But you and your sons will carry out your priestly responsibilities(A) for everything concerning the altar and for what is inside the curtain, and you will do that work. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift,[a] but an unauthorized person who comes near the sanctuary will be put to death.”(B)

Support for the Priests and Levites

Then the Lord spoke to Aaron, “Look, I have put you in charge of the contributions(C) brought to me. As for all the holy offerings(D) of the Israelites, I have given them to you and your sons as a portion and a permanent statute.(E) A portion of the holiest offerings kept from the fire will be yours; every one of their offerings that they give me, whether the grain offering, sin offering, or guilt offering will be most holy for you and your sons.

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Footnotes

  1. 18:7 Or curtain. So you are to perform the service; a gift of your priesthood I grant

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