18GOD said to Aaron, "You and your sons, along with your father's family, are responsible for taking care of sins having to do with the Sanctuary; you and your sons are also responsible for sins involving the priesthood.H3068H559H175H1121H1H1004H5375H5771H4720H1121H5375H5771H35502So enlist your brothers of the tribe of Levi to join you and assist you and your sons in your duties in the Tent of Testimony.H251H4294H3878H7626H1H7126H3867H8334H1121H6440H168H57153They will report to you as they go about their duties related to the Tent, but they must not have anything to do with the holy things of the Altar under penalty of death—both they and you will die!H8104H4931H4931H168H7126H3627H6944H4196H41914They are to work with you in taking care of the Tent of Meeting, whatever work is involved in the Tent. Outsiders are not allowed to help you.H3867H8104H4931H168H4150H5656H168H2114H71265"Your job is to take care of the Sanctuary and the Altar so that there will be no more outbreaks of anger on the People of Israel.H8104H4931H6944H4931H4196H7110H1121H34786I personally have picked your brothers, the Levites, from Israel as a whole. I'm giving them to you as a gift, a gift of GOD, to help with the work of the Tent of Meeting.H3947H251H3881H8432H1121H3478H5414H4979H3068H5647H5656H168H41507But only you and your sons may serve as priests, working around the Altar and inside the curtain. The work of the priesthood is my exclusive gift to you; it cannot be delegated—anyone else who invades the Sanctuary will be executed."H1121H8104H3550H1697H4196H1004H6532H5647H5414H3550H5656H4979H2114H7131H41918GOD spoke to Aaron, "I am personally putting you in charge of my contributions, all the holy gifts I get from the People of Israel. I am turning them over to you and your children for your personal use. This is the standing rule.H3068H1696H175H5414H4931H8641H6944H1121H3478H5414H4888H1121H2706H57699You and your sons get what's left from the offerings, whatever hasn't been totally burned up on the Altar—the leftovers from Grain-Offerings, Absolution-Offerings, and Compensation-Offerings.H6944H6944H784H7133H4503H2403H817H7725H6944H6944H112110Eat it reverently; it is most holy; every male may eat it. Treat it as holy.H6944H6944H398H2145H398H694411"You also get the Wave-Offerings from the People of Israel. I present them to you and your sons and daughters as a gift. This is the standing rule. Anyone in your household who is ritually clean may eat it.H8641H4976H8573H1121H3478H5414H1121H1323H2706H5769H2889H1004H39812I also give you all the best olive oil, the best new wine, and the grain that is offered to GOD as the firstfruits of their harvest—H2459H3323H2459H8492H1715H7225H5414H3068H541413all the firstfruits they offer to GOD are yours. Anyone in your household who is ritually clean may eat it.H1061H776H935H3068H2889H1004H39814"You get every Totally-Devoted gift.H2764H347815Every firstborn that is offered to GOD, whether animal or person, is yours. Except you don't get the firstborn itself, but its redemption price; firstborn humans and ritually clean animals are bought back and you get the redemption price.H6363H7358H1320H7126H3068H120H929H1060H120H6299H6299H1060H2931H929H629916When the firstborn is a month old it must be redeemed at the redemption price of five shekels of silver, using the standard of the Sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs.H6299H2320H1121H6299H6187H3701H2568H8255H8255H6944H6242H162617"On the other hand, you don't redeem a firstborn ox, sheep, or goat—they are holy. Instead splash their blood on the Altar and burn their fat as a Fire-Gift, a pleasing fragrance to GOD.H1060H7794H1060H3775H1060H5795H6299H6944H2236H1818H4196H6999H2459H801H5207H7381H306818But you get the meat, just as you get the breast from the Wave-Offering and the right thigh.H1320H8573H2373H3225H778519All the holy offerings that the People of Israel set aside for GOD, I'm turning over to you and your children. That's the standard rule and includes both you and your children—a Covenant-of-Salt, eternal and unchangeable before GOD."H8641H6944H1121H3478H7311H3068H5414H1121H1323H2706H5769H1285H4417H5769H6440H3068H223320GOD said to Aaron, "You won't get any inheritance in land, not so much as a small plot of ground: I am your plot of ground, I am your inheritance among the People of Israel.H3068H559H175H5157H776H2506H8432H2506H5159H8432H1121H347821"I'm giving the Levites all the tithes of Israel as their pay for the work they do in the Tent of Meeting.H5414H1121H3878H4643H3478H5159H2500H5656H5647H5656H168H415022Starting now, the rest of the People of Israel cannot wander in and out of the Tent of Meeting; they'll be penalized for their sin and the penalty is death.H1121H3478H5750H7126H168H4150H5375H2399H419123It's the Levites and only the Levites who are to work in the Tent of Meeting and they are responsible for anything that goes wrong. This is the regular rule for all time. They get no inheritance among the People of Israel;H3881H5647H5656H168H4150H5375H5771H2708H5769H1755H8432H1121H3478H5157H515924instead I turn over to them the tithes that the People of Israel present as an offering to GOD. That's why I give the ruling: They are to receive no land-inheritance among the People of Israel."H4643H1121H3478H7311H8641H3068H5414H3881H5159H559H8432H1121H3478H5157H515925GOD spoke to Moses:H3068H1696H4872H55926"Speak to the Levites. Tell them, When you get the tithe from the People of Israel, the inheritance that I have assigned to you, you must tithe that tithe and present it as an offering to GOD.H1696H3881H559H3947H1121H3478H4643H5414H5159H7311H8641H3068H4643H464327Your offerings will be treated the same as other people's gifts of grain from the threshing floor or wine from the wine vat.H8641H2803H1715H1637H4395H334228This is your procedure for making offerings to GOD from all the tithes you get from the People of Israel: give GOD's portion from these tithes to Aaron the priest.H7311H8641H3068H4643H3947H1121H3478H5414H3068H8641H175H354829Make sure that GOD's portion is the best and holiest of everything you get.H4979H7311H8641H3068H2459H472030"Tell the Levites, When you offer the best part, the rest will be treated the same as grain from the threshing floor or wine from the wine vat that others give.H559H7311H2459H2803H3881H8393H1637H8393H334231You and your households are free to eat the rest of it anytime and anyplace—it's your wages for your work at the Tent of Meeting.H398H4725H1004H7939H2500H5656H168H415032By offering the best part, you'll avoid guilt, you won't desecrate the holy offerings of the People of Israel, and you won't die."H5375H2399H7311H2459H2490H6944H1121H3478H4191
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