Laws for Grain Offerings

1 “When anyone brings a ⁱgrain offering as an offering to the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour. He shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it 2 and bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests. And he shall take from it a handful of the fine flour and oil, with all of its frankincense, and the priest shall burn this as its ^jmemorial portion on the altar, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 3 But ^kthe rest of the grain offering shall be for Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the Lord’s food offerings.

8 Then the Lord spoke to Aaron, “Behold, I have given you charge of the ^econtributions made to me, all the consecrated things of the people of Israel. I have given them to you as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual due. 9 This shall be yours of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, every grain offering of theirs and every sin offering of theirs and every guilt offering of theirs, which they render to me, shall be most holy to you and to your sons. 10 ^fIn a most holy place shall you eat it. ^gEvery male may eat it; it is holy to you. 11 This also is yours: the contribution of their gift, all the ^hwave offerings of the people of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. ⁱEveryone who is clean ^jin your house may eat it. 12 All the ^kbest of the oil and all the best of the wine and of the grain, the firstfruits of what they give to the Lord, I give to you. 13 The first ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the Lord, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it. 14 Every ^ldevoted thing in Israel shall be yours. 15 ^mEverything that opens the womb of all flesh, whether man or beast, which they offer to the Lord, shall be yours. Nevertheless, the firstborn of man you shall ⁿredeem, and the firstborn of ^ounclean animals you shall redeem. 16 And their redemption price (at a month old you shall redeem them) you shall fix at ^pfive shekels¹ in silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs. 17 But the firstborn of a cow, 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 burn their fat as a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 18 But their flesh shall be yours, as ^qthe breast that is waved and as the right thigh are yours. 19 All the holy contributions that the people of Israel present to the Lord I give to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. It is a ^rcovenant of salt forever before the Lord for you and for your offspring with you.”

Provision for Priests and Levites

1 “The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, shall have ^dno portion or inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the Lord’s food offerings¹ as their² inheritance. 2 They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the Lord is their inheritance, as he promised them. 3 And this shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach. 4 The ^efirstfruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep, you shall give him. 5 For the Lord your God has ^fchosen him out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons for all time.

6 “And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, ^gwhere he lives—and he may come when he desires³—to the place that the Lord will choose, 7 and ministers in the name of the Lord his God, like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the Lord, 8 then he may have equal portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony.⁴