“1 And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father’s
house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and
thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. 2 And thy
brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou
with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee:
but thou and thy sons with thee [shall minister] before the tabernacle
of witness. 3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the
tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary
and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die. 4 And they shall be
joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the
congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger
shall not come nigh unto you. 5 And ye shall keep the charge of the
sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more
upon the children of Israel. 6 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren
the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you [they are] given
[as] a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the
congregation. 7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your
priest’s office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and
ye shall serve: I have given your priest’s office [unto you] as a
service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to
death.”
“8 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the
charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the
children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the
anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever. 9 This shall be
thine of the most holy things, [reserved] from the fire: every oblation
of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering of
theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render
unto me, [shall be] most holy for thee and for thy sons. 10 In the most
holy [place] shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be
holy unto thee. 11 And this [is] thine; the heave offering of their
gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have
given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by
a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of
it. 12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the
wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD,
them have I given thee. 13 [And] whatsoever is first ripe in the land,
which they shall bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is
clean in thine house shall eat [of] it. 14 Every thing devoted in Israel
shall be thine. 15 Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh,
which they bring unto the LORD, [whether it be] of men or beasts, shall
be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem,
and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem. 16 And those that
are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to
thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary, which [is] twenty gerahs. 17 But the firstling of a cow, or
the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not
redeem; they [are] holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar,
and shalt burn their fat [for] an offering made by fire, for a sweet
savour unto the LORD. 18 And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the
wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine. 19 All the heave
offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto
the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee,
by a statute for ever: it [is] a covenant of salt for ever before the
LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.”
“20 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in
their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I [am] thy part
and thine inheritance among the children of Israel. 21 And, behold, I
have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an
inheritance, for their service which they serve, [even] the service of
the tabernacle of the congregation. 22 Neither must the children of
Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest
they bear sin, and die. 23 But the Levites shall do the service of the
tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: [it
shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the
children of Israel they have no inheritance. 24 But the tithes of the
children of Israel, which they offer [as] an heave offering unto the
LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto
them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance. 25
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 26 Thus speak unto the Levites,
and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes
which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall
offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, [even] a tenth [part] of
the tithe. 27 And [this] your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you,
as though [it were] the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness
of the winepress. 28 Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the
LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and
ye shall give thereof the LORD’S heave offering to Aaron the priest. 29
Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the LORD,
of all the best thereof, [even] the hallowed part thereof out of it. 30
Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof
from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of
the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress. 31 And ye
shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it [is] your
reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation. 32 And ye
shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best
of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of
Israel, lest ye die.” (Nu 18:1-32 AV)
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