Numbers 18 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Duties of Levites

Num 18:1The LORD said to Aharon, 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.

Num 18:2

Num 18:2Your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring you 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.

Num 18:3

Num 18:3They shall keep your charge, and the charge of all the 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.

Num 18:4

Num 18:4They shall be joined to you, and keep the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not come near to you.

Num 18:5

Num 18:5You shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar; that there be wrath no more on the children of Yisra'el.

Num 18:6

Num 18:6I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Yisra'el: to you they are a gift, given to the LORD, to do the service of the tent of meeting.

Num 18:7

Num 18:7You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and you shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

The Priests' Portion

Num 18:8

Num 18:8The LORD spoke to Aharon, I, behold, I have given you the charge of my heave-offerings, even all the holy things of the children of Yisra'el; to you have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever.

Num 18:9

Num 18:9This shall be your of the most holy things, reserved 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 render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons.

Num 18:10

Num 18:10As the most holy things shall you eat of it; every male shall eat of it: it shall be holy to you.

Num 18:11

Num 18:11This is your: the heave-offering of their gift, even all the wave-offerings of the children of Yisra'el; 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.

Num 18:12

Num 18:12All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to the LORD, to you have I given them.

Num 18:13

Num 18:13The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the LORD, shall be your; everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.

Num 18:14

Num 18:14Everything devoted in Yisra'el shall be your.

Num 18:15

Num 18:15Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to the LORD, both of man and animal shall be your: nevertheless the firstborn of man shall you surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals shall you redeem.

Num 18:16

Num 18:16Those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old shall you redeem, according to your estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary (the same is twenty gerahs).

Num 18:17

Num 18:17But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy: you shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savor to the LORD.

Num 18:18

Num 18:18The flesh of them shall be your, as the wave-breast and as the right thigh, it shall be your.

Num 18:19

Num 18:19All the heave-offerings of the holy things, which the children of Yisra'el offer to the LORD, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever: it is a covenant of salt forever before the LORD to you and to your seed with you.

Num 18:20

Num 18:20The LORD said to Aharon, 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 Yisra'el.

Num 18:21

Num 18:21To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Yisra'el for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the tent of meeting.

Num 18:22

Num 18:22Henceforth the children of Yisra'el shall not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.

Num 18:23

Num 18:23But 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; and among the children of Yisra'el they shall have no inheritance.

Num 18:24

Num 18:24For the tithe of the children of Yisra'el, which they offer as a heave-offering to the LORD, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance: therefore I have said to them, Among the children of Yisra'el they shall have no inheritance.

Num 18:25

Num 18:25The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying,

Num 18:26

Num 18:26Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, When you take of the children of Yisra'el the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a heave-offering of it for the LORD, a tithe of the tithe.

Num 18:27

Num 18:27Your heave-offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.

Num 18:28

Num 18:28Thus you also shall offer a heave-offering to the LORD of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Yisra'el; and of it you shall give the LORD's heave-offering to Aharon the Kohen.

Num 18:29

Num 18:29Out of all your gifts you shall offer every heave-offering of the LORD, of all the best of it, even the holy part of it out of it.

Num 18:30

Num 18:30Therefore you shall tell them, When you heave the best of it from it, then it shall be reckoned to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the wine-press.

Num 18:31

Num 18:31You shall eat it in every place, you and your households: for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.

Num 18:32

Num 18:32You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it the best of it: and you shall not profane the holy things of the children of Yisra'el, that you not die.

The Hebrew Names Version is based off the World English Bible, an update of the American Standard Version of 1901. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Numbers 18 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Duties of Levites

The Priests' Portion

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