Numbers 18:8–32

⁸And the Lord spake unto Aaron, Behold, ^qI 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 ^rby reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, ^sby an ordinance for ever. ⁹This shall be thine of ^tthe most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every ^umeat offering of theirs, and every ^vsin offering of theirs, and every ^wtrespass offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be ^tmost holy for thee and for thy sons. ^10xIn the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee. ¹¹And this is thine; ^ythe heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto ^zthee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: ^aevery one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it. ^12bAll the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, ^cthe firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the Lord, them have I given thee. ¹³And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, ^dwhich they shall bring unto the Lord, shall be thine; ^eevery one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it. ^14fEvery thing devoted in Israel shall be thine. ^15gEvery 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 ^hthe firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem. ¹⁶And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, ⁱaccording to thine estimation, for the money of ⁱfive shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, ^kwhich is twenty gerahs. ^17lBut the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: ^mthou 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. ¹⁸And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the ⁿwave breast and as the right shoulder are thine. ^19oAll 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: ^pit is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord unto thee and to thy seed with thee.

²⁰And the Lord spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: ^qI am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel. ²¹And behold, ^rI have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even ^sthe service of the tabernacle of the congregation. ^22tNeither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, ^ulest they bear sin, and die. ²³But the Levites ^wshall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and ^xthey shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance. ²⁴But the tithes of the children of Israel, which ^ythey offer as a heave offering unto the Lord, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, ^zAmong the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

²⁵And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, ²⁶Thus 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 a heave offering of it for the Lord, even ^aa tenth part of the tithe. ^27bAnd 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. ²⁸Thus you also shall offer a 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. ²⁹Out 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. ³⁰Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, ^cthen it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress. ³¹And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is ^dyour reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation. ³²And ye shall ^ebear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye ^fpollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.

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