Numbers 18:23-32 ▼

23 And the Levite, he shall perform the work of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a statute forever throughout your? generations, and in the midst of the sons of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

24 For the tithes of the sons of Israel, which they offer up to YHWH as a contribution, I have given to the Levites as an inheritance. Upon thus I have said to them: In the midst of the sons of Israel they shall not have an inheritance.”

25 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,

26 “And to the Levites speak and say to them, ‘When you? take from the sons of Israel the tithes that I have given to you? from them as your? inheritance, you? shall offer up from it a contribution to YHWH, a tenth of the tithe.

27 And your? contributions shall be reckoned to you? as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.

28 Thus you? shall lift up—you? also—a contribution to YHWH from all your? tithes that you? receive from the sons of Israel. And you? shall give from it the contribution of YHWH to Aaron the priest.

29 Of all your? gifts you? shall lift up every contribution of YHWH, from all its fat, its holy part from it.’

30 And you shall say to them, ‘In your? lifting up its fat, from it then it shall be reckoned to the Levites as the produce of the threshing floor, and as the produce of the winepress.

31 And You? may eat it in any place, you? and your? house, for it is a reward to you? for your? work in the Tent of Meeting.

32 And you? shall not bear sin because of it, when you? have lifted up its fat from it, and the holy gifts of the sons of Israel you? shall not defile, lest you? die.’”