Numbers 18:8–19

Offerings for Priests and Levites

⁸Then the Lord said to Aaron, “I myself have put you in charge of the offerings presented to me; all the holy offerings the Israelites give me I give to you and your sons as your portion,^p your perpetual share.^{q 9}You are to have the part of the most holy offerings^r that is kept from the fire. From all the gifts they bring me as most holy offerings, whether grain^s or sin^at or guilt offerings,^u that part belongs to you and your sons. ¹⁰Eat it as something most holy; every male shall eat it.^v You must regard it as holy.^w

¹¹“This also is yours: whatever is set aside from the gifts of all the wave offerings^x of the Israelites. I give this to you and your sons and daughters as your perpetual share.^y Everyone in your household who is ceremonially clean^z may eat it.

¹²“I give you all the finest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain^a they give the Lord^b as the firstfruits of their harvest.^{c 13}All the land’s firstfruits that they bring to the Lord will be yours.^d Everyone in your household who is ceremonially clean may eat it.^e

¹⁴“Everything in Israel that is devoted^b to the Lord^f is yours. ¹⁵The first offspring of every womb, both human and animal, that is offered to the Lord is yours.^g But you must redeem^h every firstbornⁱ son and every firstborn male of unclean animals.^{j 16}When they are a month old,^k you must redeem them at the redemption price set at five shekels^cl of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel,^m which weighs twenty gerahs.ⁿ

¹⁷“But you must not redeem the firstborn of a cow, a sheep or a goat; they are holy.^o Splash their blood^p against the altar and burn their fat^q as a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the Lord.^{r 18}Their meat is to be yours, just as the breast of the wave offering^s and the right thigh are yours.^{t 19}Whatever is set aside from the holy^u offerings the Israelites present to the Lord I give to you and your sons and daughters as your perpetual share. It is an everlasting covenant of salt^v before the Lord for both you and your offspring.”