Numbers 18

18The LORD said to Aaron, "You, your sons and your ancestral family are to bear the responsibility for offenses connected with the sanctuary, and you and your sons alone are to bear the responsibility for offenses connected with the priesthood.H3068H559H175H1121H1H1004H5375H5771H4720H1121H5375H5771H35502Bring your fellow Levites from your ancestral tribe to join you and assist you when you and your sons minister before the tent of the covenant law.H251H4294H3878H7626H1H7126H3867H8334H1121H6440H168H57153They are to be responsible to you and are to perform all the duties of the tent, but they must not go near the furnishings of the sanctuary or the altar. Otherwise both they and you will die.H8104H4931H4931H168H7126H3627H6944H4196H41914They are to join you and be responsible for the care of the tent of meeting—all the work at the tent—and no one else may come near where you are.H3867H8104H4931H168H4150H5656H168H2114H71265"You are to be responsible for the care of the sanctuary and the altar, so that my wrath will not fall on the Israelites again.H8104H4931H6944H4931H4196H7110H1121H34786I myself have selected your fellow Levites from among the Israelites as a gift to you, dedicated to the LORD to do the work at the tent of meeting.H3947H251H3881H8432H1121H3478H5414H4979H3068H5647H5656H168H41507But only you and your sons may serve as priests in connection with everything at the altar and inside the curtain. I am giving you the service of the priesthood as a gift. Anyone else who comes near the sanctuary is to be put to death."H1121H8104H3550H1697H4196H1004H6532H5647H5414H3550H5656H4979H2114H7131H41918Then the LORD said to Aaron, "I myself have put you in charge of the offerings presented to me; all the holy offerings the Israelites give me I give to you and your sons as your portion, your perpetual share.H3068H1696H175H5414H4931H8641H6944H1121H3478H5414H4888H1121H2706H57699You are to have the part of the most holy offerings that is kept from the fire. From all the gifts they bring me as most holy offerings, whether grain or sin or guilt offerings, that part belongs to you and your sons.H6944H6944H784H7133H4503H2403H817H7725H6944H6944H112110Eat it as something most holy; every male shall eat it. You must regard it as holy.H6944H6944H398H2145H398H694411"This also is yours: whatever is set aside from the gifts of all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I give this to you and your sons and daughters as your perpetual share. Everyone in your household who is ceremonially clean may eat it.H8641H4976H8573H1121H3478H5414H1121H1323H2706H5769H2889H1004H39812"I give you all the finest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain they give the LORD as the firstfruits of their harvest.H2459H3323H2459H8492H1715H7225H5414H3068H541413All the land's firstfruits that they bring to the LORD will be yours. Everyone in your household who is ceremonially clean may eat it.H1061H776H935H3068H2889H1004H39814"Everything in Israel that is devoted to the LORD is yours.H2764H347815The first offspring of every womb, both human and animal, that is offered to the LORD is yours. But you must redeem every firstborn son and every firstborn male of unclean animals.H6363H7358H1320H7126H3068H120H929H1060H120H6299H6299H1060H2931H929H629916When they are a month old, you must redeem them at the redemption price set at five shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs.H6299H2320H1121H6299H6187H3701H2568H8255H8255H6944H6242H162617"But you must not redeem the firstborn of a cow, a sheep or a goat; they are holy. Splash their blood against the altar and burn their fat as a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.H1060H7794H1060H3775H1060H5795H6299H6944H2236H1818H4196H6999H2459H801H5207H7381H306818Their meat is to be yours, just as the breast of the wave offering and the right thigh are yours.H1320H8573H2373H3225H778519Whatever is set aside from the holy offerings the Israelites present to the LORD I give to you and your sons and daughters as your perpetual share. It is an everlasting covenant of salt before the LORD for both you and your offspring."H8641H6944H1121H3478H7311H3068H5414H1121H1323H2706H5769H1285H4417H5769H6440H3068H223320The LORD said to Aaron, "You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any share among them; I am your share and your inheritance among the Israelites.H3068H559H175H5157H776H2506H8432H2506H5159H8432H1121H347821"I give to the Levites all the tithes in Israel as their inheritance in return for the work they do while serving at the tent of meeting.H5414H1121H3878H4643H3478H5159H2500H5656H5647H5656H168H415022From now on the Israelites must not go near the tent of meeting, or they will bear the consequences of their sin and will die.H1121H3478H5750H7126H168H4150H5375H2399H419123It is the Levites who are to do the work at the tent of meeting and bear the responsibility for any offenses they commit against it. This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. They will receive no inheritance among the Israelites.H3881H5647H5656H168H4150H5375H5771H2708H5769H1755H8432H1121H3478H5157H515924Instead, I give to the Levites as their inheritance the tithes that the Israelites present as an offering to the LORD. That is why I said concerning them: 'They will have no inheritance among the Israelites.' "H4643H1121H3478H7311H8641H3068H5414H3881H5159H559H8432H1121H3478H5157H515925The LORD said to Moses,H3068H1696H4872H55926"Speak to the Levites and say to them: 'When you receive from the Israelites the tithe I give you as your inheritance, you must present a tenth of that tithe as the LORD's offering.H1696H3881H559H3947H1121H3478H4643H5414H5159H7311H8641H3068H4643H464327Your offering will be reckoned to you as grain from the threshing floor or juice from the winepress.H8641H2803H1715H1637H4395H334228In this way you also will present an offering to the LORD from all the tithes you receive from the Israelites. From these tithes you must give the LORD's portion to Aaron the priest.H7311H8641H3068H4643H3947H1121H3478H5414H3068H8641H175H354829You must present as the LORD's portion the best and holiest part of everything given to you.'H4979H7311H8641H3068H2459H472030"Say to the Levites: 'When you present the best part, it will be reckoned to you as the product of the threshing floor or the winepress.H559H7311H2459H2803H3881H8393H1637H8393H334231You and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere, for it is your wages for your work at the tent of meeting.H398H4725H1004H7939H2500H5656H168H415032By presenting the best part of it you will not be guilty in this matter; then you will not defile the holy offerings of the Israelites, and you will not die.' "H5375H2399H7311H2459H2490H6944H1121H3478H4191