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Chapter 18  
     
1.
 And the Lord said unto Aaron in a dream, You and thy sons and thy father's house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and you and thy sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
  
2.
 And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring you with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but you and thy sons with you 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 you 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 you 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 you and thy sons with you shall keep your priest's office for everything of the altar, and within the vail; and you 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 spoke unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given you the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto you have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.
  
9.
 This shall be your 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 you and for thy sons.
  
10.
 In the most holy place shall you eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.

 
11.
 And this is yours; 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 your; every one that is clean in your house shall eat of it.
  
14.
 Every thing devoted in Israel shall be your.
  
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 your: nevertheless the firstborn of man shall you surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shall you redeem.
  
16.
 And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shall you redeem, according to your 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, 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 savour unto the Lord.
  
18.
 And the flesh of them shall be your, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are yours.
  
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 you and to thy seed with thee.
  
20.
 And the Lord spoke unto Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any part among them: I am thy part and your 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 in a dream the Lord spoke unto Moses, and from his dream Moses interpreted the Lord, saying,
  
26.
 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When you take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you 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 you also shall offer an heave offering unto the Lord of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and you shall give of it the Lord's heave offering to Aaron the priest.
  
29.
 Out of all your gifts you shall offer every heave offering of the Lord, of all the best of it, even the hallowed part of it out of it.
  
30.
 Therefore you shall say unto them, When you have heaved the best of it 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 you shall eat it in every place, you and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.
  
32.
 And you shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall you pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest you die.
  

 
 
 

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