1So the Lord said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your father’s house with you shall bear iniquity connected with the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you shall bear iniquity connected with your priesthood. (Ex 28:38; Nu 18:23)2And with you bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may join you and minister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony. (Ge 29:34; Nu 3:6)3They shall keep guard over you and over the whole tent, but shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary or to the altar lest they, and you, die. (Nu 3:25; Nu 3:31; Nu 3:36; Nu 4:15; Nu 16:40)4They shall join you and keep guard over the tent of meeting for all the service of the tent, and no outsider shall come near you. (Nu 17:13)5And you shall keep guard over the sanctuary and over the altar, that there may never again be wrath on the people of Israel. (Ex 27:21; Ex 30:7; Le 10:6; Le 24:3; Nu 3:38)6And behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the people of Israel. They are a gift to you, given to the Lord, to do the service of the tent of meeting. (Nu 3:9; Nu 3:12; Nu 3:45; Nu 8:19)7And you and your sons with you shall guard your priesthood for all that concerns the altar and that is within the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood as a gift,[1] and any outsider who comes near shall be put to death.” (Nu 1:51; Nu 3:10; Heb 9:3; Heb 9:6)8Then the Lord spoke to Aaron, “Behold, I have given you charge of the contributions made to me, all the consecrated things of the people of Israel. I have given them to you as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual due. (Ex 29:29; Ex 40:13; Ex 40:15; Le 7:32; Nu 5:9)9This shall be yours of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, every grain offering of theirs and every sin offering of theirs and every guilt offering of theirs, which they render to me, shall be most holy to you and to your sons. (Le 4:22; Le 4:27; Le 6:25; Le 7:7; Le 14:13)10In a most holy place shall you eat it. Every male may eat it; it is holy to you.11This also is yours: the contribution of their gift, all the wave offerings of the people of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it. (Ex 29:27; Le 7:30; Le 7:34; Le 10:14; Le 22:2; Le 22:11; De 18:3)12All the best of the oil and all the best of the wine and of the grain, the firstfruits of what they give to the Lord, I give to you. (Ex 23:19; Ex 34:26; De 18:4; Ne 10:35)13The first ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the Lord, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it. (Ex 22:29; Le 2:14; Nu 18:11; De 26:2)14Every devoted thing in Israel shall be yours. (Le 27:28)15Everything that opens the womb of all flesh, whether man or beast, which they offer to the Lord, shall be yours. Nevertheless, the firstborn of man you shall redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals you shall redeem. (Ex 13:2; Ex 13:13; Ex 34:20)16And their redemption price (at a month old you shall redeem them) you shall fix at five shekels[2] in silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs. (Ex 30:13; Le 27:2; Le 27:6; Nu 3:47)17But 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 on the altar and shall burn their fat as a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord. (De 15:19)18But their flesh shall be yours, as the breast that is waved and as the right thigh are yours. (Ex 29:26; Ex 29:28; Le 7:31; Le 7:34)19All the holy contributions that the people of Israel present to the Lord I give to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. It is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord for you and for your offspring with you.” (Le 2:13; Nu 18:11; 2Ch 13:5)20And the Lord said to Aaron, “You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the people of Israel. (Nu 18:23; De 10:9; De 12:12; De 14:27; De 18:1; Jos 13:33; Jos 14:3; Jos 18:7; Eze 44:28)21“To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service that they do, their service in the tent of meeting, (Ge 14:20; Ge 28:22; Le 27:30; Le 27:32; Nu 18:24; Nu 18:26; De 14:22; Ne 10:37; Ne 12:44; Heb 7:5; Heb 7:8)22so that the people of Israel do not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin and die. (Le 22:9; Nu 1:51)23But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the people of Israel they shall have no inheritance. (Nu 3:7; Nu 18:1)24For the tithe of the people of Israel, which they present as a contribution to the Lord, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said of them that they shall have no inheritance among the people of Israel.” (Nu 18:19; Nu 18:20; Nu 18:26; Nu 18:29)25And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,26“Moreover, you shall speak and say to the Levites, ‘When you take from the people of Israel the tithe that I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present a contribution from it to the Lord, a tithe of the tithe. (Ne 10:38)27And your contribution shall be counted to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress. (Nu 18:30)28So you shall also present a contribution to the Lord from all your tithes, which you receive from the people of Israel. And from it you shall give the Lord’s contribution to Aaron the priest.29Out of all the gifts to you, you shall present every contribution due to the Lord; from each its best part is to be dedicated.’30Therefore you shall say to them, ‘When you have offered from it the best of it, then the rest shall be counted to the Levites as produce of the threshing floor, and as produce of the winepress. (Nu 18:27)31And you may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting. (Mt 10:10; Lu 10:7; 1Co 9:4; 1Ti 5:17)32And you shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have contributed the best of it. But you shall not profane the holy things of the people of Israel, lest you die.’” (Le 19:8; Le 22:2; Le 22:15; Le 22:16)
1The Lord said to Aaron, ‘You, your sons and your family are to bear the responsibility for offences connected with the sanctuary, and you and your sons alone are to bear the responsibility for offences connected with the priesthood.2Bring your fellow Levites from your ancestral tribe to join you and assist you when you and your sons minister before the tent of the covenant law.3They are to be responsible to you and are to perform all the duties of the tent, but they must not go near the furnishings of the sanctuary or the altar. Otherwise both they and you will die.4They 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.5‘You are to be responsible for the care of the sanctuary and the altar, so that my wrath will not fall on the Israelites again.6I myself have selected your fellow Levites from among the Israelites as a gift to you, dedicated to the Lord to do the work at the tent of meeting.7But only you and your sons may serve as priests in connection with everything at the altar and inside the curtain. I am giving you the service of the priesthood as a gift. Anyone else who comes near the sanctuary is to be put to death.’
Offerings for priests and Levites
8Then 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, your perpetual share.9You are to have the part of the most holy offerings that is kept from the fire. From all the gifts they bring me as most holy offerings, whether grain or sin[1] or guilt offerings, that part belongs to you and your sons.10Eat it as something most holy; every male shall eat it. You must regard it as holy.11‘This also is yours: whatever is set aside from the gifts of all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I give this to you and your sons and daughters as your perpetual share. Everyone in your household who is ceremonially clean may eat it.12‘I give you all the finest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain they give to the Lord as the firstfruits of their harvest.13All the land’s firstfruits that they bring to the Lord will be yours. Everyone in your household who is ceremonially clean may eat it.14‘Everything in Israel that is devoted[2] to the Lord is yours.15The first offspring of every womb, both human and animal, that is offered to the Lord is yours. But you must redeem every firstborn son and every firstborn male of unclean animals.16When they are a month old, you must redeem them at the redemption price set at five shekels[3] of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs.17‘But you must not redeem the firstborn of an ox, a sheep or a goat; they are holy. Splash their blood against the altar and burn their fat as a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the Lord.18Their meat is to be yours, just as the breast of the wave offering and the right thigh are yours.19Whatever is set aside from the holy 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 before the Lord for both you and your offspring.’20The Lord said to Aaron, ‘You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any share among them; I am your share and your inheritance among the Israelites.21‘I give to the Levites all the tithes in Israel as their inheritance in return for the work they do while serving at the tent of meeting.22From now on the Israelites must not go near the tent of meeting, or they will bear the consequences of their sin and will die.23It is the Levites who are to do the work at the tent of meeting and bear the responsibility for any offences they commit against it. This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. They will receive no inheritance among the Israelites.24Instead, I give to the Levites as their inheritance the tithes that the Israelites present as an offering to the Lord. That is why I said concerning them: “They will have no inheritance among the Israelites.” ’25The Lord said to Moses,26‘Speak to the Levites and say to them: “When you receive from the Israelites the tithe I give you as your inheritance, you must present a tenth of that tithe as the Lord’s offering.27Your offering will be reckoned to you as grain from the threshing-floor or juice from the winepress.28In this way you also will present an offering to the Lord from all the tithes you receive from the Israelites. From these tithes you must give the Lord’s portion to Aaron the priest.29You 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.31You and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere, for it is your wages for your work at the tent of meeting.32By presenting the best part of it you will not be guilty in this matter; then you will not defile the holy offerings of the Israelites, and you will not die.” ’
1The LORD spoke to Aaron. He said, ‘You, your sons and your family are in charge of the sacred tent. You will be responsible for sins connected with the tent. And you and your sons alone will be responsible for sins connected with the office of priest.2Bring the Levites from your tribe to join you. They will help you when you and your sons serve at the tent of meeting. That is where the tablets of the covenant law are kept.3The Levites will work for you. They must do everything that needs to be done at the tent. But they must not go near anything that belongs to the sacred tent. And they must not go near the altar. If they do, they and you will die.4They will help you take care of the tent of meeting. They will join you in all the work at the tent. No one else can come near you there.5‘You will be responsible for taking care of the sacred tent and the altar. Then I will not be angry with the Israelites again.6I myself have chosen the Levites. I have chosen them from among the Israelites. They are a gift to you. I have set them apart to do the work at the tent of meeting.7But only you and your sons can serve as priests. Only you and your sons can work with everything at the altar and behind the curtain. I am letting you serve as priests. It is a gift from me. Anyone else who comes near the sacred tent must be put to death.’
Offerings for priests and Levites
8Then the LORD spoke to Aaron. He said, ‘I have put you in charge of the offerings brought to me. The Israelites will give me holy offerings. I will give all their offerings to you and your sons. They are the part that belongs to you. They are your share for all time to come.9You will have a part of the very holy offerings. It is the part not burned in the fire. That part belongs to you and your sons. You will have a part of all the gifts the people bring me as very holy offerings. It does not matter whether they are grain offerings or sin offerings or guilt offerings.10Eat your part as something that is very holy. Every male will eat it. You must consider it holy.11‘Part of the gifts the Israelites bring as wave offerings will be set aside. That part will also belong to you. I will give it to you and your sons and daughters. It is your share for all time to come. Everyone in your home who is “clean” can eat it.12‘I will give you all the finest olive oil and corn the people give me. And I will give you all the finest fresh wine they give me. They give all those things as the first share of their harvest.13All the first shares of the harvest they bring me will belong to you. Everyone in your home who is “clean” can eat it.14‘Everything in Israel that is set apart to me belongs to you.15Offer to me every male born first to its mother. It belongs to you. That includes humans and animals alike. But you must buy back every eldest son. Suppose certain animals are “unclean”. Then you must buy back every male born first to its mother.16When they are a month old, you must buy them back. You must pay the price to buy them back. The price is set at 60 grams of silver. It must be weighed out according to the standard weights used in the sacred tent.17‘But you must not buy back any male calf, sheep or goat born first. They are holy. Splash their blood against the altar. And burn their fat as a food offering. Its smell pleases me.18The meat will belong to you. It is just like the breast and the right thigh of the wave offering. Those parts belong to you.19Part of the holy offerings the Israelites bring to me will be set aside. No matter what it is, I will give it to you and your sons and daughters. It is your share for all time to come. It is a covenant of salt from me. The salt means that the covenant will last for all time to come for you and your children.’20The LORD spoke to Aaron. He said, ‘You will not receive any part of the land I am giving to Israel. You will not have any share among them. I am your share. I am what you will receive among the Israelites.21‘The Israelites will give me a tenth of everything they produce. And I will give it to the Levites. They serve at the tent of meeting. I will give them the tenth for the work they do there.22From now on the Israelites must not go near the tent of meeting. If they do, they will be punished for their sin. They will die.23The Levites will do the work at the tent of meeting. They will be responsible for any sins connected with the tent. This is a law that will last for all time to come. The Levites will not receive any share among the Israelites.24Instead, I will give the Levites the tenth as their share. It is the tenth that the Israelites bring me as an offering. That is why I said the Levites would not have any share of land among the Israelites.’25The LORD said to Moses,26‘Speak to the Levites. Say to them, “You will receive the tenth from the Israelites. I will give it to you as your share. When I do, you must give a tenth of that tenth as an offering to the LORD.27Your offering will be considered as if you gave corn from a threshing-floor. It will be considered as juice from a winepress.28In that way, you also will bring an offering to the LORD. You will bring it from the tenth you receive from the Israelites. You must give the LORD’s part to the priest Aaron. You must bring it from the tenth you receive.29You must bring to the LORD a part of everything given to you. It must be the best and holiest part.”30‘Say to the Levites, “You must bring the best part. Then it will be considered as if you gave corn from a threshing-floor. It will be considered as juice from a winepress.31You and your families can eat the rest of it anywhere. It is your pay for your work at the tent of meeting.32Bring the best part of what you receive. Then you will not be guilty of holding anything back. You will not make the holy offerings of the Israelites ‘unclean’. You will not die.” ’
Numbers 18
King James Version
1And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father' house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.2And 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.3And 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.4And 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.5And 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.6And 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.7Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest' office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest' office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.8And 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.9This 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.10In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.11And 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.12All 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.13And 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.14Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.15Every 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.16And 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.17But 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.18And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine.19All 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.20And 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.21And, 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.22Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.23But 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.24But 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.25And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,26Thus 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.27And 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.28Thus 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' heave offering to Aaron the priest.29Out 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.30Therefore 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.31And 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.32And 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.
1Der HERR sprach zu Aaron: Du, deine Söhne und deine Großfamilie mit dir, ihr müsst die Schuld tragen, wenn jemand sich am Heiligtum versündigt; du und mit dir deine Söhne, ihr tragt die Schuld eures Priesterdienstes.2Aber auch deine Brüder, den Stamm Levi, deinen väterlichen Stamm, lass zusammen mit dir herannahen! Sie sollen sich dir anschließen und dir dienen, während ihr, du und deine Söhne, vor dem Zelt des Bundeszeugnisses seid. (Nu 3:6; Nu 4:19; Nu 8:19)3Sie sollen deinen Dienst und den Dienst an dem ganzen Zelt tun. Nur den heiligen Geräten und dem Altar dürfen sie nicht zu nahe kommen, sonst müssen sie sterben, sowohl sie als auch ihr.4Sie sollen sich dir anschließen und den Dienst an dem Offenbarungszelt, alle auf das Zelt bezogenen Arbeiten, tun. Kein Unbefugter darf in eure Nähe kommen. (Nu 1:51; Nu 3:10; Nu 17:5)5Tut den Dienst am Heiligtum und am Altar! Dann wird der Zorn nicht mehr über die Israeliten kommen.6Siehe, ich selbst habe die Leviten, eure Brüder, aus der Mitte der Israeliten herausgenommen. Sie sind dem HERRN gegeben, euch zum Geschenk, damit sie den Dienst am Offenbarungszelt verrichten.7Du aber, und mit dir deine Söhne, ihr sollt euren Priesterdienst in allem ausüben, was den Altar und den Raum hinter dem Vorhang betrifft; dort sollt ihr euren Dienst tun. Als einen Dienst, der ein Geschenk ist, übergebe ich euch den Priesterdienst. Jeder Unbefugte, der sich nähert, wird getötet.8Der HERR sagte zu Aaron: Siehe, ich selbst übergebe dir hiermit die Verwaltung der Hebeopfer, die mir gegeben werden. Von allen heiligen Gaben der Israeliten gebe ich sie dir hiermit als Anteil und deinen Söhnen als ewiges Gesetz.9Dir soll von dem Hochheiligen all das zufallen, was nicht für das Feuer bestimmt ist: alle ihre Opfergaben bei allen ihren Speise-, Sünd- und Schuldopfern, die sie mir bringen. Das Hochheilige gehört dir und deinen Söhnen:10Esst sie am hochheiligen Ort! Jede männliche Person darf davon essen; sie sollen dir als heilig gelten.11Auch das gehört dir: die Abgabe ihrer Gabe bei allen Erhebungsopfern der Israeliten. Dir und deinen Söhnen und Töchtern, die bei dir sind, gebe ich hiermit diese Abgabe als ewiges Gesetz. Jeder, der rein ist in deinem Haus, darf davon essen.12Das Beste von allem Öl, das Beste von allem Most und Getreide, ihre Erstlingsgaben, die sie dem HERRN entrichten, gebe ich dir hiermit.13Von allem, was es in ihrem Land gibt, gehören dir die Erstlingsfrüchte, die sie dem HERRN bringen. Jeder, der rein ist in deinem Haus, darf davon essen.14Alles, was in Israel geweiht wird, gehört dir.15Alle lebenden Wesen, die den Mutterschoß durchbrechen, und die sie dem HERRN darbringen, Mensch und Vieh, gehören dir.
Du musst aber den Erstgeborenen bei den Menschen auslösen und ebenso musst du auch die erstgeborenen Tiere bei unreinem Vieh auslösen.16Du sollst sie auslösen, sobald sie einen Monat alt sind, nach dem Schätzwert, mit fünf Schekel Silber, nach dem Schekelgewicht des Heiligtums, das sind zwanzig Gera.17Aber die Erstlinge vom Rind, vom Schaf oder von der Ziege darfst du nicht auslösen; sie sind heilig. Ihr Blut sollst du auf den Altar sprengen und ihre Fettteile in Rauch aufgehen lassen; ein Feueropfer zum beruhigenden Duft für den HERRN ist es.18Ihr Fleisch gehört dir, wie auch die Brust vom Hebeopfer und auch die rechte Keule dir gehören.19Alle Abgaben von den heiligen Opfern, die die Israeliten dem HERRN entrichten, gebe ich hiermit dir und deinen Söhnen und Töchtern, die bei dir sind, als ewiges Gesetz. Ein ewiger Salzbund ist das vor dem HERRN für dich und mit dir für deine Nachkommen.20Der HERR sprach zu Aaron: Du sollst in ihrem Land keinen erblichen Besitz haben. Dir gehört unter ihnen kein Besitzanteil; ich bin dein Besitz und dein Erbteil mitten unter den Israeliten. (Nu 26:62; De 10:9; Jos 13:14; Eze 44:28)21Was aber die Leviten betrifft, siehe, ich gebe hiermit als Erbteil den ganzen Zehnten in Israel, als Entgelt für ihren Dienst, den sie verrichten, den Dienst am Offenbarungszelt.22Die Israeliten dürfen künftig nicht mehr in die Nähe des Offenbarungszeltes kommen; sonst laden sie eine Sünde auf sich und sterben.23Vielmehr darf nur der Levit am Offenbarungszelt Dienst tun, während die Israeliten ihre eigene Schuld tragen müssen. Das soll eine ewige Satzung bei euch sein von Generation zu Generation. In der Mitte der Israeliten sollen die Leviten keinen Erbbesitz haben.24Denn als Erbteil für die Leviten gebe ich hiermit den Zehnten, den die Israeliten dem HERRN als Hebeopfer abgeben. Darum habe ich zu den Leviten gesagt, sie sollen keinen Erbbesitz unter den Israeliten bekommen.25Der HERR sprach zu Mose:26Rede zu den Leviten und sag zu ihnen: Wenn ihr von den Israeliten den Zehnten entgegennehmt, den ich euch von ihnen als euren Erbteil zugewiesen habe, dann gebt davon dem HERRN ein Hebeopfer als Zehnten vom Zehnten!27Das soll euch als euer Hebeopfer angerechnet werden wie das Hebeopfer vom Getreide der Tenne und vom Inhalt der Kelter.28So sollt auch ihr dem HERRN ein Hebeopfer von allen euren Zehnten abgeben, die ihr von den Israeliten erhebt. Ihr sollt davon das Hebeopfer des HERRN dem Priester Aaron übergeben.29Von allem, was man euch gibt, sollt ihr das ganze Hebeopfer des HERRN abgeben, von allem Besten davon, als seinen heiligen Teil.30Ferner sag zu ihnen: Wenn ihr davon das Beste abliefert, wird es den Leviten angerechnet wie der Ertrag von Tenne und Kelter.31Diesen dürft ihr überall essen, ihr und eure Familien, denn Lohn ist es für euch, Entgelt für euren Dienst am Offenbarungszelt.32Ihr werdet dadurch keine Sünde auf euch laden, sofern ihr nur das Beste davon abgegeben habt, und ihr entweiht die heiligen Gaben der Israeliten nicht und werdet nicht sterben.