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New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Numbers 18
¹⁷ But the firstborn of an ox 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 offer up their fat in smoke as an offering by fire, for a soothing aroma to the Lord.
¹⁸ Their meat shall be yours; it shall be yours like the breast of a wave offering and like the right thigh.
¹⁹ All the offerings of the holy gifts, which the sons of Israel offer to the Lord, I have given to you and your sons and your daughters with you, as a perpetual allotment. It is an everlasting covenant of salt before the Lord to you and your descendants with you."
²⁰ Then the Lord said to Aaron, "You shall have no inheritance in their land nor own any portion among them; I am your portion and your inheritance among the sons of Israel.
²¹ "To the sons of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they perform, the service of the tent of meeting.
²² The sons of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting again, or they will bear sin and die.
²³ Only the Levites shall perform 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 sons of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
²⁴ For the tithe of the sons of Israel, which they offer as an offering to the Lord, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance; therefore I have said concerning them, ’They shall have no inheritance among the sons of Israel.’"
²⁵ Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
²⁶ "Moreover, you shall speak to the Levites and say to them, ’When you take from the sons of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present an offering from it to the Lord, a tithe of the tithe.
²⁷ Your offering shall be reckoned to you as the grain from the threshing floor or the full produce from the wine vat.