Numbers:18:1-23
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And the LORD said unto Aaron ,
Thou and thy sons and thy fathers house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary :
and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood .
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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 .
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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 .
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And they shall be joined unto thee ,
and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation mow #
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for all the service of the tabernacle :
and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you .
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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 Yisra #
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And I ,
behold ,
I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel Yisra #
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to you they are given as a gift for the LORD ,
to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation mow #
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Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priests office for every thing of the altar ,
and within the vail ;
and ye shall serve :
I have given your priests office unto you as a service of gift :
and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death .
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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 Yisra #
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unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing ,
and to thy sons ,
by an ordinance for ever .
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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 .
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In the most holy place shalt thou eat it ;
every male shall eat it :
it shall be holy unto thee .
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And this is thine ;
the heave offering of their gift ,
with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel Yisra #
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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And the flesh of them shall be thine ,
as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine .
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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 .
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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 Yisra #
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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 mow #
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Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation mow #
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lest they bear sin ,
and die .
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But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation mow #
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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 .