The First Book of Moses, Commonly Called Numbers (WEB)
18: 1Yahweh said to Aaron, You and your sons and your fathers' house with you shall bear the
iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your
priesthood. 18:2Your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring you near with
you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you: but you and your sons with you shall be
before the tent of the testimony. 18:3They shall keep your charge, and the charge of all the Tent:
only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die,
neither they, nor you. 18:4They shall be joined to you, and keep the charge of the tent of meeting,
for all the service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not come near to you. 18:5You shall keep the
charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar; that there be wrath no more on the children of
Israel. 18:6I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you
they are a gift, given to Yahweh, to do the service of the tent of meeting. 18:7You and your sons
with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and
you shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger who comes near
shall be put to death. 18:8Yahweh spoke to Aaron, I, behold, I have given you the charge of my
heave-offerings, even all the holy things of the children of Israel; to you have I given them by
reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever. 18:9This shall be your of the most
holy things, reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal-offering of theirs, and
every sin-offering of theirs, and every trespass-offering of theirs, which they shall render to me,
shall be most holy for you and for your sons. 18:10As the most holy things shall you eat of it; every
male shall eat of it: it shall be holy to you. 18:11This is your: the heave-offering of their gift, even all
the wave-offerings of the children of Israel; I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your
daughters with you, as a portion forever; everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it. 18:12All
the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which
they give to Yahweh, to you have I given them. 18:13The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land,
which they bring to Yahweh, shall be your; everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.
18:14Everything devoted in Israel shall be your. 18:15Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh
which they offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal shall be your: nevertheless the firstborn of
man shall you surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals shall you redeem. 18:16Those who
are to be redeemed of them from a month old shall you redeem, according to your estimation, for
the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary (the same is twenty gerahs). 18:17But the
firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem; they
are holy: you shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made
by fire, for a sweet savor to Yahweh. 18:18The flesh of them shall be your, as the wave-breast and as
the right thigh, it shall be your. 18:19All the heave-offerings of the holy things, which the children of
Israel offer to Yahweh, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion
forever: it is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to your seed with you.
18:20Yahweh said to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any
portion among them: I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel. 18:21To
the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for
their service which they serve, even the service of the tent of meeting. 18:22Henceforth the children
of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die. 18:23But the Levites
shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute
forever throughout your generations; and among the children of Israel they shall have no
inheritance. 18:24For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a heave-offering to
Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance: therefore I have said to them, Among the
children of Israel they shall have no inheritance. 18:25Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 18:26Moreover
you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, When you take of the children of Israel the tithe
which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a heave-offering of
it for Yahweh, a tithe of the tithe. 18:27Your heave-offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it
were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress. 18:28Thus you also shall
offer a heave-offering to Yahweh of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel;
and of it you shall give Yahweh's heave-offering to Aaron the priest. 18:29Out of all your gifts you
shall offer every heave-offering of Yahweh, of all the best of it, even the holy part of it out of it.
18:30Therefore you shall tell them, When you heave the best of it from it, then it shall be reckoned to
the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the wine-press. 18:31You
shall eat it in every place, you and your households: for it is your reward in return for your service
in the tent of meeting. 18:32You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it the
best of it: and you shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that you not die.
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