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          DASV: Numbers 18    

1 Then the LORD said to Aaron, "You, your sons and your tribe
will bear the responsibility for offences against the sanctuary;
but you and your sons will bear the responsibility for
offences against your priesthood.
2 Bring your brothers from the tribe of Levi, the tribe of
your father, with you, that they may assist you and minister
to you while you and your sons are in front of the Tent
of the Testimony.
3 They are responsible to perform duties for you and for
the whole Tent. But they are not to go near the utensils
of the sanctuary or the altar, or both you and they will die.
4 They must assist you, and be responsible for the Tent
of Meeting, for all the service of the Tent. No unauthorized
person is to come near where you are.
5 You are responsible for the care of the sanctuary and
the altar; so that wrath will never again come on the
Israelites.
6 I myself have chosen your brothers, the Levites, from
among the Israelites. They are given to you as gift from
the LORD, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting.
7 But you and your sons with you are responsible for
your priestly duties for everything involving the altar
and behind the inner curtain and you will serve. I give
you the service of the priesthood as a gift.
Any unauthorized person who comes near must be put to death."

8 Then the LORD spoke to Aaron, "Look, I have put you in
charge of my offerings. I have given all the holy things
of the Israelites to you and your sons as the priestly
portion forever.
9 This shall be yours from the most holy things, reserved
from the fire. All their offerings, whether every grain
offering, sin offering or guilt offering that they shall
render to me will be most holy for you and your sons.
10 You are to eat it as a most holy offering; every male
may eat it. It will be holy to you.
11 This also is yours: the wave offering of their gift,
all the wave offerings of the Israelites; I have given
them to you, your sons and daughters with you, as a portion
forever; everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.
12 All the best of the olive oil, and all the best of the
wine and grain, the first fruits of these that they give
to the LORD, I have given them to you.
13 The first ripe fruits of all that is in their land,
which they bring to the LORD, will be yours. Everyone
who is clean in your household may eat it.
14 Everything devoted in Israel will be yours.
15 Everything that opens the womb of all flesh which they
offer to the LORD, whether human or animal will be yours.
But the firstborn sons you must redeem, and the firstborn
of unclean animals you must redeem.
16 Those that are to be redeemed that are a month old you
must redeem, according to your estimation, for five shekels,
according to the shekel of the sanctuary, that is twenty gerahs.
17 But the firstborn cow, sheep or goat, you must not redeem;
they are holy. You must sprinkle their blood on the altar
and burn their fat for an offering made by fire for a
pleasing aroma to the LORD.
18 Their meat will be yours, just as the breast and the
right thigh that are waved high, it will be yours.
19 All the holy offerings that the Israelites offer to
the LORD, I have given to you, your sons and daughters,
as your portion forever. It is a covenant of salt forever
before the LORD for you and your descendants."

20 Then the LORD said to Aaron, "You will not have an
inheritance in their land, nor will you have any portion
of property among them. I am your portion and your
inheritance among the Israelites.
21 To the Levites I have given all the tithes in Israel
for an inheritance, in return for the service they
perform, the service of the Tent of Meeting.
22 From now on the Israelites may not come near the
Tent of Meeting or they bear their guilt and die.
23 But the Levites will perform the service of the
Tent of Meeting, and they will be held responsible
for any violation against it. It will be a statute
forever throughout your generations that among the
Israelites they will have no land inheritance.
24 For I have given to the Levites as their inheritance
the tithes of the Israelites, that they present as an
offering to the LORD, therefore I said to them, 'Among
the Israelites they will have no land inheritance.'"

25 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
26 "You are to speak to the Levites, and tell them,
'When you receive from the Israelites the tithe that I
have given you from them for your inheritance, then you
must present a contribution to the LORD, a tenth of
the tithe.
27 Your offering will be reckoned to you, as though it
were grain from the threshing floor, or as juice from
the winepress.
28 You must also present an offering to the LORD from
all the tithes you receive from the Israelites. You must
give the LORD's offering from it to Aaron the priest.
29 Out of all your gifts you must present every offering
due to the LORD, from all the best of it is the part
to be consecrated from it.
30 Therefore you will say to them, 'When you offer the
best of it, then the rest of it will be counted for the
Levites as the produce of the threshing floor or
the winepress.
31 You and your household may eat it anywhere, for it is
your wages in return for your service in the Tent
of Meeting.
32 You will bear no sin concerning it, when you have
offered up the best of it. But you must not profane
the holy things of the Israelites or you will die.'"

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