Didascalia Apostolorum

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46 DIDASCALIA. to you, the firstfruits of their gifts, from all the oblations of the children of Israel, to thee I have given them, and to thy sons and thy daughters with thee, for an everlasting law ; every one that is clean in thy house 12 shall eat them, all the firstfruits of the oil, and all the firstfruits of the wine, and the firstfruits of the wheat, all that they give to the Lord shall be thine; every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of them. is, is All xthe rest that remains1 shall be thine, and all that openeth the matrix of all flesh, all that they bring to the Lord, of men and even of beasts shall be thine ; nevertheless the firstborn of men shall surely be redeemed, 16 and the firstborn of beasts that are not clean to be offered ; and their redemption shall be from a month old and upwards ; thou shalt redeem them for a price, five shekels by the shekel of the sanctuary, which is 17 ten2 shekels of silver. But nevertheless the firstlings of oxen, and the firstlings of sheep and goats, thou shalt not redeem ; they are holy ; thou shalt pour out their blood before the altar, and their fat thou shalt is send up as an offering of a sweet savour unto the Lord ; and their flesh shall be pure to thee, the end of the wave breast and the right forefoot 19 shall be thine. All the heave offerings of the sanctuary, which the children of Israel destine to the Lord, to thee have I given them, to thy sons and also to thy daughters with thee, for an everlasting law : it shall be a statute for ever before the Lord, to- thee and to thy seed after thee. f. 31 b 20 And the Lord spake unto Aaron, and said, Thou shalt not inherit in their land, nor have any portion among them, because I am thy portion 21 and thine inheritance among the children of Israel. And behold, to the children of Levi I have given all the tithes of the children of Israel 22 for an inheritance, on account of their service in the Tabernacle. And the children of Israel shall not again come nigh unto the Tabernacle 23 of witness, that they receive not the sin of death, but the Levites shall do the service of the Tabernacle of witness, and they shall bear their sins, as an everlasting law to their generations. And among the 24 children of Israel they shall have no inheritance, because that the tithes of the children of Israel which they destine as heave offerings to the Lord, I have given to the Levites as an inheritance ; therefore I said unto them, and to those of the house of Israel, that they shall 25 have no inheritance for ever. The Lord spake unto Moses and said to 26 him, Speak with the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take from the children of Israel the tithes that I have given you from them as an 1 S. that is dedicated by the children of Israel 2 S. twenty