Numbers 18:6   (Read all of Numbers 18)

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.

Numbers 18:7   (Read all of Numbers 18)

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."

Numbers 18:8   (Read all of Numbers 18)

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.

Numbers 18:9   (Read all of Numbers 18)

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.

Numbers 18:10   (Read all of Numbers 18)

Eat it as something most holy; every male shall eat it. You must regard it as holy.

Numbers 18:11   (Read all of Numbers 18)

"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.

Numbers 18:15   (Read all of Numbers 18)

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.

Numbers 18:16   (Read all of Numbers 18)

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.

Numbers 18:17   (Read all of Numbers 18)

"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.

Numbers 18:19   (Read all of Numbers 18)

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."

Numbers 18:20   (Read all of Numbers 18)

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.

Numbers 18:21   (Read all of Numbers 18)

"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.

Numbers 18:22   (Read all of Numbers 18)

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.

Numbers 18:24   (Read all of Numbers 18)

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.' "

Numbers 18:25   (Read all of Numbers 18)

The Lord said to Moses,

Numbers 18:26   (Read all of Numbers 18)

"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.

Numbers 18:30   (Read all of Numbers 18)

"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.

Numbers 19:1   (Read all of Numbers 19)

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron:

Numbers 19:3   (Read all of Numbers 19)

Give it to Eleazar the priest; it is to be taken outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.

Numbers 19:4   (Read all of Numbers 19)

Then Eleazar the priest is to take some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the tent of meeting.

Numbers 19:6   (Read all of Numbers 19)

The priest is to take some cedar wood, hyssop and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer.

Numbers 19:9   (Read all of Numbers 19)

"A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and put them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They are to be kept by the Israelite community for use in the water of cleansing; it is for purification from sin.

Numbers 19:11   (Read all of Numbers 19)

"Whoever touches a human corpse will be unclean for seven days.

Numbers 19:12   (Read all of Numbers 19)

They must purify themselves with the water on the third day and on the seventh day; then they will be clean. But if they do not purify themselves on the third and seventh days, they will not be clean.