{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_num018_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_num018_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_num018_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/poly/num018.htm","summary":"This is a parallel-text biblical passage presenting Numbers 18 in two ancient versions side by side: the King James Version (English, with Strong's concordance numbers interleaved) and the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures, abbreviated LXX). The chapter is a priestly legal text from the Torah, belonging to the tradition of Israelite cultic legislation. Its core argument is a divinely mandated economic and social contract: Aaron and his sons receive exclusive rights to serve at the altar and within the sanctuary veil, while the broader tribe of Levi assists them \u2014 and in exchange, priests and Levites receive specific material portions rather than land inheritance. The priests are assigned firstfruits, most holy offerings, firstborn animals, and devoted things; the Levites receive the tithes of all Israel as their inheritance in lieu of land. A notable regulatory claim runs throughout: unauthorized persons (\"strangers\") approaching the sanctuary face death, and this exclusion is what prevents divine wrath from falling on the wider Israelite community. The chapter closes with a second-order tithing rule \u2014 the Levites must themselves tithe a tenth of what they receive from Israel and give it to Aaron, treating it as equivalent in status to a farmer's grain offering.","tags":["Book of Acts","Greek New Testament","Polyglot Bible"],"text":null,"title":"Polyglot Bible: Numbers: Numbers 18","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":3166}