holy to you.
Numbers 18:11
And this is yours: the lifted offering which they give and all the wave offerings of the children of Israel I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters as your right for ever: everyone in your house who is clean may have them for food.
Numbers 18:12
All the best of the oil and the wine and the grain, the first-fruits of them which they give to the Lord, to you have I given them.
Numbers 18:13
The earliest produce from their land which they take to the Lord is to be yours; everyone in your house who is clean may have it for his food.
Numbers 18:14
Everything given by oath to the Lord in Israel is to be yours.
Numbers 18:15
The first birth of every living thing which is offered to the Lord, of man or beast, is to be yours; but for the first sons of man payment is to be made, and for the first young of unclean beasts.
Numbers 18:16
Payment is to be made for these when they are a month old, at the value fixed by you, a price of five shekels by the scale of the holy place, that is, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
Numbers 18:17
But no such payment may be made for the first birth of an ox or a sheep or a goat; these are holy: their blood is to be dropped on the altar, and their fat burned for an offering made by fire, a sweet smell to the Lord.
Numbers 18:18
Their flesh is to be yours; like the breast of the wave offering and the right leg, it is to be yours.
Numbers 18:19
All the lifted offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel give to the Lord, I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters as a right for ever. This is an agreement made with salt before the Lord, to you and to your seed for ever.
Deuteronomy 33:11
Let your blessing, O Lord, be on his substance, may the work of his hands be pleasing to you: may those who take up arms against him and all who have hate for him, be wounded through the heart, never to be lifted up again.
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Genesis 49:7
A curse on their passion for it was bitter; and on their wrath for it was cruel. I will let their heritage in Jacob be broken up, driving them from their places in Israel.
Leviticus 25:33
And if a Levite does not give money to get back his property, his house in the town which was exchanged for money will come back to him in the year of Jubilee. For the houses of the towns of the Levites are their property among the children of Israel.
Joshua 21:5
The rest of the children of Kohath by their families were given ten towns from the tribes of Ephraim and Dan and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
Joshua 21:6
The children of Gershon by their families were given thirteen towns from the tribes of Issachar and Asher and Naphtali and the half-tribe of Manasseh which was in Bashan.
Joshua 21:7
The children of Merari by their families were given twelve towns from the tribes of Reuben and Gad and Zebulun.
Joshua 21:27
And to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, they gave from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Ashtaroth with its grass-lands, two towns.
Joshua 21:28
And from the tribe of Issachar, Kishion and Daberath with their grass-lands;
Joshua 21:29
Jarmuth and En-gannim with their grass-lands, four towns.
Joshua 21:34
And to the rest of the Levites, that is, the families of the children of Merari, they gave from the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam and Kartah with their grass-lands;
Joshua 21:35
Dimnah and Nahalal with their grass-lands, four towns.
Joshua 21:36
And from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer and Jahaz with their grass-lands;
Joshua 21:37
Kedemoth and Mephaath with their grass-lands, four towns.
Joshua 21:38
And from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Mahanaim with their grass-lands;
Joshua 21:39
Heshbon and Jazer with their grass-lands, four towns.
Joshua 21:40
All these towns were given to the children of Merari by their families, that is, the rest of the families of the Levites; and their heritage was twelve towns.
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Joshua 21:9
From the tribes of the children of Judah and the children of Simeon they gave these towns, listed here by name:
Joshua 21:10
These were for the children of Aaron among the families of the Kohathites, of the children of Levi: for they came first in the distribution.
Joshua 21:11
They gave them Kiriath-arba, the town of Arba, the father of Anak, (which is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah, with its grass-lands.
Joshua 21:12
But the open country round the town, and its unwalled places, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, as his property.
Joshua 21:13
And to the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Libnah with its grass-lands;
Joshua 21:14
And Jattir with its grass-lands, and Eshtemoa with its grass-lands;
Joshua 21:15
And Holon with its grass-lands, and Debir with its grass-lands;
Joshua 21:16
And Ain, and Juttah, and Beth-shemesh, with their grass-lands; nine towns from those two tribes.
Joshua 21:17
And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave Gibeon and Geba with their grass-lands;
Joshua 21:18
Anathoth and Almon with their grass-lands, four towns.
Joshua 21:19
Thirteen towns with their grass-lands were given to the children of Aaron, the priests.
2 Chronicles 31:15
And under him were Eden and Miniamin and Jeshua and Shemaiah and Amariah and Shecaniah, in the towns of the priests, who were made responsible for giving it to all their brothers, by divisions, to small and great:
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Joshua 14:4
Because the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and they gave the Levites no part in the land, only towns for their living-places, with the grass-lands for their cattle and for their property.
Joshua 21:4
And the heritage came out for the families of the Kohathites: the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, were given thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.
Joshua 21:20
The rest of the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, were given towns from the tribe of Ephraim.
Joshua 21:21
And they gave them Shechem with its grass-lands in the hill-country of Ephraim, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Gezer with its grass-lands;
Joshua 21:22
And Kibzaim and Beth-horon with their grass-lands, four towns.
Joshua 21:23
And from the tribe of Dan, Elteke and Gibbethon with their grass-lands;
Joshua 21:24
Aijalon and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, four towns.
Joshua 21:25
And from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, two towns.
Joshua 21:26
All the towns of the rest of the families of the children of Kohath were ten with their grass-lands.
Joshua 21:30
And from the tribe of Asher, Mishal and Abdon, with their grass-lands:
Joshua 21:31
Helkath and Rehob with their grass-lands, four towns.
Joshua 21:32
And from the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Hammoth-dor and Kartan with their grass-lands, three towns.
Joshua 21:33
All the towns of the Gershonites with their families were thirteen with their grass-lands.
Joshua 21:42
Every one of these towns had grass-lands round it.
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1 Chronicles 6:25
And the sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth.
1 Chronicles 6:26
Elkanah his son: Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,
1 Chronicles 6:27
Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son, Samuel his son.
1 Chronicles 6:28
And the sons of Samuel: the oldest Joel, and the second Abiah.
1 Chronicles 6:29
The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son,
1 Chronicles 6:30
Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.
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1 Chronicles 13:2
And David said to all the men of Israel who had come together there, If it seems good to you and if it is the purpose of the Lord our God, let us send to all the rest of our brothers, everywhere in the land of Israel, and to the priests and the Levites in their towns and the country round them, and get them to come together here to us;
2 Chronicles 11:13
And the priests and Levites who were in all Israel came together to him from every part of their country.
2 Chronicles 11:14
For the Levites gave up their living-places and their property, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons had sent them away, not letting them be priests to the Lord;
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Ezekiel 27:22
The traders of Sheba and Raamah did trade with you; they gave the best of all sorts of spices and all sorts of stones of great price and gold for your goods.
Ezekiel 45:8
And this will be his heritage in Israel: and my rulers will no longer be cruel masters to my people; but they will give the land as a heritage to the children of Israel by their tribes.
Ezekiel 48:13
And the Levites are to have a part of the land equal to the limit of the priests', twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide, all of it together to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty thousand wide.
Ezekiel 48:14
And they are not to let any of it go for a price, or give it in exchange; and the part of the land given to the Lord is not to go into other hands: for it is holy to the Lord.
Ezekiel 48:16
And these will be its measures: the north side, four thousand five hundred, and the south side, four thousand five hundred, and on the east side, four thousand five hundred, and on the west side, four thousand five hundred.
Ezekiel 48:17
And the town will have a free space on the north of two hundred and fifty, on the south of two hundred and fifty, on the east of two hundred and fifty, and on the west of two hundred and fifty.
Ezekiel 48:18
And the rest, in measure as long as the holy offering, will be ten thousand to the east and ten thousand to the west: and its produce will be for food for the workers of the town.
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Leviticus 25:23
No exchange of land may be for ever, for the land is mine, and you are as my guests, living with me for a time.
Numbers 35:34
Do not make unclean the land where you are living and in which is my House: for I the Lord am present among the children of Israel.
Ezekiel 45:2
Of this, a square five hundred long and five hundred wide is to be for the holy place, with a space of fifty cubits all round it.
Ezekiel 45:3
And of this measure, let a space be measured, twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide: in it there will be the holy place, even the most holy.
Ezekiel 45:4
This holy part of the land is to be for the priests, the servants of the holy place, who come near to the Lord to do his work; it is to be a place for their houses and for grass-land and for cattle.
Ezekiel 45:6
And as the property for the town you are to have a part five thousand wide and twenty-five thousand long, by the side of the offering of the holy part of the land: this is to be for all the children of Israel.
Ezekiel 45:7
And for the ruler there is to be a part on one side and on the other side of the holy offering and of the property of the town, in front of the holy offering and in front of the property of the town on the west of it and on the east: measured in the same line as one of the parts of the land, from its limit on the west to its limit on the east of the land.
Ezekiel 48:9
The offering you will give to the Lord is to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty-five thousand wide.
Ezekiel 48:10
And for these, that is the priests, the holy offering is to be twenty-five thousand long to the north, ten thousand wide to the west, ten thousand wide to the east and twenty-five thousand long to the south; and the holy place of the Lord will be in the middle of it.
Ezekiel 48:11
For the priests who have been made holy, those of the sons of Zadok who kept the orders I gave them, who did not go out of the right way when the children of Israel went from the way, as the Levites did,
Ezekiel 48:12
Even for them will be the offering from the offering of the land, a thing most holy, on the limit of the land given to the Levites.
Ezekiel 48:15
And the other five thousand, measured from side to side, in front of the twenty-five thousand, is to be for common use, for the town, for living in and for a free space: and the town will be in the middle of it.
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Exodus 31:14
So you are to keep the Sabbath as a holy day; and anyone not honouring it will certainly be put to death: whoever does any work on that day will be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 10:10
And make a division between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;
Leviticus 10:11
Teaching the children of Israel all the laws which the Lord has given them by the hand of Moses.
Deuteronomy 17:8
If you are not able to give a decision as to who is responsible for a death, or who is right in a cause, or who gave the first blow in a fight, and there is a division of opinion about it in your town: then go to the place marked out by the Lord your God;
Deuteronomy 17:9
And come before the priests, the Levites, or before him who is judge at the time: and they will go into the question and give you a decision:
Deuteronomy 17:10
And you are to be guided by the decision they give in the place named by the Lord, and do whatever they say:
2 Chronicles 19:8
Then in Jerusalem he gave authority to certain of the Levites and the priests and the heads of families of Israel to give decisions for the Lord, and in the causes of those living in Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 44:23
And they are to make clear to my people the division between what is holy and what is common, and to give them the knowledge of what is clean and what is unclean.
Ezekiel 44:24
In any cause, they are to be in the position of judges, judging in harmony with my decisions: they are to keep my laws and my rules in all my fixed feasts; and they are to keep my Sabbaths holy.
Malachi 2:7
For it is right for the priest's lips to keep knowledge, and for men to be waiting for the law from his mouth: for he is the servant sent from the Lord of armies.
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