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Numbers 18
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- 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 everything 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 their's, every meat offering of their's, and
every sin offering of their's, and every trespass offering of their's 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.
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