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Numbers

Chapter 18

1 And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's

house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and

thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

2 And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy

father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and

minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister

before the tabernacle of witness.

3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the

tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary

and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.

4 And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the

tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle:

and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.

5 And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of

the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.

6 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among

the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the LORD,

to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.

7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's

office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall

serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift:

and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

8 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the

charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the

children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the

anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.

9 This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the

fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and

every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs,

which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for

thy sons.

10 In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat

it: it shall be holy unto thee.

11 And this is thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all

the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto

thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for

ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.

12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of

the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the

LORD, them have I given thee.

13 And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring

unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house

shall eat of it.

14 Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.

15 Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they

bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine:

nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the

firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.

16 And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou

redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels,

after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.

17 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the

firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt

sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an

offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.

18 And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as

the right shoulder are thine.

19 All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children

of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy

daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt

for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.

20 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in

their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part

and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.

21 And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in

Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the

service of the tabernacle of the congregation.

22 Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the

tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.

23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the

congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute

for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel

they have no inheritance.

24 But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an

heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit:

therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they

shall have no inheritance.

25 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

26 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of

the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for

your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for

the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe.

27 And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as

though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of

the winepress.

28 Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all

your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall

give thereof the LORD'S heave offering to Aaron the priest.

29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the

LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of

it.

30 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best

thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the

increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.

31 And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for

it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the

congregation.

32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved

from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the

children of Israel, lest ye die.