1 The LORD said to Aaron, "You, your sons and your family are to bear the responsibility for offenses connected with the sanctuary, and you and your sons alone are to bear the responsibility for offenses connected with the priesthood.2 Bring your fellow Levites from your ancestral tribe to join you and assist you when you and your sons minister before the tent of the covenant law.3 They are to be responsible to you and are to perform all the duties of the tent, but they must not go near the furnishings of the sanctuary or the altar. Otherwise both they and you will die.4 They are to join you and be responsible for the care of the tent of meeting —all the work at the tent —and no one else may come near where you are.5 "You are to be responsible for the care of the sanctuary and the altar, so that my wrath will not fall on the Israelites again.6 I myself have selected your fellow Levites from among the Israelites as a gift to you, dedicated to the LORD to do the work at the tent of meeting.7 But only you and your sons may serve as priests in connection with everything at the altar and inside the curtain. I am giving you the service of the priesthood as a gift. Anyone else who comes near the sanctuary is to be put to death."8 Then the LORD said to Aaron, "I myself have put you in charge of the offerings presented to me; all the holy offerings the Israelites give me I give to you and your sons as your portion, your perpetual share.9 You are to have the part of the most holy offerings that is kept from the fire. From all the gifts they bring me as most holy offerings, whether grain or sin "or guilt offerings, that part belongs to you and your sons.10 Eat it as something most holy; every male shall eat it. You must regard it as holy.11 "This also is yours: whatever is set aside from the gifts of all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I give this to you and your sons and daughters as your perpetual share. Everyone in your household who is ceremonially clean may eat it.12 "I give you all the finest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain they give the LORD as the firstfruits of their harvest.13 All the land's firstfruits that they bring to the LORD will be yours. Everyone in your household who is ceremonially clean may eat it.14 "Everything in Israel that is devoted "to the LORD is yours.15 The first offspring of every womb, both human and animal, that is offered to the LORD is yours. But you must redeem every firstborn son and every firstborn male of unclean animals.16 When they are a month old, you must redeem them at the redemption price set at five shekels "of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs.17 "But you must not redeem the firstborn of a cow, a sheep or a goat; they are holy. Splash their blood against the altar and burn their fat as a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.18 Their meat is to be yours, just as the breast of the wave offering and the right thigh are yours.19 Whatever is set aside from the holy offerings the Israelites present to the LORD I give to you and your sons and daughters as your perpetual share. It is an everlasting covenant of salt before the LORD for both you and your offspring."20 The LORD said to Aaron, "You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any share among them; I am your share and your inheritance among the Israelites.21 "I give to the Levites all the tithes in Israel as their inheritance in return for the work they do while serving at the tent of meeting.22 From now on the Israelites must not go near the tent of meeting, or they will bear the consequences of their sin and will die.23 It is the Levites who are to do the work at the tent of meeting and bear the responsibility for any offenses they commit against it. This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. They will receive no inheritance among the Israelites.24 Instead, I give to the Levites as their inheritance the tithes that the Israelites present as an offering to the LORD. That is why I said concerning them: 'They will have no inheritance among the Israelites.'"25 The LORD said to Moses,26 "Speak to the Levites and say to them: 'When you receive from the Israelites the tithe I give you as your inheritance, you must present a tenth of that tithe as the LORD's offering.27 Your offering will be reckoned to you as grain from the threshing floor or juice from the winepress.28 In this way you also will present an offering to the LORD from all the tithes you receive from the Israelites. From these tithes you must give the LORD's portion to Aaron the priest.29 You must present as the LORD's portion the best and holiest part of everything given to you.'30 "Say to the Levites: 'When you present the best part, it will be reckoned to you as the product of the threshing floor or the winepress.31 You and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere, for it is your wages for your work at the tent of meeting.32 By presenting the best part of it you will not be guilty in this matter; then you will not defile the holy offerings of the Israelites, and you will not die.'"

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.