25 The Lord instructed Moses, 26 “Speak to the Levites and tell them: When you receive from the Israelites the tenth that I have given you as your inheritance, you are to present part of it as an offering to the Lord—a tenth of the tenth. 27 Your offering will be credited to you as if it were your grain from the threshing floor or the full harvest from the winepress. 28 You are to present an offering to the Lord from every tenth you receive from the Israelites. Give some of it to the priest Aaron as an offering to the Lord. 29 You must present the entire offering due the Lord from all your gifts. The best part of the tenth(A) is to be consecrated.

30 “Tell them further: Once you have presented the best part of the tenth, and it is credited to you Levites as the produce of the threshing floor or the winepress, 31 then you and your household may eat it anywhere. It is your wage in return for your work at the tent of meeting. 32 You will not incur guilt because of it once you have presented the best part of it, but you must not defile the Israelites’ holy offerings, so that you will not die.”

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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”