Numbers 18:11-32

¹¹And this shall be to you of the first fruits of their gifts, of all the wave-offerings of the children of Israel; to you have I given them and to your sons and your daughters with you, a perpetual ordinance; every clean person in your house shall eat them.

¹²Every first-offering of oil, and every first-offering of wine, their first fruits of corn, whatever they may give to the Lord, to you have I given them.

¹³All the first fruits that are in their land, whatever they shall offer to the Lord, shall be your: every clean person in your house shall eat them.

¹⁴Every devoted thing among the children of Israel shall be your.

¹⁵And every thing that opens the womb of all flesh, whatever they bring to the Lord, whether man or beast, shall be your: only the firstborn of men shall be surely redeemed, and you shall redeem the firstborn of unclean cattle.

¹⁶And the redemption of them shall be from a month old; their valuation of five shekels—it is twenty oboli according to the holy shekel.

¹⁷But you shall not redeem the firstborn of calves and the firstborn of sheep and the firstborn of goats; they are holy: and you shall pour their blood upon the altar, and you shall offer the fat as a burnt offering for a smell of sweet savor to the Lord.

¹⁸And the flesh shall be your, as also the breast of the wave-offering and as the right shoulder, it shall be your.

¹⁹Every special offering of the holy things, whatever the children of Israel shall specially offer to the Lord, I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters with you, a perpetual ordinance: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord, for you and your seed after you.

²⁰And the Lord said to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them; for I am your portion and your inheritance in the midst of the children of Israel.

²¹And, behold, I have given to the sons of Levi every tithe in Israel for an inheritance for their services, whenever they perform ministry in the tabernacle of witness.

²²And the children of Israel shall no more draw near to the tabernacle of witness to incur fatal guilt.

²³And the Levite himself shall perform the service of the tabernacle of witness; and they shall bear their iniquities, it is a perpetual statute throughout their generations; and in the midst of the children of Israel they shall not receive an inheritance.

²⁴Because I have given as a distinct portion to the Levites for an inheritance the tithes of the children of Israel, whatever they shall offer to the Lord; therefore I said to them, In the midst of the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

²⁵And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

²⁶You shall also speak to the Levites, and shall say to them, If you° take the tithe from the children of Israel, which I have given you from them for an inheritance, then shall you° separate from it a heave-offering to the Lord, a tenth of the tenth.

²⁷And your heave-offerings shall be reckoned to you as corn from the floor, and an offering from the wine-press.

²⁸So shall you° also separate them from all the offerings of the Lord out of all your tithes, whatever you° shall receive from the children of Israel; and you° shall give of them an offering to the Lord to Aaron the priest.

²⁹Of all your gifts you° shall offer an offering to the Lord, and of every first-fruit the consecrated part from it.

³⁰And you shall say to them, When you° shall offer the first fruits from it, then shall it be reckoned to the Levites as produce from the threshing floor, and as produce from the wine-press.

³¹And you° shall eat it in any place, you° and your families; for this is your reward for your services in the tabernacle of witness.

³²And you° shall not bear sin by reason of it, for you° shall have offered an offering of first fruits from it, and you° shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that you° die not.