¹³ Do you not know that those who work in the temple service get their food from the temple and those who serve at the altar share in what is sacrificed on the altar?^(A)

The Priests’ Portion

⁸ The Lord spoke to Aaron, “I have given you charge of the offerings made to me, all the holy gifts of the Israelites; I have given them to you and your sons as a priestly portion due you in perpetuity.^{(A) 9} This shall be yours from the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs that they render to me as a most holy thing, whether grain offering, purification offering, or guilt offering, shall belong to you and your sons.^{(B) 10} As a most holy thing you shall eat it; every male may eat it; it shall be holy to you.^{(C) 11} This also is yours: I have given to you, together with your sons and daughters, as a perpetual due, whatever is set aside from the gifts of all the elevation offerings of the Israelites; everyone who is clean in your house may eat them.^{(D) 12} All the best of the oil and all the best of the wine and of the grain, the choice produce that they give to the Lord, I have given to you.^{(E) 13} The first fruits of all that is in their land that they bring to the Lord shall be yours; everyone who is clean in your house may eat of it.^{(F) 14} Every devoted thing in Israel shall be yours.^{(G) 15} The first issue of the womb of all creatures, human and animal, that is offered to the Lord shall be yours, but the firstborn of human beings you shall redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals you shall redeem.^{(H) 16} Their redemption price, reckoned from one month of age, you shall fix at five shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary (that is, twenty gerahs).^{(I) 17} But 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 dash their blood on the altar and turn their fat into smoke as an offering by fire^[a] for a pleasing odor to the Lord,^{(J) 18} but their flesh shall be yours, just as the breast that is elevated and as the right thigh are yours. ¹⁹ All the holy offerings that the Israelites present to the Lord I have given to you, together with your sons and daughters, as a perpetual due; it is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord for you and your descendants as well.”^{(K) 20} Then the Lord said to Aaron, “You shall have no allotment in their land, nor shall you have any share among them; I am your share and your possession among the Israelites.^(L)

²⁶ The priest who offers it as a purification offering shall eat of it; it shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the tent of meeting.^(A)

⁹ Among all the sacred donations of the Israelites, every gift that they bring to the priest shall be his.^{(A) 10} The sacred donations of all are their own; whatever anyone gives to the priest shall be his.”^(B)

¹⁸ Consider the people of Israel:^[a] Are not those who eat the sacrifices partners in the altar?^(A)

²⁸ I chose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to offer incense, to wear an ephod before me, and I gave to the family of your ancestor all my offerings by fire^[a] from the Israelites.^(A)

Privileges of Priests and Levites

18 “The Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no allotment or inheritance within Israel. They may eat the offerings by fire^[a] that are the Lord’s portion,^{[b](A) 2} but they shall have no inheritance among the other members of the community; the Lord is their inheritance, as he promised them.

³ “This shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder, the two jowls, and the stomach.^{(B) 4} The first fruits of your grain, your wine, and your oil, as well as the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.^{(C) 5} For the Lord your God has chosen Levi^[c] out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons for all time.^(D)

⁹ Therefore Levi has no allotment or inheritance with his kindred; the Lord is his inheritance, as the Lord your God promised him.)^(A)

⁶ Every male among the priests shall eat of it; it shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.^(A)

⁷ “The guilt offering is like the purification offering; the same rule applies to them: the priest who makes atonement with it shall have it.^{(B) 8} So, too, the priest who offers a burnt offering for anyone shall keep the skin of the burnt offering that he has offered.