1 And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father’s house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. 2 And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness. 3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die. 4 And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you. 5 And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel. 6 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. 7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest’s office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest’s office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
8 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever. 9 This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons. 10 In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee. 11 And this is thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it. 12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given thee. 13 And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it. 14 Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine. 15 Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem. 16 And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs. 17 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD. 18 And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine. 19 All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
20 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel. 21 And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. 22 Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die. 23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance. 24 But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
25 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 26 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe. 27 And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress. 28 Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the LORD’s heave offering to Aaron the priest. 29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it. 30 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, 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 for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation. 32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.
Priesteriem un levītiem uzliktā atbildība
1 Un Kungs teica Āronam: “Tu un tavi dēli, un tavs nams līdz ar tevi, jūs nesīsiet vainu par grēku pret svētvietu – tu un tavi dēli līdz ar tevi nesīs vainu par grēku pret savu priesterību! 2 Un ved sev līdzi arī savus brāļus, Levī cilti, tava tēva cilti, lai tie pievienojas tev un kalpo tev, un tu ar saviem dēliem kalpo Liecības telts priekšā. 3 Viņi lai piekalpo tev un lai kalpo teltī, taču svētvietas traukiem vai altārim lai netuvojas, ka nemirst – gan tie, gan jūs. 4 Lai tie nāk tev līdzi un kalpo Saiešanas teltī, lai dara visu, kas teltī jādara, bet svešinieks jums lai netuvojas. 5 Kalpojiet svētvietā un kalpojiet altārī – tad dusmas vairs nenāks pār Israēla dēliem. 6 Un es, redzi, esmu ņēmis jūsu brāļus levītus no Israēla dēliem jums par dāvanu – tie ir atdoti Kungam, lai kalpotu Saiešanas teltī. 7 Tu un tavi dēli lai savā priesterībā kalpo pie visām altāra lietām un pie tā, kas aiz priekškara, – tur jūs kalposiet! Es dodu jums priesterību kā dāvanu. Svešinieks, kas tur tuvojas, lai mirst!”
Priesteru daļa
8 Un Kungs sacīja Āronam: “Es, redzi, esmu atdevis tavā uzraudzībā visu, kas man upurēts, – no visiem Israēla dēlu svētumiem es esmu tev devis daļu, un tas ir mūžīgs likums taviem dēliem. 9 Tas tev tiks no svētumu svētumiem, no dedzināmajiem upuriem – visas viņu upurveltes, visas viņu labības dāvanas, visi grēku upuri un visi vainas upuri, ko tie dod man, – tas būs svētumu svētums tev un taviem dēliem! 10 Ēdiet to svētumu svētumā, ik vīrs lai ēd to! Tas tev svēts! 11 Arī šis ir tev – viņu cilājamā upurdāvana par visiem Israēla dēlu līgojamiem upuriem ir atdota tev un taviem dēliem, un tavām meitām ar mūžīgu likumu, – ikviens, kas tavā namā šķīsts, lai to ēd! 12 Labākais no eļļas un labākais no vīna un labības pirmā vākuma, ko tie dod Kungam, – tas tev! 13 Pirmie augļi, ko tie pienes Kungam no visa, kas viņu zemēs, tiks tev – ikviens, kas šķīsts tavā namā, lai tos ēd! 14 Viss, kas upurēts Israēlā, būs tavs! 15 Visi, kas pirmie no klēpja nākuši, ko tie no cilvēka vai lopa pienes Kungam, būs tev! – taču cilvēka pirmdzimtie tev ir jāizpērk, un nešķīsto lopu pirmdzimtie tev ir jāizpērk! 16 Šāds ir to izpirkums – mēneša laikā tu vari tos izpirkt ar sudrabu pēc tava vērtējuma, ar pieciem šekeļiem pēc svētvietas šekeļa, tas ir divdesmit geras. 17 Taču govs pirmdzimto vai avs pirmdzimto, vai kazas pirmdzimto tu neizpērc, tie ir svēti – slaki to asinis pār altāri un to taukus kvēpini kā dedzināmo upuri par tīkamu smaržu Kungam! 18 To gaļa tiks tev tāpat kā līgojamā upura krūts gabals un labā ciska. 19 Visus svētos cilājamos upurus, ko upurējuši Israēla dēli, es esmu devis tev un taviem dēliem, un tavām meitām par likumīgo daļu uz mūžiem – tā ir sāls derība uz mūžiem Kunga priekšā – tev un taviem pēcnācējiem!” 20 Un Kungs sacīja Āronam: “Viņu zemē tev nebūs ne mantojuma, ne kopīgas daļas ar tiem – es esmu tava daļa un tavs mantojums starp Israēla dēliem!
21 Un, redzi, Levī dēliem es esmu atdevis visas Israēla dēlu dotās desmitās tiesas par mantojumu, kā atlīdzību par viņu kalpošanu, ka tie kalpo Saiešanas teltī. 22 Israēla dēli Saiešanas teltij lai vairs netuvojas – jo tad tie būs grēkojuši un mirs! 23 Lai levīti dara Saiešanas telts darbus un nes savu vainu – tas jums ir mūžīgs likums uz paaudzēm. Lai tiem nav mantojuma kā citiem Israēla dēliem, 24 jo visas desmitās tiesas, ko dod Israēla dēli par cilājamo upuri Kungam, es esmu atdevis par mantojumu levītiem, tādēļ es tiem teicu: lai tiem nav mantojuma kā citiem Israēla dēliem!”
25 Un Kungs sacīja Mozum: 26 “Runā uz levītiem un saki tiem: kad jūs ņemat no Israēla dēliem desmitās tiesas, ko es jums no tiem esmu devis par mantojumu, tad pienesiet no tām cilājamo upuri Kungam – desmito tiesu no desmitās tiesas. 27 Un jūsu cilājamais upuris jums tiks atmaksāts kā labība no kuļamā klona un vīnspaida pārpilnība! 28 Tā upurējiet Kungam cilājamo upuri no visām jūsu desmitajām tiesām, ko ņemat no Israēla dēliem, dodiet no tām Kunga upurdāvanu priesterim Āronam. 29 No visām savām dāvanām upurējiet Kungam cilājamo upuri – tā treknumu, tā svētīto daļu! – 30 un saki tiem: kad jūs būsiet upurējuši tā treknumu, tad tas tiks atmaksāts jums kā labība no kuļamā klona un vīnspaida pārpilnība! 31 Jūs drīkstat to ēst visur, jūs un jūsu tēva nams, jo tā ir jūsu alga, atlīdzība par jūsu kalpošanu Saiešanas teltī. 32 Kad būsiet upurējuši tā treknumu, jums vairs nebūs grēka. Neapgāniet Israēla dēlu svētumus, tad jūs nemirsiet!”
