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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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14 | Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.
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| 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. |
| 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.
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| 17 | But the firstling 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. |
| 18 | And the flesh of them shall
be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine. |
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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. |
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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.
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| 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. |
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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, |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
