Jesus is Our Inheritance: Numbers 18:19-20 NKJV
Key Verse(s): Numbers 18:19-20 NKJV – “All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to the Lord, I have given to you and your sons and daughters with you as an ordinance forever; it is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord with you and your descendants with you.” Then the Lord said to Aaron: “You shall have no inheritance in their…
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