CHAP. XVIII.
1 The different charges of the Priests, and of the Levites adjoyned unto them. 9 The Priests por∣tion of the peoples offrings, and hallowed things; and the use of them. 21 The Levites portion is the tithes of the Israelites, but no inheritance in the land. 26. The Levites must give unto the Priests the tenth of their tithes, as the Lords heave-offring: and the rest themselves should enjoy, for a reward of their service.
ANd Iehovah said unto Aaron; Thou, [unspec] and thy sonnes, and thy fathers house with thee, shall beare the iniquity of the Sanctuary: and thou, and thy sonnes with thee, shall beare the iniquity of your Priest-hood. And thy brethren also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou neere with thee, that they may be joyned unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou, and thy sonnes with thee, (shall minister) before the Tent of the Testimony. And they shall keepe thy charge, and the charge of all the Tent: but they shall not come nigh unto the vessels of holinesse, and unto the Altar; that they die not, both they and you. And they [unspec 4] shall be joyned unto thee, and shall keep the charge of the Tent of the Congregation, for all the service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you. And ye shall keep [unspec 5] the charge of the Holy place, and the charge of the Altar, that there be no servent wrath any more upon the sonnes of Israel. And [unspec 6] I, behold I have taken your brethren the Le∣vites, from among the sonnes of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for Iehovah, to serve the service of the Tent of the Congre∣gation. And thou and thy sons with thee, [unspec 7] shall keepe your Priests office for every thing of the Altar, and within the veile, and ye shall serve: I have given your Priests office, as a service of gift; and the stranger that commeth nigh, shall be put to death.
And Iehovah spake unto Aaron; And I, [unspec 8] behold I have given unto thee the charge of mine heave-offrings, of all the holy things of the sonnes of Israel; unto thee have I gi∣ven them, for the anointing, and to thy sons, by a statute for ever. This shall be thine, of [unspec 9] the Holy of Holies, (reserved) from the fire: every oblation of theirs, of every Meat-offe∣ring of theirs, & of every Sin-offring of theirs, and of every Trespasse-offring of theirs, which they shall render unto me; it shall be holy of holyes, for thee and for thy sonnes. In the [unspec 10] holy of holyes shalt thou eat it: every male shall eat it; holy shall it be unto thee. And [unspec 11] this shall be thine; the heave-offring of their gift, with all the wave-offrings of the sonnes of Israel; unto thee have I given them, and to thy sonnes and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every cleane person in thine house shall eat it. All the fat of the new [unspec 12] oile, and all the fat of the new wine, and of the corne; the first fruits of them, which they shall give unto Iehovah, them have I given unto thee. The first-fruits of all which shall [unspec 13] be in their land, which they shall bring unto Iehovah, shall be thine: every cleane person in thine house shall eat it. Every devoted [unspec 14] [unspec 15] thing in Israel shall be thine. Every thing that openeth the wombe, of all flesh, which they shal bring neere unto Iehovah, of man or of beast, shall be thine: but redeeming thou shalt redeeme the first-borne of man; and the firstling of the uncleane beast shalt thou re∣deeme. And those that are to be redeemed of [unspec 16] him, from a moneth old, shalt thou redeeme, by thy estimation; for the silver of five she∣kels, by the shekel of the Sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs. But the firstling of a cow, or [unspec 17]