Numbers 18:23
ContextNET © | But the Levites must perform the service 1 of the tent of meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. 2 It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites 3 have no inheritance. 4 |
NIV © | It is the Levites who are to do the work at the Tent of Meeting and bear the responsibility for offences against it. This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. They will receive no inheritance among the Israelites. |
NASB © | "Only the Levites shall perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the sons of Israel they shall have no inheritance. |
NLT © | The Levites must serve at the Tabernacle, and they will be held responsible for any offenses against it. This is a permanent law among you. But the Levites will receive no inheritance of land among the Israelites, |
MSG © | It's the Levites and only the Levites who are to work in the Tent of Meeting and they are responsible for anything that goes wrong. This is the regular rule for all time. They get no inheritance among the People of Israel; |
BBE © | But the Levites are to do the work of the Tent of meeting, and be responsible for errors in connection with it: this is a law for ever through all your generations; and among the children of Israel they will have no heritage. |
NRSV © | But the Levites shall perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear responsibility for their own offenses; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations. But among the Israelites they shall have no allotment, |
NKJV © | "But the Levites shall perform the work of the tabernacle of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity; it shall be a statute forever, throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance. |
KJV | |
NASB © | "Only the Levites <03881> shall perform <05647> the service <05656> of the tent <0168> of meeting <04150> , and they shall bear <05375> their iniquity <05771> ; it shall be a perpetual <05769> statute <02708> throughout your generations <01755> , and among <08432> the sons <01121> of Israel <03478> they shall have <05157> no <03808> inheritance .<05159> |
HEBREW | |
LXXM | |
NET © [draft] ITL | But <05647> the Levites <03881> must <0853> perform <05647> the service <05656> of the tent <0168> of meeting <04150> , and they <01992> must bear <05375> their iniquity <05771> . It will be a perpetual <05769> ordinance <02708> throughout your generations <01755> that among <08432> the Israelites <03478> the Levites have no <03808> inheritance .<05159> |
NET © | But the Levites must perform the service 1 of the tent of meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. 2 It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites 3 have no inheritance. 4 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn The verse begins with the perfect tense of עָבַד (’avad) with vav (ו) consecutive, making the form equal to the instructions preceding it. As its object the verb has the cognate accusative “service.” 2 sn The Levites have the care of the tent of meeting, and so they are responsible for any transgressions against it. 3 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Levites) has been supplied in the translation for clarity. 4 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. |