Números 18

¹ And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bearIf you trespass in anything concerning the ceremonies of the sanctuary of your office, you will be punished.the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

² And bring also with thee thy brethren of the tribe of Leui of ye familie of thy father, which shalbe ioyned with thee, and minister vnto thee: but thou, and thy sonnes with thee shall minister before the Tabernacle of the Testimonie:

³ And they shallThat is, the things which are committed to you, or, which you command them.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 aWhich was not of the tribe of Levi.stranger shall not come nigh unto you.

⁵ Therefore shall ye keepe the charge of the Sanctuarie, and the charge of the altar: so there shall fall no more wrath vpon the children of Israel.

⁶ For lo, I haue taken your brethren the Leuites from among the children of Israel, which as a gift of yours, are giuen vnto the Lord, to do the seruice of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.

⁷ But thou, and thy sonnes with thee shall keepe your Priestes office for all things of the altar, and within the vaile: therefore shal ye serue: for I haue made your Priestes office an office of seruice: therefore the stranger that cometh neere, shalbe slayne.

⁸ And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heaveAs the first fruit, first born, and the tithes.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 theThat which was not burned should be the priests.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 mostThat is, in the sanctuary between the court and the holiest of holies.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 thyRead (Lev_10:14).daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.

¹² All theOr, fat; chiefest.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 the first ripe of al that is in their land, which they shal bring vnto Lord, shalbe thine: all the cleane in thine house shal eate of it.

¹⁴ Euery thing separate from the common vse in Israel, shalbe thine.

¹⁵ All that first openeth the matrice of any flesh, which they shal offer vnto the Lord, of man or beast, shalbe thine: but the first borne of man shalt thou redeeme, and the first borne of the vncleane beast shalt thou redeeme.

¹⁶ And those that are to bee redeemed, shalt thou redeeme from the age of a moneth, according to thy estimation, for the money of fiue shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuarie, which is twentie gerahs.

¹⁷ But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt notBecause they are appointed for sacrifice.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 shalbe thine, as the shake breast, and as the right shoulder shalbe 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 covenantThat is, sure, stable and incorruptible.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 theirOf Canaan.land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I [am] thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.

²¹ For beholde, I haue giuen the children of Leui all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their seruice which they serue in the Tabernacle of the Congregation.

²² Neither must the children of Israel henceforthTo serve in it: for the Levites are put in their place.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 bearIf they fail in their office, they will be punished.their iniquity: [it shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.

²⁴ For the tythes of the children of Israel, which they shal offer as an offring vnto the Lord, I haue giuen the Leuites for an inheritance: therfore I haue said vnto them, Among the children of Israel ye shal possesse none inheritance.

²⁵ And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

²⁶ Speake also vnto the Leuites and say vnto them, When ye shal take of the children of Israel the tithes, which I haue giuen you of them for your inheritance, then shal ye take an heaue offring of that same for the Lorde, euen the tenth part of the tithe.

²⁷ And [this] your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though [it were] theAs acceptable as the fruit of your own ground or vineyard.corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.

²⁸ So ye shal also offer an heaue offring vnto the Lorde of all your tithes, which ye shal receiue of the children of Israel, and ye shal giue thereof the Lords heaue offring to Aaron the Priest.

²⁹ Out of all yourWhich you have received from the children of Israel.gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all theRead (Num_18:12).best thereof, [even] the hallowed part thereof out of it.

³⁰ Therefore thou shalt say vnto them, When ye haue offred the fat thereof, then it shalbe couted vnto the Leuites, as the encrease of the corne floore, or as the encrease of the wine presse.

³¹ And ye shall eat it in everyAs in (Num_18:11).place, ye and your households: for it [is] your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.

³² And ye shallYou shall not be punished therefore.bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holyThe offerings which the Israelites have offered to God.things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.