Numbers
Numbers 18
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Numbers 18 — Scripture text (King James Version)
And the LORD said unto , Thou and thy sons and thy father’s house with thee shall the iniquity of : and thou and thy sons with thee shall the iniquity of your priesthood. And thy brethren also of the tribe of , 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 of witness. And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the : only they shall not come nigh the vessels of and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die. And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the of the congregation, for all the service of the : and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you. And ye shall keep the charge of , and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of . And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the from among the children of : to you they are given as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the of the congregation. 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 to death. And the LORD spake unto , Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of ; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever. This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons. In the shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee. And this is thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of : 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. All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given thee. 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. Every thing devoted in shall be thine. 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. And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five , after the of , which is twenty . But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a , or the firstling of a , 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. And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine. All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee. And the LORD spake unto , 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 . And, behold, I have given the children of all the tenth in for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the of the congregation. Neither must the children of henceforth come nigh the of the congregation, lest they sin, and die. But the shall do the service of the of the congregation, and they shall their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of they have no inheritance. But the tithes of the children of , which they offer as an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of they shall have no inheritance. And the LORD spake unto , saying, Thus speak unto the , and say unto them, When ye take of the children of 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 . 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 . Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of ; and ye shall give thereof the LORD’S heave offering to the priest. 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. Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the . And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the of the congregation. And ye shall 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 , lest ye die.