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Numbers 18

18So the LORD said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your father's house with you shall bear iniquity connected with the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you shall bear iniquity connected with your priesthood.H3068H559H175H1121H1H1004H5375H5771H4720H1121H5375H5771H35502And with you bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may join you and minister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.H251H4294H3878H7626H1H7126H3867H8334H1121H6440H168H57153They shall keep guard over you and over the whole tent, but shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary or to the altar lest they, and you, die.H8104H4931H4931H168H7126H3627H6944H4196H41914They shall join you and keep guard over the tent of meeting for all the service of the tent, and no outsider shall come near you.H3867H8104H4931H168H4150H5656H168H2114H71265And you shall keep guard over the sanctuary and over the altar, that there may never again be wrath on the people of Israel.H8104H4931H6944H4931H4196H7110H1121H34786And behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the people of Israel. They are a gift to you, given to the LORD, to do the service of the tent of meeting.H3947H251H3881H8432H1121H3478H5414H4979H3068H5647H5656H168H41507And you and your sons with you shall guard your priesthood for all that concerns the altar and that is within the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood as a gift, and any outsider who comes near shall be put to death."H1121H8104H3550H1697H4196H1004H6532H5647H5414H3550H5656H4979H2114H7131H41918Then the LORD spoke to Aaron, "Behold, I have given you charge of the contributions made to me, all the consecrated things of the people of Israel. I have given them to you as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual due.H3068H1696H175H5414H4931H8641H6944H1121H3478H5414H4888H1121H2706H57699This shall be yours of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, every grain offering of theirs and every sin offering of theirs and every guilt offering of theirs, which they render to me, shall be most holy to you and to your sons.H6944H6944H784H7133H4503H2403H817H7725H6944H6944H112110In a most holy place shall you eat it. Every male may eat it; it is holy to you.H6944H6944H398H2145H398H694411This also is yours: the contribution of their gift, all the wave offerings of the people of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.H8641H4976H8573H1121H3478H5414H1121H1323H2706H5769H2889H1004H39812All the best of the oil and all the best of the wine and of the grain, the firstfruits of what they give to the LORD, I give to you.H2459H3323H2459H8492H1715H7225H5414H3068H541413The first ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the LORD, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.H1061H776H935H3068H2889H1004H39814Every devoted thing in Israel shall be yours.H2764H347815Everything that opens the womb of all flesh, whether man or beast, which they offer to the LORD, shall be yours. Nevertheless, the firstborn of man you shall redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals you shall redeem.H6363H7358H1320H7126H3068H120H929H1060H120H6299H6299H1060H2931H929H629916And their redemption price (at a month old you shall redeem them) you shall fix at five shekels in silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.H6299H2320H1121H6299H6187H3701H2568H8255H8255H6944H6242H162617But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar and shall burn their fat as a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.H1060H7794H1060H3775H1060H5795H6299H6944H2236H1818H4196H6999H2459H801H5207H7381H306818But their flesh shall be yours, as the breast that is waved and as the right thigh are yours.H1320H8573H2373H3225H778519All the holy contributions that the people of Israel present to the LORD I give to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. It is a covenant of salt forever before the LORD for you and for your offspring with you."H8641H6944H1121H3478H7311H3068H5414H1121H1323H2706H5769H1285H4417H5769H6440H3068H223320And the LORD said to Aaron, "You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the people of Israel.H3068H559H175H5157H776H2506H8432H2506H5159H8432H1121H347821"To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service that they do, their service in the tent of meeting,H5414H1121H3878H4643H3478H5159H2500H5656H5647H5656H168H415022so that the people of Israel do not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin and die.H1121H3478H5750H7126H168H4150H5375H2399H419123But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the people of Israel they shall have no inheritance.H3881H5647H5656H168H4150H5375H5771H2708H5769H1755H8432H1121H3478H5157H515924For the tithe of the people of Israel, which they present as a contribution to the LORD, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said of them that they shall have no inheritance among the people of Israel."H4643H1121H3478H7311H8641H3068H5414H3881H5159H559H8432H1121H3478H5157H515925And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,H3068H1696H4872H55926"Moreover, you shall speak and say to the Levites, 'When you take from the people of Israel the tithe that I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present a contribution from it to the LORD, a tithe of the tithe.H1696H3881H559H3947H1121H3478H4643H5414H5159H7311H8641H3068H4643H464327And your contribution shall be counted to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.H8641H2803H1715H1637H4395H334228So you shall also present a contribution to the LORD from all your tithes, which you receive from the people of Israel. And from it you shall give the LORD's contribution to Aaron the priest.H7311H8641H3068H4643H3947H1121H3478H5414H3068H8641H175H354829Out of all the gifts to you, you shall present every contribution due to the LORD; from each its best part is to be dedicated.'H4979H7311H8641H3068H2459H472030Therefore you shall say to them, 'When you have offered from it the best of it, then the rest shall be counted to the Levites as produce of the threshing floor, and as produce of the winepress.H559H7311H2459H2803H3881H8393H1637H8393H334231And you may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.H398H4725H1004H7939H2500H5656H168H415032And you shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have contributed the best of it. But you shall not profane the holy things of the people of Israel, lest you die.'"H5375H2399H7311H2459H2490H6944H1121H3478H4191


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