Numbers 18
18AND THE Lord said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father's house with you shall bear {and} remove the iniquity of the sanctuary [that is, the guilt for the offenses which the people unknowingly commit when brought into contact with the manifestations of God's presence]. And you and your sons with you shall bear {and} remove the iniquity of your priesthood [your own unintentional offenses].H3068H559H175H1121H1H1004H5375H5771H4720H1121H5375H5771H35502And your brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your [fore]father, bring with you, that they may be joined to you and minister to you; but only you and your sons with you shall come before the Tent of the Testimony [into the Holy Place where only priests may go and into the Most Holy Place which only the high priest dares enter].H251H4294H3878H7626H1H7126H3867H8334H1121H6440H168H57153And the Levites shall attend you [as servants] and attend to all the duties of the Tent; only they shall not come near the sacred vessels of the sanctuary or to the brazen altar, that they and also you [Aaron] die not.H8104H4931H4931H168H7126H3627H6944H4196H41914And they shall be joined to you and attend to the duties of the Tent of Meeting--all the [menial] service of the Tent--and no stranger [no layman, anyone who is not a Levite] shall come near you [Aaron and your sons].H3867H8104H4931H168H4150H5656H168H2114H71265And you shall attend to the duties of the sanctuary and attend to the altar [of burnt offering and the altar of incense], that there be no wrath any more upon the Israelites [as in the incident of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram].H8104H4931H6944H4931H4196H7110H1121H34786And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the Israelites; to you they are a gift, given to the Lord, to do the [menial] service of the Tent of Meeting.H3947H251H3881H8432H1121H3478H5414H4979H3068H5647H5656H168H41507Therefore you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for everything of the altar [of burnt offering and the altar of incense] and [of the Holy of Holies] within the veil, and you shall serve. I give you your priesthood as a service of gift. And the stranger [anyone other than Moses or your sons, Aaron] who comes near shall be put to death.H1121H8104H3550H1697H4196H1004H6532H5647H5414H3550H5656H4979H2114H7131H41918And the Lord said to Aaron, And I, behold, I have given you the charge of My heave offerings [whatever is taken out and kept of the offerings made to Me], all the dedicated {and} consecrated things of the Israelites; to you have I given them [as your portion] and to your sons as a continual allowance forever by reason of your anointing as priests.H3068H1696H175H5414H4931H8641H6944H1121H3478H5414H4888H1121H2706H57699This shall be yours of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every offering of the people, every cereal offering and sin offering and trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to Me, shall be most holy for you [Aaron] and for your sons.H6944H6944H784H7133H4503H2403H817H7725H6944H6944H112110As the most holy thing {and} in a sacred place shall you eat of it; every male [of your house] shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you.H6944H6944H398H2145H398H694411And this also is yours: the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given them to you and to your sons and to your daughters with you as a continual allowance forever; everyone in your house who is [ceremonially] clean may eat of it.H8641H4976H8573H1121H3478H5414H1121H1323H2706H5769H2889H1004H39812All the best of the oil, and all the best of the [fresh] wine and of the grain, the firstfruits of what they give to the Lord, to you have I given them.H2459H3323H2459H8492H1715H7225H5414H3068H541413Whatever is first ripe in the land, which they bring to the Lord, shall be yours. Everyone who is [ceremonially] clean in your house may eat of it.H1061H776H935H3068H2889H1004H39814Every devoted thing in Israel [everything that has been vowed to the Lord] shall be yours.H2764H347815Everything that first opens the womb in all flesh, which they bring to the Lord, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be yours. Nevertheless the firstborn of man you shall surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts you shall redeem.H6363H7358H1320H7126H3068H120H929H1060H120H6299H6299H1060H2931H929H629916And those that are to be redeemed of them, from a month old shall you redeem, according to your estimate [of their age], for the fixed price of five shekels in silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.H6299H2320H1121H6299H6187H3701H2568H8255H8255H6944H6242H162617But the firstling of a cow or of a sheep or of a goat you shall not redeem. They [as the firstborn of clean beasts belong to God and] are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood upon the altar and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet {and} soothing odor to the Lord.H1060H7794H1060H3775H1060H5795H6299H6944H2236H1818H4196H6999H2459H801H5207H7381H306818And the flesh of them shall be yours, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are yours.H1320H8573H2373H3225H778519All the heave offerings [the lifted-out and kept portions] of the holy things which the Israelites give to the Lord I give to you and to your sons and your daughters with you, as a continual debt forever. It is a covenant of salt [that cannot be dissolved or violated] forever before the Lord for you [Aaron] and for your posterity with you.H8641H6944H1121H3478H7311H3068H5414H1121H1323H2706H5769H1285H4417H5769H6440H3068H223320And the Lord said to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in the land [of the Israelites], neither shall you have any part among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites.H3068H559H175H5157H776H2506H8432H2506H5159H8432H1121H347821And, behold, I have given the Levites all the tithes in Israel for an inheritance in return for their service which they serve, the [menial] service of the Tent of Meeting.H5414H1121H3878H4643H3478H5159H2500H5656H5647H5656H168H415022Henceforth the Israelites shall not come near the Tent of Meeting [the covered sanctuary, the Holy Place, and the Holy of Holies], lest they incur guilt and die.H1121H3478H5750H7126H168H4150H5375H2399H419123But the Levites shall do the [menial] service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear and remove the iniquity of the people [that is, be answerable for the legal pollutions of the holy things and offer the necessary atonements for unintentional offenses in these matters]. It shall be a statute forever in all your generations, that among the Israelites the Levites have no inheritance [of land].H3881H5647H5656H168H4150H5375H5771H2708H5769H1755H8432H1121H3478H5157H515924But the tithes of the Israelites, which they present as an offering to the Lord, I have given to the Levites to inherit; therefore I have said to them, Among the Israelites they shall have no inheritance. [They have homes and cities and pasturage to use but not to possess as their personal inheritance.]H4643H1121H3478H7311H8641H3068H5414H3881H5159H559H8432H1121H3478H5157H515925And the Lord said to Moses,H3068H1696H4872H55926Moreover, you shall say to the Levites, When you take from the Israelites the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present an offering from it to the Lord, even a tenth of the tithe [paid by the people].H1696H3881H559H3947H1121H3478H4643H5414H5159H7311H8641H3068H4643H464327And what you lift out and keep [your heave offering] shall be credited to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor or as the fully ripe produce of the vine.H8641H2803H1715H1637H4395H334228Likewise you shall also present an offering to the Lord of all your tithes which you receive from the Israelites; and therefore you shall give this heave offering [lifted out and kept] for the Lord to Aaron the priest.H7311H8641H3068H4643H3947H1121H3478H5414H3068H8641H175H354829Out of all the gifts to you, you shall present every offering due to the Lord, of all the best of it, even the hallowed part lifted out {and} held back out of it [for the Levites].H4979H7311H8641H3068H2459H472030Therefore you shall say to them, When you have lifted out {and} held back the best from it [and presented it to the Lord by giving it to yourselves, the Levites], then it shall be counted to [you] the Levites just as if it were the increase of the threshing floor or of the winepress.H559H7311H2459H2803H3881H8393H1637H8393H334231And you may eat it in every place, you and your households, for it is your reward for your service in the Tent of Meeting.H398H4725H1004H7939H2500H5656H168H415032And you shall be guilty of no sin by reason of it when you have lifted out {and} held back the best of it; neither shall you have polluted the holy things of the Israelites, neither shall you die [because of it].H5375H2399H7311H2459H2490H6944H1121H3478H4191
Numbers 19
19AND THE Lord said to Moses and Aaron,H3068H1696H4872H175H5592This is the ritual of the law which the Lord has commanded: Tell the Israelites to bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, upon which a yoke has never come.H2708H8451H3068H6680H559H1696H1121H3478H3947H122H6510H8549H3971H3808H5927H59233And you shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her outside the camp, and she shall be slaughtered before him.H5414H499H3548H3318H2351H4264H7819H64404Eleazar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger and sprinkle it toward the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times.H499H3548H3947H1818H676H5137H1818H5227H6440H168H4150H7651H64715The heifer shall be burned in his sight, her skin, flesh, blood, and dung.H8313H6510H5869H5785H1320H1818H6569H83136And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet [stuff] and cast them into the midst of the burning heifer.H3548H3947H730H6086H231H8438H8144H7993H8432H8316H65107Then the priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; afterward he shall come into the camp, but he shall be unclean until evening.H3548H3526H899H7364H1320H4325H310H935H4264H3548H2930H61538He who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until evening.H8313H3526H899H4325H7364H1320H4325H2930H61539And a man who is clean shall collect the ashes of the heifer and put them outside the camp in a clean place, and they shall be kept for the congregation of the Israelites for the water for impurity; it is a sin offering.H376H2889H622H665H6510H3240H2351H4264H2889H4725H4931H5712H1121H3478H4325H5079H240310And he who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until evening. This shall be to the Israelites and to the stranger who sojourns among them a perpetual statute.H622H665H6510H3526H899H2930H6153H1121H3478H1616H1481H8432H2708H576911He who touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean for seven days.H5060H4191H5315H120H2930H7651H311712He shall purify himself with the water for impurity [made with the ashes of the burned heifer] on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean. But if he does not purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.H2398H7992H3117H7637H3117H2891H2398H7992H3117H7637H3117H289113Whoever touches the corpse of any who has died and does not purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from Israel. Because the water for impurity was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still upon him.H5060H4191H5315H120H4191H2398H2930H4908H3068H5315H3772H3478H4325H5079H2236H2931H293214This is the law when a man dies in a tent: all who come into the tent and all who are in the tent shall be unclean for seven days.H8451H120H4191H168H935H168H168H2930H7651H311715And every open vessel, which has no covering fastened upon it, is unclean.H6605H3627H6781H6616H293116And whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a dead man, or a grave, shall be unclean for seven days.H5060H2491H2719H6440H7704H4191H6106H120H6913H2930H7651H311717And for the unclean, they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering, and the running water shall be put with it in a vessel.H2931H3947H6083H8316H2403H2416H4325H5414H362718And a clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons who were there, and upon him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the naturally dead, or the grave.H2889H376H3947H231H2881H4325H5137H168H3627H5315H5060H6106H2491H4191H691319And the clean person shall sprinkle [the water for purification] upon the unclean person on the third day and on the seventh day, and on the seventh day the unclean man shall purify himself, and wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.H2889H5137H2931H7992H3117H7637H3117H7637H3117H2398H3526H899H7364H4325H2891H615320But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. The water for purification has not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.H376H2930H2398H5315H3772H8432H6951H2930H4720H3068H4325H5079H2236H293121And it shall be a perpetual statute to them. He who sprinkles the water for impurity [upon another] shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.H5769H2708H5137H4325H5079H3526H899H5060H4325H5079H2930H615322And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean, and anyone who touches it shall be unclean until evening.H2931H5060H2930H5315H5060H2930H6153
Numbers 20
20AND THE Israelites, the whole congregation, came into the Wilderness of Zin in the first month. And the people dwelt in Kadesh. Miriam died and was buried there.H935H1121H3478H5712H4057H6790H7223H2320H5971H3427H6946H4813H4191H69122Now there was no water for the congregation, and they assembled together against Moses and Aaron.H4325H5712H6950H4872H1753And the people contended with Moses, and said, Would that we had died when our brethren died [in the plague] before the Lord!H5971H7378H4872H559H559H3863H1478H251H1478H6440H30684And why have you brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we should die here, we and our livestock?H935H6951H3068H4057H1165H41915And why have you made us come up out of Egypt to bring us into this evil place? It is no place of grain or of figs or of vines or of pomegranates. And there is no water to drink.H5927H4714H935H7451H4725H4725H2233H8384H1612H7416H4325H83546Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting and fell on their faces. Then the glory of the Lord appeared to them.H4872H175H935H6440H6951H6607H168H4150H5307H6440H3519H3068H72007And the Lord said to Moses,H3068H1696H4872H5598Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to give forth its water, and you shall bring forth to them water out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink.H3947H4294H6950H5712H175H251H1696H5553H5869H5414H4325H3318H4325H5553H8248H5712H1165H82489So Moses took the rod from before the Lord, as He commanded him.H4872H3947H4294H6440H3068H668010And Moses and Aaron assembled the congregation before the rock and Moses said to them, Hear now, you rebels; must we bring you water out of this rock?H4872H175H6950H6951H6440H5553H559H8085H4784H3318H4325H555311And Moses lifted up his hand and with his rod he smote the rock twice. And the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.H4872H7311H3027H4294H5221H5553H6471H4325H3318H7227H5712H8354H116512And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Because you did not believe in (rely on, cling to) Me to sanctify Me in the eyes of the Israelites, you therefore shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.H3068H559H4872H175H539H6942H5869H1121H3478H935H6951H776H541413These are the waters of Meribah [strife], where the Israelites contended with the Lord and He showed Himself holy among them.H1992H4325H4809H1121H3478H7378H3068H694214And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying, Thus says your kinsman Israel: You know all the adversity {and} birth pangs that have come upon us [as a nation]:H4872H7971H4397H6946H4428H123H559H251H3478H3045H8513H467215How our fathers went down to Egypt; we dwelt there a long time, and the Egyptians dealt evilly with us and our fathers.H1H3381H4714H3427H4714H7227H3117H4714H7489H116But when we cried to the Lord, He heard us and sent an angel and brought us forth out of Egypt. Now behold, we are in Kadesh, a city on your country's edge.H6817H3068H8085H6963H7971H4397H3318H4714H6946H5892H7097H136617Let us pass, I pray you, through your country. We will not pass through field or vineyard, or drink of the water of the wells. We will go along the king's highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed your borders.H5674H776H5674H7704H3754H8354H4325H875H3212H4428H1870H5186H3225H8040H5674H136618But Edom said to him, You shall not go through, lest I come out against you with the sword.H123H559H5674H3318H7125H271919And the Israelites said to him, We will go by the highway, and if I and my livestock drink of your water, I will pay for it. Only let me pass through on foot, nothing else.H1121H3478H559H5927H4546H4735H8354H4325H5414H4377H1697H5674H727220But Edom said, You shall not go through. And Edom came out against Israel with many people and a strong hand.H559H5674H123H3318H7125H3515H5971H2389H302721Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory, so Israel turned away from him.H123H3985H5414H3478H5674H1366H3478H518622They journeyed from Kadesh, and the Israelites, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.H1121H3478H5712H5265H6946H935H2022H202323And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron at Mount Hor, on the border of the land of Edom,H3068H559H4872H175H2022H2023H1366H776H123H55924Aaron shall be gathered to his people. For he shall not enter the land which I have given to the Israelites, because you both rebelled against My instructions at the waters of Meribah.H175H622H5971H935H776H5414H1121H3478H4784H6310H4325H480925Take Aaron and Eleazar his son and bring them up to Mount Hor.H3947H175H499H1121H5927H2022H202326Strip Aaron of his vestments and put them on Eleazar his son, and Aaron shall be gathered to his people, and shall die there.H6584H175H899H3847H499H1121H175H622H419127And Moses did as the Lord commanded; and they went up Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.H4872H6213H3068H6680H5927H2022H2023H5869H571228And Moses stripped Aaron of his [priestly] garments and put them on Eleazar his son. And Aaron died there on the mountain top; and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.H4872H6584H175H899H3847H499H1121H175H4191H7218H2022H4872H499H3381H202229When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept {and} mourned for him thirty days, all the house of Israel.H5712H7200H175H1478H1058H175H7970H3117H1004H3478
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