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1 And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy
fathers 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 priests office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail;
and ye shall serve: I have given your priests 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. 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 LORDS 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.
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