1 And the Lord said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father's family are to be responsible for all wrongdoing in relation to the holy place: and you and your sons are to be responsible for the errors which come about in your work as priests.2 Let your brothers, the family of Levi, come near with you, so that they may be joined with you and be your servants: but you and your sons with you are to go in before the ark of witness.3 They are to do your orders and be responsible for the work of the Tent; but they may not come near the vessels of the holy place or the altar, so that death may not overtake them or you.4 They are to be joined with you in the care of the Tent of meeting, doing whatever is needed for the Tent: and no one of any other family may come near you.5 You are to be responsible for the holy place and the altar, so that wrath may never again come on the children of Israel.6 Now, see, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: they are given to you and to the Lord, to do the work of the Tent of meeting.7 And you and your sons with you are to be responsible as priests for the altar and everything on it, and everything inside the veil; you are to do the work of priests; I have given you your position as priests; and any other man who comes near will be put to death.8 And the Lord said to Aaron, See, I have given into your care my lifted offerings; even all the holy things of the children of Israel I have given to you and to your sons as your right for ever, because you have been marked with the holy oil.9 This is to be yours of the most holy things, out of the fire offerings; every offering of theirs, every meal offering and sin-offering, and every offering which they make on account of error, is to be most holy for you and your sons.10 As most holy things they are to be your food: let every male have them for food; it is to be holy to you.11 And this is yours: the lifted offering which they give and all the wave offerings of the children of Israel I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters as your right for ever: everyone in your house who is clean may have them for food.12 All the best of the oil and the wine and the grain, the first-fruits of them which they give to the Lord, to you have I given them.13 The earliest produce from their land which they take to the Lord is to be yours; everyone in your house who is clean may have it for his food.14 Everything given by oath to the Lord in Israel is to be yours.15 The first birth of every living thing which is offered to the Lord, of man or beast, is to be yours; but for the first sons of man payment is to be made, and for the first young of unclean beasts.16 Payment is to be made for these when they are a month old, at the value fixed by you, a price of five shekels by the scale of the holy place, that is, twenty gerahs to the shekel.17 But no such payment may be made for the first birth of an ox or a sheep or a goat; these are holy: their blood is to be dropped on the altar, and their fat burned for an offering made by fire, a sweet smell to the Lord.18 Their flesh is to be yours; like the breast of the wave offering and the right leg, it is to be yours.19 All the lifted offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel give to the Lord, I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters as a right for ever. This is an agreement made with salt before the Lord, to you and to your seed for ever.20 And the Lord said to Aaron, You will have no heritage in their land, or any part among them; I am your part and your heritage among the children of Israel.21 And to the children of Levi I have given as their heritage all the tenths offered in Israel, as payment for the work they do, the work of the Tent of meeting.22 In future the children of Israel are not to come near the Tent of meeting, so that death may not come to them because of sin.23 But the Levites are to do the work of the Tent of meeting, and be responsible for errors in connection with it: this is a law for ever through all your generations; and among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.24 For the tenths which the children of Israel give as a lifted offering to the Lord I have given to the Levites as their heritage. and so I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.25 And the Lord said to Moses,26 Say to the Levites, When you take from the children of Israel the tenth which I have given to you from them as your heritage, a tenth part of that tenth is to be offered as an offering lifted up before the Lord.27 And this lifted offering is to be put to your credit as if it was grain from the grain-floor and wine from the vines.28 So you are to make an offering lifted up to the Lord from all the tenths which you get from the children of Israel, giving out of it the Lord's lifted offering to Aaron the priest.29 From everything given to you, let the best of it, the holy part of it, be offered as a lifted offering to the Lord.30 Say to them, then, When the best of it is lifted up on high, it is to be put to the account of the Levites as the increase of the grain-floor and of the place where the grapes are crushed.31 It is to be your food, for you and your families in every place: it is your reward for your work in the Tent of meeting.32 And no sin will be yours on account of it, when the best of it has been lifted up on high; you are not to make a wrong use of the holy things of the children of Israel, so that death may not overtake you.

1 Dixitque Dominus ad Aaron : Tu, et filii tui, et domus patris tui tecum, portabitis iniquitatem sanctuarii : et tu et filii tui simul sustinebitis peccata sacerdotii vestri. 2 Sed et fratres tuos de tribu Levi, et sceptrum patris tui sume tecum, prstoque sint, et ministrent tibi : tu autem et filii tui ministrabitis in tabernaculo testimonii. 3 Excubabuntque Levit ad prcepta tua, et ad cuncta opera tabernaculi : ita dumtaxat ut ad vasa sanctuarii et ad altare non accedant, ne et illi moriantur, et vos pereatis simul. 4 Sint autem tecum, et excubent in custodiis tabernaculi, et in omnibus cremoniis ejus. Alienigena non miscebitur vobis. 5 Excubate in custodia sanctuarii, et in ministerio altaris : ne oriatur indignatio super filios Isral. 6 Ego dedi vobis fratres vestros Levitas de medio filiorum Isral, et tradidi donum Domino, ut serviant in ministeriis tabernaculi ejus. 7 Tu autem et filii tui custodite sacerdotium vestrum : et omnia qu ad cultum altaris pertinent, et intra velum sunt, per sacerdotes administrabuntur : si quis externus accesserit, occidetur.8 Locutusque est Dominus ad Aaron : Ecce dedi tibi custodiam primitiarum mearum. Omnia qu sanctificantur a filiis Isral, tradidi tibi et filiis tuis pro officio sacerdotali legitima sempiterna. 9 Hc ergo accipies de his, qu sanctificantur et oblata sunt Domino. Omnis oblatio, et sacrificium, et quidquid pro peccato atque delicto redditur mihi, et cedit in Sancta sanctorum, tuum erit, et filiorum tuorum. 10 In sanctuario comedes illud : mares tantum edent ex eo, quia consecratum est tibi. 11 Primitias autem, quas voverint et obtulerint filii Isral, tibi dedi, et filiis tuis, ac filiabus tuis, jure perpetuo : qui mundus est in domo tua, vescetur eis. 12 Omnem medullam olei, et vini, ac frumenti, quidquid offerunt primitiarum Domino, tibi dedi. 13 Universa frugum initia, quas gignit humus, et Domino deportantur, cedent in usus tuos : qui mundus est in domo tua, vescetur eis. 14 Omne quod ex voto reddiderint filii Isral, tuum erit. 15 Quidquid primum erumpit e vulva cunct carnis, quam offerunt Domino, sive ex hominibus, sive de pecoribus fuerit, tui juris erit : ita dumtaxat ut pro hominis primogenito pretium accipias, et omne animal quod immundum est redimi facias, 16 cujus redemptio erit post unum mensem, siclis argenti quinque, pondere sanctuarii. Siclus viginti obolos habet. 17 Primogenitum autem bovis, et ovis, et capr, non facies redimi, quia sanctificata sunt Domino. Sanguinem tantum eorum fundes super altare, et adipes adolebis in suavissimum odorem Domino. 18 Carnes vero in usum tuum cedent, sicut pectusculum consecratum, et armus dexter : tua erunt. 19 Omnes primitias sanctuarii, quas offerunt filii Isral Domino, tibi dedi, et filiis, ac filiabus tuis, jure perpetuo. Pactum salis est sempiternum coram Domino, tibi ac filiis tuis.20 Dixitque Dominus ad Aaron : In terra eorum nihil possidebitis, nec habebitis partem inter eos : ego pars et hreditas tua in medio filiorum Isral. 21 Filiis autem Levi dedi omnes decimas Isralis in possessionem, pro ministerio, quo serviunt mihi in tabernaculo fderis : 22 ut non accedant ultra filii Isral ad tabernaculum, nec committant peccatum mortiferum, 23 solis filiis Levi mihi in tabernaculo servientibus, et portantibus peccata populi. Legitimum sempiternum erit in generationibus vestris. Nihil aliud possidebunt, 24 decimarum oblatione contenti, quas in usus eorum et necessaria separavi.25 Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen, dicens : 26 Prcipe Levitis, atque denuntia : Cum acceperitis a filiis Isral decimas, quas dedi vobis, primitias earum offerte Domino, id est, decimam partem decim, 27 ut reputetur vobis in oblationem primitivorum, tam de areis quam de torcularibus : 28 et universis quorum accipitis primitias, offerte Domino, et date Aaron sacerdoti. 29 Omnia qu offeretis ex decimis, et in donaria Domini separabitis, optima et electa erunt. 30 Dicesque ad eos : Si prclara et meliora quque obtuleritis ex decimis, reputabitur vobis quasi de area, et torculari dederitis primitias : 31 et comedetis eas in omnibus locis vestris, tam vos quam famili vestr : quia pretium est pro ministerio, quo servitis in tabernaculo testimonii. 32 Et non peccabitis super hoc, egregia vobis et pinguia reservantes, ne polluatis oblationes filiorum Isral, et moriamini.