Bamidbar (Numbers) — 18

Duties of Kuhanym and Lauym 

1 Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Dabar to Aarun: “You and your sons and your father’s house with you shall bear the iniquity related to the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity associated with your Kuhanhood. 

2 Also bring with you your brethren of the tribe of La'uy, the tribe of your father, that they may be joined with you and serve you while you and your sons are with you before the tabernacle of witness. 

3 They shall attend to your needs and all the needs of the tabernacle; but they shall not come near the articles of the sanctuary and the altar, 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; but an outsider shall not come near you. 

5 And you shall attend to the duties of the sanctuary and the duties of the altar, that there may be no more wrath on the children of Yashar'AL. 

6 Behold, I Myself have taken your brethren the Lauym from among the children of Yashar'AL; they are a gift to you, given by  𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, to do the work of the tabernacle of meeting. 

7 Therefore you and your sons with you shall attend to your Kuhanhood for everything at the altar and behind the veil; and you shall serve. I give your Kuhanhood to you as a gift for service, but the outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”

Offerings for Support of the Kuhanym 

8 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Dabar to Aarun: “Here, I Myself have also given you charge of My heave offerings, all the Qadash gifts of the children of Yashar'AL; I have given them as a portion to you and your sons, as an ordinance forever. 

9 This shall be yours of the most Qadash things reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, every grain offering and every sin offering and every trespass offering which they render to Me, shall be most Qadash for you and your sons. 

10 In a most Qadash place you shall eat it; every male shall eat it. It shall be Qadash to you.

11 “This also is yours: the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Yashar'AL; I have given them to you, and your sons and daughters with you, as an ordinance forever. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.

12 “All the best of the oil, all the best of the new wine and the grain, their firstfruits which they offer to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, I have given them to you. 

13 Whatever first ripe fruit is in their land, which they bring to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.

14 “Every devoted thing in YASHAR'AL shall be yours.

15 “Everything that first opens the womb of all flesh, which they bring to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, whether man or beast, shall be yours; nevertheless 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, according to your valuation, for five shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs. 

17 But the firstborn of a cow, the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat you shall not redeem; they are Qadash. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and burn their fat as an offering made by fire for a sweet aroma to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH. 

18 And their flesh shall be yours, just as the wave breast and the right thigh are yours.

19 “All the heave offerings of the Qadash things, which the children of Yashar'AL offer to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, I have given to you and your sons and daughters with you as an ordinance forever; it is a covenant of salt forever before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH with you and your descendants with you.”

20 Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Dabar to Aarun: “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 Yashar'AL.

Tithes for Support of the La'uym 

21 “Behold, I have given the children of La'uy all the tithes in Yashar'AL as an inheritance in return for the work which they perform, the work of the tabernacle of meeting. 

22 Hereafter the children of Yashar'AL shall not come near the tabernacle of meeting, lest they bear sin and die. 

23 But the Lauym 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 Yashar'AL they shall have no inheritance. 

24 For the tithes of the children of Yashar'AL, which they offer up as a heave offering to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, I have given to the Lauym as an inheritance; therefore I have said to them, ‘among the children of Yashar'AL they shall have no inheritance.’ ”

The Tithe of the La'uym 

25 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Dabar to Musha saying

26 “Speak thus to the La'uym, and say to them: ‘When you take from the children of Yashar'AL the tithes which I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you shall offer up a heave offering of it to  𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, a tenth of the tithe. 

27 And your heave offering shall be reckoned to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor and as the fullness of the winepress. 

28 Thus you shall also offer a heave offering to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH from all your tithes which you receive from the children of Yashar'AL, and you shall give 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH’s heave offering from it to Aarun the Kuhan. 

29 Of all your gifts you shall offer up every heave offering due to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, from all the 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 Lauym 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 your reward for your work in the tabernacle of meeting. 

32 And you shall bear no sin because of it, when you have lifted up the best of it. But you shall not profane the Qadash gifts of the children of Yashar'AL, lest you die.’