[1] Yahweh said to Aaron, You and your sons and your fathers` house with
you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with
you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. [2] Your brothers also, the
tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring you near with you, that they
may be joined to you, and minister to you: but you and your sons with you
shall be before the tent of the testimony. [3] They shall keep your charge,
and the charge of all the Tent: only they shall not come near to the
vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they,
nor you. [4] They shall be joined to you, and keep the charge of the tent
of meeting, for all the service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not come
near to you. [5] You shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge
of the altar; that there be wrath no more on the children of Israel. [6] I,
behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of
Israel: to you they are a gift, given to Yahweh, to do the service of the
tent of meeting. [7] You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood
for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and you shall
serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger who
comes near shall be put to death. [8] Yahweh spoke to Aaron, I, behold, I
have given you the charge of my heave-offerings, even all the holy things
of the children of Israel; to you have I given them by reason of the
anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever. [9] This shall be your
of the most holy things, [reserved] from the fire: every offering of
theirs, even every meal-offering of theirs, and every sin-offering of
theirs, and every trespass-offering of theirs, which they shall render to
me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons. [10] As the most holy
things shall you eat of it; every male shall eat of it: it shall be holy to
you. [11] This is your: the heave-offering of their gift, even all the
wave-offerings of the children of Israel; I have given them to you, and to
your sons and to your daughters with you, as a portion forever; everyone
who is clean in your house shall eat of it. [12] All the best of the oil,
and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first-fruits of them
which they give to Yahweh, to you have I given them. [13] The first-ripe
fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to Yahweh, shall be
your; everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it. [14] Everything
devoted in Israel shall be your. [15] Everything that opens the womb, of
all flesh which they offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal shall be your:
nevertheless the firstborn of man shall you surely redeem, and the
firstborn of unclean animals shall you redeem. [16] Those who are to be
redeemed of them from a month old shall you redeem, according to your
estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary (the same is twenty gerahs). [17] But 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 for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savor to Yahweh. [18]
The flesh of them shall be your, as the wave-breast and as the right thigh,
it shall be your. [19] All the heave-offerings of the holy things, which
the children of Israel offer to Yahweh, have I given you, and your sons and
your daughters with you, as a portion forever: it is a covenant of salt
forever before Yahweh to you and to your seed with you. [20] Yahweh 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
children of Israel. [21] To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all
the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which
they serve, even the service of the tent of meeting. [22] Henceforth the
children of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear
sin, and die. [23] But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of
meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute forever
throughout your generations; and among the children of Israel they shall
have no inheritance. [24] For the tithe of the children of Israel, which
they offer as a heave-offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for
an inheritance: therefore I have said to them, Among the children of Israel
they shall have no inheritance. [25] Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, [26]
Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, When you take of
the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your
inheritance, then you shall offer up a heave-offering of it for Yahweh, a
tithe of the tithe. [27] Your heave-offering shall be reckoned to you, as
though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the
winepress. [28] Thus you also shall offer a heave-offering to Yahweh of all
your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and of it you
shall give Yahweh`s heave-offering to Aaron the priest. [29] Out of all
your gifts you shall offer every heave-offering of Yahweh, of all the best
of it, even the holy part of it out of it. [30] Therefore you shall tell
them, When you heave the best of it from it, then it shall be reckoned to
the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of
the wine-press. [31] You shall eat it in every place, you and your
households: for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of
meeting. [32] You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved
from it the best of it: and you shall not profane the holy things of the
children of Israel, that you not die.

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