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Números 18
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Números 18
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Deberes de sacerdotes y levitas
18 El Señor le dijo a Aarón: «Todos los de la tribu de Leví se expondrán a sufrir las consecuencias de acercarse a las cosas sagradas, pero de entre ellos solo tú y tus hijos os expondréis a las consecuencias de ejercer el sacerdocio. 2 Cuando tú y tus hijos estéis ministrando delante de la Tienda del pacto, tendréis como ayudantes a vuestros hermanos de la tribu de Leví. 3 Ellos te ayudarán en tus deberes y estarán a cargo de la Tienda de reunión, pero no se acercarán a los objetos sagrados ni al altar, para que no mueran. 4 Ellos serán tus ayudantes, y estarán a cargo de la Tienda de reunión y de todo su servicio. Así que, cuando ministréis, nadie que no esté autorizado se os acercará.
5 »Solo vosotros estaréis a cargo de las cosas sagradas y del altar, para que no se vuelva a derramar mi ira sobre los israelitas. 6 Considera que yo mismo he escogido, de entre la comunidad, a tus hermanos los levitas, para dártelos como un regalo. Ellos han sido dedicados al Señor para que sirvan en la Tienda de reunión. 7 Pero solo tú y tus hijos os haréis cargo del sacerdocio, es decir, de todo lo referente al altar y a lo que está detrás de la cortina. A vosotros os doy de regalo el sacerdocio, pero cualquier otro que se acerque a las cosas sagradas será condenado a muerte».
Privilegios de los sacerdotes
8 El Señor le dijo a Aarón: «Yo mismo te he puesto a cargo de todas las cosas sagradas que los israelitas me traen como contribución. A ti y a tus hijos os las he entregado como vuestra porción consagrada, como estatuto perpetuo. 9 Te corresponderán las cosas más sagradas, que no se queman en el altar. Tuya será toda ofrenda que presenten los israelitas, junto con las ofrendas de cereal, los sacrificios expiatorios y los sacrificios por la culpa. Todo esto que ellos me traen será algo muy santo para ti y para tus hijos. 10 Comerás de las cosas más sagradas, y las considerarás santas. Todo varón comerá de ellas.
11 »También te corresponderán las contribuciones de todas las ofrendas mecidas que me presenten los israelitas. A ti y a tus hijos y a tus hijas os las he dado, como estatuto perpetuo.
12 »De las primicias que ellos traigan al Señor te daré también lo mejor del aceite, del vino nuevo y de los cereales. 13 Ellos traerán al Señor las primicias de todo lo que la tierra produce, y yo te las entregaré a ti. Toda persona que esté ritualmente pura podrá comer de ellas.
14 »Todo lo que en Israel haya sido dedicado por completo al Señor será tuyo. 15 Todo primogénito presentado al Señor será tuyo, ya sea de hombre o de animal. Pero rescatarás al primogénito nacido de hombre y al de animales impuros. 16 El rescate tendrá lugar cuando el primogénito tenga un mes de edad. El precio del rescate será de cinco monedas de plata, según la moneda oficial del santuario, que pesa once gramos.[a]
17 »Pero no podrás rescatar al primogénito de un toro, de una oveja o de un macho cabrío, pues son santos. Rociarás su sangre en el altar, y quemarás su grasa como ofrenda presentada por fuego, de aroma grato al Señor. 18 Pero la carne será tuya, lo mismo que el pecho de la ofrenda mecida y el muslo derecho. 19 Yo, el Señor, te entrego todas las contribuciones sagradas que los israelitas me presentan. Son tuyas, y de tus hijos y de tus hijas, como estatuto perpetuo. Este es un pacto perpetuo, sellado en mi presencia, con sal. Es un pacto que hago contigo y con tus descendientes».
Privilegios de los levitas
20 El Señor le dijo a Aarón: «Tú no tendrás herencia en el país, ni recibirás ninguna porción de tierra, porque yo soy tu porción; yo soy tu herencia entre los israelitas.
21 »A los levitas les doy como herencia, y en pago por su servicio en la Tienda de reunión, todos los diezmos de Israel. 22 Si los israelitas volvieran a cometer el pecado de acercarse a la Tienda de reunión, morirían. 23 Por eso únicamente los levitas servirán en la Tienda de reunión y cargarán con la culpa de los israelitas. El siguiente es un estatuto perpetuo para todas las generaciones venideras: Los levitas no recibirán herencia entre los israelitas, 24 porque yo les he dado como herencia los diezmos que los israelitas ofrecen al Señor como contribución. Por eso he decidido que no tengan herencia entre los israelitas».
El diezmo de los diezmos
25 El Señor le ordenó a Moisés 26 que les dijera a los levitas: «Cuando recibáis de los israelitas los diezmos que os he dado a vosotros como herencia, ofrecedme, como contribución, el diezmo de esos diezmos. 27 La contribución que vosotros me presentéis os será contada como si fuera trigo de la era o mosto del lagar. 28 Así que reservaréis para mí, como su contribución, el diezmo de todos los diezmos que recibáis de los israelitas, y se lo entregaréis al sacerdote Aarón. 29 De todos los dones que recibáis, reservaréis para mí una contribución. Y me consagraréis lo mejor.
30 »Cuando me hayáis presentado la mejor parte, se os tomará en cuenta como si fuera vino o grano. 31 Lo que sobre, vosotros y vuestras familias podréis comerlo donde queráis. Ese será el pago por vuestro ministerio en la Tienda de reunión. 32 Después de presentarme el diezmo de los diezmos, ya no será pecado que comáis lo que sobre.
»No profanéis las ofrendas sagradas de los israelitas, porque de lo contrario moriréis».
Footnotes
- 18:16 monedas … gramos. Lit. siclos, según el siclo del santuario, que pesa veinte guerás.
Numbers 18
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Numbers 18
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18 And the Lord said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father’s house with you shall bear and remove the iniquity of the sanctuary [that is, the guilt for the offenses which the people unknowingly commit when brought into contact with the manifestations of God’s presence]. And you and your sons with you shall bear and remove the iniquity of your priesthood [your own unintentional offenses].
2 And your brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your [fore]father, bring with you, that they may be joined to you and minister to you; but only you and your sons with you shall come before the Tent of the Testimony [into the Holy Place where only priests may go and into the Most Holy Place which only the high priest dares enter].
3 And the Levites shall attend you [as servants] and attend to all the duties of the Tent; only they shall not come near the sacred vessels of the sanctuary or to the brazen altar, that they and also you [Aaron] die not.
4 And they shall be joined to you and attend to the duties of the Tent of Meeting—all the [menial] service of the Tent—and no stranger [no layman, anyone who is not a Levite] shall come near you [Aaron and your sons].
5 And you shall attend to the duties of the sanctuary and attend to the altar [of burnt offering and the altar of incense], that there be no wrath any more upon the Israelites [as in the incident of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram].(A)
6 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the Israelites; to you they are a gift, given to the Lord, to do the [menial] service of the Tent of Meeting.
7 Therefore you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for everything of the altar [of burnt offering and the altar of incense] and [of the Holy of Holies] within the veil, and you shall serve. I give you your priesthood as a service of gift. And the stranger [anyone other than Moses or your sons, Aaron] who comes near shall be put to death.(B)
8 And the Lord said to Aaron, And I, behold, I have given you the charge of My heave offerings [whatever is taken out and kept of the offerings made to Me], all the dedicated and consecrated things of the Israelites; to you have I given them [as your portion] and to your sons as a continual allowance forever by reason of your anointing as priests.(C)
9 This shall be yours of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every offering of the people, every cereal offering and sin offering and trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to Me, shall be most holy for you [Aaron] and for your sons.
10 As the most holy thing and in a sacred place shall you eat of it; every male [of your house] shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you.(D)
11 And this also is yours: the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given them to you and to your sons and to your daughters with you as a continual allowance forever; everyone in your house who is [ceremonially] clean may eat of it.
12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the [fresh] wine and of the grain, the firstfruits of what they give to the Lord, to you have I given them.
13 Whatever is first ripe in the land, which they bring to the Lord, shall be yours. Everyone who is [ceremonially] clean in your house may eat of it.
14 Every devoted thing in Israel [everything that has been vowed to the Lord] shall be yours.
15 Everything that first opens the womb in all flesh, which they bring to the Lord, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be yours. Nevertheless the firstborn of man you shall surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts you shall redeem.
16 And those that are to be redeemed of them, from a month old shall you redeem, according to your estimate [of their age], for the fixed price of five shekels in silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.
17 But the firstling of a cow or of a sheep or of a goat you shall not redeem. They [as the firstborn of clean beasts belong to God and] are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood upon the altar and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet and soothing odor to the Lord.
18 And the flesh of them shall be yours, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are yours.
19 All the heave offerings [the lifted-out and kept portions] of the holy things which the Israelites give to the Lord I give to you and to your sons and your daughters with you, as a continual debt forever. It is a covenant of salt [that cannot be dissolved or violated] forever before the Lord for you [Aaron] and for your posterity with you.
20 And the Lord said to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in the land [of the Israelites], neither shall you have any part among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites.
21 And, behold, I have given the Levites all the tithes in Israel for an inheritance in return for their service which they serve, the [menial] service of the Tent of Meeting.
22 Henceforth the Israelites shall not come near the Tent of Meeting [the covered sanctuary, the Holy Place, and the Holy of Holies], lest they incur guilt and die.
23 But the Levites shall do the [menial] service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear and remove the iniquity of the people [that is, be answerable for the legal pollutions of the holy things and offer the necessary atonements for unintentional offenses in these matters]. It shall be a statute forever in all your generations, that among the Israelites the Levites have no inheritance [of land].
24 But the tithes of the Israelites, which they present as an offering to the Lord, I have given to the Levites to inherit; therefore I have said to them, Among the Israelites they shall have no inheritance. [They have homes and cities and pasturage to use but not to possess as their personal inheritance.]
25 And the Lord said to Moses,
26 Moreover, you shall say to the Levites, When you take from the Israelites the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present an offering from it to the Lord, even a tenth of the tithe [paid by the people].
27 And what you lift out and keep [your heave offering] shall be credited to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor or as the fully ripe produce of the vine.
28 Likewise you shall also present an offering to the Lord of all your tithes which you receive from the Israelites; and therefore you shall give this heave offering [lifted out and kept] for the Lord to Aaron the priest.
29 Out of all the gifts to you, you shall present every offering due to the Lord, of all the best of it, even the hallowed part lifted out and held back out of it [for the Levites].
30 Therefore you shall say to them, When you have lifted out and held back the best from it [and presented it to the Lord by giving it to yourselves, the Levites], then it shall be counted to [you] the Levites just as if it were the increase of the threshing floor or of the winepress.
31 And you may eat it in every place, you and your households, for it is your reward for your service in the Tent of Meeting.
32 And you shall be guilty of no sin by reason of it when you have lifted out and held back the best of it; neither shall you have polluted the holy things of the Israelites, neither shall you die [because of it].
Numbers 18
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Numbers 18
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Duties of Priests and Levites
18 The Lord said to Aaron, “You, your sons and your family are to bear the responsibility for offenses connected with the sanctuary,(A) and you and your sons alone are to bear the responsibility for offenses connected with the priesthood. 2 Bring your fellow Levites from your ancestral tribe to join you and assist you when you and your sons minister(B) before the tent of the covenant law. 3 They are to be responsible to you(C) and are to perform all the duties of the tent,(D) but they must not go near the furnishings of the sanctuary or the altar. Otherwise both they and you will die.(E) 4 They 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.(F)
5 “You are to be responsible for the care of the sanctuary and the altar,(G) so that my wrath will not fall on the Israelites again. 6 I myself have selected your fellow Levites from among the Israelites as a gift to you,(H) dedicated to the Lord to do the work at the tent of meeting.(I) 7 But only you and your sons may serve as priests in connection with everything at the altar and inside the curtain.(J) I am giving you the service of the priesthood as a gift.(K) Anyone else who comes near the sanctuary is to be put to death.(L)”
Offerings for Priests and Levites
8 Then 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,(M) your perpetual share.(N) 9 You are to have the part of the most holy offerings(O) that is kept from the fire. From all the gifts they bring me as most holy offerings, whether grain(P) or sin[a](Q) or guilt offerings,(R) that part belongs to you and your sons. 10 Eat it as something most holy; every male shall eat it.(S) You must regard it as holy.(T)
11 “This also is yours: whatever is set aside from the gifts of all the wave offerings(U) of the Israelites. I give this to you and your sons and daughters as your perpetual share.(V) Everyone in your household who is ceremonially clean(W) may eat it.
12 “I give you all the finest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain(X) they give the Lord(Y) as the firstfruits of their harvest.(Z) 13 All the land’s firstfruits that they bring to the Lord will be yours.(AA) Everyone in your household who is ceremonially clean may eat it.(AB)
14 “Everything in Israel that is devoted[b] to the Lord(AC) is yours. 15 The first offspring of every womb, both human and animal, that is offered to the Lord is yours.(AD) But you must redeem(AE) every firstborn(AF) son and every firstborn male of unclean animals.(AG) 16 When they are a month old,(AH) you must redeem them at the redemption price set at five shekels[c](AI) of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel,(AJ) which weighs twenty gerahs.(AK)
17 “But you must not redeem the firstborn of a cow, a sheep or a goat; they are holy.(AL) Splash their blood(AM) against the altar and burn their fat(AN) as a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the Lord.(AO) 18 Their meat is to be yours, just as the breast of the wave offering(AP) and the right thigh are yours.(AQ) 19 Whatever is set aside from the holy(AR) 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(AS) before the Lord for both you and your offspring.”
20 The Lord said to Aaron, “You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any share among them;(AT) I am your share and your inheritance(AU) among the Israelites.
21 “I give to the Levites all the tithes(AV) in Israel as their inheritance(AW) in return for the work they do while serving at the tent of meeting.(AX) 22 From now on the Israelites must not go near the tent of meeting, or they will bear the consequences of their sin and will die.(AY) 23 It 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(AZ) for the generations to come.(BA) They will receive no inheritance(BB) among the Israelites.(BC) 24 Instead, I give to the Levites as their inheritance the tithes that the Israelites present as an offering to the Lord.(BD) That is why I said concerning them: ‘They will have no inheritance among the Israelites.’”
25 The Lord said to Moses, 26 “Speak to the Levites and say to them: ‘When you receive from the Israelites the tithe I give you(BE) as your inheritance, you must present a tenth of that tithe as the Lord’s offering.(BF) 27 Your offering will be reckoned(BG) to you as grain from the threshing floor(BH) or juice from the winepress.(BI) 28 In this way you also will present an offering to the Lord from all the tithes(BJ) you receive from the Israelites. From these tithes you must give the Lord’s portion to Aaron the priest. 29 You 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.(BK) 31 You and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere, for it is your wages for your work at the tent of meeting.(BL) 32 By presenting the best part(BM) of it you will not be guilty in this matter;(BN) then you will not defile the holy offerings(BO) of the Israelites, and you will not die.’”
Footnotes
- Numbers 18:9 Or purification
- Numbers 18:14 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord.
- Numbers 18:16 That is, about 2 ounces or about 58 grams
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