1 A nd the Lord said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father’s house with you shall bear and remove the iniquity of the sanctuary. And you and your sons with you shall bear and remove the iniquity of your priesthood.

¶ 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 A nd your brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring with you, that they may be joined to you and minister to you; but only you and your sons with you shall come before the Tent of the Testimony.

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 serve thee; but thou and thy sons with thee shall serve before the tabernacle of the testimony.

3 A nd the Levites shall attend you and attend to all the duties of the Tent; only they shall not come near the sacred vessels of the sanctuary or to the brazen altar, that they and also you die not.

And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle; only they shall not come near the holy vessels or the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.

4 A nd they shall be joined to you and attend to the duties of the Tent of Meeting—all the service of the Tent—and no stranger shall come near you.

And they shall join themselves unto thee and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony in all the service of the tabernacle; and no stranger shall come near unto you.

5 A nd you shall attend to the duties of the sanctuary and attend to the altar, that there be no wrath any more upon the Israelites.

And ye shall have the charge of the sanctuary and the charge of the altar, that there be no more wrath upon the sons of Israel.

6 A nd I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the Israelites; to you they are a gift, given to the Lord, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting.

For behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the sons of Israel, given unto you as a gift of the LORD, to serve in the ministry of the tabernacle of the testimony.

7 T herefore you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for everything of the altar and within the veil, and you shall serve. I give you your priesthood as a service of gift. And the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priesthood for every thing of the altar and within the veil, and ye shall minister; for I have given the service of your priesthood as a gift, and the stranger that comes near shall die.

8 A nd the Lord said to Aaron, And I, behold, I have given you the charge of My heave offerings, all the dedicated and consecrated things of the Israelites; to you have I given them and to your sons as a continual allowance forever by reason of your anointing as priests.

¶ The LORD spoke further unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of my offerings; all the dedicated things of the sons of Israel I have given unto thee by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by a perpetual statute.

9 T his shall be yours of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every offering of the people, every cereal offering and sin offering and trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to Me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons.

This shall be thine of the holy things, reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, every present of theirs, and every offering that represents their sin, and every offering that represents their guilt, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons.

10 A s the most holy thing and in a sacred place shall you eat of it; every male shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you.

In the sanctuary shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it; it shall be holy unto thee.

11 A nd this also is yours: the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given them to you and to your sons and to your daughters with you as a continual allowance forever; everyone in your house who is clean may eat of it.

This also shall be thine: the heave offering of their gifts. All the wave offerings of the sons of Israel, I have given them unto thee and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever; everyone that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.

12 A ll the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine and of the grain, the firstfruits of what they give to the Lord, to you have I given them.

All the best of the oil and all the best of the wine and of the wheat, the firstfruits of this, which they shall present unto the LORD, this have I given thee.

13 W hatever is first ripe in the land, which they bring to the Lord, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat of it.

The firstfruits of theirs of all the things of the land, which they shall bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; everyone that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.

14 E very devoted thing in Israel shall be yours.

Every anathema in Israel shall be thine.

15 E verything that first opens the womb in all flesh, which they bring to the Lord, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be yours. Nevertheless the firstborn of man you shall surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts you shall redeem.

Every thing that opens the womb in all flesh, which they shall offer unto the LORD, whether it is of men or animals, shall be thine; nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely ransom, and the firstborn of unclean animals shalt thou ransom.

16 A nd those that are to be redeemed of them, from a month old shall you redeem, according to your estimate, for the fixed price of five shekels in silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.

And from a month old shalt thou effect their ransom, a ransom according to thine estimation, for the price of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.

17 B ut the firstling of a cow or of a sheep or of a goat you shall not redeem. They are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood upon the altar and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet and soothing odor to the Lord.

But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, thou shalt not ransom; they are sanctified; thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar and shalt burn their fat for an offering on fire, for an acceptable savour unto the LORD.

18 A nd the flesh of them shall be yours, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are yours.

And the flesh shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder shall be thine.

19 A ll the heave offerings of the holy things which the Israelites give to the Lord I give to you and to your sons and your daughters with you, as a continual debt forever. It is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord for you and for your posterity with you.

All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the sons of Israel offer unto the LORD, I have given for thee and for thy sons and for thy daughters with thee, by a perpetual statute; it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD for thee and for thy seed with thee.

20 A nd the Lord said to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in the land, neither shall you have any part among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites.

¶ And the LORD spoke 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 sons of Israel.

21 A nd, behold, I have given the Levites all the tithes in Israel for an inheritance in return for their service which they serve, the service of the Tent of Meeting.

And, behold, I have given the sons of Levi all the tithes in Israel for an inheritance, for their ministry because they serve in the ministry of the tabernacle of the testimony.

22 H enceforth the Israelites shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they incur guilt and die.

Neither must the sons of Israel from now on come near the tabernacle of the testimony lest they bear sin and die because of it.

23 B ut the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear and remove the iniquity of the people. It shall be a statute forever in all your generations, that among the Israelites the Levites have no inheritance.

But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the testimony, and they shall bear their iniquity by a perpetual statute throughout your ages, and they shall not possess an inheritance among the sons of Israel.

24 B ut the tithes of the Israelites, which they present as an offering to the Lord, I have given to the Levites to inherit; therefore I have said to them, Among the Israelites they shall have no inheritance.

For unto the Levites I have given the tithes of the sons of Israel as inheritance, which they shall offer unto the LORD as offerings; therefore, I have said unto them, Among the sons of Israel they shall possess no inheritance.

25 A nd the Lord said to Moses,

And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

26 M oreover, you shall say to the Levites, When you take from the Israelites the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present an offering from it to the Lord, even a tenth of the tithe.

Thus shalt thou speak unto the Levites and say unto them, When ye take the tithes from the sons of Israel which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall present a tithe of the tithes as an offering unto the LORD.

27 A nd what you lift out and keep shall be credited to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor or as the fully ripe produce of the vine.

And ye shall count your offering as though it were the grain of the threshingfloor and as the fullness of the winepress.

28 L ikewise you shall also present an offering to the Lord of all your tithes which you receive from the Israelites; and therefore you shall give this heave offering for the Lord to Aaron the priest.

Thus ye also shall offer an offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye shall have received of the sons of Israel; and ye shall give of them an offering unto the LORD, to Aaron the priest.

29 O ut of all the gifts to you, you shall present every offering due to the Lord, of all the best of it, even the hallowed part lifted out and held back out of it.

Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every offering unto the LORD, of all the best thereof ye shall offer the portion that is to be dedicated.

30 T herefore you shall say to them, When you have lifted out and held back the best from it, then it shall be counted to the Levites just as if it were the increase of the threshing floor or of the winepress.

Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye offer the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the fruit of the threshingfloor and as the fruit of the winepress.

31 A nd you may eat it in every place, you and your households, for it is your reward for your service in the Tent of Meeting.

And ye shall eat it in any place, ye and your family; for it is your reward for your ministry in the tabernacle of the testimony.

32 A nd you shall be guilty of no sin by reason of it when you have lifted out and held back the best of it; neither shall you have polluted the holy things of the Israelites, neither shall you die.

And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have offered from it the best of it; and ye shall not pollute the holy things of the sons of Israel, and ye shall not die.