Numbers 18

Gen Z: Numbers 18

1God told Aaron, "You and your fam gotta carry the weight of the sanctuary's mess-ups, no cap. You and your sons are on priest duty, fr."

2Grab your Levi fam too, so they can vibe with you and help out. But it’s you and your sons who are poppin' off in front of the tabernacle.

3They’ll handle your responsibilities and all the tabernacle stuff, but they better stay away from the holy vessels and altar, or it’s game over for everyone.

4They’ll be with you, keeping the tabernacle duties on lock, and no outsiders are allowed to roll up on you.

5You gotta keep the sanctuary and altar duties in check, so there’s no more drama for the kids of Israel.

6I’ve snatched the Levites from the Israelites and gifted them to you for the Lord's service at the tabernacle.

7So you and your sons gotta keep the priest game strong for everything at the altar and behind the curtain; it’s a gift to you. Anyone who rolls up uninvited? Instant no-go.

8God said to Aaron, "I’ve also given you the responsibility for all the offerings from the Israelites; they’re yours forever, thanks to the anointing."

9This is your share of the super holy stuff, saved from the fire: all their offerings, meals, sins, and trespasses will be majorly holy for you and your sons.

10You’ll eat it in the most holy spot; every dude gets to eat it, 'cause it’s holy for you.

11This is yours; the heave offering from their gifts and all the wave offerings from the squad of Israel: I’m giving it to you and your fam forever: everyone clean in your crib can munch on it.

12All the top-tier oil, the finest wine, and the best wheat, the firstfruits they bring to the Lord, I’ve hooked you up with that.

13Whatever’s first ripe in the land that they bring to the Lord is yours; everyone clean in your house can eat it, no cap.

14Everything dedicated in Israel is straight-up yours.

15Everything that opens the womb in all flesh, that they bring to the Lord, whether it’s humans or animals, is yours: but you gotta redeem the firstborn of humans and the first of unclean animals.

16Those that need redemption from a month old, you redeem for five shekels, based on the sanctuary rate, which is twenty gerahs.

17But you can't redeem the firstborn of a cow, sheep, or goat; they’re holy: sprinkle their blood on the altar and burn their fat as a fire offering, it’s a sweet vibe for the Lord.

18Their meat is yours, like the wave breast and the right shoulder are yours.

19All the heave offerings from the holy things the squad of Israel brings to the Lord, I’ve given to you and your fam forever: it’s a forever salt covenant before the Lord for you and your seed.

20The Lord told Aaron, “You ain’t getting any land or part with them: I’m your part and your inheritance among the squad of Israel.”

21Yo, I hooked up the Levites with a solid tenth of Israel as their inheritance, 'cause they’re grinding hard for the tabernacle vibes.

22No cap, the Israelites can’t roll up to the tabernacle anymore, or they’ll catch some serious sin and straight up die.

23But the Levites are the ones doing the tabernacle hustle, and they gotta carry their own baggage: this is a forever rule, they don’t get an inheritance like the rest.

24The tithes from the Israelites, which they give as an offering to the Lord, I gave to the Levites to own: so yeah, they’re not getting an inheritance.

25And the Lord hit up Moses, saying,

26Tell the Levites this: when you take the tithes from the Israelites that I gave you, you gotta drop a heave offering for the Lord, like a tenth of that tithe.

27And your heave offering will be counted as if it’s the corn from the threshing floor and the full vibes from the winepress.

28So you also gotta offer a heave offering to the Lord from all your tithes you get from the Israelites; and give the Lord’s heave offering to Aaron, the priest.

29From all your gifts, make sure to offer every heave offering to the Lord, like, the best of the best, even the holy part of it.

30So tell them this: when you’ve heaved the best from it, it’ll be counted for the Levites as the increase from the threshing floor and the winepress gains.

31Y’all can munch on it wherever, you and your crew: it’s your reward for servin’ in the chill spot of the congregation.

32Don’t catch any bad vibes from it when you grab the best part: also, don’t mess with the holy stuff of Israel, or it’s game over, no cap.

KJV: Numbers 18

1And 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.

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’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.

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’s 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.

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