NU-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.

NU-18:2  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.

NU-18:3  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.

NU-18:4  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.

NU-18:5  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.

NU-18:6  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.

NU-18:7  Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your

priest's office

for every thing of the altar, and within the veil; 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.

NU-18:8  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.

NU-18:9  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.

NU-18:10  In the most holy [place] shalt thou eat it; every male

shall eat it:

it shall be holy unto thee.

NU-18:11  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.

NU-18:12  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.

NU-18:13  [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.

NU-18:14  Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.

NU-18:15  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.

NU-18:16  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.

NU-18:17  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.

NU-18:18  And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave

breast and as the

right shoulder are thine.

NU-18:19  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.

NU-18:20  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.

NU-18:21  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.

NU-18:22  Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come

nigh the

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

NU-18:23  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.

NU-18:24  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.

NU-18:25  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

NU-18:26  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.

NU-18:27  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.

NU-18:28  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.

NU-18:29  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.

NU-18:30  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.

NU-18:31  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.

NU-18:32  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.

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