The Koine Bible

And the Lord said to Aaron, saying: You and your sons and the house of your father’s lineage shall bear the sins of the holy things, and you and your sons shall bear the sins of your priesthood.

And bring near to yourself your brothers, the tribe of Levi, the clan of your father, and let them be added to you and let them minister to you; and you and your sons with you, before the tent of testimony.

And they shall keep your guard, and the guard of the tent, except toward the holy vessels and toward the altar they shall not approach, so that they do not die, both they and you.

And they shall be joined to you and shall keep the charges of the tent of the testimony according to all the services of the tent, and the foreigner shall not draw near to you.

And you shall keep the duties of the holy things and the duties of the altar, and there will be no wrath among the sons of Israel.

And I have taken your brothers, the Levites, from the midst of the sons of Israel, as a gift given to the Lord, to perform the services of the tent of the testimony.

And you and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood in every way of the altar and the inner part of the veil, and you shall perform the services as a gift of your priesthood, and the alien who draws near shall die

And the Lord spoke to Aaron, and I, behold, have given you the keeping of the firstfruits from all the things consecrated to me by the sons of Israel; to you I have given them as a gift, and to your sons after you, an eternal ordinance.

And this shall be for you from the most holy things of the offerings, from all their gifts and from all their sacrifices and from all their offenses and from all their sins, as many as they return to me; from all the holy things it shall be for you and for your sons.

In the holy of holies you shall eat them; every male shall eat them. You and your sons shall eat them; they shall be holy to you.

And this shall be to you a firstfruits of their gifts from all the offerings of the sons of Israel; to you I have given them, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, an everlasting statute; everyone clean in your house shall eat them.

Every firstfruits of oil and every firstfruits of wine and the firstfruits of grain, their firstfruits, as much as they may give to the Lord, I have given them to you

The firstfruits of everything, all that are in their land, whatever they may bring to the Lord, shall be yours; everyone who is clean in your house shall eat them.

Every devoted thing in the sons of Israel shall be yours.

And every one opening a womb from all flesh, which they bring near to the Lord, from man to beast, shall be yours; but the firstborn of men and the firstborn of unclean beasts you shall redeem with a ransom.

And its redemption from one month old shall be the valuation of five shekels, according to the holy shekel, twenty obols.

Only the firstborn of calves and the firstborn of sheep and the firstborn of goats you shall not redeem; they are holy, and their blood you shall pour out beside the altar, and their fat you shall offer up as a burnt offering for a sweet smell to the Lord

And the flesh shall be yours, as also the breast of the elevation offering and the right shoulder shall be yours.

Every contribution of the holy things, as much as the sons of Israel may take away, I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as an everlasting statute; it is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord, for you and for your seed after you.

And the Lord spoke to Aaron in their land: You shall not inherit, and there shall not be a portion for you among them, because I am your portion and your inheritance in the midst of the sons of Israel

And to the sons of Levi, behold, I have given every tithe in Israel as an inheritance, in place of their services, as much as they themselves serve the service in the tent of testimony.

And the sons of Israel shall no longer come near to the tent of the testimony to bear sin leading to death

And the Levite himself shall minister the ministry of the tent of testimony, and they themselves shall receive their sins; an everlasting statute for their generations, and among the sons of Israel they shall not inherit an inheritance.

For the tithes of the sons of Israel, as many as they may set apart to the Lord, I have given as a heave offering to the Levites as an allotment; therefore I have said to them, among the sons of Israel they shall not inherit an inheritance.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying

And you shall speak to the Levites and say to them: If you receive from the sons of Israel the tithe that I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you shall take off from it a heave offering to the Lord, a tithe from the tithe.

And your heave offerings shall be counted to you as grain from the threshing floor and as a heave offering from the winepress

Thus you also shall take away from the offerings of the Lord, from all your tithes, whatever you may receive from the sons of Israel, and you shall give from them an offering to the Lord, to Aaron the priest.

From all your gifts you shall take away a contribution for the Lord, or from all the firstfruits, the consecrated part from it.

And you shall say to them, When you remove the firstfruits from it, then it shall be reckoned to the Levites as produce from the threshing floor and as produce from the winepress.

And you shall eat it in every place, you and your households, because this is your wage in return for your services, those in the tent of the testimony.

And you shall not bear sin because of it, when you take away the firstfruits from it and the holy things of the sons of Israel you shall not profane, so that you may not die.