Números 18

1 Yahweh said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your fathers’ house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. 2 Bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you; but you and your sons with you shall be before the Tent of the Testimony. 3 They shall keep your commands and the duty of the whole Tent; only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they nor you. 4 They shall be joined to you and keep the responsibility of the Tent of Meeting, for all the service of the Tent. A stranger shall not come near to you.

5 "You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary and the duty of the altar, that there be no more wrath on the children of Israel. 6 Behold, I myself have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel. They are a gift to you, dedicated to Yahweh, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting. 7 You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil. You shall serve. I give you the service of the priesthood as a gift. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death."

8 Yahweh spoke to Aaron, "Behold, I myself have given you the command of my wave offerings, even all the holy things of the children of Israel. I have given them to you by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever. 9 This shall be yours of the most holy things from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall give to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons. 10 You shall eat of it like the most holy things. Every male shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you.

11 "This is yours, too: the wave offering of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the children of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a portion forever. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.

12 "I have given to you all the best of the oil, all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to Yahweh. 13 The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to Yahweh, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.

14 "Everything devoted in Israel shall be yours. 15 Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal, shall be yours. Nevertheless, you shall surely redeem the firstborn of man, and you shall redeem the firstborn of unclean animals. 16 You shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of money, according to the shekel*18:16 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. of the sanctuary, which weighs twenty gerahs.*18:16 A gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains.

17 "But you shall not redeem the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat. They are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. 18 Their meat shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours. 19 All the wave offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel offer to Yahweh, I have given you and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever. It is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to your offspring with you."

20 Yahweh said to Aaron, "You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.

21 "To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the Tent of Meeting. 22 Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die. 23 But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. Among the children of Israel, they shall have no inheritance. 24 For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a wave offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said to them, ‘Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.’"

25 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 26 "Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, ‘When you take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a wave offering of it for Yahweh, a tithe of the tithe. 27 Your wave offering shall be credited to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the wine press. 28 Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to Yahweh of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and of it you shall give Yahweh’s wave offering to Aaron the priest. 29 Out of all your gifts, you shall offer every wave offering to Yahweh, of all its best parts, even the holy part of it.’

30 "Therefore you shall tell them, ‘When you heave its best from it, then it shall be credited to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the wine press. 31 You may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting. 32 You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it its best. You shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that you not die.’"

Te Mahi a ngā Tohunga rātou ko ngā Rīwaiti

1 I mea anō a Ihowā ki a Ārona, "Māu, mā āu tama, mā koutou ko te whare o tōu pāpā e waha te kino o te wāhi tapu; ā, mā koutou ko āu tama e waha te kino o tā koutou mahi tohunga. 2 Ā, ko ōu tēina hoki, o te iwi o Rīwai, o te iwi o tōu pāpā, me whakatata tahi me koe, kia tāpiritia ai rātou ki a koe, hei minita ki a koe; ko koutou tahi ia ko āu tama hei te tapenākara o te whakaaturanga. 3 Ā, mā rātou tāu mahi e tiaki, me te mahi tiaki o te tapenākara katoa. Otiia, kaua e whakatata ki ngā oko o te wāhi tapu, ki te āta rānei, kei mate ko rātou, ko koutou rānei. 4 Ā, ka tāpiritia rātou ki a koe, hei tiaki i ngā mea o te tapenākara o te whakaminenga, mō ngā mahi katoa o te tapenākara; kaua hoki te tangata kē e tata ki a koutou.

5 "Mā koutou hoki e tiaki ngā mea o te wāhi tapu, me ngā mea o te āta; kei puta he riri ki ngā tama a Īharaira ā muri ake nei. 6 Me ahau hoki, nanā, kua tango ahau i ō koutou tēina, i ngā Rīwaiti i roto i ngā tama a Īharaira; he mea hoatu ki a koutou mā Ihowā, hei mahi i ngā mahi o te tapenākara o te whakaminenga. 7 Ko koutou ia ko āu tama, kia mau ki tā koutou mahi tohunga ki ngā mea katoa o te āta, o roto atu anō hoki i te ārai, hei mahi mā koutou. He mea hoatu noa atu tā koutou mahi tohunga e hoatu nei e ahau; ā, ka whakamatea te tangata kē e whakatata mai ana."

Te Wāhi a ngā Tohunga

8 I kōrero anō a Ihowā ki a Ārona: "Nā, kua tukua atu nei e ahau ki a koe te tiaki o āku whakahere hapahapai, o ngā mea tapu katoa a ngā tama a Īharaira; he mea hoatu nāku ki a koutou ko āu tama, he whakaaro hoki ki te whakawahinga, he tikanga pūmau. 9 Ko ngā mea tēnei māu o ngā mea tino tapu e kore nei e tukua ki te ahi; ko ā rātou whakahere katoa, ko ā rātou whakahere totokore katoa, me ā rātou whakahere hara katoa, me ā rātou whakahere katoa mō te hē, e tāpaea ki ahau; ka tino tapu mā koutou ko āu tama. 10 Hei te wāhi tino tapu kai ai, mā ngā tāne katoa e kai; he tapu tēnā māu.

11 "Māu anō tēnei: ko ngā whakahere hapahapai e hōmai ana e rātou me ngā whakahere poipoi katoa a ngā tama a Īharaira; kua hoatu aua mea e ahau ki a koe, ki a koutou ko āu tama, ko āu tamāhine, he tikanga pūmau; e kainga tēnā e ngā mea pokekore katoa o tōu whare.

12 "Ko ngā wāhi papai katoa o te hinu, me ngā wāhi papai katoa o te wāina, o te wīti hoki, ko ngā tūāpora o aua mea e hōmai ana ki a Ihowā, kua hoatu ēnā e ahau ki a koe. 13 Māu ngā hua mataati o ngā mea katoa o te whenua, e kawea mai ana ki a Ihowā; me kai e ngā mea pokekore katoa o tōu whare.

14 "Māu ngā mea katoa i oti rawa i roto i a Īharaira. 15 Ko ngā mea katoa e oroko puta mai ana i te kōpū o ngā kikokiko katoa, ko ngā mea hoki e whakaherea ana mā Ihowā, o te tangata, o te kararehe, māu ēnā. Otiia, me tino whakahoki atu e koe ki te utu ngā mātāmua a te tangata, me tango utu anō mō ngā mātāmua a te kararehe poke. 16 Ā, ko ngā mea e utua ana e whakahokia ana, ka kotahi marama o tōna whānautanga, me tango ōna utu; kia rite ki tāu e whakarite ai, kia rima hekere ngā moni; hei ngā hekere wāhi tapu, (e rua tekau nei ngā kera).

17 "Ko te mātāmua ia a te kau, me te mātāmua a te hipi, me te mātāmua a te koati, kaua e whakahokia atu e koe; he tapu ēnā. Me tāuhi e koe ō rātou toto ki te āta, me tahu anō ō rātou ngako hei whakahere ahi, hei kakara reka ki a Ihowā. 18 Ā, māu ō rātou kikokiko, ka pērā me te uma poipoi, me te hūhā matau, nāu hoki ēnā. 19 Ko ngā whakahere hapahapai katoa o roto o ngā mea tapu e tāpaea ana e ngā tama a Īharaira ki a Ihowā, kua hoatu e ahau ki a koutou ko āu tama, ko āu tamāhine; hei tikanga pūmau. Hei kawenata tote i te aroaro o Ihowā ake ake, ki a koutou tahi ko ōu uri."

20 Ā, i kōrero a Ihowā ki a Ārona, "Kāhore he kāinga tupu mōu i tō rātou whenua, kāhore anō hoki he wāhi mōu i roto i a rātou; ko ahau te wāhi mōu, tōu kāinga tupu i roto i ngā tama a Īharaira.

21 "Kua hoatu nei hoki e ahau ki ngā tama a Rīwai ngā whakatekau katoa i roto i a Īharaira hei taonga tupu, hei utu mō tā rātou mahi e mahi ai rātou, mō te mahinga i te tapenākara o te whakaminenga. 22 Kaua anō hoki ngā tama a Īharaira e whakatata ā muri ake nei ki te tapenākara o te whakaminenga, kei whai hara, kei mate. 23 Mā ngā Rīwaiti ia e mahi ngā mahi o te tapenākara o te whakaminenga, me waha anō hoki e rātou tō rātou kino; hei tikanga pūmau ia mā ō koutou whakatupuranga, kia kāhore he kāinga tupu mō rātou i roto i ngā tama a Īharaira. 24 Ko ngā whakatekau hoki a ngā tama a Īharaira, e tāpaea nei hei whakahere hapahapai ki a Ihowā, kua hoatu e ahau hei wāhi tupu ki ngā Rīwaiti. Koia ahau i mea ai ki a rātou, e kore rātou e whai kāinga tupu i roto i ngā tama a Īharaira."

25 I kōrero anō a Ihowā ki a Mohi, i mea, 26 "Kōrero anō ki ngā Rīwaiti, mea atu ki a rātou: ‘Ka tangohia e koutou ngā whakatekau a ngā tama a Īharaira e hoatu nei e ahau ki a koutou i roto i ā rātou mea hei wāhi tupu mō koutou, me tāpae he whakahere hapahapai ki a Ihowā i roto i taua mea, he wāhi whakatekau o aua whakatekau. 27 Ā, ka kīia tēnei whakahere hapahapai he mea nā koutou, he pērā me te wīti o te patunga wīti, me te pūrenatanga hoki o te poka wāina. 28 Nā, me tāpae anō hoki e koutou he whakahere hapahapai ki a Ihowā i roto i ā koutou whakatekau katoa e tangohia ana e koutou i ngā tama a Īharaira; me hōmai te whakahere hapahapai a Ihowā i roto i taua mea ki te tohunga, ki a Ārona. 29 Me tāpae ngā whakahere hapahapai katoa mā Ihowā i roto i ngā mea katoa e hōmai ana ki a koutou, i roto i ngā mea papai katoa o ēnā, arā te wāhi tapu o roto.’

30 "Me kī atu ki a rātou: ‘Ka hapahapai koutou i te wāhi tino pai o taua mea, me kī tēnā he mea nā ngā Rīwaiti, he pērā me te hua o te patunga wīti, me te pūrenatanga hoki o te poka wāina. 31 Ā, me kai tēnā e koutou ko ō koutou whare ki ngā wāhi katoa; ko tō koutou utu hoki ia mō tā koutou mahi i te tapenākara o te whakaminenga. 32 Ā, e kore e waha e koutou he hara i reira, ina hapahapainga tōna wāhi pai; kaua anō e whakapokea ngā mea tapu a ngā tama a Īharaira, kei mate koutou.’ "