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 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
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.
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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 savor 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. |