Numbers 18
- 1And the Lord said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father's house with you shall carry the blame for the wrongdoing of the sanctuary: and you and your sons with you shall carry the blame for the wrongdoing of your priesthood.
- 2And your brothers and sisters also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring you with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you: but you and your sons with you shall minister before the tabernacle of witness.
- 3And they shall keep your charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come near the items of the sanctuary and the altar, so that they, and you also, do not die.
- 4And they shall be joined to you, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and no outsider shall come near to you.
- 5And you shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more on the children of Israel.
- 6And I have taken your brothers and sisters the Levites from among the children of Israel. To you they are given as a gift for the Lord, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
- 7Therefore you and your sons with you shall keep your priest's office for everything of the altar, and within the veil. You shall serve: I have given your priest's office to you as a service of gift: and anyone else who comes near shall be put to death.
- 8And the Lord spoke to Aaron, I also have given you the charge of my gift offerings of all the holy things of the children of Israel. To you have I given them because of the anointing, and to your sons, by a rule for ever.
- 9This shall be your of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, every grain offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every guilt offering of theirs which they shall give to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons.
- 10In the most holy place shall you eat it. Every male shall eat it: it shall be holy to you.
- 11And this is yours. The gift offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, by a law for ever: everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.
- 12All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of these, which they shall offer to the Lord, I have given to you.
- 13And whatever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring to the Lord, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.
- 14Everything devoted in Israel shall be yours.
- 15Everything that opens the womb in all flesh, which they bring to the Lord, whether it is of men or beasts, shall be yours: but the firstborn of man shall you surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean beasts shall you redeem.
- 16And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shall you redeem, according to the value you set, for the money of five pieces of silver, by the official sanctuary weight.
- 17But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem. They are holy: you shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet aroma to the Lord.
- 18And the flesh of them shall be yours, as the breast that is waved and as the right shoulder are yours.
- 19All the gift offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to the Lord, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, by a law for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord to you and to your descendants with you.
- 20And the Lord spoke to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any part among them: I am your part and your inheritance among the children of Israel.
- 21And I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
- 22Neither must the children of Israel from now on come near the tabernacle of the congregation, so they do not bear sin, and die.
- 23But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall carry the blame for their wrongdoing: it shall be a law for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.
- 24But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as a gift offering to the Lord, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
- 25And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
- 26So speak to the Levites, and say to them, When you take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a gift offering of it for the Lord, even a tenth part of the tithe.
- 27And this your gift offering shall be counted to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.
- 28So you also shall offer a gift offering to the Lord of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel. You shall give of it the Lord's gift offering to Aaron the priest.
- 29Out of all your gifts you shall offer every gift offering of the Lord, of all its best, even the holy part of it out of it.
- 30Therefore you shall say to them, When you have heaved its best from it, then it shall be counted to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the winepress.
- 31And you shall eat it in every place, you and your households. For it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.
- 32And you shall bear no sin because of it, when you have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall you pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, or else you will die.
What changed from the KJV
GIGAKJV is a modern English revision of the King James Version. The comparison below uses the project's KJV text in the later 1769 tradition and marks, word by word, each verse of Numbers 18 where the wording differs: struck-through words are the KJV's, highlighted words are GIGAKJV's.
KJVAnd the Lord said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
GIGAKJVAnd the Lord said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father's house with you shall carry the blame for the wrongdoing of the sanctuary: and you and your sons with you shall carry the blame for the wrongdoing of your priesthood.
KJVAnd thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness.
GIGAKJVAnd your brothers and sisters also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring you with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you: but you and your sons with you shall minister before the tabernacle of witness.
KJVAnd they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.
GIGAKJVAnd they shall keep your charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come near the items of the sanctuary and the altar, so that they, and you also, do not die.
KJVAnd they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.
GIGAKJVAnd they shall be joined to you, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and no outsider shall come near to you.
KJVAnd ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.
GIGAKJVAnd you shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more on the children of Israel.
KJVAnd I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the Lord, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
GIGAKJVAnd I have taken your brothers and sisters the Levites from among the children of Israel. To you they are given as a gift for the Lord, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
KJVTherefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for everything of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
GIGAKJVTherefore you and your sons with you shall keep your priest's office for everything of the altar, and within the veil. You shall serve: I have given your priest's office to you as a service of gift: and anyone else who comes near shall be put to death.
KJVAnd the Lord spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.
GIGAKJVAnd the Lord spoke to Aaron, I also have given you the charge of my gift offerings of all the holy things of the children of Israel. To you have I given them because of the anointing, and to your sons, by a rule for ever.
KJVThis shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of their's, every meat offering of their's, and every sin offering of their's, and every trespass offering of their's which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons.
GIGAKJVThis shall be your of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, every grain offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every guilt offering of theirs which they shall give to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons.
KJVIn the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.
GIGAKJVIn the most holy place shall you eat it. Every male shall eat it: it shall be holy to you.
KJVAnd this is thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.
GIGAKJVAnd this is yours. The gift offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, by a law for ever: everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.
KJVAll the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the Lord, them have I given thee.
GIGAKJVAll the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of these, which they shall offer to the Lord, I have given to you.
KJVAnd whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the Lord, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it.
GIGAKJVAnd whatever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring to the Lord, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.
KJVEvery thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.
GIGAKJVEverything devoted in Israel shall be yours.
KJVEvery thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the Lord, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.
GIGAKJVEverything that opens the womb in all flesh, which they bring to the Lord, whether it is of men or beasts, shall be yours: but the firstborn of man shall you surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean beasts shall you redeem.
KJVAnd those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.
GIGAKJVAnd those that are to be redeemed from a month old shall you redeem, according to the value you set, for the money of five pieces of silver, by the official sanctuary weight.
KJVBut the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the Lord.
GIGAKJVBut the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem. They are holy: you shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet aroma to the Lord.
KJVAnd the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine.
GIGAKJVAnd the flesh of them shall be yours, as the breast that is waved and as the right shoulder are yours.
KJVAll the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the Lord, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
GIGAKJVAll the gift offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to the Lord, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, by a law for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord to you and to your descendants with you.
KJVAnd the Lord spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.
GIGAKJVAnd the Lord spoke to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any part among them: I am your part and your inheritance among the children of Israel.
KJVAnd, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
GIGAKJVAnd I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
KJVNeither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.
GIGAKJVNeither must the children of Israel from now on come near the tabernacle of the congregation, so they do not bear sin, and die.
KJVBut the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.
GIGAKJVBut the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall carry the blame for their wrongdoing: it shall be a law for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.
KJVBut the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave offering unto the Lord, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
GIGAKJVBut the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as a gift offering to the Lord, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
KJVAnd the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
GIGAKJVAnd the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
KJVThus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the Lord, even a tenth part of the tithe.
GIGAKJVSo speak to the Levites, and say to them, When you take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a gift offering of it for the Lord, even a tenth part of the tithe.
KJVAnd this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
GIGAKJVAnd this your gift offering shall be counted to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.
KJVThus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the Lord of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the Lord'S heave offering to Aaron the priest.
GIGAKJVSo you also shall offer a gift offering to the Lord of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel. You shall give of it the Lord's gift offering to Aaron the priest.
KJVOut of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the Lord, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.
GIGAKJVOut of all your gifts you shall offer every gift offering of the Lord, of all its best, even the holy part of it out of it.
KJVTherefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.
GIGAKJVTherefore you shall say to them, When you have heaved its best from it, then it shall be counted to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the winepress.
KJVAnd ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.
GIGAKJVAnd you shall eat it in every place, you and your households. For it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.
KJVAnd ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.
GIGAKJVAnd you shall bear no sin because of it, when you have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall you pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, or else you will die.
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