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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