Numbers 18:10-26

¹⁰Thou shalt eat it in the saintuary; males only shall eat thereof, for it is hallowed to the Lord.

¹¹Soothly I have given to thee, and to thy sons and thy daughters, by everlasting right, the first fruits which the sons of Israel avow and offer; he that is clean in thine house, shall eat those things.

¹²I have given to thee all the mar-row, or the best, of oil, and of wine, and of wheat, whatever thing of the first fruits they shall offer to the Lord.

¹³All the beginnings of fruits which the earth bringeth forth, and be brought to the Lord, shall fall into thine uses; he that is clean in thine house, shall eat of those or them.

¹⁴All things that the sons of Israel yield by a vow, shall be thine.

¹⁵Whatever thing cometh first forth of the womb of all flesh, which they offer to the Lord, whether it is of men, either of beasts, it shall be of thy right; so only that thou take price for the first begotten child of man, and that thou make each beast that is unclean to be bought again;

¹⁶whose again-buying shall be after one month, for five shekels of silver, by the weight of the saintuary; a shekel hath twenty halfpence.

¹⁷Forsooth thou shalt not make the first engendered of an ox, and of sheep, and of goat, to be again-bought, for those or they be hallowed to the Lord; only thou shalt pour the blood of those or them upon the altar, and thou shalt burn the inner fatness into sweetest odour to the Lord.

¹⁸Soothly the flesh shall fall into thine use, as the breast hallowed and the right shoulder, shall be thine.

¹⁹I have given to thee, and to thy sons and thy daughters, by everlasting right, all the first fruits of the saintuary, which the sons of Israel offer to the Lord; it is everlasting covenant of salt before the Lord, to thee, and to thy sons.

²⁰And the Lord said to Aaron, Ye shall not wield anything of heritage in the land of Israel, neither ye shall have part among them; I am thy part and thine heritage, in the midst of the sons of Israel.

²¹Soothly, I gave to the sons of Levi all the tithes of Israel into possession, for the service by which they serve me in the tabernacle of the bond of peace;

²²that the sons of Israel nigh no more to the tabernacle of the bond of peace, neither do deadly sin.

²³To the sons alone of Levi, serving me in the tabernacle, and bearing the people’s sins, it shall be a lawful thing everlasting in your generations.

²⁴They shall wield none other thing, and they shall be satisfied with the offering of tithes, which I separated into the uses and necessaries of them.

²⁵And the Lord spake to Moses and said,

²⁶Command thou, and announce to the deacons or Levites, When ye have taken tithes of the sons of Israel, which I gave to you, offer ye the first fruits of those or them to the Lord, that is, the tenth part of the tenth,