of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary
(the same is twenty gerahs).
018:017 But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep,
or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy:
you shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall
burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet
savor to Yahweh.
018:018 The flesh of them shall be your, as the wave offering breast
and as the right thigh, it shall be yours.
018:019 All the wave offerings of the holy things, which the children
of Israel offer to Yahweh, have I given you, and your
sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever:
it is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to
your seed with you.
018:020 Yahweh 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 inheritance among the children of Israel.
018:021 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 service of the tent of meeting.
018:022 Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the tent
of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.
018:023 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 generations; and among the children
of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
018:024 For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a wave
offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance:
therefore I have said to them, Among the children of Israel
they shall have no inheritance.
018:025 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
018:026 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 inheritance, then you
shall offer up a wave offering of it for Yahweh, a tithe
of the tithe.
018:027 Your wave offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it
were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness
of the winepress.
018:028 Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to Yahweh of all
your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel;
and of it you shall give Yahweh's wave offering to Aaron the priest.
018:029 Out of all your gifts you shall offer every wave offering
of Yahweh, of all the best of it, even the holy part of it
out of it.
018:030 Therefore you shall tell them, When you heave the best of it
from it, then it shall be reckoned to the Levites as the increase
of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the winepress.
018:031 You shall eat it in every place, you and your households: