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The Priests, the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings of YHVHa made by fire and his inheritance;
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Therefore, they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; for YHVH is their inheritance, even as He hath saida unto them.
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And this shall be the due from the people to the Priests, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep:
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And they shall give unto the Priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.
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The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep shalt thou give unto them;
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For YHVH, thy Elohima, hath chosen them out of all thy tribes to stand to minister in the name of YHVH, him and his sons foreverb.
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And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which YHVH shall choose,
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Then he shall minister in the name of YHVH, his Elohim, as all his brethren, the Levites, do which stand there before YHVH.
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They shall have like portions to eat, besides that which cometh of the sale of his patrimonya.
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¶ And all the fruit of thy fields, and the increase of thy flocks, a tentha shall you render to the house of YHVH, thy Elohim;
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And this that the Priest who administers in holy things may eat bread, and that the land might yield her increase.
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For should thou do not these things, the Priest shall fail to instruct thy and thy children;
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And the order of the house where YHVH should dwell shall be forgotten and righteousness shall cease;
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Then shall wickedness be in the midst of thee, and oppression come upon thee.
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¶ Moreover, YHVH shall send enemies into the lands, and these shall exact that which thou hath withheld from Him, and shall wrest it from you with increase; and if thou should resist them, thou shall be destroyed;
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Therefore, all of the spoil which Israel should take from her enemies, a tenth shall be rendered to the Priests of YHVH, thy Elohim,
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That they who administer in holy things may remember thee before YHVH, and that YHVH might deliver thee:
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And should thou do not this, ye shall not go fourth with a blessing, and shall flee before thy enemies, and none shall deliver thee.
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¶ And they that labor not in these things, these shall give one tenth of their time, consecrated unto YHVH, thy Elohim, and shall labor on behalf of the Priest, according to thy skill, and thy cunning, and thy art, and you shall not withhold;
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That the place of YHVH among you may not be wanting, and not fail, and that thou might possess abundantly fields, flocks, and habitations:
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For should thou do not these things, thou shall not prosper in the work of thy hands, and poverty shall be in thy dwellings;
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Moreover, the robbers shall take thy goods and substance from Israel, to recompense what Israel hath defrauded YHVH with increase.
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And whosoever cometh into Israel, a tenth of all they possesses shall they give, that they might have an everlasting inheritance therein; and until they do this, no inheritance shall be given them.