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Numbers 18
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Numbers 18
New International Version
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
Numbers 18
New King James Version
Numbers 18
New King James Version
Duties of Priests and Levites
18 Then the Lord said to Aaron: (A)“You and your sons and your father’s house with you shall (B)bear the [a]iniquity related to the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity associated with your priesthood. 2 Also bring with you your brethren of the (C)tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may be (D)joined with you and serve you while you and your sons are with you before the tabernacle of [b]witness. 3 They shall attend to your [c]needs and (E)all the needs of the tabernacle; (F)but they shall not come near the articles of the sanctuary and the altar, (G)lest they die—they and you also. 4 They shall be joined with you and attend to the needs of the tabernacle of meeting, for all the work of the tabernacle; (H)but an outsider shall not come near you. 5 And you shall attend to (I)the duties of the sanctuary and the duties of the altar, (J)that there may be no more wrath on the children of Israel. 6 Behold, I Myself have (K)taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel; (L)they are a gift to you, given by the Lord, to do the work of the tabernacle of meeting. 7 Therefore (M)you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for everything at the altar and (N)behind the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood to you as a (O)gift for service, but the outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”
Offerings for Support of the Priests
8 And the Lord spoke to Aaron: “Here, (P)I Myself have also given you [d]charge of My heave offerings, all the holy gifts of the children of Israel; I have given them (Q)as a portion to you and your sons, as an ordinance forever. 9 This shall be yours of the most holy things reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, every (R)grain offering and every (S)sin offering and every (T)trespass offering which they render to Me, shall be most holy for you and your sons. 10 (U)In a most holy place you shall eat it; every male shall eat it. It shall be holy to you.
11 “This also is yours: (V)the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel; I have given them to you, and your sons and daughters with you, as an ordinance forever. (W)Everyone who is [e]clean in your house may eat it.
12 (X)“All the [f]best of the oil, all the best of the new wine and the grain, (Y)their firstfruits which they offer to the Lord, I have given them to you. 13 Whatever first ripe fruit is in their land, (Z)which they bring to the Lord, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.
14 (AA)“Every [g]devoted thing in Israel shall be yours.
15 “Everything that first opens (AB)the womb of all flesh, which they bring to the Lord, whether man or beast, shall be yours; nevertheless (AC)the firstborn of man you shall surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals you shall redeem. 16 And those redeemed of the devoted things you shall redeem when one month old, (AD)according to your valuation, for five shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is (AE)twenty gerahs. 17 (AF)But the firstborn of a cow, the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat you shall not redeem; they are holy. (AG)You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and burn their fat as an offering made by fire for a sweet aroma to the Lord. 18 And their flesh shall be yours, just as the (AH)wave[h] breast and the right thigh are yours.
19 “All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to the Lord, I have given to you and your sons and daughters with you as an ordinance forever; (AI)it is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord with you and your descendants with you.”
20 Then the Lord said to Aaron: “You shall have (AJ)no inheritance in their land, nor shall you have any portion among them; (AK)I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.
Tithes for Support of the Levites
21 “Behold, (AL)I have given the children of Levi all the tithes in Israel as [i]an inheritance in return for the work which they perform, (AM)the work of the tabernacle of meeting. 22 (AN)Hereafter the children of Israel shall not come near the tabernacle of meeting, (AO)lest they bear sin and die. 23 But the Levites shall perform the work of the tabernacle of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity; it shall be a statute forever, throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance. 24 For the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer up as a heave offering to the Lord, I have given to the Levites [j]as an inheritance; therefore I have said to them, ‘Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.’ ”
The Tithe of the Levites
25 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 26 “Speak thus to the Levites, and say to them: ‘When you take from the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you shall offer up a heave offering of it to the Lord, (AP)a tenth of the tithe. 27 And your heave offering shall be reckoned to you as though it were the grain of the (AQ)threshing floor and as the fullness of the winepress. 28 Thus you shall also offer a heave offering to the Lord from all your tithes which you receive from the children of Israel, and you shall give the Lord’s heave offering from it to Aaron the priest. 29 Of all your gifts you shall offer up every heave offering due to the Lord, from all the [k]best of them, the consecrated part of them.’ 30 Therefore you shall say to them: ‘When you have lifted up the best of it, then the rest shall be accounted to the Levites as the produce of the threshing floor and as the produce of the winepress. 31 You may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is (AR)your [l]reward for your work in the tabernacle of meeting. 32 And you shall (AS)bear no sin because of it, when you have lifted up the best of it. But you shall not (AT)profane the holy gifts of the children of Israel, lest you die.’ ”
Footnotes
- Numbers 18:1 guilt
- Numbers 18:2 testimony
- Numbers 18:3 service
- Numbers 18:8 custody
- Numbers 18:11 purified
- Numbers 18:12 Lit. fat
- Numbers 18:14 consecrated
- Numbers 18:18 breast of the wave offering
- Numbers 18:21 a possession
- Numbers 18:24 for a possession
- Numbers 18:29 Lit. fat
- Numbers 18:31 wages
4 Mosebok 18
Svenska Folkbibeln
4 Mosebok 18
Svenska Folkbibeln
Prästernas och leviternas plikter och rättigheter
18 Herren sade till Aron: "Du och dina söner och din fars hus med dig skall bära den missgärning som hör till helgedomen, och du och dina söner med dig skall bära den missgärning som hör till ert prästämbete. 2 Men också dina bröder av Levi stam, din fars stam, skall du låta få tillträde dit tillsammans med dig, och de skall hålla sig till dig och betjäna dig, medan du och dina söner med dig gör tjänst vid vittnesbördets tält. 3 De skall sköta vad du har att sköta och vad som hör till skötseln av tältet. Men de får inte komma nära de heliga redskapen eller altaret, för att inte både de och ni skall dö. 4 De skall hålla sig till dig och sköta vad som hör till uppenbarelsetältet, under all tjänstgöring vid tältet. Ingen främling får komma nära dig. 5 Ni skall iaktta vad som hör till skötseln av helgedomen och altaret, för att inte vrede åter skall komma över Israels barn. 6 Det är jag som har utvalt era bröder, leviterna, bland Israels barn. De är en gåva åt er, givna åt Herren till att förrätta tjänsten vid uppenbarelsetältet. 7 Men du och dina söner med dig skall sköta vad som hör till ert prästämbete, i allt som avser altaret och det som är innanför förlåten. Så skall ni göra tjänst. Jag ger er prästämbetet som en gåva. Om en obehörig inkräktar på det skall han dödas."
Prästernas andel
8 Herren sade till Aron: "Se, jag överlämnar åt dig att ta hand om det som offras åt mig. Av Israels barns alla heliga gåvor ger jag detta som en ämbetslott åt dig och dina söner, som en evig rätt. 9 Av det högheliga som inte lämnas åt elden skall detta tillhöra dig: Alla deras offergåvor, alla matoffer, syndoffer eller skuldoffer, som de offrar åt mig. Detta är högheligt och tillhör dig och dina söner. 10 På en höghelig plats skall du äta det. Alla av manligt kön skall äta det. Det skall vara heligt för dig. 11 Också Israels barns alla viftoffer som bärs fram som gåvor skall tillhöra dig. Som en evig rättighet ger jag dem åt dig och dina söner och döttrar med dig. Var och en i ditt hus som är ren må äta det.
12 Allt det bästa av oljan och det bästa av det nya vinet och av säden, det första av det som de ger åt Herren, ger jag åt dig. 13 De första frukterna av allt som växer i deras land och som de bär fram åt Herren skall tillhöra dig. Var och en i ditt hus som är ren må äta av det. 14 Allt i Israel som är givet till spillo skall tillhöra dig. 15 Allt som öppnar moderlivet, varje varelse, människa eller djur, som de för fram till Herren skall tillhöra dig. Men det förstfödda bland människor skall du friköpa. Även det förstfödda bland orena djur skall du friköpa. 16 När de är en månad gamla skall du friköpa dem med den lösensumma som är bestämd till fem siklar silver, efter helgedomssikelns vikt, som är tjugo gera. 17 Men det förstfödda bland nötboskap eller det förstfödda bland får eller det förstfödda bland getter skall du inte friköpa. Det är heligt. Deras blod skall du stänka på altaret, och deras fett skall du förbränna som ett eldsoffer till en ljuvlig doft för Herren. 18 Men deras kött skall tillhöra dig, liksom även viftoffersbringan och det högra lårstycket skall tillhöra dig. 19 Alla heliga gåvor som Israels barn offrar åt Herren ger jag åt dig och dina söner och döttrar med dig som en evig rätt. Detta skall vara ett evigt saltförbund inför Herrens ansikte, för dig och för dina avkomlingar."
Leviternas arvedel
20 Herren sade till Aron: "I deras land skall du inte ha någon arvedel, och du skall inte ha någon lott bland dem. Jag skall vara din lott och din arvedel bland Israels barn. 21 Se, jag ger åt Levi barn allt tionde i Israel till arvedel, som lön för den tjänst de utför, tjänsten vid uppenbarelsetältet. 22 Och Israels barn skall härefter inte komma nära uppenbarelsetältet, ty de kommer då att bära på synd och måste dö. 23 Det är leviterna som skall förrätta tjänsten vid uppenbarelsetältet, och de skall själva bära sina missgärningar. Det skall vara en evig stadga från släkte till släkte: Bland Israels barn skall de inte ha någon arvedel. 24 Ty det tionde som Israels barn offrar som gåva åt Herren ger jag som arvedel åt leviterna. Det är därför jag säger om dem: De skall inte ha någon arvedel bland Israels barn."
25 Och Herren talade till Mose. Han sade: 26 "Tala till leviterna och säg: När ni av Israels barn tar emot det tionde som jag har bestämt att ni skall få av dem som er arvedel, då skall ni av det ge en gåva åt Herren, ett tionde av tiondena. 27 Denna er gåva skall räknas som om det vore brödsäd från logen och den fulla avkastningen från vinpressen. 28 På detta sätt skall också ni ge en gåva åt Herren av allt tionde som ni tar emot av Israels barn. Denna Herrens gåva av tionden skall ni ge åt prästen Aron. 29 Av alla gåvor ni får skall ni offra åt Herren allt det som tillhör honom, det bästa av gåvorna, den del som är helig.
30 Du skall säga till dem: När ni ger som gåva det bästa, skall leviternas gåva räknas som om det vore vad loge och press avkastar. 31 Med ert husfolk får ni äta det var som helst, ty det är er lön för er tjänstgöring vid uppenbarelsetältet. 32 När ni offrar det bästa av det skall ni inte bära på synd. Då skall ni inte ohelga Israels barns heliga gåvor, så att ni måste dö."
Numbers 18
Revised Geneva Translation
Numbers 18
Revised Geneva Translation
18 And the LORD said to Aaron, “You and your sons, and your father’s House with you, shall bear the iniquity of the Sanctuary. Both you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your Priest’s office.
2 “And also bring with you your brothers from the tribe of Levi, of the family of your father, who shall be joined with you and minister to you. But you and your sons with you shall minister before the Tabernacle of the Testimony.
3 “And they shall keep My charge, even the charge of all the Tabernacle. But they shall not come near the instruments of the Sanctuary, nor to the Altar, lest they die, both they and you.
4 “And they shall be joined with you and keep the charge of the Tabernacle of the Congregation for all the service of the Tabernacle. And no stranger shall come near to you.
5 “Therefore, you shall keep the charge of the Sanctuary, and the charge of the Altar, so no more wrath
6 “For lo, I have taken your brothers, the Levites, from among the children of Israel (who, as a gift of yours, are given to the LORD, to do the service of the Tabernacle of the Congregation).
7 “But you, and your sons with you, shall keep your Priest’s office for all things of the Altar, and within the Veil. Therefore, you shall serve. I have made your Priest’s office an office of service. Therefore, the stranger who comes near shall be killed.”
8 Again the LORD spoke to Aaron, “Behold, I have given you the keeping of My Offerings, of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel. I have given them to you for the anointing’s sake, and to your sons, for a perpetual Ordinance.
9 “This shall be yours of the Most Holy things, reserved from the fire. All their offering of all their Meat Offering and of all their Sin Offering and of all their Trespass Offering, which they bring to Me, that shall be Most Holy to you, and to your sons.
10 “You shall eat it in the Most Holy Place. Every male shall eat from it. It is Holy to you.
11 “This also shall be yours: the Heave Offering of their gift, with all the Shake Offerings of the children of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, to be a duty forever. All the clean in your house shall eat from it.
12 “All the fat of the oil and all the fat of the wine, and of the wheat, which they shall offer to the LORD for their firstfruits, I have given them to you.
13 “And the first ripe of all that is in their land which they shall bring to LORD shall be yours. All the clean in your house shall eat from it.
14 “Everything separate from the common use in Israel shall be yours.
15 “All that first opens the womb of any flesh which they shall offer to the LORD, of man or beast, shall be yours. But the firstborn of man you shall redeem, and the firstborn of the unclean beast you shall redeem.
16 “And those who are to be redeemed you shall redeem from the age of a month (according to your estimation) for the sum of five shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.
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 sprinkle their blood at the Altar. And you shall burn their fat. It is a sacrifice made by fire for a sweet savor to the LORD.
18 “And the flesh of them shall be yours, as the shake breast and as the right shoulder shall be yours.
19 “All the Heave Offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel shall offer to the LORD I have given you, and your sons, and your daughters with you, to be a duty forever. It is a perpetual Covenant of Salt before the LORD, to you and to your seed with you.”
20 And the LORD said to Aaron, “You shall have no inheritance in their land. Nor shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.
21 “For behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tithes in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve in the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
22 “Nor shall the children of Israel come near the Tabernacle of the Congregation anymore, lest they sustain sin and die.
23 “But the Levites shall do the service in the Tabernacle of the Congregation; and they shall bear their sin. It is a Law, forever, in your generations, that among the children of Israel they possess no inheritance.
24 “For the tithes of the children of Israel, which they shall offer as an offering to the LORD, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore, I have said to them, ‘You shall possess no inheritance among the children of Israel.’”
25 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
26 “Also speak to the Levites, and say to them, “When you shall take the tithes from the children of Israel, which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall take a Heave Offering of it for the LORD (one tenth of the tithe).
27 “And your Heave Offering shall be reckoned to you as the corn of the barn or as the abundance of the winepress.
28 “So you shall also offer a Heave Offering to the LORD from all your tithes which you shall receive from the children of Israel. And you shall give the LORD’s Heave Offering from it to Aaron the Priest.
29 “You shall offer all the LORD’s Heave Offerings from all your gifts. From all the fat of them you shall offer the holy things.
30 “Therefore, you shall say to them, ‘When you have offered the fat of them, then it shall be counted to the Levites as the increase of the corn floor or as the increase of the winepress.
31 ‘And you shall eat it in all places, you and your households, for it is your wages for your service in the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
32 ‘And you shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have offered the fat of it. Nor shall you pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest you die.’”
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