diff --git a/04-NUM/18.usfm b/04-NUM/18.usfm index 8864cbad..81d71fd1 100644 --- a/04-NUM/18.usfm +++ b/04-NUM/18.usfm @@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ \v 2 As for your fellow members of the tribe of Levi, your ancestors’ tribe, you must bring them with you so they may join you and help you when you and your sons serve in front of the tent of the covenant decrees. \s5 -\v 3 They must serve you and the whole tent. However, they must not come near to anything in the sanctuary or connected with the altar, or they and also you will die. +\v 3 They must serve you and the whole tent. However, they must not come near to anything in the holy place or connected with the altar, or they and also you will die. \v 4 They must join you and take care of the tent of meeting, for all the work connected with the tent. A foreigner must not come near you. -\v 5 You must take responsibility for the sanctuary and for the altar so that my anger does not come on the people of Israel again. +\v 5 You must take responsibility for the holy place and for the altar so that my anger does not come on the people of Israel again. \s5 \v 6 Look, I myself have chosen your fellow members of the Levites from among the descendants of Israel. They are a gift to you, given to me to do the work connected to the tent of meeting. @@ -19,10 +19,10 @@ \s5 \p \v 8 Then Yahweh said to Aaron, "Look, I have given you the duty of handling the offerings raised up to me, and all the holy offerings that people of Israel give to me. I have given these offerings to you and your sons as your ongoing share. -\v 9 These things from the most holy offerings that are not completely burned up will be yours. Every sacrifice the people bring, including every grain offering, every sin offering, and every guilt offering—all these very holy offerings—that they reserve for me and bring to me will be for you and for your sons. +\v 9 These things from the offerings that are completely dedicated to Yahweh, but are not completely burned up will be yours. Every sacrifice the people bring, including every grain offering, every sin offering, and every guilt offering—all these very holy offerings—that they reserve for me and bring to me will be for you and for your sons. \s5 -\v 10 It is as something most holy, solemnly reserved for me, that you must eat these offerings. Every male among you must eat these offerings. They must be regarded by you as reserved for me. +\v 10 It is completely dedicated to me, that you must eat these offerings. Every male among you must eat these offerings. They must be regarded by you as reserved for me. \v 11 These are the offerings that will belong to you: their gifts that are set apart from all the raised offerings of the people of Israel, offerings that have been raised high before me and presented to me. I have given them to you, your sons, and your daughters, as your ongoing share. Everyone who is ritually clean in your family may eat any of these offerings. \s5 @@ -34,9 +34,8 @@ \v 15 Everything that opens the womb, all the firstborn which the people offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal, will be yours. Nevertheless, the people must certainly buy back every firstborn son, and they must buy back the firstborn male of unclean animals. \v 16 Those that are to be bought back by the people must be bought back after becoming one month old. Then the people may buy them back, for the price of five shekels, by the standard weight of the sanctuary shekel, which equals twenty gerahs. - \s5 -\v 17 But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat—you must not buy back these animals. They are holy, reserved for me. You must splash their blood on the altar and burn their fat as an offering made by fire, to produce a sweet aroma for me. +\v 17 But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat—you must not buy back these animals. They are dedicated to me. You must splash their blood on the altar and burn their fat as an offering made by fire, to produce a sweet aroma for me. \v 18 Their meat will be yours. Like the raised breast and the right thigh, their meat will be yours. \s5