Numbers 18
18:1And the lord said to Aaron, You and your sons, and the house of your father with you shall take the sins associated with the holies; and you and your sons with you shall take the sins associated with your priesthood.
18:2And your brethren the tribe of Levi, the people of your father, you lead them to yourself, and let them be added to you, and let them officiate to you! even you and your sons with you before the tent of the testimony.
18:3And they shall guard your watches, and the watches of the tent; except for the items of the holies and for the altar they shall not draw near, so that they shall not die, even these and you.
18:4And they shall be added to you, and shall guard the watches of the tent of the testimony, concerning all the ministrations of the tent. And the foreigner shall not draw near to you.
18:5And you shall guard the watches of the holy places, and the watches of the altar. And there shall not be yet rage among the sons of Israel.
18:6And behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel as a gift being given to the lord, to officiate the ministrations of the tent of the testimony.
18:7And you and your sons after you shall observe your priesthood according to every manner of the altar, and the thing within the veil; and you shall officiate the ministrations as a gift of your priesthood. And the foreigner going to it shall die.
18:8And the lord spoke to Aaron, And behold, I give to you the preservation of my first-fruits of all the things having been sanctified by the sons of Israel. To you I give them as an honor, and to your sons for an eternal law.
18:9And let this be to you from the holy things having been sanctified of the yield offerings, from all their gifts, and from all their sacrifices, and from all their trespass offerings, and from all their sin offerings! as many as they give back to me of all of the holy things, it shall be to you and to your sons.
18:10In the holy of the holies, you eat them! Let every male eat them! They shall be holy to you.
18:11And this will be to you of the first-fruits of their gifts, from all the increase offerings of the sons of Israel. To you I have given them, and to your sons, and to your daughters after you -- an eternal law. Every clean person in your house shall eat them.
18:12Every first-fruit of olive oil, and every first-fruit of wine, and of their first-fruit of grain, as many things as they should give to the lord, to you I have given them.
18:13All the first produce, as many things as are in their land, as many things as they should bring to the lord, it will be yours; every clean person in your house shall eat them.
18:14Every thing being devoted to consumption by the sons of Israel shall be to you.
18:15And every thing opening wide the womb of all flesh, as many things as they offer to the lord, from man unto beast, it will be to you; only with ransoms you shall ransom the first-born of men; and the first-born of the unclean cattle you shall ransom.
18:16And the ransoming of him from a month old -- the price is five shekels, according to the holy shekel -- twenty oboli they are worth.
18:17Except the first-born of calves, and the first-born of sheep, and the first-born of goats you shall not ransom, they are holy. And their blood you shall pour upon the altar, and the fat you shall offer as a yield offering for a scent of pleasant aroma to the lord.
18:18And the meats will be yours, as also the breast of the increase offering. And accordingly the right shoulder will be yours.
18:19Every cut-away portion of the holy things, as many things as the sons of Israel should remove to the lord, to you I have given, and to your sons, and to your daughters after you -- an eternal law. It is an eternal covenant of salt before the lord to you and to your seed after you.
18:20And the lord spoke to Aaron, In their land you shall not be an heir, and a portion shall not be to you among them; for I am your portion and your inheritance in the midst of the sons of Israel.
18:21And to the sons of Levi, behold, I have given every tenth part in Israel by lot for their ministrations, as much as they shall officiate the ministration in the tent of the testimony.
18:22And the sons of Israel shall not come forward still into the tent of the testimony, so as to take on sin causing death.
18:23And the Levite himself shall officiate the ministration of the tent of the testimony; and they shall take their sins. It is an eternal law into their generations. And in the midst of the sons of Israel they shall not be an heir of an inheritance,
18:24for the tenth parts of the sons of Israel, as many things as they should separate to the lord, a cut-away portion I give to the Levites by lot. On account of this I have said to them, Among the midst of the sons of Israel they shall not be an heir of a lot.
18:25And the lord spoke to Moses, saying,
18:26And to the Levites you shall speak, and you shall say to them, If you should take from the sons of Israel the tenth part, which I have given to you from them for a lot, then you shall remove to yourselves from it a cut-away portion to the lord, a tenth of the tenth part.
18:27And your cut-away portions shall be considered for you as grain from the threshing-floor, and as a cut-away portion from the wine-vat.
18:28So you shall remove, even you yourselves, from all the cut-away portions of the lord, from all your tenth parts; as many things as you should take from the sons of Israel; and you shall give of them a cut-away portion to the lord, through Aaron the priest.
18:29From all your gifts you shall remove a cut-away portion to the lord, from all the first-fruits having been sanctified of it.
18:30And you shall say to them, Whenever you should remove the first-fruit from it, then shall it be considered the Levites as produce from the threshing-floor, and as produce from the wine-vat.
18:31And you shall eat it in any place, you and your households; for this is the wage to you for your ministrations of the things in the tent of the testimony.
18:32And you shall not take sin because of it, in that you should remove the first-fruit from it. And the holy things of the sons of Israel you shall not profane, that you should not die.