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Chapter 18 |
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 everything 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.
Ex 13:2
Luke 2:23
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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 1firstling 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 savor unto the LORD.
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Gen 4:4,
Exod 13:12,
Exod 34:19,
Lev 27:26,
Prov 3:9
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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. |
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| 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. |