The Levites

“To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the Tent of Meeting.

“Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, ‘When you take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a wave offering of it for Yahweh, a tithe of the tithe.

The priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the rooms, into the treasure house.

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies. — read the full passage →

“‘All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is Yahweh’s. It is holy to Yahweh.

At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates. — read the full passage →

For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a wave offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said to them, ‘Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.’”

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

“Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.

Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings. — read the full passage →

Now in the second year of their coming to God’s house at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, began the work and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of Yahweh’s house.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.

You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes out of the field year by year. — read the full passage →

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your seed.’ — read the full passage →

then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God’s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give the tenth to you.”

There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.

Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge? — read the full passage →

Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia; — read the full passage →

If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don’t preach the Good News. — read the full passage →

Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor.

“Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?”

God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

“Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God, — read the full passage →

After they were silent, James answered, “Brothers, listen to me.

When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all things that God had done with them. — read the full passage →

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.” — read the full passage →

So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed.

Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

Yahweh answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.

For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.

Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.

Yahweh, my heart isn’t haughty, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.

Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations. — read the full passage →

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. — read the full passage →

If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

“Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God. — read the full passage →

The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.

You shall not eat any abominable thing.

and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave him a tenth of all.

Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High. — read the full passage →

In the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim, — read the full passage →

I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,

with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality.”

The beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.

Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don’t measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.

For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh; — read the full passage →

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;

On the first day of the week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.

The priests the Levites, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire and his portion.

and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.

“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderer’s soap;

“Speak now to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying,

Of them also will I take for priests and for Levites,” says Yahweh.

On that day were men appointed over the rooms for the treasures, for the wave offerings, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, according to the fields of the cities, the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites who waited.

Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from your midst, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.

The priests the Levites, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire and his portion. — read the full passage →

Behold, I myself have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel. They are a gift to you, dedicated to Yahweh, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting.

Yahweh said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your fathers’ house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. — read the full passage →

When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.