¹⁶ Aaron and his sons^(A) shall eat the rest^(B) of it, but it is to be eaten without yeast^(C) in the sanctuary area;^(D) they are to eat it in the courtyard^(E) of the tent of meeting.^(F)

²⁶ The priest who offers it shall eat it; it is to be eaten in the sanctuary area,^(A) in the courtyard^(B) of the tent of meeting.^(C)

⁶ Any male in a priest’s family may eat it,^(A) but it must be eaten in the sanctuary area; it is most holy.^(B)

³¹ The priest shall burn the fat on the altar,^(A) but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons.^{(B) 32} You are to give the right thigh of your fellowship offerings to the priest as a contribution.^{(C) 33} The son of Aaron who offers the blood and the fat of the fellowship offering shall have the right thigh as his share. ³⁴ From the fellowship offerings of the Israelites, I have taken the breast that is waved and the thigh^(D) that is presented and have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons^(E) as their perpetual share from the Israelites.’”

³⁵ This is the portion of the food offerings presented to the Lord that were allotted to Aaron and his sons on the day they were presented to serve the Lord as priests. ³⁶ On the day they were anointed,^(F) the Lord commanded that the Israelites give this to them as their perpetual share for the generations to come.

³⁷ These, then, are the regulations for the burnt offering,^(G) the grain offering,^(H) the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering^(I) and the fellowship offering, ³⁸ which the Lord gave Moses^(J) at Mount Sinai^(K) in the Desert of Sinai on the day he commanded the Israelites to bring their offerings to the Lord.^(L)

⁹ All the sacred contributions the Israelites bring to a priest will belong to him.^{(A) 10} Sacred things belong to their owners, but what they give to the priest will belong to the priest.^(B)’”

The Test for an Unfaithful Wife

¹¹ Then the Lord said to Moses, ¹² “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If a man’s wife goes astray^(C) and is unfaithful to him ¹³ so that another man has sexual relations with her,^(D) and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act), ¹⁴ and if feelings of jealousy^(E) come over her husband and he suspects his wife and she is impure—or if he is jealous and suspects her even though she is not impure— ¹⁵ then he is to take his wife to the priest. He must also take an offering of a tenth of an ephah^[a](F) of barley flour^(G) on her behalf. He must not pour olive oil on it or put incense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy,^(H) a reminder-offering^(I) to draw attention to wrongdoing.

¹⁶ “‘The priest shall bring her and have her stand before the Lord. ¹⁷ Then he shall take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water. ¹⁸ After the priest has had the woman stand before the Lord, he shall loosen her hair^(J) and place in her hands the reminder-offering, the grain offering for jealousy,^(K) while he himself holds the bitter water that brings a curse.^{(L) 19} Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, “If no other man has had sexual relations with you and you have not gone astray^(M) and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse^(N) not harm you. ²⁰ But if you have gone astray^(O) while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband”— ²¹ here the priest is to put the woman under this curse^(P)—“may the Lord cause you to become a curse^[b] among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell. ²² May this water^(Q) that brings a curse^(R) enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.”

“‘Then the woman is to say, “Amen. So be it.^(S)”

²³ “‘The priest is to write these curses on a scroll^(T) and then wash them off into the bitter water. ²⁴ He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and this water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering will enter her. ²⁵ The priest is to take from her hands the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the Lord^(U) and bring it to the altar. ²⁶ The priest is then to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial^[c] offering^(V) and burn it on the altar; after that, he is to have the woman drink the water. ²⁷ If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result: When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse.^{(W) 28} If, however, the woman has not made herself impure, but is clean, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to have children.

²⁹ “‘This, then, is the law of jealousy when a woman goes astray^(X) and makes herself impure while married to her husband, ³⁰ or when feelings of jealousy^(Y) come over a man because he suspects his wife. The priest is to have her stand before the Lord and is to apply this entire law to her. ³¹ The husband will be innocent of any wrongdoing, but the woman will bear the consequences^(Z) of her sin.’”

Offerings for Priests and Levites

⁸ Then the Lord said to Aaron, “I myself have put you in charge of the offerings presented to me; all the holy offerings the Israelites give me I give to you and your sons as your portion,^(A) your perpetual share.^{(B) 9} You are to have the part of the most holy offerings^(C) that is kept from the fire. From all the gifts they bring me as most holy offerings, whether grain^(D) or sin^[a](E) or guilt offerings,^(F) that part belongs to you and your sons. ¹⁰ Eat it as something most holy; every male shall eat it.^(G) You must regard it as holy.^(H)

¹¹ “This also is yours: whatever is set aside from the gifts of all the wave offerings^(I) of the Israelites. I give this to you and your sons and daughters as your perpetual share.^(J) Everyone in your household who is ceremonially clean^(K) may eat it.

¹² “I give you all the finest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain^(L) they give the Lord^(M) as the firstfruits of their harvest.^{(N) 13} All the land’s firstfruits that they bring to the Lord will be yours.^(O) Everyone in your household who is ceremonially clean may eat it.^(P)

¹⁴ “Everything in Israel that is devoted^[b] to the Lord^(Q) is yours. ¹⁵ The first offspring of every womb, both human and animal, that is offered to the Lord is yours.^(R) But you must redeem^(S) every firstborn^(T) son and every firstborn male of unclean animals.^{(U) 16} When they are a month old,^(V) you must redeem them at the redemption price set at five shekels^[c](W) of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel,^(X) which weighs twenty gerahs.^(Y)

¹⁷ “But you must not redeem the firstborn of a cow, a sheep or a goat; they are holy.^(Z) Splash their blood^(AA) against the altar and burn their fat^(AB) as a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the Lord.^{(AC) 18} Their meat is to be yours, just as the breast of the wave offering^(AD) and the right thigh are yours.^{(AE) 19} Whatever is set aside from the holy^(AF) offerings the Israelites present to the Lord I give to you and your sons and daughters as your perpetual share. It is an everlasting covenant of salt^(AG) before the Lord for both you and your offspring.”

²⁰ The Lord said to Aaron, “You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any share among them;^(AH) I am your share and your inheritance^(AI) among the Israelites.

³¹ You and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere, for it is your wages for your work at the tent of meeting.^(A)

Offerings for Priests and Levites

18 The Levitical^(A) priests—indeed, the whole tribe of Levi—are to have no allotment or inheritance with Israel. They shall live on the food offerings^(B) presented to the Lord, for that is their inheritance.^(C)