as a "covenant of salt", but God also told Aaron that the priests would have no territorial share among the Israelites, as God was their portion and their share. Seventh reading — Numbers 18:21–32 In the seventh reading (, aliyah), God gave the Levites all the tithes in Israel as their share in return for the services of the Tent of Meeting, but they too would have no territorial share among the Israelites. God told Moses to instruct the Levites to set aside one-tenth of the tithes they received as a gift to God. Readings according to the triennial cycle Jews who read the Torah according to the triennial cycle of Torah reading read the parashah according to the following schedule: In inner-biblical interpretation The parashah has parallels or is discussed in these Biblical sources: Numbers chapter 16 In , Moses interceded on behalf of the community, as Abraham had in , when Abraham asked God whether God would "sweep away the righteous with the wicked." Similarly, in , Moses raised the question of collective responsibility: If one person sins, will God punish the entire community? And similarly, in 2 Samuel and 1 Chronicles , David asked why God punished all the people with pestilence. and 20 answer that God will punish only the individual who sins, and affirms that God will judge every person according to that person's acts. Numbers chapter 18 In and , God spoke directly to Aaron, whereas more frequently in the Torah, God spoke "to Moses" or "to Moses and Aaron." describes how (out of greed) priests who were descended from Eli sent their servants to collect uncooked meat from the people, instead of taking their entitlement in accordance with . The description of the Aaronic covenant as a "covenant of salt" in is mirrored by the description in of God's covenant with the Davidic kings of Israel as a "covenant of salt." In early nonrabbinic interpretation The parashah has parallels or is discussed in these early nonrabbinic sources: Numbers chapter 16 The 1st or 2nd century CE author Pseudo-Philo read the commandment to wear blue tassels, or tzitzit, in together with the story of Korah's rebellion that follows immediately after in . Pseudo-Philo reported that God commanded Moses about the tassels, and then Korah and the 200 men with him rebelled, asking why that unbearable law had been imposed on them. The first-century Roman-Jewish