Numbers 18:24-32 Because I have given the Levites for their portion the tithes of the children of Israel, which they set apart for the Lord, as a dedication, therefore I have said to them, they shall have no lot of inheritance among the Israelites.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ²⁴ Because I have given the Levites for their portion the tithes of the children of Israel, which they set apart for the Lord, as a dedication, therefore I have said to them, they shall have no lot of inheritance among the Israelites. ²⁵ Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁶ Thou shalt speak to the Levites and say to them; When you take from the children of Israel the tenth which I have given you from them for a lot of inheritance, you shall set apart from it, as a dedication for the Lord, a tenth of the tenth; ²⁷ and these dedications of yours shall be reckoned to you as corn from the threshing floor, and as a dedication from the press. ²⁸ Thus you shall acquit yourselves of all the dedications of the Lord; of all your tenths which you receive from the children of Israel. And you shall give the dedication set apart from it for the Lord to Aaron the priest. ²⁹ From all your gifts you shall set apart a dedication for the Lord, and from all the first fruits, the hallowed part of it. ³⁰ Moreover thou shalt say unto them, When you set apart the first fruits of it, then it shall be reckoned to the Levites as produce from the threshing floor, and as produce from the press. ³¹ And you may eat it every where, you and your households. Because it is your wages for your services which you perform at the tabernacle of the testimony; ³² therefore you shall not bear sin by reason of it, because you have set apart the first fruits of it. But you must not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, lest you die.