6
For behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the sons of Israel, given unto you
as a gift of the LORD, to serve in the ministry of the tabernacle of the testimony.
7
Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priesthood for every thing of the altar and within the veil, and ye shall minister; for I have given the service of your priesthood as a gift, and the stranger that comes near shall die.
8
The LORD spoke further unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of my offerings; all the dedicated things of the sons of Israel I have given unto thee by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by a perpetual statute.
9
This shall be thine of the holy things,
reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, every present of theirs, and every
offering that represents their sin, and every
offering that represents their guilt, which they shall render unto me,
shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons.
10
In the sanctuary shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it; it shall be holy unto thee.
11
This also
shall be thine: the
heave offering of their gifts. All the
wave offerings of the sons of Israel, I have given them unto thee and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever; everyone that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.
12
All the best of the oil and all the best of the wine and of the wheat, the firstfruits of this, which they shall present unto the LORD, this have I given thee.
13
The firstfruits of theirs of all the things of the land, which they shall bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; everyone that is clean in thy house shall eat
of it.
14
Every anathema in Israel shall be thine.
15
Every thing that opens the womb in all flesh, which they shall offer unto the LORD,
whether it is of men or animals, shall be thine; nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely ransom, and the firstborn of unclean animals shalt thou ransom.
16
And from a month old shalt thou effect their ransom, a ransom according to thine estimation, for the price of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which
is twenty gerahs.