יהוה said to Aaron: You and your sons and the ancestral house under your charge shall bear any guilt connected with the sanctuary; you and your sons alone shall bear any guilt connected with your priesthood.
You shall also associate with yourself your kinsmen the tribe of Levi, your ancestral tribe, to be attached to you and to minister to you, while you and your sons under your charge are before the Tent of the Pact. while you and your sons … Tent of the Pact Force of Heb. uncertain.
They shall discharge their duties to you and to the Tent as a whole, but they must not have any contact with the furnishings of the Shrine or with the altar, lest both they and you die.
while you and your sons shall be careful to perform your priestly duties in everything pertaining to the altar and to what is behind the curtain. I make your priesthood a service of dedication; any outsider who encroaches shall be put to death.
יהוה spoke further to Aaron: I hereby give you charge of My gifts, all the sacred donations of the Israelites; I grant them to you and to your sons as a perquisite, perquisite See the first note at Lev. 7.35. a due for all time.
This shall be yours from the most holy sacrifices, the offerings by fire: the offerings by fire Force of Heb. min ha-’esh uncertain; lit. “from the fire.” every such offering that they render to Me as most holy sacrifices, namely, every meal offering, sin offering, and guilt offering of theirs, shall belong to you and your sons.
Word-by-Word Analysis
זהיהיה
42
לך
50
מקדש
444
הקדשים
459
מןהאש
396
כלקרבנם
442
לכלמנחתם
618
ולכלחטאתם
544
ולכלאשמם
467
אשר
501
ישיבו
328
לי
40
קדש
404
קדשים
454
לך
50
הוא
12
ולבניך
118
Numbers 18:10
Gematria: 2601
בקדשהקדשיםתאכלנוכלזכריאכלאתוקדשיהיהלך
You shall partake of them as most sacred donations: only males may eat them; you shall treat them as consecrated. you shall treat them as consecrated Or “they are consecrated for your use.”
This, too, shall be yours: the gift offerings gift offerings Cf. Lev. 7.29ff. of their contributions, all the elevation offerings of the Israelites, I give to you [and your wives], to your sons, and to the daughters that are with you, as a due for all time; everyone of your household who is pure may eat it.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וזהלך
68
תרומת
1046
מתנם
530
לכלתנופת
1016
בני
62
ישראל
541
לך
50
נתתים
900
ולבניך
118
ולבנתיך
518
אתך
421
לחקעולם
284
כלטהור
270
בביתך
434
יאכל
61
אתו
407
Numbers 18:12
Gematria: 4394
כלחלביצהרוכלחלבתירושודגןראשיתםאשריתנוליהוהלךנתתים
All the best of the new oil, wine, and grain—the choice parts that they present to יהוה —I give to you.
The first [male] issue of the womb of every being, human or beast, that is offered to יהוה, shall be yours; but you shall have the male first-born of human beings redeemed, and you shall also have the firstling of impure animals redeemed.
Take as their redemption price, their redemption price I.e., for human first-born; cf. Num. 3.44ff. For animals see Exod. 34.19–20. from the age of one month up, the money equivalent of five shekels by the sanctuary weight, which is twenty gerahs.
But the firstlings of cattle, sheep, or goats may not be redeemed; they are consecrated. You shall dash their blood against the altar, and turn their fat into smoke as an offering by fire for a pleasing odor to יהוה.
Word-by-Word Analysis
אך
21
בכורשור
734
אובכור
235
כשב
322
אובכור
235
עז
77
לא
31
תפדה
489
קדש
404
הם
45
אתדמם
485
תזרק
707
עלהמזבח
162
ואתחלבם
487
תקטיר
719
אשה
306
לריח
248
ניחח
76
ליהוה
56
Numbers 18:18
Gematria: 1841
ובשרםיהיהלךכחזההתנופהוכשוקהימיןלךיהיה
But their meat shall be yours: it shall be yours like the breast of elevation offering and like the right thigh.
All the sacred gifts that the Israelites set aside for יהוה I give to you, to your sons, and to the daughters that are with you, as a due for all time. It shall be an everlasting covenant of salt covenant of salt See Lev. 2.13. before יהוה for you and for your offspring as well.
And יהוה said to Aaron: You shall, however, have no territorial share among them or own any portion in their midst; I am your portion and your share among the Israelites.
And to the Levites I hereby give all the tithes in Israel as their share in return for the services that they perform, the services of the Tent of Meeting.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ולבני
98
לוי
46
הנה
60
נתתי
860
כלמעשר
660
בישראל
543
לנחלה
123
חלף
118
עבדתם
516
אשרהם
546
עבדים
126
אתעבדת
877
אהל
36
מועד
120
Numbers 18:22
Gematria: 2450
ולאיקרבועודבניישראלאלאהלמועדלשאתחטאלמות
Henceforth, Israelites shall not trespass on the Tent of Meeting, and thus incur guilt and die:
only Levites shall perform the services of the Tent of Meeting; others ” would incur guilt. It is the law for all time throughout the ages. But they shall have no territorial share among the Israelites;
for it is the tithes set aside by the Israelites as a gift to יהוה that I give to the Levites as their share. Therefore I have said concerning them: They shall have no territorial share among the Israelites.
Speak to the Levites and say to them: When you receive from the Israelites their tithes, which I have assigned to you as your share, you shall set aside from them one-tenth of the tithe as a gift to יהוה.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ואלהלוים
128
תדבר
606
ואמרת
647
אלהם
76
כיתקחו
544
מאת
441
בניישראל
603
אתהמעשר
1016
אשר
501
נתתי
860
לכם
90
מאתם
481
בנחלתכם
550
והרמתם
691
ממנו
136
תרומת
1046
יהוה
26
מעשר
610
מןהמעשר
705
Numbers 18:27
Gematria: 2296
ונחשבלכםתרומתכםכדגןמןהגרןוכמלאהמןהיקב
This shall be accounted to you as your gift. As with the new grain from the threshing floor or the flow from the vat,
so shall you on your part set aside a gift for יהוה from all the tithes that you receive from the Israelites; and from them you shall bring the gift for יהוה to Aaron the priest.
Word-by-Word Analysis
כן
70
תרימו
656
גםאתם
484
תרומת
1046
יהוה
26
מכל
90
מעשרתיכם
1080
אשר
501
תקחו
514
מאת
441
בני
62
ישראל
541
ונתתם
896
ממנו
136
אתתרומת
1447
יהוה
26
לאהרן
286
הכהן
80
Numbers 18:29
Gematria: 4352
מכלמתנתיכםתרימואתכלתרומתיהוהמכלחלבואתמקדשוממנו
You shall set aside all gifts due to יהוה from everything that is donated to you, from each thing its best portion, the part thereof that is to be consecrated.
You will incur no guilt through it, once you have removed the best part from it; but you must not profane the sacred donations of the Israelites, lest you die.