In the wilderness יח

¹and Hashem has said to Aaron: you (sg) and your sons and this house of your father with you(SG), shall bear the sin of the (the) holy/sanctuary, and you (sg) and your sons with you(SG) shall bear the sin of your priesthood.

²and also your brothers, the tribe/lineage Levi, the tribe of your father, make come near with you(SG), and they shall be joined/attached to you(SG), and (to) you minister; and you (sg) and your sons with you(SG) shall be before the tent of testimony.

³and they shall keep your charge/guard duty, and the charge/guard duty of all tent, only to the holy utensils and to altar shall they not come near, so that they shall not die, both they and you (PL).

⁴and they shall be joined/attached to you(SG), and keep the charge/guard duty of Tent of Meeting with each service of tent; and a alien/stranger shall not approach/encroach to you (PL).

⁵and you (PL) shall keep the charge/guard duty of (the) holy, and the charge/guard duty of altar, so that it shall more not be a anger/wrath on the children of Yisroel.

⁶and I, behold, have taken your (PL) brothers the Levi'im from among the children of Yisroel; you (PL) a gift are they given for Hashem, to serve the service of Tent of Meeting.

⁷and you (sg) and your sons with you(SG) shall observe your priesthood by each thing of altar and inner/interior/inside of curtain, and do the service; a service for a gift give I you (PL) the priesthood, and the alien/stranger, which come near/encroaches, shall caused to die become.

⁸and Hashem has spoken to Aaron: and I, behold, have you(SG) given the charge/guard duty of my heave-offerings; of all holy things of the children of Yisroel have I them given for a portion to you(SG) and to your children for an everlasting right.

⁹this shall belong to you(SG) of the most holy holy things, of the offering by fire: all their offerings, of all their minchah/grain offering, and of all their sin offering, and of all their guilt offering, which they render back to me; a most holy holiness is this, for you(SG) and for your children.

¹⁰so a most holy shall you (sg) it eat; each male may it eat; holy shall it be for you(SG).

¹¹and this belongs to you(SG): the separation of a portion/contribution of their bounty with all upliftings/wavings of the children of Yisroel; to you(SG) have I them given, and to your sons and to your daughters with you(SG), for an everlasting right; each which is tahor/clean in your house may it eat.

¹²all the best of oil, and all this best of wine and grain, the first thereof which they give to Hashem, this have I given to you(SG).

¹³the the first fruits of all that which in their land, which they bring to Hashem, shall belong to you(SG); each which is tahor/clean in your house may it eat.

¹⁴every irrevocably devoted thing in Yisroel shall belong to you(SG).

¹⁵each which opens the womb, of every creature which one brings to Hashem, of a man and of a beast, shall belong to you(SG); but redeem shall you (sg) let/make redeem the firstborn of a man; also the firstborn of an unclean beast shall you (sg) let/make redeem.

¹⁶and their ransom/redemption – of a month old shall you (sg) let/make redeem – shall be according your evaluation/appraisal,, five shekel silver, on/according to holy shekel, this is twenty gerahs.

¹⁷but a firstborn/first issue of a head of cattle, or a firstborn/first issue of a sheep, or a firstborn/first issue of a goat, be allowed not let redeem; they are holy. their blood shall you (sg) scatter/sprinkle on altar, and their fats shall you (sg) burn up in smoke for a offering by fire, for a soothing aroma to Hashem.

¹⁸and their flesh shall belong to you(SG); so as the breast of wave/tenufah, and so as the right thigh, shall it belong to you(SG).

¹⁹all heave-offerings of the holy things which the children of Yisroel separate/set away to Hashem, have I given to you(SG) and to your sons and to your daughters with you(SG), for an everlasting right; a perpetual covenant of salt is this before Hashem, you(SG) and your seed with you(SG).

²⁰and Hashem has said to Aaron: in their land shall you (sg) not inherit/possess, and any portion shall you (sg) not have among them; I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Yisroel.

²¹and to the children of Levi, behold, have I given every tithe in Yisroel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, the service of Tent of Meeting.

²²and the children of Yisroel shall more not approach/(come) near to Tent of Meeting, to bear a sin and die.

²³but the Levi (Levite), he shall serve the service of Tent of Meeting; and they shall bear their sin; an eternal law on their throughout generations. and among the children of Yisroel shall they not inherit/possess any inheritance.

²⁴because the tithe of the children of Yisroel, which they separate/set away for an separation of a portion/contribution to Hashem, have I given to the Levi'im for an inheritance; therefore have I concerning them said: among the children of Yisroel shall they not inherit/possess any inheritance.

²⁵and Hashem has spoken to Moshe, so to say:

²⁶and to the Levi'im shall you (sg) speak, and say to them: that you (PL) will take of the children of Yisroel the tithe which I have you (PL) given from them for your inheritance, shall you (PL) set apart/raise up thereof an set apart portion/gift to Hashem, tithe of the tithe.

²⁷and your separation of a portion/gift will for you (PL) regarded/reckoned become as like the grain from out threshing floor, and like the fullness from out winepress.

²⁸so shall you (PL) also set apart/raise up the separation of a portion/gift of Hashem from all your (PL) tithes, which you (PL) will take/receive from the children of Yisroel, and you (PL) shall give thereof the raised up offering/gift of Hashem to Aaron the kohen.

²⁹from all which shall be for you (PL) given shall you (PL) set apart/raise up the entire separation of a portion/gift of Hashem, from all that is best thereof, the holy (part) (out) of the one (it).

³⁰and you(SG) must say to them: when you (PL) separate/raise up away from the the best of it, shall it regarded/reckoned (unto) become the Levi'im as like the produce of threshing floor, and as like the produce of winepress.

³¹and you (PL) may it eat in every place, you (PL) and your household, because this is you (PL) a wage for your service in Tent of Meeting.

³²and you (PL) will not bear account of the one (it) a sin, when you (PL) separate/raise up away of the this best of it. and you (PL) shall not profane/desecrate the holy things of the children of Yisroel, so that you (PL) shall not die.