Numbers 18:8-13

New International Version

Offerings for Priests and Levites

⁸Then the Lord said to Aaron, “I myself have put you in charge of the offerings presented to me; all the holy offerings the Israelites give me I give to you and your sons as your portion,^(A) your perpetual share.^(B) ⁹You are to have the part of the most holy offerings^(C) that is kept from the fire. From all the gifts they bring me as most holy offerings, whether grain^(D) or sin^[a]^(E) or guilt offerings,^(F) that part belongs to you and your sons. ¹⁰Eat it as something most holy; every male shall eat it.^(G) You must regard it as holy.^(H)

¹¹“This also is yours: whatever is set aside from the gifts of all the wave offerings^(I) of the Israelites. I give this to you and your sons and daughters as your perpetual share.^(J) Everyone in your household who is ceremonially clean^(K) may eat it.

¹²“I give you all the finest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain^(L) they give the Lord^(M) as the firstfruits of their harvest.^(N) ¹³All the land’s firstfruits that they bring to the Lord will be yours.^(O) Everyone in your household who is ceremonially clean may eat it.^(P)

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Footnotes

Numbers 18:9 Or purification

Nehemiah 10:35-37

New International Version

³⁵“We also assume responsibility for bringing to the house of the Lord each year the firstfruits^(A) of our crops and of every fruit tree.^(B)

³⁶“As it is also written in the Law, we will bring the firstborn^(C) of our sons and of our cattle, of our herds and of our flocks to the house of our God, to the priests ministering there.^(D)

³⁷“Moreover, we will bring to the storerooms of the house of our God, to the priests, the first of our ground meal, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees and of our new wine and olive oil.^(E) And we will bring a tithe^(F) of our crops to the Levites,^(G) for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all the towns where we work.^(H)

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