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The Book of Numbers 18

18 And Yahweh said to Aaron, “You and your sons and the house of your father with you shall bear the iniquity of the holy place; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. 2 And also bring with you your brothers, the staff of Levi, the tribe of your father, and they shall be joined to you and serve you; and you and your sons with you shall be before the face of the tent of the testimony. 3 And they shall keep your keeping and the keeping of all of the tent. However, they shall not come near to the vessels of the holy place or to the altar, and they will not die, both them and you. 4 And they shall be joined to you and shall keep the keeping of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent; and a stranger shall not come near to you; 5 and you shall keep the keeping of the holy place and the keeping of the altar, and there shall not again be fury against the sons of Israel. 6 And I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel as a gift for you, ones given to Yahweh to serve the service of the tent of meeting. 7 And you and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for all the things of the altar and for the inside of the curtain, and you shall serve. I have given your priesthood as a gift of service, and a stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”

8 And Yahweh spoke to Aaron, “And I, behold, I have given to you the keeping of my contribution, of all the holy things of the sons of Israel I have given them to you for a portion and to your sons for a statute of eternity. 9 This will belong to you from the holiest holy thing from the fire: every offering of theirs, of every grain offering of theirs and of every sin offering of theirs and of every guilt offering of theirs which they return to me, a holiest holy thing it is for you and for your sons. 10 You shall eat it as a holiest holy thing. Every male shall eat it. It is holy for you. 11 And this belongs to you: the contribution of their gift, of all the wave offerings of the sons of Israel, I have given them to you and to your sons and to your daughters with you for a statute of eternity. Every clean one in your house shall eat it. 12 All the fat of fresh oil and all the fat of new wine and grain, their firstfruits which they will give to Yahweh, I have given them to you. 13 The firstfruits of all that is in the land which they will bring to Yahweh will belong to you. Every clean one in your house shall eat it. 14 Every dedicated thing in Israel will belong to you. 15 Every opener of the womb of all flesh that they offer to Yahweh, among mankind and among livestock, will belong to you. But you shall surely redeem the firstborn of mankind, and you shall redeem the firstborn of the unclean livestock. 16 And his redeemed ones from a son of a month you shall redeem by your valuation, five silver shekels by the shekel of the holy place (it is 20 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 throw their blood on the altar, and you shall make their fat smoke as an offering made by fire for an aroma of soothing for Yahweh. 18 And their flesh will belong to you; like the breast of the wave offering or like the right thigh, it will belong to you. 19 All the contributions of the holy things which the sons of Israel lift up to Yahweh, I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters with you for a statute of eternity. It is an eternal covenant of salt before the face of Yahweh for you and for your seed with you.” 20 And Yahweh said to Aaron, “You shall not inherit in their land and a portion in their midst shall not belong to you. I am your portion and your inheritance in the midst of the sons of Israel.

21 And to the sons of Levi, behold, I have given every tenth in Israel for an inheritance in exchange for their service which they are serving, the service of the tent of meeting. 22 And the sons of Israel shall not again come near to the tent of meeting to bear sin to die. 23 And the Levite, he shall serve the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It is a statute of eternity for your generations, and in the midst of the sons of Israel you shall not inherit an inheritance. 24 For I have given to the Levites for an inheritance the tenth of the sons of Israel which they lift up to Yahweh as a contribution. Therefore, I have said to them, ‘You shall not inherit an inheritance in the midst of the sons of Israel.’ ”

25 And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 26 “And speak to the Levites and say to them, ‘When you take from with the sons of Israel the tenth that I have given to you from with them as your inheritance, then you shall lift up from it a contribution of Yahweh, a tenth from the tenth. 27 And it shall be reckoned to you as your contribution like the grain from the threshing floor and like the fullness from the winepress. 28 Thus you shall lift up, also you, the contribution of Yahweh from all your tenths which you took from with the sons of Israel, and you shall give from it the contribution of Yahweh to Aaron the priest. 29 From all your gifts you shall lift up all of the contribution of Yahweh, from all its fat, its holy part from it.’ 30 And you shall say to them, ‘When you lift up its fat from it, then it shall be reckoned to the Levites like the product of the threshing floor and like the product of the winepress. 31 And you shall eat it in every place, you and your house, because it is a wage for you in exchange for your service in the tent of meeting. 32 And you shall not bear sin on account of it when you lift up its fat from it, and the holy things of the sons of Israel you shall not defile, and not die.’ ”

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