Numbers Chapter 18

• Numbers 18:1
  Numbers.
• Numbers 18:2
  The LORD said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your fathers’ house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you s...
• Numbers 18:3
  Bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you; but you and...
• Numbers 18:4
  They shall keep your commands and the duty of the whole Tent; only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that the...
• Numbers 18:5
  They shall be joined to you and keep the responsibility of the Tent of Meeting, for all the service of the Tent. A stranger shall not come near to you...
• Numbers 18:6
  “You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary and the duty of the altar, that there be no more wrath on the children of Israel.
• Numbers 18:7
  Behold, I myself have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel. They are a gift to you, dedicated to the LORD, to do the serv...
• Numbers 18:8
  You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil. You shall serve. I give you the servi...
• Numbers 18:9
  The LORD spoke to Aaron, “Behold, I myself have given you the command of my wave offerings, even all the holy things of the children of Israel. I have...
• Numbers 18:10
  This shall be yours of the most holy things from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every sin offering of the...
• Numbers 18:11
  You shall eat of it like the most holy things. Every male shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you.
• Numbers 18:12
  “This is yours, too: the wave offering of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the children of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your son...
• Numbers 18:13
  “I have given to you all the best of the oil, all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to the LORD.
• Numbers 18:14
  The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the LORD, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.
• Numbers 18:15
  “Everything devoted in Israel shall be yours.
• Numbers 18:16
  Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to the LORD, both of man and animal, shall be yours. Nevertheless, you shall surely rede...
• Numbers 18:17
  You shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of money, according to the shek...
• Numbers 18:18
  “But you shall not redeem the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat. They are holy. You shall sprinkle their blo...
• Numbers 18:19
  Their meat shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours.
• Numbers 18:20
  All the wave offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel offer to the LORD, I have given you and your sons and your daughters with you, ...
• Numbers 18:21
  The LORD said to Aaron, “You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheri...
• Numbers 18:22
  “To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the serv...
• Numbers 18:23
  Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.
• Numbers 18:24
  But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generat...
• Numbers 18:25
  For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a wave offering to the LORD, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I ...
• Numbers 18:26
  The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
• Numbers 18:27
  “Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, ‘When you take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your ...
• Numbers 18:28
  Your wave offering shall be credited to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the wine press.
• Numbers 18:29
  Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to the LORD of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and of it you shall give the LO...
• Numbers 18:30
  Out of all your gifts, you shall offer every wave offering to the LORD, of all its best parts, even the holy part of it.’
• Numbers 18:31
  “Therefore you shall tell them, ‘When you heave its best from it, then it shall be credited to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and...
• Numbers 18:32
  You may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting.
• Numbers 18:33
  You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it its best. You shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that yo...