Numbers Chapter 18
18:1 | And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father' ![]() |
18:2 | And thy brethren also of the tribe of ![]() |
18:3 | 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. |
18:4 | 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. |
18:5 | 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 ![]() |
18:6 | And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of ![]() ![]() |
18:7 | Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest' office for every thing of the altar, and within the veil; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest' office [unto you] as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to ![]() |
18:8 | 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 ![]() |
18:9 | This shall be thine of the most holy things, [reserved] from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every ![]() |
18:10 | In the most holy [place] shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee. |
18:11 | And this [is] thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of ![]() ![]() |
18:12 | All the best of the oil, and all the best of the ![]() ![]() |
18:13 | [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 ![]() |
18:14 | Everything devoted in ![]() |
18:15 | 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. |
18:16 | And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the ![]() |
18:17 | But the firstling of a ![]() ![]() |
18:18 | And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine. |
18:19 | All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of ![]() |
18:20 | 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 ![]() |
18:21 | And, behold, I have given the children of ![]() ![]() |
18:22 | Neither must the children of ![]() |
18:23 | But the Levites shall ![]() ![]() ![]() |
18:24 | But the tithes of the children of ![]() ![]() |
18:25 | And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
18:26 | Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of ![]() |
18:27 | And [this] your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though [it were] the ![]() |
18:28 | Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of ![]() |
18:29 | 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. |
18:30 | 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. |
18:31 | 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. |
18:32 | 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 ![]() |