Numbers 18:25-32

Evangelical Heritage Version

²⁵ The Lord told Moses ²⁶ to speak to the Levites and tell them this:

When you receive from the Israelites the tithe, which I have given to you as your possession, you will lift up an elevated offering from it for the Lord, a tenth of the tithe. ²⁷ Your elevated offering will be credited to you, as if it were grain from the threshing floor and abundance from the winepress. ²⁸ In this way you also are to lift up an elevated offering for the Lord from every one of the tithes which you receive from the Israelites. From the tithes, you will give the elevated offering for the Lord to Aaron the priest. ²⁹ You will lift up every elevated offering for the Lord from the things given to you, from all the best, the holiest part of it.

³⁰ Tell the Levites this:

When you lift up the best part of the offering, it will be credited to the Levites as if it were produce from the threshing floor and the winepress. ³¹ You may eat it anywhere, with your household, for it is your wages in return for your work at the Tent of Meeting. ³² You will not become responsible for sin in regard to it when you lift up the best part of it. You will not defile the holy things from the Israelites, and you will not die.