Numbers 18

1 and to say LORD to(wards) Aaron you(m. s.) and son: child your and house: household father your with you to lift: guilt [obj] iniquity: crime [the] sanctuary and you(m. s.) and son: child your with you to lift: guilt [obj] iniquity: crime priesthood your

Yahweh said to Aaron, “You, your sons, and your ancestor's clan will be responsible for all sins committed against the sanctuary. But only you and your sons with you will be responsible for all sins committed by anyone in the priesthood.

2 and also [obj] brother: male-relative your tribe Levi tribe father your to present: bring with you and to join upon you and to minister you and you(m. s.) and son: child your with you to/for face: before tent [the] testimony

As for your fellow members of the tribe of Levi, your ancestors' tribe, you must bring them with you so they may join you and help you when you and your sons serve in front of the tent of the covenant decrees.

3 and to keep: guard charge your and charge all [the] tent surely to(wards) article/utensil [the] holiness and to(wards) [the] altar not to present: come and not to die also they(masc.) also you(m. p.)

They must serve you and the whole tent. However, they must not come near to anything in the holy place or connected with the altar, or they and also you will die.

4 and to join upon you and to keep: guard [obj] charge tent meeting to/for all service: ministry [the] tent and be a stranger not to present: come to(wards) you

They must join you and take care of the tent of meeting, for all the work connected with the tent. A foreigner must not come near you.

5 and to keep: guard [obj] charge [the] holiness and [obj] charge [the] altar and not to be still wrath upon son: descendant/people Israel

You must take responsibility for the holy place and for the altar so that my anger does not come on the people of Israel again.

6 and I behold to take: take [obj] brother: male-relative your [the] Levi from midst son: descendant/people Israel to/for you gift to give: give to/for LORD to/for to serve: minister [obj] service: ministry tent meeting

Look, I myself have chosen your fellow members of the Levites from among the descendants of Israel. They are a gift to you, given to me to do the work connected to the tent of meeting.

7 and you(m. s.) and son: child your with you to keep: guard [obj] priesthood your to/for all word: thing [the] altar and to/for from house: inside to/for curtain and to serve: minister service: ministry gift to give: give [obj] priesthood your and [the] be a stranger [the] approaching to die

But only you and your sons may exercise the priesthood regarding everything connected with the altar and everything inside the curtain. You yourselves must fulfill those responsibilities. I am giving you the priesthood as a gift. Any foreigner who approaches must be put to death.”

8 and to speak: speak LORD to(wards) Aaron and I behold to give: give to/for you [obj] charge contribution my to/for all holiness son: descendant/people Israel to/for you to give: give them to/for consecrated portion and to/for son: child your to/for statute: portion forever: enduring

Then Yahweh said to Aaron, “Look, I have given you the duty of handling the offerings raised up to me, and all the holy offerings that the people of Israel give to me. I have given these offerings to you and your sons as your ongoing share.

9 this to be to/for you from holiness [the] holiness from [the] fire all offering their to/for all offering their and to/for all sin: sin offering their and to/for all guilt (offering) their which to return: pay to/for me holiness holiness to/for you he/she/it and to/for son: child your

This will belong to you from the most holy things that is kept from the fire. From every offering of theirs—every grain offering, every sin offering, and every guilt offering—they are set apart to you and to your sons.

10 in/on/with holiness [the] holiness to eat him all male to eat [obj] him holiness to be to/for you

These offerings are very holy; every male must eat it, for they are holy to you.

11 and this to/for you contribution gift their to/for all wave offering son: descendant/people Israel to/for you to give: give them and to/for son: child your and to/for daughter your with you to/for statute: portion forever: enduring all pure in/on/with house: household your to eat [obj] him

These are the offerings that will belong to you, set apart out of all their gifts of the wave offerings of the people of Israel. I have given them to you, your sons, and your daughters, as your portion forever. Everyone who is ceremonially clean in your family may eat any of these offerings.

12 all fat oil and all fat new wine and grain first: beginning their which to give: give to/for LORD to/for you to give: give them

All the best of the oil, all the best of the new wine and grain, the firstfruits that the people give to me—all these things I have given to you.

13 firstfruit all which in/on/with land: country/planet their which to come (in): bring to/for LORD to/for you to be all pure in/on/with house: household your to eat him

The first ripe produce of all that is in their land, which they bring to me, will be yours. Everyone who is clean in your family may eat these things.

14 all devoted thing in/on/with Israel to/for you to be

Every devoted thing in Israel will be yours.

15 all firstborn womb to/for all flesh which to present: bring to/for LORD in/on/with man and in/on/with animal to be to/for you surely to ransom to ransom [obj] firstborn [the] man and [obj] firstborn [the] animal [the] unclean to ransom

Everything that opens the womb, all the firstborn which the people offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal, will be yours. Nevertheless, the people must certainly buy back every firstborn son, and they must buy back the firstborn male of unclean animals.

16 and to ransom his from son: aged month to ransom in/on/with valuation your silver: price five shekel in/on/with shekel [the] holiness twenty gerah he/she/it

Those that are to be bought back by the people must be bought back after becoming one month old. Then the people may buy them back, for the price of five shekels, by the standard weight of the sanctuary shekel, which equals twenty gerahs.

17 surely firstborn cattle or firstborn sheep or firstborn goat not to ransom holiness they(masc.) [obj] blood their to scatter upon [the] altar and [obj] fat their to offer: burn food offering to/for aroma soothing to/for LORD

But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat—you must not buy back these animals; they are set apart to me. You must sprinkle their blood on the altar and burn their fat as an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to Yahweh.

18 and flesh their to be to/for you like/as breast [the] wave offering and like/as leg [the] right to/for you to be

Their meat will be yours. Like the raised breast and the right thigh, their meat will be yours.

19 all contribution [the] holiness which to exalt son: descendant/people Israel to/for LORD to give: give to/for you and to/for son: child your and to/for daughter your with you to/for statute: portion forever: enduring covenant salt forever: enduring he/she/it to/for face: before LORD to/for you and to/for seed: children your with you

All the holy offerings that the people of Israel present to Yahweh, I have given to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a continual share. It is an everlasting covenant of salt, a binding covenant forever, before Yahweh for both you and your descendants with you.”

20 and to say LORD to(wards) Aaron in/on/with land: country/planet their not to inherit and portion not to be to/for you in/on/with midst their I portion your and inheritance your in/on/with midst son: descendant/people Israel

Yahweh said to Aaron, “You will have no inheritance in the people's land, nor will you have any share of property among the people. I am your share and inheritance among the people of Israel.

21 and to/for son: descendant/people Levi behold to give: give all tithe in/on/with Israel to/for inheritance for service: ministry their which they(masc.) to serve: minister [obj] service: ministry tent meeting

To the descendants of Levi, look, I have given all the tithes in Israel as their inheritance in return for the service that they provide in working at the tent of meeting.

22 and not to present: come still son: descendant/people Israel to(wards) tent meeting to/for to lift: guilt sin to/for to die

From now on the people of Israel must not come near the tent of meeting, or they will be responsible for this sin and die.

23 and to serve: minister [the] Levi he/she/it [obj] service: ministry tent meeting and they(masc.) to lift: guilt iniquity: crime their statute forever: enduring to/for generation your and in/on/with midst son: descendant/people Israel not to inherit inheritance

The Levites must do the work connected to the tent of meeting. They will be responsible for any sin regarding it. This will be a permanent law throughout your people's generations. Among the people of Israel they must have no inheritance.

24 for [obj] tithe son: descendant/people Israel which to exalt to/for LORD contribution to give: give to/for Levi to/for inheritance upon so to say to/for them in/on/with midst son: descendant/people Israel not to inherit inheritance

For the tithes of the people of Israel, which they offer as a contribution to me—it is these that I have given to the Levites as their inheritance. That is why I said to them, 'They must have no inheritance among the people of Israel.'”

25 and to speak: speak LORD to(wards) Moses to/for to say

Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,

26 and to(wards) [the] Levi to speak: speak and to say to(wards) them for to take: take from with son: descendant/people Israel [obj] [the] tithe which to give: give to/for you from with them in/on/with inheritance your and to exalt from him contribution LORD tithe from [the] tithe

“You must speak to the Levites and say to them, 'When you receive from the people of Israel the tenth that I have given to you from them for your inheritance, you will present a contribution from it to Yahweh, a tenth of the tithe.

27 and to devise: count to/for you contribution your like/as grain from [the] threshing floor and like/as fruit from [the] wine

Your contribution must be considered by you as if it were a tenth of the grain from the threshing floor or of the production from the winepress.

28 so to exalt also you(m. p.) contribution LORD from all tithe your which to take: recieve from with son: descendant/people Israel and to give: give from him [obj] contribution LORD to/for Aaron [the] priest

So you also must make a contribution to Yahweh from all the tithes that you receive from the people of Israel. From them you must give his contribution to Aaron the priest.

29 from all gift your to exalt [obj] all contribution LORD from all fat his [obj] sanctuary his from him

Out of all the gifts you receive, you must make every contribution to Yahweh. You must do this from all the best and the holiest things that have been given to you.'

30 and to say to(wards) them in/on/with to exalt you [obj] fat his from him and to devise: count to/for Levi like/as produce threshing floor and like/as produce wine

Therefore you must say to them, 'When you present the best of it, then it must be credited to the Levites as the product from the threshing floor and the winepress.

31 and to eat [obj] him in/on/with all place you(m. p.) and house: household your for wages he/she/it to/for you for service: ministry your in/on/with tent meeting

You may eat the rest of your gifts in any place, you and your families, because it is your pay in return for your work in the tent of meeting.

32 and not to lift: guilt upon him sin in/on/with to exalt you [obj] fat his from him and [obj] holiness son: descendant/people Israel not to profane/begin: profane and not to die

You will not incur any guilt by eating and drinking it, if you have presented to Yahweh the best of what you have received. But you must not profane the holy offerings of the people of Israel, or you will die.'”