KJV Easy Read Bible Duties of Priests and Levites 1And the Lord said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father’s house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of yourp priesthood. 2And your brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring you with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you: but you and your sons with you shall minister before the tabernacle of witness. testimony 3And they shall keep your charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come near the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor youp also, die. 4And they shall be joined to you, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come near to youp. 5And youp shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel. 6And I, behold, I have taken yourp brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to youp they are given as a gift for the Lord, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. 7Therefore you and your sons with you shall keep yourp priest’s office for every thing of the altar, and within the veil; and youp shall serve: I have given yourp priest’s office to youp as a service of gift: and the stranger that comes near shall be put to death. free will Offerings for Support of the Priests 8And the Lord spoke to Aaron, Behold, I also have given you the charge of my heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; to you have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, by an ordinance for ever. holy 9This shall be yours of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to Me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons. offering; grain 10In the most holy place shall you eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy to you. 11And this is yours; the heave offering of their gift, with 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, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in your house shall eat of it. 12All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the first-fruits of them which they shall offer to the Lord, them have I given you. 13And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring to the Lord, shall be yours; every one that is clean in your house shall eat of it. 14Every thing devoted in Israel shall be yours. 15Every thing that opens the matrix in all flesh, which they bring to the Lord, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be yours: nevertheless the firstborn of man shall you surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shall you redeem. womb 16And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shall you redeem, according to your estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs. 17But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy: you shall sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savor to the Lord. aroma 18And the flesh of them shall be yours, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are yours. 19All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to the Lord, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord to you and to your seed with you. unbreakable promise; offspring 20And the Lord spoke to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any part among them: I am your part and your inheritance among the children of Israel. Tithes for Support of the Levites 21And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. 22Neither must the children of Israel hereafter come near the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die. 23But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout yourp generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance. 24But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as a heave offering to the Lord, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance. The Tithe of the Levites 25And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 26Thus speak to the Levites, and say to them, When youp take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given youp from them for yourp inheritance, then youp shall offer up a heave offering of it for the Lord, even a tenth part of the tithe. 27And this yourp heave offering shall be reckoned to youp, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fullness of the winepress. 28Thus youp also shall offer a heave offering to the Lord of all yourp tithes, which youp receive of the children of Israel; and youp shall give thereof the Lord’s heave offering to Aaron the priest. 29Out of all yourp gifts youp shall offer every heave offering of the Lord, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it. 30Therefore you shall say to them, When youp have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted to the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress. 31And youp shall eat it in every place, youp and yourp households: for it is yourp reward for yourp service in the tabernacle of the congregation. wages 32And youp shall bear no sin by reason of it, when youp have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall youp pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest youp die.
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