1 dixitque Dominus ad Aaron
tu et filii tui et domus patris tui tecum
portabitis iniquitatem sanctuarii
et tu et filii tui simul sustinebitis peccata sacerdotii vestri
2 sed et fratres tuos de tribu Levi et sceptro patris tui
sume tecum
praestoque sint et ministrent tibi
tu autem et filii tui ministrabitis in tabernaculo testimonii
3 excubabuntque Levitae ad praecepta tua et ad cuncta opera tabernaculi
ita dumtaxat ut ad vasa sanctuarii et altare non accedant
ne et illi moriantur et vos pereatis simul
4 sint autem tecum et excubent in custodiis tabernaculi
et in omnibus caerimoniis eius
alienigena non miscebitur vobis
5 excubate in custodia sanctuarii et in ministerio altaris
ne oriatur indignatio super filios Israhel
6 ego dedi vobis fratres vestros Levitas de medio filiorum Israhel
et tradidi donum Domino ut serviant in ministeriis tabernaculi eius
7 tu autem et filii tui custodite sacerdotium vestrum
et omnia quae ad cultum altaris pertinent et intra velum sunt
per sacerdotes administrabuntur
si quis externus accesserit occidetur
8 locutus est Dominus ad Aaron
ecce dedi tibi custodiam primitiarum mearum
omnia quae sanctificantur a filiis Israhel tibi tradidi
et filiis tuis
pro officio sacerdotali legitima sempiterna
9 haec ergo accipies de his quae sanctificantur et oblata sunt Domino
omnis oblatio et sacrificium
et quicquid pro peccato atque delicto redditur mihi
et cedet in sancta sanctorum
tuum erit et filiorum tuorum
10 in sanctuario comedes illud
mares tantum edent ex eo quia consecratum est tibi
11 primitias autem quas voverint et obtulerint filii Israhel
tibi dedi et filiis ac filiabus tuis iure perpetuo
qui mundus est in domo tua vescetur eis
12 omnem medullam olei et vini ac frumenti
quicquid offerunt primitiarum Domino tibi dedi
13 universa frugum initia quas gignit humus
et Domino deportantur
cedent in usus tuos
qui mundus est in domo tua vescetur eis
14 omne quod ex voto reddiderint filii Israhel tuum erit
15 quicquid primum erumpet e vulva cunctae carnis quam
offerunt Domino
sive ex hominibus sive de pecoribus fuerit tui iuris erit
ita dumtaxat ut pro hominis primogenito pretium accipias
et omne animal quod inmundum est redimi facias
16 cuius redemptio erit post unum mensem
siclis argenti quinque pondere sanctuarii
siclus viginti obolos habet
17 primogenitum autem bovis et ovis et caprae non facies redimi
quia sanctificata sunt Domino
sanguinem tantum eorum fundes super altare
et adipes adolebis in suavissimum odorem Domino
18 carnes vero in usum tuum cedent
sicut pectusculum consecratum et armus dexter tua erunt
19 omnes primitias sanctuarii quas offerunt filii Israhel Domino
tibi dedi et filiis ac filiabus tuis iure perpetuo
pactum salis est sempiternum coram Domino tibi
ac filiis tuis
20 dixitque Dominus ad Aaron
in terra eorum nihil possidebitis
nec habebitis partem inter eos
ego pars et hereditas tua in medio filiorum Israhel
21 filiis autem Levi dedi omnes decimas Israhelis in possessionem
pro ministerio quo serviunt mihi in tabernaculo foederis
22 ut non accedant ultra filii Israhel ad tabernaculum
nec committant peccatum mortiferum
23 solis filiis Levi mihi in tabernaculo servientibus
et portantibus peccata populi
legitimum sempiternum erit in generationibus vestris
nihil aliud possidebunt
24 decimarum oblatione contenti
quas in usus eorum et necessaria separavi
25 locutusque est Dominus ad Mosen dicens
26 praecipe Levitis atque denuntia
cum acceperitis a filiis Israhel decimas quas dedi vobis
primitias earum offerte Domino
id est decimam partem decimae
27 ut reputetur vobis in oblationem primitivorum
tam de areis quam de torcularibus
28 et universis quorum accipitis primitias
offerte Domino et date Aaron sacerdoti
29 omnia quae offertis ex decimis
et in donaria Domini separatis
optima et electa erunt
30 dicesque ad eos
si praeclara et meliora quaeque obtuleritis ex decimis
reputabitur vobis quasi de area et torculari dederitis
primitias
31 et comedetis eas in omnibus locis vestris
tam vos quam familiae vestrae
quia pretium est pro ministerio quo servitis in tabernaculo testimonii
32 et non peccabitis super hoc egregia vobis et pinguia reservantes
ne polluatis oblationes filiorum Israhel et moriamini
1 And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father’s house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. 2 And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they 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 LORD, 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 LORD 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 LORD, them have I given thee. 13 And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the LORD, 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 LORD, 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 LORD. 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 LORD, 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 LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
20 ¶ And the LORD 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 the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die. 23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance. 24 But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
25 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 26 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe. 27 And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress. 28 Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the LORD’s heave offering to Aaron the priest. 29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it. 30 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress. 31 And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation. 32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.