Numbers Chapter 18

Numbers Chapter 18
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: both thou and thy sons with
thee shall bear the iniquity of your
priest’s office.
2 And bring also with thee thy brethren
of the tribe of Levi of the family of thy
father, which shall be joined with thee,
and minister unto thee: but thou, and thy
sons with thee shall minister before the
tabernacle of the testimony: 3 And they
shall keep thy charge, even the charge of
all the tabernacle: but they shall not
come near the instruments of the
sanctuary, nor to the altar, lest they die,
both they and you:
4 And they shall be joined with thee, and
keep the charge of the tabernacle of the
congregation for all the service of the
tabernacle: and no stranger shall come
near unto you:
5 Therefore shall ye keep the charge of
the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar:
so there shall fall no more wrath upon
the children of Israel. 6 For lo, I have
taken your brethren the Levites from
among the children of Israel, which as a
gift of yours, are given unto the Lord, to
do the service of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
7 But thou, and thy sons with thee shall
keep your priest’s office for all things of
the altar, and within the veil: therefore
shall ye serve: for I have made your
priest’s office an office of service:
therefore the stranger that cometh near,
shall be slain.
8 Again the Lord spake unto Aaron,
Behold, I have given thee the keeping of
mine offerings, of all the hallowed things
of the children of Israel: unto thee I have
given them for the anointing’s sake, and
to thy sons, for a perpetual ordinance.
9 This shall be thine of the most holy
things, reserved from the fire: all their
offering of all their meat offering, and of
all their sin offering, and of all their
trespass offering, which they bring unto
me, that shall be most holy unto thee, and
to thy sons.
10 In the most holy place shalt thou eat
it: every male shall eat of it: it is holy
unto thee.
11 This also shall be thine: the heave
offering of their gift, with all the shake
offerings of the children of Israel: I have
given them unto thee and to thy sons and
to thy daughters with thee, to be a duty
forever: all the clean in thine house shall
eat of it.
12 All the fat of the oil, and all the fat of
the wine, and of the wheat, which they
shall offer unto the Lord for their first
fruits, I have given them unto thee. 13
And the first ripe of all that is in their
land, which they shall bring unto Lord,
shall be thine: all the clean in thine
house shall eat of it.
14 Everything separate from the common
use in Israel, shall be thine. 15 All that
first openeth the matrice of any flesh,
which they shall offer unto the Lord, of
man or beast, shall be thine: but the
firstborn of man shalt thou redeem, and
the firstborn of the unclean beast shalt
thou redeem. 16 And those that are to be
redeemed, shalt thou redeem from the
age of a month, according to thy
estimation, for the money of five shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary, which
is twenty gerahs.
17 But the firstborn of a cow, or the
firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a
goat shalt thou not redeem: for they are
holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood at
the altar, and thou shalt burn their fat: it
is a sacrifice made by fire for a sweet
savor unto the Lord.
18 And the flesh of them shall be thine,
as the shake breast, and as the right
shoulder shall be thine.
19 All the heave offerings of the holy
things which the children of Israel shall
offer unto the Lord, have I given thee,
and thy sons, and thy daughters with
thee, to be a duty forever: it is a
perpetual covenant of salt before the
Lord, to thee, and to thy seed with thee.
20 And the Lord said unto Aaron, Thou
shalt have none 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 For behold, I have given the children
of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an
inheritance, for their service which they
serve in the tabernacle of the
congregation.
22 Neither shall the children of Israel
any more come near the tabernacle of the
congregation, lest they sustain sin, and
die.
23 But the Levites shall do the service in
the tabernacle of the congregation, and
they shall bear their sin: it is a law
forever in your generations, that among
the children of Israel they possess none
inheritance.
24 For the tithes of the children of Israel,
which they shall offer as an offering unto
the Lord, I have given the Levites for an
inheritance: therefore I have said unto
them, Among the children of Israel ye
shall possess none inheritance.
25 And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying,
26 Speak also unto the Levites and say
unto them, When ye shall take of the
children of Israel the tithes, which I have
given you of them for your inheritance,
then shall ye take an heave offering of
that same for the Lord, even the tenth
part of the tithe.
27 And your heave offering shall be
reckoned unto you, as the corn of the
barn, or as the abundance of the wine
press.
28 So ye shall also offer an heave
offering unto the Lord of all your tithes,
which ye shall receive of the children of
Israel, and ye shall give thereof the
Lord’s heave offering to Aaron the
priest.
29 Ye shall offer of all your gifts all the
Lord’s heave offerings: of all the fat of
the same shall ye offer the holy things
thereof.
30 Therefore thou shalt say unto them,
When ye have offered the fat thereof,
then it shall be counted unto the Levites,
as the increase of the corn floor, or as
the increase of the wine press.
31 And ye shall eat it in all places, ye,
and your households: for it is your
wages for your service in the tabernacle
of the congregation.
32 And ye shall bear no sin by the
reason of it, when ye have offered the fat
of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy
things of the children of Israel, lest ye
die.