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.’ ”
祭司和利未人的职责
1耶和华对亚伦说：“你和你的儿子及亲族要承担触犯圣所的罪责；你和你儿子也要承担触犯祭司职务的罪责。 2你和你儿子在安放约柜的圣幕前供职时，要把你们利未支派的亲族也一同带去，让他们协助你。 3他们要遵守你的吩咐，看守整个圣幕，但不可接近圣所的器具和祭坛，以免他们和你们都死亡。 4他们要和你一起负责看守圣幕，办理圣幕的一切事务。外人不可靠近。 5你们要看守圣所和祭坛，以免我的愤怒再临到以色列人。 6我已从以色列人中选出你们的利未亲族归给我，协助你们在会幕中司职。 7你和你儿子要尽祭司的本分，负责祭坛和至圣所的一切事务。祭司的职分是我赏赐给你们的，外人若近前来，必被处死。”
祭司当得之物
8耶和华对亚伦说：“你看！我让你照管以色列人献给我的举祭，把一切圣物赐给你和你的子孙，作为你们永远当得的份。 9以色列人献给我的至圣之物素祭、赎罪祭和赎过祭中留下不烧的部分，都归你和你的子孙。 10你们男子都可以吃这些圣物，要在极其圣洁的地方吃。要把这些视为圣物。 11以色列人献的举祭和摇祭也都归你，我已把它们赐给你和你的儿女，作为你们永远当得的份。你家中所有洁净的人都可以吃。 12我把以色列人献给耶和华的初熟之物——最好的新油、新酒和五谷都赐给你。 13他们献给耶和华的一切初熟之物都归你，你家中洁净的人都可以吃。 14以色列人永远献上的一切18:14 “永远献上的一切”指彻底奉献给耶和华的人或物，要么被毁灭，要么被献为供物。都要归你。 15奉献给耶和华的长子和头生的牲畜都归你，但要赎出长子和不洁净的头生牲畜。 16他们要在满月的时候被赎回，以圣所的秤为准，即一舍客勒是二十季拉，赎价是一两银子。 17头生的牛、绵羊和山羊不用赎出来，它们都是圣物。你要把它们的血洒在祭坛上，把脂肪烧掉，作为献给耶和华的馨香火祭； 18它们的肉要归你，正如摇祭的胸肉和举祭的右腿肉一样。 19以色列人献给耶和华的圣物中，我把举祭赐给你和你的儿女，作为你们永远当得的份，这是我与你及你的后代所立的永世之约。”
20耶和华对亚伦说：“你在以色列人的土地上不可有产业，在他们的财物上不可有份，因为我是你在以色列人中的所得之份，是你的产业。
利未人应得之物
21“我要把以色列人出产的十分之一赐给利未人作产业，作为他们在会幕司职的酬劳。 22今后以色列人不可走近会幕，以免因犯罪而死。 23只有利未人可在会幕司职，他们要担负触犯圣幕的罪责，这是你们世代当守的永久律例。利未人在以色列人中不可有产业， 24因为我已经把以色列人献给耶和华的十分之一举祭赐给他们作产业。因此，我吩咐他们不可在以色列人中有产业。”
利未人应纳的十分之一
25耶和华对摩西说： 26“你把以下条例告诉利未人。
“你们从以色列人手中得到我赐给你们作产业的十分之一后，要从中取出十分之一，作为举祭献给耶和华， 27这就算作你们献上了麦场的五谷和榨酒池的酒。 28这样，你们要从以色列人给你们的十分之一中，拿出一部分献给耶和华作举祭，将这举祭归给亚伦祭司。 29你们要把所得之物中至圣至好的献给耶和华作举祭。
30“你要告诉利未人，‘你们奉献了最好的以后，其余的算作你们麦场上的五谷和榨酒池的酒， 31你们和家人可以在任何地方吃，因为这些是你们在会幕司职的酬劳。 32你们献上最好的以后，享用这些就不会获罪了。你们不可亵渎以色列人献上的圣物，免得死亡。’”
