18 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.