Leviticus 7:36
Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, by a statute for ever throughout their generations. Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, by a statute for ever throughout their generations.
Leviticus 7:36 stands in Leviticus 5 to 7 as part of the instructions for individual offerings in the first seven chapters of Leviticus. Those chapters cover the five kinds of offerings — burnt, meal, peace, sin, and trespass — setting forth the purpose of each offering and the manner of offering it. Leviticus 7 addresses special offerings, including sin offerings, peace offerings, and thank offerings, which cost the worshiper something, with the cost varying according to the person's wealth or position.
The verse commands that the children of Israel give the priests their appointed portions, beginning on the day the priests were anointed, as a lasting statute throughout their generations. This divinely assigned share to the priesthood forms part of the setting and order for the sanctuary's ministry. The verse belongs to the ceremonial law, which was instituted in consequence of sin, with the offerings showing that sin demands a penalty.
When made in faith, these individual offerings represented the transfer of the penitent's sins to the sanctuary through the sacrifice's blood or the priest's ministry. The sacrifices and sanctuary service to which the verse belongs formed a yearly cycle with typological meaning, serving as types pointing to Jesus Christ and typifying His priesthood and ministry in the heavenly sanctuary. The phrase "for ever" translates the Hebrew goh-lahm, which can denote unending duration when applied to God but here marks a ceremonial ordinance lasting only for its appointed period until it was abolished at Christ's death, not lasting as long as God exists.