22. so that the sons of Israel may no longer approach to the tabernacle, nor commit deadly sin.
23. Only the sons of Levi may serve me in the tabernacle and may carry the sins of the people. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in your generations. They shall possess nothing else;
24. being content with the oblation of tithes, which I have separated for their uses and necessities."
25. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
26. "Instruct the Levites, and also declare to them: When you will receive, from the sons of Israel, the tithes, which I have given to you, offer their first-fruits to the Lord, that is, the tenth part of a tenth,
27. so that it may be accounted to you as an oblation of the first-fruits, as much from the threshing floors as from the oil and wine presses.
28. And offer the first-fruits of everything, from which you receive tithes, to the Lord, and give them to Aaron the priest.
29. Everything which you shall offer from the tithes, and which you shall separate as gifts to the Lord, shall be the finest and most select.
30. And you shall say to them: 'If you offer the noble and the better of the tithes, it shall be accounted to you as if you had given from the first-fruits of the threshing floor and of the oil and wine presses.'
31. And you shall eat these in all your places, both you and your families, because it is your price for the ministry, by which you serve in the tabernacle of the testimony.
32. And you shall not sin in this way: by reserving the excellent and fat things for yourselves, lest you pollute the oblations of the sons of Israel, and lest you die."