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1 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. 2 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. 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. 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. 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 Is­rael. 6 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. 7 There­fore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's of­fice for ev­ery thing 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. 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 Is­rael; unto thee have I giv­en them by rea­son of the anoint­ing, and to thy sons, by an or­di­nance for ev­er. 9 This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: ev­ery obla­tion of theirs, ev­ery meat of­fer­ing of theirs, and ev­ery sin of­fer­ing of theirs, and ev­ery tres­pass of­fer­ing of theirs, 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.