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What does Numbers 18:25 mean?
"Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,"
— Numbers 18:25 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.
But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. Among the children of Israel, they shall have no inheritance.
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.’”
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
“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.
Your wave offering shall be credited to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the wine press.
Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to Yahweh of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and of it you shall give Yahweh’s wave offering to Aaron the priest.
Explanation
Numbers 18:25 is a brief transitional statement: "Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying." In plain language, it simply announces that God is about to give Moses a new instruction. It doesn't contain content in itself but serves as the doorway into the message that follows — in this case, God's command that the Levites must give a tenth of the tithes they receive from the Israelites back to Aaron the priest as their own contribution to the Lord (Numbers 18:26-32).
This phrase appears constantly throughout the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers as a formal introduction to divine revelation. The book of Numbers records Israel's journey from Sinai toward the
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