22. Hereafter, the children of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin and die.
23. But the Levites will do the service of the tent of meeting, and they will bear their iniquity. It will be an eternal statute throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.
24. But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an offering to the Lord, I have given to the Levites to inherit. Therefore I have said to them, among the children of Israel they will have no inheritance.
25. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
26. You will speak to the Levites, and say to them: When you take from the children of Israel the tithes that I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you will offer up an offering of it to the Lord, even one-tenth of the tithe.
27. And this offering will be counted to you, as though it was the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.