Duties of Priests and Levites
1The Lord said to Aaron, “You, your sons and your family are to bear the responsibility for offenses connected with the sanctuary, and you and your sons alone are to bear the responsibility for offenses connected with the priesthood. 2Bring your fellow Levites from your ancestral tribe to join you and assist you when you and your sons minister before the tent of the covenant law. 3They are to be responsible to you and are to perform all the duties of the tent, but they must not go near the furnishings of the sanctuary or the altar. Otherwise both they and you will die. 4They are to join you and be responsible for the care of the tent of meeting—all the work at the tent—and no one else may come near where you are.
5“You are to be responsible for the care of the sanctuary and the altar, so that my wrath will not fall on the Israelites again. 6I 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. 7But 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.”
Offerings for Priests and Levites
8Then 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. 9You 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 sin18:9 Or purification or guilt offerings, that part belongs to you and your sons. 10Eat it as something most holy; every male shall eat it. You must regard it as holy.
11“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.
12“I give you all the finest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain they give the Lord as the firstfruits of their harvest. 13All the land’s firstfruits that they bring to the Lord will be yours. Everyone in your household who is ceremonially clean may eat it.
14“Everything in Israel that is devoted18:14 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord. to the Lord is yours. 15The 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. 16When they are a month old, you must redeem them at the redemption price set at five shekels18:16 That is, about 2 ounces or about 58 grams of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs.
17“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. 18Their meat is to be yours, just as the breast of the wave offering and the right thigh are yours. 19Whatever 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.”
20The 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.
21“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. 22From now on the Israelites must not go near the tent of meeting, or they will bear the consequences of their sin and will die. 23It is the Levites who are to do the work at the tent of meeting and bear the responsibility for any offenses they commit against it. This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. They will receive no inheritance among the Israelites. 24Instead, 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.’ ”
25The Lord said to Moses, 26“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. 27Your offering will be reckoned to you as grain from the threshing floor or juice from the winepress. 28In this way you also will present an offering to the Lord from all the tithes you receive from the Israelites. From these tithes you must give the Lord’s portion to Aaron the priest. 29You must present as the Lord’s portion the best and holiest part of everything given to you.’
30“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. 31You and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere, for it is your wages for your work at the tent of meeting. 32By presenting the best part of it you will not be guilty in this matter; then you will not defile the holy offerings of the Israelites, and you will not die.’ ”
祭司和利未人的職責
1耶和華對亞倫說：「你和你的兒子及親族要承擔觸犯聖所的罪責；你和你兒子也要承擔觸犯祭司職務的罪責。 2你和你兒子在安放約櫃的聖幕前供職時，要把你們利未支派的親族也一同帶去，讓他們協助你。 3他們要遵守你的吩咐，看守整個聖幕，但不可接近聖所的器具和祭壇，以免他們和你們都死亡。 4他們要和你一起負責看守聖幕，辦理聖幕的一切事務。外人不可靠近。 5你們要看守聖所和祭壇，以免我的憤怒再臨到以色列人。 6我已從以色列人中選出你們的利未親族歸給我，協助你們在會幕中司職。 7你和你兒子要盡祭司的本分，負責祭壇和至聖所的一切事務。祭司的職分是我賞賜給你們的，外人若近前來，必被處死。」
祭司當得之物
8耶和華對亞倫說：「你看！我讓你照管以色列人獻給我的舉祭，把一切聖物賜給你和你的子孫，作為你們永遠當得的份。 9以色列人獻給我的至聖之物素祭、贖罪祭和贖過祭中留下不燒的部分，都歸你和你的子孫。 10你們男子都可以吃這些聖物，要在極其聖潔的地方吃。要把這些視為聖物。 11以色列人獻的舉祭和搖祭也都歸你，我已把它們賜給你和你的兒女，作為你們永遠當得的份。你家中所有潔淨的人都可以吃。 12我把以色列人獻給耶和華的初熟之物——最好的新油、新酒和五穀都賜給你。 13他們獻給耶和華的一切初熟之物都歸你，你家中潔淨的人都可以吃。 14以色列人永遠獻上的一切18·14 「永遠獻上的一切」指徹底奉獻給耶和華的人或物，要麼被毀滅，要麼被獻為供物。都要歸你。 15奉獻給耶和華的長子和頭生的牲畜都歸你，但要贖出長子和不潔淨的頭生牲畜。 16他們要在滿月的時候被贖回，以聖所的秤為準，即一舍客勒是二十季拉，贖價是一兩銀子。 17頭生的牛、綿羊和山羊不用贖出來，牠們都是聖物。你要把牠們的血灑在祭壇上，把脂肪燒掉，作為獻給耶和華的馨香火祭； 18牠們的肉要歸你，正如搖祭的胸肉和舉祭的右腿肉一樣。 19以色列人獻給耶和華的聖物中，我把舉祭賜給你和你的兒女，作為你們永遠當得的份，這是我與你及你的後代所立的永世之約。」
20耶和華對亞倫說：「你在以色列人的土地上不可有產業，在他們的財物上不可有份，因為我是你在以色列人中的所得之份，是你的產業。
利未人應得之物
21「我要把以色列人出產的十分之一賜給利未人作產業，作為他們在會幕司職的酬勞。 22今後以色列人不可走近會幕，以免因犯罪而死。 23只有利未人可在會幕司職，他們要擔負觸犯聖幕的罪責，這是你們世代當守的永久律例。利未人在以色列人中不可有產業， 24因為我已經把以色列人獻給耶和華的十分之一舉祭賜給他們作產業。因此，我吩咐他們不可在以色列人中有產業。」
利未人應納的十分之一
25耶和華對摩西說： 26「你把以下條例告訴利未人。
「你們從以色列人手中得到我賜給你們作產業的十分之一後，要從中取出十分之一，作為舉祭獻給耶和華， 27這就算作你們獻上了麥場的五穀和榨酒池的酒。 28這樣，你們要從以色列人給你們的十分之一中，拿出一部分獻給耶和華作舉祭，將這舉祭歸給亞倫祭司。 29你們要把所得之物中至聖至好的獻給耶和華作舉祭。
30「你要告訴利未人，『你們奉獻了最好的以後，其餘的算作你們麥場上的五穀和榨酒池的酒， 31你們和家人可以在任何地方吃，因為這些是你們在會幕司職的酬勞。 32你們獻上最好的以後，享用這些就不會獲罪了。你們不可褻瀆以色列人獻上的聖物，免得死亡。』」
