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25 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 26 Moreover thou shalt speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up a heave-offering of it for Jehovah, a tithe of the tithe. 27 And your heave-offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the grain of the threshing-floor, and as the fulness of the winepress. 28 Thus ye also shall offer a heave-offering unto Jehovah of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and thereof ye shall give Jehovah’s heave-offering to Aaron the priest. 29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave-offering of Jehovah, of all the [a]best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it. 30 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye heave the [b]best thereof from it, then it shall be reckoned unto the Levites as the increase of the threshing-floor, and as the increase of the winepress. 31 And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting. 32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the [c]best thereof: and ye shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, [d]that ye die not.

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  1. Numbers 18:29 Hebrew fat.
  2. Numbers 18:30 Hebrew fat.
  3. Numbers 18:32 Hebrew fat.
  4. Numbers 18:32 Or, neither shall ye die

25 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 26 “You will speak to the Levites and say to them, ‘When you receive the tithe from the Israelites[a] that I have given to you from them for your inheritance, you will present[b] a contribution from it to Yahweh, a tithe from a tithe. 27 Your contribution will be credited to you like the grain from the threshing floor and like the produce from the press. 28 So you will present[c] your own contribution to Yahweh from all your tithes that you receive from the Israelites;[d] from it you will give the contribution of Yahweh to Aaron the priest. 29 From all your gifts you will present[e] every contribution of Yahweh, from all its fat, the part that is sacred.’ 30 You will say to them, ‘When you are presenting[f] its fat, the rest will be credited to the Levites like a yield of the threshing floor and like a yield from the press. 31 You may eat it anywhere, you and your household, because it is a wage in return for your service in the tent of assembly. 32 You will not bear any sin because you have presented[g] its fat; you will not defile the holy objects of the Israelites,[h] or you will die.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 18:26 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  2. Numbers 18:26 Literally “you will raise up”
  3. Numbers 18:28 Literally “you will raise up”
  4. Numbers 18:28 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  5. Numbers 18:29 Literally “you will raise up”
  6. Numbers 18:30 Literally “you are raising up”
  7. Numbers 18:32 Literally “you have raised up”
  8. Numbers 18:32 Literally “sons/children of Israel”