1And LORD JEHOVAH said to Ahron: “You and your sons and the house of your father with you, pick up the evil of the Holy Place and you and your sons with you, pick up the evil of your priesthood. 2Also you shall bring your brethren, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father with you, and they shall accompany you and they shall minister to you, and you and your sons with you are before the Tabernacle of the Testimony. 3And they shall keep your guard and the guard of all the Tabernacle, however do not let them approach the holy garments and the articles of the altar, lest they and also you will die. 4And they shall accompany you and they shall keep guard of the Time Tabernacle and of all the service of the Tabernacle and a foreigner shall not be brought with you. 5And keep guard of the Holy and the guard of the altar and there will not be wrath again against the children of Israel. 6And I, behold, I have brought your brothers the Levites from within the sons of Israel; they are given as a gift to LORD JEHOVAH to do the service of the Time Tabernacle. 7And you and your sons with you keep your priesthood and all its apparel of the altar and do the work inside the face of the door, the gift I have given to your priesthood; and the foreigner who comes near shall be killed.”

8And LORD JEHOVAH said to Ahron, “Behold, I have given charge of my offerings to you and all holy things of the children of Israel; to you I have given them with the anointing: it is the law for eternity for you and for your sons with you. 9This shall be the Holy of Holiness for you from fire; all their offerings and all their meal offerings and all their sin offerings and all their offerings that they bring to me are Holy of Holies to you and to your sons. 10In the Holy of Holies you shall eat it; every male shall eat it; it shall be holy to you. 11And this is the dedication of your gifts and all dedications of the children of Israel; I have given them to you and to your sons and to your daughters with you, the law to eternity; everyone who is pure in your house shall eat it. 12All the fat of the oil and all the fat of grain and of the wine and the first fruits that they are giving to LORD JEHOVAH, I have given them to you. 13Every first fruit that is in their land that they bring to LORD JEHOVAH shall be yours, and everyone who is pure in your house shall eat. 14And every devoted thing in Israel shall be yours. 15And everything opening a womb of all flesh that they bring to LORD JEHOVAH, of man and of beast, it shall be yours; however you shall certainly redeem the firstborn of man and you shall redeem the firstborn of unclean beasts. 16And the redemption of a son of a month and above you shall redeem with a price of money, fifty shekels in the shekel of Holiness; twenty mayn was a shekel. 17However you shall not redeem the firstborn of an ox or the firstborn of lambs and the firstborn of goats, because they are holiness, and sprinkle their blood on the altar and offer up their fat as a gift on the altar for a fragrant savor to LORD JEHOVAH. 18And their flesh shall be for you as the breast of the offering and shall be like the right shoulder for you. 19Every dedication of holiness that the children of Israel dedicate to LORD JEHOVAH I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters with you, the law to eternity; it is an eternal covenant of salt before LORD JEHOVAH, for you and for your seed with you.” 20And LORD JEHOVAH said to Ahron: “You will not inherit in their land and you will not have a division among them, but your division and your inheritance is the gifts of LORD JEHOVAH and his holy things among the children of Israel.

21And to the sons of Levi, behold, you have given all of them a tenth of the children of Israel for an inheritance in the place of the work of those working the work in the Time Tabernacle. 22And the children of Israel shall not come near again to the Time Tabernacle lest they bear sin and they will die. 23And the Levites shall serve the service of the Time Tabernacle and they shall bear their evil; it is the law forever for their generations and among the sons of Israel: they shall not inherit an inheritance. 24Because the tithes that the children of Israel offer to LORD JEHOVAH I have given to the Levites as an inheritance; because of this I have said to them that among the children of Israel they shall not inherit an inheritance.”

25And LORD JEHOVAH spoke with Moshe and said to him: 26“Speak with the Levites and say to them, ‘When you receive from the children of Israel a tenth, I have given to you an inheritance from them; separate from it an offering to LORD JEHOVAH, a tenth from the tenth. 27And it shall be counted to you as your offering, as grain from the granary and like an offering from the winepress. 28In this way you shall separate also an offering to LORD JEHOVAH from all of your tithes that you receive from the children of Israel and give an offering from them for LORD JEHOVAH to Ahron the Priest and to his children. 29From all your gifts separate every offering to LORD JEHOVAH from all the best hallowed part of it. 30And say to them: ‘When you separate the best of it, it shall be accounted to the Levites as crops of the granary and like crops of the wine press. 31And eat it in every place where you and the men of your house are, because this is your reward in exchange for your work in the Time Tabernacle. 32And you shall not receive sin for it when you offer the best part of it, and you shall not defile the holiness of the children of Israel, lest you die.’”