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 and your sons and the other members of your father’s family are the ones (who will be punished/whom I will punish) [if anything bad happens to the things] inside the Sacred Tent. But only you and your sons will be punished if the priests do something bad.

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

Require that those who belong to your tribe, the tribe of Levi, must assist you and your sons while you perform your work at the Sacred Tent.

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.)

But while they do that work, they must not go near the sacred items inside the tent or near the altar. If they do that, they will die, and you will die, too!

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 may assist you in doing all the work to take care of the Sacred Tent, but no one else is permitted to come near the place where you are working.

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 are the ones who will do the sacred work inside the Sacred Tent and at the altar. If you obey these instructions, I will not become very angry with the Israeli people 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

I myself have chosen the descendants of Levi from the other Israelis in order that they may be your special helpers. They are like a gift that I have given you to work at the Sacred Tent.

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 it is you and your sons, who are the priests, who must perform all the rituals concerning the altar and with what happens inside the Very Holy Place. I am giving to you this work of serving as priests. So anyone else who tries to do that work must be executed.”

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

Yahweh also said to Aaron, “I myself have appointed you to take care of all the sacred offerings that the Israeli people bring to me. I have given all these sacred offerings to you and to your sons. You and your descendants will get a share of these offerings permanently.

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

The parts of the offerings that are not completely burned on the altar belong to you. Those parts of the sacred offerings, including the offerings of grain, the offerings for sins and for the people to be forgiven for not giving me what they are required to give, are set apart, and are to be given to you and your sons.

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

You must eat those offerings in a sacred place, [near the Sacred Tent]. You and all of the other males [in your clan] may eat them, but you must consider those offerings to be holy/dedicated to me.

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

“The priests lift up high the sacred offerings while they are standing in front of the altar. All of those offerings that the Israelis offer to me belong to you and your sons and daughters. They will always be your share. All the members of your family who [have performed the rituals to cause them to] be acceptable to me are permitted to eat from 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

“am [also] giving to you the first food that people harvest each year and bring to me—the best [olive] oil and new wine and grain.

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

All of the first crops that people harvest and bring to me belong to you. Anyone in your family who has [performed the ritual to] become acceptable to me is permitted to eat that food.

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

“Everything in Israel that is set apart to belong to me also belongs to you.

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

The firstborn males, both humans and domestic animals, that are offered to me, will be yours. But people must buy back their firstborn sons and the firstborn animals that may not be used for sacrifices.

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

They must buy them back when they are one month old. The price that they must pay [for each one] is five pieces of silver. They must weigh the silver on the scales that are in the Sacred Tent.

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 they are not permitted to buy back the firstborn cattle or sheep or goats. They are holy and have been set apart for me. [Slaughter them and] sprinkle their blood on the altar. Then completely burn the fat of those animals [on the altar] to be an offering to me. The smell as they burn will be very pleasing to me.

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

The meat from those offerings will be yours, just like the breast and right thigh of animals that are presented to me to maintain fellowship with me as the priest lifts them up high in front of the altar are 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

Anything that the Israeli people present to me as holy/sacred gifts, I am giving to you. They are for you and your sons and daughters [to eat]. They will always be your share. This is an agreement that I am making with you, an agreement that will (last forever/never be changed). I am also making this agreement with your descendants.”

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 also said to Aaron, “You priests will not receive any of the land or the property like the [other] Israeli people will receive. I am what you will receive.

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

“Then the Israeli people bring to me a tenth of all [the crops and of their newborn animals], I will give that to you descendants of Levi. That will be your payment for the work you do at the Sacred Tent.

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

The other Israelis must not go near that tent. If they go near it, [I will consider that their doing that is a sin, and] they will die for committing that sin.

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

Only the descendants of Levi are permitted to work at the Sacred Tent, and they will be punished if anything bad happens to it. That is a law that will never be changed. You descendants of Levi will not receive any land among the other Israeli people,

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

because I will give you one tenth of all the [crops and animals] that the Israelis bring to be offerings to me. That is why I said that you will not receive any land like the other Israelis will receive.”

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

Yahweh said to Moses/me,

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

“Tell this to the descendants of Levi: ‘When you receive one tenth of all [the crops and animals] from the Israeli people, you must give one tenth of all that to me to be a sacred offering.

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

Just like the other Israelis give one tenth of the grain and wine that they produce,

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

you must give to me one tenth of all that you receive from them. That will be your sacred offering to me. You must present it to Aaron.

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

Select the best parts of the things that are given to you to give them to me.’

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

“Also, tell this to the descendants of Levi: ‘When you present those best portions of grain and wine as your offering to me, I will consider that those gifts are as though they came from your own grain fields and vineyards.

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 descendants of Levi and your families are permitted to eat [the rest of] that food, and you may eat it wherever [you want to], because it is your payment for the work that you do at the Sacred Tent.

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

If you give to the priests the best portions of what you receive, you will not be punished [by me] for accepting one tenth of the gifts that the people bring to me. But you must consider those gifts to be sacred/holy. If you sin [by eating those things in ways that are contrary to these regulations that I have given to you], you will be executed.’”