Numbers 18:16-25

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,