Nombres 18:23

Louis Segond

Les Lévites feront le service de la tente d'assignation, et ils resteront chargés de leurs iniquités. Ils n'auront point de possession au milieu des enfants d'Israël: ce sera une loi perpétuelle parmi vos descendants.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Mais ce sont les Lévites qui feront le service du tabernacle d'assignation, et ce sont eux qui porteront leur iniquité; ce sera une ordonnance perpétuelle dans vos générations; et ils ne posséderont point d'héritage au milieu des enfants d'Israël.

Darby's French Translation
mais le Lévite, lui, s'emploiera au service de la tente d'assignation, et ils porteront leur iniquité; c'est un statut perpétuel en vos générations. Et ils ne posséderont pas d'héritage au milieu des fils d'Israël;

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Mais les Lévites s'emploieront au service du Tabernacle d'assignation et ils porteront leur iniquité; cette ordonnance sera perpétuelle en vos âges, et ils ne posséderont point d'héritage parmi les enfants d'Israël.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

do the service: Numbers 3:7

among: Numbers 18:20

Reciprocal: Exodus 27:21 - a statute for ever Leviticus 23:21 - a statute Numbers 14:34 - shall ye bear Numbers 31:30 - keep the Deuteronomy 12:12 - General Joshua 18:7 - the Levites John 1:29 - taketh Hebrews 9:28 - to bear

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation,.... In guarding the tabernacle, that no unclean persons enter into it, or any others take anything out of it, and in assisting the priests in their service, and carrying the vessels of the sanctuary when required:

and they shall bear their iniquity: that is, when they fail in the duty of their office, are not careful in their service and work, and business appointed them; if either they did not do their business themselves, or suffered others to do it, or such to come to the tabernacle who should not, they would be blameworthy and suffer for it:

[it shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations, that the children of Israel they have no inheritance; having such a plentiful provision made for them, by a statute as durable as this.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bear their iniquity - The words probably refer to the iniquity of the people; who would, had they approached the tabernacle have fallen, from their proneness to transgress, into overt acts of offence. Against such a result they were, through the ministrations of the Levites, mercifully protected. Compare Numbers 18:1.