Num 18:23 | NET2full | STEP | But the Levites must perform the service of the tent of meeting , and they must bear their iniquity . It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites have no inheritance .

‏ Numbers 18:23

23 But the Levites must perform the service ^{▼▼tn The verse begins with the perfect tense of עָבַד (ʿavad) with vav (ו) consecutive, making the form equal to the instructions preceding it. As its object the verb has the cognate accusative “service.”} of the tent of meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. ^{▼▼sn The Levites have the care of the tent of meeting, and so they are responsible for any transgressions against it.} It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites ^{▼▼tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Levites) has been supplied in the translation for clarity.} have no inheritance. ^{▼▼tn The Hebrew text uses both the verb and the object from the same root to stress the point: They will not inherit an inheritance. The inheritance refers to land.}