Num 18 | ABEn | STEP | And the lord said to Aaron, You and your sons, and the house of your father with you shall take the sins associated with the holies; and you and your sons with you shall take the sins associated with your priesthood.

‏ Numbers 18

CHAPTER 18 Aaron and His Sons Officiate

1 And the lord said to Aaron, You and your sons, and the house of your father with you shall take the sins associated with the holies; and you and your sons with you shall take the sins associated with your priesthood. 2 And your brethren the tribe of Levi, the people of your father, you lead them to yourself, and let them be added to you, and let them officiate to you! even you and your sons with you before the tent of the testimony. 3 And they shall guard your watches, and the watches of the tent; except for the items of the holies and for the altar they shall not draw near, so that they shall not die, even these and you. 4 And they shall be added to you, and shall guard the watches of the tent of the testimony, concerning all the ministrations of the tent. And the foreigner shall not draw near to you. 5 And you shall guard the watches of the holy places, and the watches of the altar. And there shall not be yet rage among the sons of Israel. 6 And behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel as a gift being given to the lord, to officiate the ministrations of the tent of the testimony. 7 And you and your sons after you shall observe your priesthood according to every manner of the altar, and the thing within the veil; and you shall officiate the ministrations as a gift of your priesthood. And the foreigner going to it shall die. 8 And the lord spoke to Aaron, And behold, I give to you the preservation of my first-fruits of all the things having been sanctified by the sons of Israel. To you I give them as an honor, and to your sons [²law ¹for an eternal]. 9 And let this be to you from the [²having been sanctified ¹holy things] of the yield offerings, from all their gifts, and from all their sacrifices, and from all their trespass offerings, and from all their sin offerings! as many as they give back to me of all of the holy things, it shall be to you and to your sons. 10 In the holy of the holies, you eat them! Let every male eat them! They shall be holy to you. 11 And this will be to you of the first-fruits of their gifts, from all the increase offerings of the sons of Israel. To you I have given them, and to your sons, and to your daughters after you -- [²law ¹an eternal]. Every clean person in your house shall eat them. 12 Every first-fruit of olive oil, and every first-fruit of wine, and [²of grain ¹of their first-fruit], as many things as they should give to the lord, to you I have given them. 13 [²the ³first produce ¹All], as many things as are in their land, as many things as they should bring to the lord, it will be yours; every clean person in your house shall eat them. 14 Every thing being devoted to consumption by the sons of Israel shall be to you. 15 And every thing opening wide the womb of all flesh, as many things as they offer to the lord, from man unto beast, it will be to you; only with ransoms you shall ransom the first-born of men; and the first-born of the [²cattle ¹unclean] you shall ransom. 16 And the ransoming of him from a month old -- the price is five shekels, according to the [²shekel ¹holy] -- twenty oboli they are worth. 17 Except the first-born of calves, and the first-born of sheep, and the first-born of goats you shall not ransom, [²holy ¹they are]. And their blood you shall pour upon the altar, and the fat you shall offer as a yield offering for a scent of pleasant aroma to the lord. 18 And the meats will be yours, as also the breast of the increase offering. And accordingly the [²shoulder ¹right] will be yours. 19 Every cut-away portion of the holy things, as many things as [⁴should remove ¹the ²sons ³of Israel] to the lord, to you I have given, and to your sons, and to your daughters after you -- [²law ¹an eternal]. [²covenant ³of salt ¹It is an eternal] before the lord to you and to your seed after you. 20 And the lord spoke to Aaron, In their land you shall not be an heir, and a portion shall not be to you among them; for I am your portion and your inheritance in the midst of the sons of Israel. 21 And to the sons of Levi, behold, I have given every tenth part in Israel by lot for their ministrations, as much as they shall officiate the ministration in the tent of the testimony. 22 And [⁴shall not ⁵come forward ⁶still ¹the ²sons ³of Israel] into the tent of the testimony, so as to take on sin causing death. 23 And [⁴shall officiate ¹the ²Levite ³himself] the ministration of the tent of the testimony; and they shall take their sins. [²law ¹It is an eternal] into their generations. And in the midst of the sons of Israel they shall not be an heir of an inheritance, 24 for the tenth parts of the sons of Israel, as many things as they should separate to the lord, a cut-away portion I give to the Levites by lot. On account of this I have said to them, Among the midst of the sons of Israel they shall not be an heir of a lot. 25 And the lord spoke to Moses, saying, 26 And to the Levites you shall speak, and you shall say to them, If you should take from the sons of Israel the tenth part, which I have given to you from them for a lot, then you shall remove to yourselves from it a cut-away portion to the lord, a tenth of the tenth part. 27 And [²shall be considered ³for you ¹your cut-away portions] as grain from the threshing-floor, and as a cut-away portion from the wine-vat. 28 So you shall remove, even you yourselves, from all the cut-away portions of the lord, from all your tenth parts; as many things as you should take from the sons of Israel; and you shall give of them a cut-away portion to the lord, through Aaron the priest. 29 From all your gifts you shall remove a cut-away portion to the lord, from all the first-fruits having been sanctified of it. 30 And you shall say to them, Whenever you should remove the first-fruit from it, then shall it be considered the Levites as produce from the threshing-floor, and as produce from the wine-vat. 31 And you shall eat it in any place, you and your households; for [³the wage ¹this ⁴to you ²is] for your ministrations of the things in the tent of the testimony. 32 And you shall not take [²because of ³it ¹sin], in that you should remove the first-fruit from it. And the holy things of the sons of Israel you shall not profane, that you should not die.