bring you near with you, that they may be joined to you,
and minister to you: but you and your sons with you shall
be before the tent of the testimony.
018:003 They shall keep your charge, and the charge of all the Tent:
only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary
and to the altar, that they not die, neither they, nor you.
018:004 They shall be joined to you, and keep the charge of
the tent of meeting, for all the service of the Tent:
and a stranger shall not come near to you.
018:005 You shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of
the altar; that there be wrath no more on the children of Israel.
018:006 I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among
the children of Israel: to you they are a gift, given to Yahweh,
to do the service of the tent of meeting.
018:007 You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for
everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and you
shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift:
and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
018:008 Yahweh spoke to Aaron, I, behold, I have given you the charge
of my wave offerings, even all the holy things of the children
of Israel; to you have I given them by reason of the anointing,
and to your sons, as a portion forever.
018:009 This shall be your of the most holy things, [reserved] from the fire:
every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs,
and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering
of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy
for you and for your sons.
018:010 As the most holy things shall you eat of it; every male shall
eat of it: it shall be holy to you.
018:011 This is your: 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 sons and to your daughters with you,
as a portion forever; everyone who is clean in your house
shall eat of it.
018:012 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage,
and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give
to Yahweh, to you have I given them.
018:013 The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they
bring to Yahweh, shall be yours; everyone who is clean in your
house shall eat of it.
018:014 Everything devoted in Israel shall be yours.
018:015 Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they
offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal shall be yours:
nevertheless the firstborn of man shall you surely redeem,
and the firstborn of unclean animals shall you redeem.
018:016 Those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old shall
you redeem, according to your estimation, for the money