But 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.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Les Lévites feront le service de la tente d'assignation, et ils resteront chargés de leurs iniquités. Ils n'auront point de possession au milieu des enfants d'Israël: ce sera une loi perpétuelle parmi vos descendants.
KJV
But 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.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
Objection 4: Further, in the Old Law men were bound to pay three kinds of tithe. For it is written ( Num. 18:23,24 ): "The sons of Levi . . . shall . . . be content with the oblation of tithes, which I have separated for their uses and necessities." Again, there were other tithes…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
Levites in the Old Testament, because they had no portion in the people's possessions, according to Num. 18:23,24. But in the New Testament the clergy have possessions not only ecclesiastical, but sometimes also patrimonial: moreover they receive first-fruits, and oblations for t…
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