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may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee
shall minister
before the tabernacle of witness.
3
And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the
tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither
they, nor ye also, die.
4
And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle
of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto
you.
5
And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no
wrath any more upon the children of Israel.
6
And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites
from among the children of Israel: to you
they are
given
as
a gift for the L
ORD
, to do the service of
the tabernacle of the congregation.
7
Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest’s
office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest’s
office
unto you as
a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
8
And the L
ORD
spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave
offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason
of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.
9
This shall be thine of the most holy
things,
reserved
from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin
offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me,
shall be
most holy for thee and for thy sons.
10
In the most holy
place
shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat
it: it shall be holy unto thee.
11
And this
is
thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave
offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters
with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.
12
All the best of
the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer
unto the L
ORD
, them have I given thee.
13
And
whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall
bring unto the L
ORD
, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat
of
it.
14
Every
thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.
15
Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they
bring unto the L
ORD
,
whether it be
of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of
man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.
16
And those
that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the
money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which
is
twenty gerahs.
17
But the firstling
of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they
are
holy:
thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat
for
an offering made by fire,
for a sweet savour unto the L
ORD
.
18
And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and
as the right shoulder are thine.
19
All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of
Israel offer unto the L
ORD
, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute
for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the L
ORD
unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
20
And the L
ORD
spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt
thou have any part among them: I
am
thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.
21
And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their
service which they serve,
even
the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
22
Neither must
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