8The LORD spoke to Aaron: "Behold, I hereby give you the charge of my contributions from all the holy things of the sons of Israel. I give them to you as a consecrated portion and to your sons by a perpetual statute."9This shall belong to you from the most holy things taken from the fire: every one of their offerings, every one of their grain offerings, every one of their sin offerings, and every one of their guilt offerings that they bring back to me. It shall be most holy for you and for your sons.10In the most holy place you shall eat it. Every male may eat it. It shall be holy for you.11This also shall belong to you: the contribution of their gift from all the wave offerings of the sons of Israel. I give them to you and to your sons and to your daughters with you by a perpetual statute. Every clean person in your household may eat it.12All the best of the oil, all the best of the new wine, and the grain—their first portion that they give to the LORD—I give to you.13The firstfruits of everything in their land that they bring to the LORD shall belong to you. Every clean person in your household may eat them.14Every devoted thing in Israel shall belong to you.15Every firstborn of the womb of all flesh, whether man or animal, that they present to the LORD shall belong to you. You must surely redeem the firstborn of man and the firstborn of the unclean animal.16You shall redeem it from one month old at its valuation: five shekels of silver according to the sanctuary shekel, which is twenty gerahs.17But you shall not redeem the firstborn of cattle, the firstborn of sheep, or the firstborn of goats; they are holy. You shall splash their blood on the altar and burn their fat as a food offering of soothing aroma to the LORD.18Their flesh shall belong to you, just as the breast of the wave offering and the right thigh belong to you.19All the holy contributions that the sons of Israel raise to the LORD I give to you and to your sons and to your daughters with you by a perpetual statute. It is a perpetual covenant of salt before the LORD for you and for your seed with you.20The LORD said to Aaron, "You shall have no inheritance in their land, nor shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the sons of Israel."21To the sons of Levi, behold, I give all the tithe in Israel as an inheritance in return for their service that they perform in the service of the tent of meeting.22The sons of Israel must not approach the tent of meeting again, lest they incur sin and die.23The Levite himself shall perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations. They shall not inherit an inheritance among the sons of Israel.24For I have given the tithe of the sons of Israel, which they present to the LORD as a contribution, to the Levites as an inheritance. Therefore I have said to them that they shall not receive an inheritance among the sons of Israel.25The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,26Speak also to the Levites and say to them, "When you receive from the sons of Israel the tithe that I have given you as your inheritance, you shall present from it a contribution to the LORD, a tithe of the tithe."27Your contribution shall be reckoned to you as though it were grain from the threshing floor or fruit from the winepress.28Thus you also shall present a contribution to the LORD from all the tithes you receive from the sons of Israel, and you shall give the LORD's contribution from them to Aaron the priest.29From all your gifts you shall present every contribution to the LORD from all their fat, taking the sanctuary portion from them.30You shall say to them, "When you present their fat from them, it shall be reckoned to the Levites as produce of the threshing floor and as produce of the winepress."31You may eat it in any place, you and your household, for it is wages for you in return for your service in the tent of meeting.32You shall not incur sin by presenting their fat from them, nor shall you profane the holy things of the sons of Israel, lest you die.