Numbers 18

18The LORD said to Aaron, "You, your sons, and your ancestral house will be responsible for sin against the sanctuary. You and your sons will be responsible for sin involving your priesthood.H3068H559H175H1121H1H1004H5375H5771H4720H1121H5375H5771H35502But also bring your brothers with you from the tribe of Levi, your ancestral tribe, so they may join you and serve with you and your sons in front of the tent of the testimony.H251H4294H3878H7626H1H7126H3867H8334H1121H6440H168H57153They are to perform duties for you and for the whole tent. They must not come near the sanctuary equipment or the altar; otherwise, both they and you will die.H8104H4931H4931H168H7126H3627H6944H4196H41914They are to join you and guard the tent of meeting, doing all the work at the tent, but no unauthorized person may come near you.H3867H8104H4931H168H4150H5656H168H2114H71265"You are to guard the sanctuary and the altar so that wrath may not fall on the Israelites again.H8104H4931H6944H4931H4196H7110H1121H34786Look, I have selected your fellow Levites from the Israelites as a gift for you, assigned by the LORD to work at the tent of meeting.H3947H251H3881H8432H1121H3478H5414H4979H3068H5647H5656H168H41507But you and your sons will carry out your priestly responsibilities for everything concerning the altar and for what is inside the veil, and you will do that work. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift, but an unauthorized person who comes near [the sanctuary] will be put to death."H1121H8104H3550H1697H4196H1004H6532H5647H5414H3550H5656H4979H2114H7131H41918Then the LORD spoke to Aaron, "Look, I have put you in charge of the contributions brought to Me. As for all the holy offerings of the Israelites, I have given them to you and your sons as a portion and a perpetual statute.H3068H1696H175H5414H4931H8641H6944H1121H3478H5414H4888H1121H2706H57699A portion of the holiest offerings [kept] from the fire will be yours; every one of their offerings that they give Me, whether the grain offering, sin offering, or restitution offering will be most holy for you and your sons.H6944H6944H784H7133H4503H2403H817H7725H6944H6944H112110You are to eat it as a most holy offering. Every male may eat it; it is to be holy to you.H6944H6944H398H2145H398H694411"The contribution of their gifts also belongs to you. I have given all the Israelites' presentation offerings to you and to your sons and daughters as a perpetual statute. Every ceremonially clean person in your house may eat it.H8641H4976H8573H1121H3478H5414H1121H1323H2706H5769H2889H1004H39812I am giving you all the best of the fresh olive oil, new wine, and grain, which the Israelites give to the LORD as their firstfruits.H2459H3323H2459H8492H1715H7225H5414H3068H541413The firstfruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the LORD, belong to you. Every clean person in your house may eat them.H1061H776H935H3068H2889H1004H39814"Everything in Israel that is permanently dedicated [to the LORD] belongs to you.H2764H347815The firstborn of every living thing, man or animal, presented to the LORD belongs to you. But you must certainly redeem the firstborn of man, and redeem the firstborn of an unclean animal.H6363H7358H1320H7126H3068H120H929H1060H120H6299H6299H1060H2931H929H629916You will pay the redemption price for a month-old male according to your valuation: five shekels of silver by the standard sanctuary shekel, which is 20 gerahs.H6299H2320H1121H6299H6187H3701H2568H8255H8255H6944H6242H162617"However, you must not redeem the firstborn of an ox, a sheep, or a goat; they are holy. You are to sprinkle their blood on the altar and burn their fat as a fire offering for a pleasing aroma to the LORD.H1060H7794H1060H3775H1060H5795H6299H6944H2236H1818H4196H6999H2459H801H5207H7381H306818But their meat belongs to you. It belongs to you like the breast of the presentation offering and the right thigh.H1320H8573H2373H3225H778519"I give to you and to your sons and daughters all the holy contributions that the Israelites present to the LORD as a perpetual statute. It is a perpetual covenant of salt before the LORD for you as well as your offspring."H8641H6944H1121H3478H7311H3068H5414H1121H1323H2706H5769H1285H4417H5769H6440H3068H223320The LORD told Aaron, "You will not have an inheritance in their land; there will be no portion among them for you. I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites.H3068H559H175H5157H776H2506H8432H2506H5159H8432H1121H347821"Look, I have given the Levites every tenth in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work they do, the work of the tent of meeting.H5414H1121H3878H4643H3478H5159H2500H5656H5647H5656H168H415022The Israelites must never again come near the tent of meeting, or they will incur guilt and die.H1121H3478H5750H7126H168H4150H5375H2399H419123The Levites will do the work of the tent of meeting, and they will bear the [consequences] of their sin. The Levites will not receive an inheritance among the Israelites; this is a perpetual statute throughout your generations.H3881H5647H5656H168H4150H5375H5771H2708H5769H1755H8432H1121H3478H5157H515924For I have given them the tenth that the Israelites present to the LORD as a contribution for [their] inheritance. That is why I told them that they would not receive an inheritance among the Israelites."H4643H1121H3478H7311H8641H3068H5414H3881H5159H559H8432H1121H3478H5157H515925The LORD instructed Moses,H3068H1696H4872H55926"Speak to the Levites and tell them: When you receive from the Israelites the tenth that I have given you as your inheritance, you must present part of it as an offering to the LORD— a tenth of the tenth.H1696H3881H559H3947H1121H3478H4643H5414H5159H7311H8641H3068H4643H464327Your offering will be credited to you as if [it were your] grain from the threshing floor or the full harvest from the winepress.H8641H2803H1715H1637H4395H334228You are to present an offering to the LORD from every tenth you receive from the Israelites. Give some of it to Aaron the priest as an offering to the LORD.H7311H8641H3068H4643H3947H1121H3478H5414H3068H8641H175H354829You must present the entire offering due the LORD from all your gifts. The best part of the tenth is to be consecrated.H4979H7311H8641H3068H2459H472030"Tell them further: Once you have presented the best part of the tenth, and it is credited to you Levites as the produce of the threshing floor or the winepress,H559H7311H2459H2803H3881H8393H1637H8393H334231then you and your household may eat it anywhere. It is your wage in return for your work at the tent of meeting.H398H4725H1004H7939H2500H5656H168H415032You will not incur guilt because of it once you have presented the best part of it, but you must not defile the Israelites' holy offerings, so that you will not die."H5375H2399H7311H2459H2490H6944H1121H3478H4191