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THE LEVITES
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Numbers xviii. 22. Neither must the children of
Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the
congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.
23. 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.
24. But the tithes of the children of Israel, which
they offer as a peace-offering unto the Lord, I have
given to the Levites to inherit.
Deut. xxxiii. 9. Who said unto his father and to
his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he
acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children :
10. They shall teach Jacob thy judgments and
Israel thy law; they shall put incense before thee, and
whole-burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.
11. Bless, Lord, his substance, and accept the work
of his hands : smite through the loins of them that rise
against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise
not again.
Thus another opportunity occurs of
demonstrating the divine institution and
authority of the order of the priesthood, of
which the Pope was the head in the second
dispensation.
On the left hand, Moses gives his rod
to a stately young man kneeling on the
ground.
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Numbers xviii. 22. Neither must the children of
Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the
congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.
23. 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.
24. But the tithes of the children of Israel, which
they offer as a peace-offering unto the Lord, I have
given to the Levites to inherit.
Deut. xxxiii. 9. Who said unto his father and to
his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he
acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children :
10. They shall teach Jacob thy judgments and
Israel thy law; they shall put incense before thee, and
whole-burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.
11. Bless, Lord, his substance, and accept the work
of his hands : smite through the loins of them that rise
against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise
not again.
Thus another opportunity occurs of
demonstrating the divine institution and
authority of the order of the priesthood, of
which the Pope was the head in the second
dispensation.
On the left hand, Moses gives his rod
to a stately young man kneeling on the
ground.
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