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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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7 | Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's
office for everything 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. |
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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. |
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9 | This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the
fire: every oblation of their's, every meat offering of
their's, and every sin offering of their's, and every trespass
offering of their's which they shall render unto me, shall be
most holy for thee and for thy sons. |
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10 | In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat
it: it shall be holy unto thee. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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14 | Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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18 | And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and
as the right shoulder are thine. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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22 | Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the
tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die. |
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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. |
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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. |
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25 | And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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