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Numbers, 18

1. The LORD said to Aaron, "You and your sons as well as the other members of your ancestral house shall be responsible for the sanctuary; but the responsibility of the priesthood shall rest on you and your sons alone.

1. Yahweh then said to Aaron: 'You, your sons and your ancestor's line with you will be answerable for offences against the sanctuary. You and your sons with you will be answerable for the offences of your priesthood.

2. Bring with you also your other kinsmen of the tribe of Levi, your ancestral tribe, as your associates and assistants, while you and your sons are in front of the tent of the commandments.

2. You will admit your brothers of the branch of Levi, your ancestor's tribe, to join you and serve you, yourself and your sons, before the Tent of the Testimony.

3. They shall look after your persons and the whole tent; however, they shall not come near the sacred vessels or the altar, lest both they and you die.

3. They must be at your service and the service of the whole Tent. Provided they do not come near the sacred vessels or the altar, they will be in no more danger of death than you.

4. As your associates they shall have charge of all the work connected with the meeting tent. But no layman shall come near you.

4. They must join you, they must take charge of the Tent of Meeting for the entire ministry of the Tent, and no unauthorised person will come near you.

5. You shall have charge of the sanctuary and of the altar, that wrath may not fall again upon the Israelites.

5. You will take charge of the sanctuary and charge of the altar, and retribution will never again befall the Israelites.

6. "Remember, it is I who have taken your kinsmen, the Levites, from the body of the Israelites; they are a gift to you, dedicated to the LORD for the service of the meeting tent.

6. Of the Israelites, I myself have chosen your brothers the Levites as a gift to you. As men dedicated, they will belong to Yahweh, to serve at the Tent of Meeting.

7. But only you and your sons are to have charge of performing the priestly functions in whatever concerns the altar and the room within the veil. I give you the priesthood as a gift. Any layman who draws near shall be put to death."

7. You and your sons will undertake the priestly duties in all that concerns the altar and all that lies behind the curtain. You will perform the liturgy, the duties of which I entrust to your priesthood. But an unauthorised person approaching will incur death,'

8. The LORD said to Aaron, "I myself have given you charge of the contributions made to me in the various sacred offerings of the Israelites; by perpetual ordinance I have assigned them to you and to your sons as your priestly share.

8. Yahweh said to Aaron: 'I myself have put you in charge of everything set aside for me. Everything consecrated by the Israelites I give to you and your sons as your portion by perpetual decree.

9. You shall have the right to share in the oblations that are most sacred, in whatever they offer me as cereal offerings or sin offerings or guilt offerings; these shares shall accrue to you and to your sons.

9. Of the things especially holy, of the food offered, this is what will revert to you: every offering that the Israelites give back to me, whether it be a cereal offering, a sacrifice for sin or a sacrifice of reparation, is a thing especially holy and will revert to you and your sons.

10. In eating them you shall treat them as most sacred; every male among you may partake of them. As sacred, they belong to you.

10. You will eat the things especially holy. Every male may eat them. You will regard them as sacred.

11. "You shall also have what is removed from the gift in every wave offering of the Israelites; by perpetual ordinance I have assigned it to you and to your sons and daughters. All in your family who are clean may partake of it.

11. 'To you will revert also whatever is set aside from the offerings of the Israelites, whatever is held out with the gesture of offering; this I give to you and your sons and daughters, by perpetual decree. All members of your household may eat it unless they are unclean.

12. I have also assigned to you all the best of the new oil and of the new wine and grain that they give to the LORD as their first fruits;

12. All the best of the oil, all the best of the new wine and wheat, these first-fruits offered by them to Yahweh I give to you.

13. and likewise, of whatever grows on their land, the first products that they bring in to the LORD shall be yours; all of your family who are clean may partake of them.

13. All the first produce of the country brought by them to Yahweh will revert to you. All members of your household may eat it unless they are unclean.

14. Whatever is doomed in Israel shall be yours.

14. Everything in Israel put under the curse of destruction will revert to you.

15. Every living thing that opens the womb, whether of man or of beast, such as are to be offered to the LORD, shall be yours; but you must let the first-born of man, as well as of unclean animals, be redeemed.

15. Every first-born of all creatures brought to Yahweh, human or animal, will revert to you, but you will have to redeem the first-born of man; you will also redeem the first-born of an unclean animal.

16. The ransom for a boy is to be paid when he is a month old; it is fixed at five silver shekels according to the sanctuary standard, twenty gerahs to the shekel.

16. You will redeem it in the month in which it is born, valuing it at five shekels, at the sanctuary shekel, which is twenty gerah.

17. But the first-born of cattle, sheep or goats shall not be redeemed; they are sacred. Their blood you must splash on the altar and their fat you must burn as a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD.

17. But you will not redeem the first-born of cow, sheep and goat. They are holy: you will sprinkle their blood on the altar and burn the fat as food burnt to be a smell pleasing to Yahweh;

18. Their meat, however, shall be yours, just as the breast and the right leg of the wave offering belong to you.

18. the meat will revert to you, as will the forequarter that has been presented with the gesture of offering, and the right thigh.

19. By perpetual ordinance I have assigned to you and to your sons and daughters all the contributions from the sacred gifts which the Israelites make to the LORD; this is an inviolable covenant to last forever before the LORD, for you and for your descendants."

19. Everything the Israelites set aside for Yahweh from the holy things, I give to you and your sons and daughters, by perpetual decree. This is a covenant of salt for ever before Yahweh, for you and your descendants too.'

20. Then the LORD said to Aaron, "You shall not have any heritage in the land of the Israelites nor hold any portion among them; I will be your portion and your heritage among them.

20. Yahweh said to Aaron: 'You will have no heritage in their country, you will not have a portion like them; I shall be your portion and your heritage among the Israelites.

21. "To the Levites, however, I hereby assign all tithes in Israel as their heritage in recompense for the service they perform in the meeting tent.

21. 'Look, as heritage I give the Levites all the tithes collected in Israel, in return for their services, for the ministry they render in the Tent of Meeting.

22. The Israelites may no longer approach the meeting tent; else they will incur guilt deserving death.

22. The Israelites will no longer approach the Tent of Meeting, on pain of committing a deadly sin.

23. Only the Levites are to perform the service of the meeting tent, and they alone shall be held responsible; this is a perpetual ordinance for all your generations. The Levites, therefore, shall not have any heritage among the Israelites,

23. Levi will discharge the duties of the Tent of Meeting, and the Levites will bear the consequences of their own guilt. This is a perpetual decree binding all your descendants: the Levites will have no heritage among the Israelites,

24. for I have assigned to them as their heritage the tithes which the Israelites give as a contribution to the LORD. That is why I have ordered that they are not to have any heritage among the Israelites."

24. for the tithe which the Israelites set aside for Yahweh is the heritage I have given the Levites. This is why I have told them that they will have no heritage among the Israelites.'

25. The LORD said to Moses,

25. Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,

26. "Give the Levites these instructions: When you receive from the Israelites the tithes I have assigned you from them as your heritage, you are to make a contribution from them to the LORD, a tithe of the tithes;

26. 'Speak to the Levites and say: "When from the Israelites you receive the tithe which I have given you from them as your heritage, you will set a portion of this aside for Yahweh: a tithe of the tithe.

27. and your contribution will be credited to you as if it were grain from the threshing floor or new wine from the press.

27. It will take the place of the portion set aside that is due from you, like the wheat from the threshing-floor and new wine from the press.

28. Thus you too shall make a contribution from all the tithes you receive from the Israelites, handing over to Aaron the priest the part to be contributed to the LORD.

28. Thus you too will set a portion aside for Yahweh out of all the tithes you receive from the Israelites. You will give what you have set aside for Yahweh to the priest Aaron.

29. From all the gifts that you receive, and from the best parts, you are to consecrate to the LORD your own full contribution.

29. Out of all the gifts you receive, you will set a portion aside for Yahweh. Out of all these things, you will set aside the best, the sacred portion."

30. "Tell them also: Once you have made your contribution from the best part, the rest of the tithes will be credited to you Levites as if it were produce of the threshing floor or of the winepress.

30. 'You will say to them, "After you have set the best aside, the remainder will take the place, in the Levites' case, of the produce of the threshing-floor and wine-press.

31. Your families, as well as you, may eat them anywhere, since they are your recompense for service at the meeting tent.

31. You may consume this anywhere, you and the members of your households; this is your recompense for serving in the Tent of Meeting,

32. You will incur no guilt so long as you make a contribution of the best part. Do not profane the sacred gifts of the Israelites and so bring death on yourselves."

32. and you will not incur sin by doing so, once you have set aside the best; you will not be profaning the things consecrated by the Israelites and will not incur death." '



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Alaviitteet:

18:1-7 - Jumala vahvistaa pappien ja leeviläisten roolin tabernaakkelin palveluksessa ja heidän vastuunsa kaikista rikkomuksista. Tämä korostaa puhtauden merkitystä Jumalan palvelemisessa ja johtajien hengellistä vastuuta (ks. myös 1. Piet. 2:9 ja 3. Moos. 10:1-2).

18:8-14 - Papit saavat osan pyhistä uhreista perintönä. Tämä osoittaa, että pappien toimeentulo tulee Herran palvelemisesta ja Hänen varainhoidostaan (ks. myös 1. Kor. 9:13-14 ja 3. Moos. 7:31-34).

18:15-19 - Eläinten esikoinen ja ihmisten esikoisten lunastus annetaan papeille. Tämä käytäntö kuvastaa esikoisten pyhyyttä ja kaikkien esikoisten pyhitystä Jumalalle (ks. myös 2. Moos. 13:2 ja Luuk. 2:23-24).

18:20-24 - Jumala julistaa, ettei leeviläisillä ole perintöä maassa, vaan että Hän itse on heidän perintöosansa. Tämä vahvistaa pappeuden erottamista yksinomaan Jumalalle omistetun palveluksena (ks. myös 5. Moos. 10:9 ja Psalmi 16:5).

18:25-32 - Leeviläisten on puolestaan uhrattava kymmenykset kymmenyksistään Herralle. Tämä osoittaa, että jopa niiden, jotka palvelevat Jumalaa suoraan, täytyy osallistua uhraamiseen ja antautumiseen Herralle (ks. myös Malakia 3:10 ja Hepr. 7:5-6).

Aiheeseen liittyvät säkeet Numbers, 18:

Numeroiden luvussa 18 kuvataan pappien velvollisuuksia ja oikeuksia. Miten Jumala huolehtii omistautuneista palvelijoistaan? Tämä perusteksti kuvaa pappien ja leeviläisten velvollisuuksia sekä heidän tukeaan kymmenysten ja uhrien kautta. Luvussa korostetaan tabernaakkelipalveluksen pyhyyttä ja leeviläisten erottamista tätä tarkoitusta varten. Numerot 18 käsittelevät sellaisia aiheita kuin taloudenhoito, ministeriön tuki ja yksinomaisen jumalanpalvelukselle omistautumisen tärkeys. Tutki kanssamme viittä raamatunkohtaa, jotka korreloivat tämän tärkeän luvun palvelun ja tarjonnan teemojen kanssa.

1 Korinttilaisille 9:13-14: "Ettekö tiedä, että ne, jotka työskentelevät temppelissä, ruokkivat temppelin tavaraa ja että ne, jotka palvelevat alttarin edessä, nauttivat siitä, mitä alttarilla uhrataan? Samalla tavalla Herra käski evankeliumin julistajia elämään evankeliumin mukaan." - Paavali viittaa 4. Moos. 18:ssa vahvistettuun pappien tukijärjestelmään soveltaen sitä evankeliumin palvelijoihin.

Heprealaiskirje 7:5: "Nyt laki vaatii, että Leevin jälkeläiset, joista tulee pappeja, saavat kymmenykset kansalta eli veljiltään, vaikka he ovat myös Abrahamin jälkeläisiä." - Tässä jakeessa mainitaan 4. Moos. 18:ssa perustettu kymmenysjärjestelmä leeviläisten tukemiseksi.

Nehemia 10:37: "Me tuomme myös taikinamme, uhreidemme, kaikkien puiden hedelmien, viinin ja öljyn esikoiset papeille, Jumalamme huoneen kammioihin ja maamme kymmenykset. leeviläisille, sillä he ovat leeviläisiä, jotka keräävät kymmenykset kaikista kaupungeista, joissa me työskentelemme." - Nehemia vahvistaa 4. Mooseksen luvussa 18 määritellyt uhri- ja kymmenyskäytännöt.

Hesekiel 44:30: "Paras kaikista ensihedelmistä ja kaikista heidän lahjoistaan, kaikista heidän kaikenlaisistaan uhreistaan kuuluu papeille. Annat ensimmäisen osan taikinastasi papille, jotta siunaus lepää talossasi." - Hesekiel vahvistaa 4. Mooseksen luvussa 18 vahvistetun ensihedelmäperiaatteen.

Malakia 3:8-10: "Voiko ihminen varastaa Jumalalta? Silti sinä ryöstät minua. Ja he kysyvät edelleen: "Kuinka me ryöstimme sinut?" Kymmenyksissä ja uhreissa. Olet suuren kirouksen alla, koska ryöstät minua; koko kansa ryöstää minua. Tuo kaikki kymmenykset temppelin varastohuoneeseen, jotta talossani olisi ruokaa. Koettele minua, sanoo Herra Sebaot, ja katso, enkö avaa taivaan ovia ja vuodata sinulle niin paljon siunauksia, ettei sinulla ole niitä paikkaa varastoida." - Malakia muistuttaa ihmisiä kymmenysten ja uhrien tärkeydestä, kuten 4. Mooseksen luvussa 18 todetaan.

FAQ:

Mikä on 4. Mooseksen luvussa 18 kuvattujen pappien ja leeviläisten vastuu?

Papit ja leeviläiset ovat vastuussa pyhäköstä ja alttarista. Heidän on estettävä Jumalan vihan lankeaminen israelilaisten päälle huolehtimalla rituaaleista ja tabernaakkelista. (4. Moos. 18:1-7)

Mitä leeviläiset saavat vastineeksi palveluksestaan tabernaakkelissa?

Leeviläiset saavat Israelin lapsilta kymmenykset perintönä vastineeksi palveluksestaan tabernaakkelissa, sillä heillä ei ole osuutta maan perinnöstä. (Num. 18:21)

Miten pappien tulee kohdella pyhiä uhreja?

Pappien on kohdeltava pyhiä uhreja kunnioittavasti, nautittava ne pyhässä paikassa ja varmistettava, että Jumalalle tarkoitetut osat uhrataan asianmukaisesti. (4. Moos. 18:8-19)

Miksi papit ja leeviläiset eivät saaneet maata perinnöksi?

Papit ja leeviläiset eivät saaneet maata perintöosaksi, sillä Herra on heidän perintöosansa. Heidät valittiin palvelemaan tabernaakkelissa ja eläytymään uhreista. (Numerot 18:20)

Mikä oli syy siihen, että leeviläisten ja pappien palvelus erotettiin?

Palvelun erottamisen tarkoituksena oli suojella israelilaisia Jumalan vihalta. Leeviläiset auttoivat tabernaakkelissa, mutta papit suorittivat pyhiä rituaaleja. (4. Moos. 18:22-23)


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