Numbers 18:8-32

8Then the Lord spoke to Aaron, “Now behold, I Myself have put you in charge of My 12offerings, all the holy gifts of the sons of Israel I have given to you as a portion and to your sons as a permanent allotment. 9This shall be yours from the most holy gifts reserved from the fire; every offering of theirs, namely 3every grain offering, every 4sin offering, and every guilt offering, with which they shall make restitution to Me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons. 10As the most holy gifts you shall eat it; every male shall eat it. It shall be holy to you. 11This also is yours, 5the offering of their gift, that is, all the wave offerings of the sons of Israel; I have 6given them to you and to your sons and daughters with you as a permanent allotment. Everyone of your household who is clean may eat it. 127All the 8best of the fresh oil and all the 9best of the fresh wine and of the grain, the first fruits of what they give to the Lord, I have given them to you. 1310The first ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the Lord, shall be yours; everyone of your household who is clean may eat it. 1411Everything banned from secular use in Israel shall be yours. 151213Every firstborn of the womb of all flesh, whether human or animal, which they offer to the Lord, shall be yours; however you must redeem the human firstborn, and the firstborn of unclean animals you shall redeem. 16As to 14their redemption price, from a month old you shall redeem them, by your assessment, five 15shekels in silver by the 16shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs. 17But 17the firstborn of an ox, the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy. 18You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar and offer up their fat in smoke as an offering by fire, for a soothing aroma to the Lord. 18However, their 19meat shall be yours; it shall be yours like the 20breast of a wave offering and like the right thigh. 1921All the offerings of the holy gifts, which the sons of Israel offer to the Lord, I have given to you and your sons and your daughters with you, as a permanent allotment. It is 22a permanent covenant of salt before the Lord to you and your 23descendants with you.” 20Then the Lord said to Aaron, “24You shall have no inheritance in their land nor own any portion among them; 25I am your portion and your inheritance among the sons of Israel.

21“To the sons of Levi, behold, I have given all the 26tithe in Israel as an inheritance, in return for their service which they perform, the service of the tent of meeting. 22And 27the sons of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting again, or they will bring sin on themselves and die. 23Only the Levites shall perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall 28bear their own guilt; it shall be a permanent statute throughout your generations, and among the sons of Israel 29they shall have no inheritance. 24For the tithe of the sons of Israel, which they offer as an offering to the Lord, I have given to the Levites as an inheritance; therefore I have said concerning them, ‘30They shall have no inheritance among the sons of Israel.’”

25Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 26“Moreover, you shall speak to the Levites and say to them, ‘When you take from the sons of Israel 31the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present an offering from it to the Lord, a 32tithe of the tithe. 27Your offering shall be credited to you like the grain from the threshing floor or the full produce from the wine vat. 28So you shall also present an offering to the Lord from all your tithes, which you receive from the sons of Israel; and from it you shall give the Lord’s offering to Aaron the priest. 29Out of all your gifts you shall present every offering due to the Lord, from all the 33best of them, 34the sacred part from them.’ 30And you shall say to them, ‘When you have 35offered from it the best of it, then the rest shall be credited to the Levites like the product of the threshing floor, and like the product of the wine vat. 31You may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your compensation in return for your service in the tent of meeting. 32And you will bring on yourselves no sin by reason of it when you have 36offered the 37best of it. But you shall not 38profane the sacred gifts of the sons of Israel, so that you do not die.’”