Deuteronomy 18:5-7

Common English Bible

⁵ because the Lord your God selected Levi from all of your tribes to stand and minister in the Lord’s name—both him and his descendants for all time.

⁶ Now if a Levite leaves one of your cities or departs from any location in Israel where he’s been living and, because he wants to, comes to the location the Lord selects ⁷ and ministers in the Lord his God’s name, just like his relatives—the other Levites serving there in the Lord’s presence—