Numbers 18:14-19

New English Translation

¹⁴ “Everything devoted^[a] in Israel will be yours. ¹⁵ The firstborn of every womb which they present to the Lord, whether human or animal, will be yours. Nevertheless, the firstborn sons you must redeem,^[b] and the firstborn males of unclean animals you must redeem. ¹⁶ And those that must be redeemed you are to redeem when they are a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of silver according to the sanctuary shekel (which is twenty gerahs). ¹⁷ But you must not redeem the firstborn of a cow or a sheep or a goat; they are holy. You must splash^[c] their blood on the altar and burn their fat for an offering made by fire for a pleasing aroma to the Lord. ¹⁸ And their meat will be yours, just as the breast and the right hip of the raised offering is yours. ¹⁹ All the raised offerings of the holy things that the Israelites offer to the Lord, I have given to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual ordinance. It is a covenant of salt^[d] forever before the Lord for you and for your descendants with you.”