-
And the Lord said
unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's
house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the
sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall
bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
02 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.
03 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.
04 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.
05 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.
06 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.
07 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee
shall keep your priest's office for everything of
the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall
serve: I have given your priest's office unto you
as a service of gift: and the stranger that
cometh nigh shall be put to death.
08 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.
09 This shall be thine of the most holy
things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of
their's, every meat offering of their's, and
every sin offering of their's, and every trespass
offering of their's 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 Lord's 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.
__________________________________ |
