18:1 And Yahweh said to Aaron, You and your sons and your fathers' house with you will bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you will bear the iniquity of your+ priesthood.
18:2 And your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, you bring near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you: but you and your sons with you will be before the tent of the testimony.
18:3 And they will keep your charge, and the charge of all the Tent: only they will not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they will not die, neither they, nor you+.
18:4 And they will be joined to you, and keep the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the Tent: and a stranger will not come near to you+.
18:5 And you+ will keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar; that there will be no more wrath on the sons of Israel.
18:6 And I, look, I have taken your+ brothers the Levites from among the sons of Israel: to you+ they are a gift, given to Yahweh, to do the service of the tent of meeting.
18:7 And you and your sons with you will keep your+ priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that inside the veil; and you+ will serve: I give you+ the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger who comes near will be put to death.
18:8 And Yahweh spoke to Aaron, And I, look, I have given you the charge of my heave-offerings, even all the hallowed things of the sons of Israel; to you I have given them by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever.
18:9 This will be yours of the most holy things, [reserved] from the fire: every oblation of theirs, even every meal-offering of theirs, and every sin-offering of theirs, and every trespass-offering of theirs, which they will render to me, will be most holy for you and for your sons.
18:10 As the most holy things you will eat of it; every male will eat of it: it will be holy to you.
18:11 And this is yours: the heave-offering of their gift, even all the wave-offerings of the sons of Israel; I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a portion forever; everyone who is clean in your house will eat of it.
18:12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to Yahweh, to you I have given them.
18:13 The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to Yahweh, will be yours; everyone who is clean in your house will eat of it.
18:14 Everything devoted in Israel will be yours.
18:15 Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to Yahweh, both of man and beast will be yours: nevertheless the firstborn of man you will surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean beasts you will redeem.
18:16 And those that are to be redeemed of them from a month old you will redeem, according to your estimation, for the silver of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary (the same is twenty gerahs).
18:17 But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you will not redeem; they are holy: you will sprinkle their blood on the altar, and will burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savor to Yahweh.
18:18 And the flesh of them will be yours, as the wave-breast and as the right thigh, it will be yours.
18:19 All the heave-offerings of the holy things, which the sons of Israel offer to Yahweh, I have given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever: it is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to your seed with you.
18:20 And Yahweh said to Aaron, You will have no inheritance in their land, neither will you have any portion among them: I am your portion and your inheritance among the sons of Israel.
18:21 And to the sons of Levi, look, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the tent of meeting.
18:22 And from now on the sons of Israel will not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.
18:23 But the Levites will do the service of the tent of meeting, and they will bear their iniquity: it will be a statute forever throughout your+ generations; and among the sons of Israel they will have no inheritance.
18:24 For the tithe of the sons of Israel, which they offer as a heave-offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance: therefore I have said to them, Among the sons of Israel they will have no inheritance.
18:25 And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
18:26 Moreover you will speak to the Levites, and say to them, When you+ take of the sons of Israel the tithe which I have given you+ from them for your+ inheritance, then you+ will offer up a heave-offering of it for Yahweh, a tithe of the tithe.
18:27 And your+ heave-offering will be reckoned to you+, as though it were the grain of the threshing-floor, and as the fullness of the wine press.
18:28 Thus you+ also will offer a heave-offering to Yahweh of all your+ tithes, which you+ receive of the sons of Israel; and of it you+ will give Yahweh's heave-offering to Aaron the priest.
18:29 Out of all your+ gifts you+ will offer every heave-offering of Yahweh, of all its best, even its hallowed part out of it.
18:30 Therefore you will say to them, When you+ heave its best from it, then it will be reckoned to the Levites as the increase of the threshing-floor, and as the increase of the wine press.
18:31 And you+ will eat it in every place, you+ and your+ households: for it is your+ reward in return for your+ service in the tent of meeting.
18:32 And you+ will bear no sin by reason of it, when you+ have heaved from it the best of it: and you+ will not profane the holy things of the sons of Israel, that you+ will not die.