Hebrews 7:5 Cross References - BBE

⁵ And it is true that by the law, those of the sons of Levi who have the position of priests may take a tenth part of the people's goods; that is to say, they take it from their brothers though these are the sons of Abraham.

¹¹ And God said to him, I am God, the Ruler of all: be fertile, and have increase; a nation, truly a group of nations, will come from you, and kings will be your offspring;

²⁶ All the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt, the offspring of his body, were sixty-six, without taking into account the wives of Jacob's sons.

⁵ All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons: and Joseph had come to Egypt before them.

¹ Now let Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, come near from among the children of Israel, so that they may be my priests, even Aaron, and Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, his sons.

³⁰ And every tenth part of the land, of the seed planted, or of the fruit of trees, is holy to the Lord. ³¹ And if a man has a desire to get back any of the tenth part which he has given, let him give a fifth more. ³² And a tenth part of the herd and of the flock, whatever goes under the rod of the valuer, will be holy to the Lord. ³³ He may not make search to see if it is good or bad, or make any changes in it; and if he makes exchange of it for another, the two will be holy; he will not get them back again.

¹⁰ Letting you, and all your brothers the sons of Levi, come near to him? and would you now be priests? ¹¹ So you and all your band have come together against the Lord; and Aaron, who is he, that you are crying out against him?

³ And let Aaron's name be placed on the rod of Levi: for there is to be one rod for the head of every family. ⁴ And let them be stored up in the Tent of meeting, in front of the ark of witness where I come to you. ⁵ And the rod of that man who is marked out by me for myself will have buds on it; so I will put a stop to the outcries which the children of Israel make to me against you. ⁶ So Moses gave these orders to the children of Israel, and all their chiefs gave him rods, one for the head of every family, making twelve rods: and Aaron's rod was among them. ⁷ And Moses put the rods before the Lord in the Tent of witness. ⁸ Now on the day after, Moses went into the Tent of witness; and he saw that Aaron's rod, the rod of the house of Levi, had put out buds, and was covered with buds and flowers and fruit. ⁹ Then Moses took out all the rods from before the Lord, and gave them back to the children of Israel: and they saw them, and every man took his rod. ¹⁰ And the Lord said to Moses, Put Aaron's rod back in front of the ark of witness, to be kept for a sign against this false-hearted people, so that you may put a stop to their outcries against me, and death may not overtake them.

⁷ And you and your sons with you are to be responsible as priests for the altar and everything on it, and everything inside the veil; you are to do the work of priests; I have given you your position as priests; and any other man who comes near will be put to death.

²¹ And to the children of Levi I have given as their heritage all the tenths offered in Israel, as payment for the work they do, the work of the Tent of meeting. ²² In future the children of Israel are not to come near the Tent of meeting, so that death may not come to them because of sin. ²³ 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. ²⁴ For the tenths which the children of Israel give as a lifted offering to the Lord I have given to the Levites as their heritage. and so I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they will have no heritage. ²⁵ And the Lord said to Moses, ²⁶ Say to the Levites, When you take from the children of Israel the tenth which I have given to you from them as your heritage, a tenth part of that tenth is to be offered as an offering lifted up before the Lord. ²⁷ And this lifted offering is to be put to your credit as if it was grain from the grain-floor and wine from the vines. ²⁸ So you are to make an offering lifted up to the Lord from all the tenths which you get from the children of Israel, giving out of it the Lord's lifted offering to Aaron the priest. ²⁹ From everything given to you, let the best of it, the holy part of it, be offered as a lifted offering to the Lord. ³⁰ Say to them, then, When the best of it is lifted up on high, it is to be put to the account of the Levites as the increase of the grain-floor and of the place where the grapes are crushed. ³¹ It is to be your food, for you and your families in every place: it is your reward for your work in the Tent of meeting. ³² And no sin will be yours on account of it, when the best of it has been lifted up on high; you are not to make a wrong use of the holy things of the children of Israel, so that death may not overtake you.

¹⁹ But you yourself will not be the builder of my house; but your son, the offspring of your body, he it is who will put up a house for my name.

⁴ In addition, he gave orders to the people of Jerusalem to give to the priests and Levites that part which was theirs by right, so that they might be strong in keeping the law of the Lord. ⁵ And when the order was made public, straight away the children of Israel gave, in great amounts, the first-fruits of their grain and wine and oil and honey, and of the produce of their fields; and they took in a tenth part of everything, a great store. ⁶ And the children of Israel and Judah, who were living in the towns of Judah came with the tenth part of their oxen and sheep, and a tenth of all the holy things which were to be given to the Lord their God, and put them in great masses.

¹⁰ And I saw that the Levites had not been given what was needed for their support; so that the Levites and the music-makers, who did the work, had gone away, everyone to his field.

⁴ And no man who is not given authority by God, as Aaron was, takes this honour for himself.

¹⁰ Because he was still in his father's body when Melchizedek came to him.