For lo, I have (A)taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel, which as a gift of yours, are given unto the Lord, to do the service of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.

But thou, and thy sons with thee shall keep your Priest’s office for all things of the Altar, and within the veil: therefore shall ye serve: for I have made your Priest’s office [a]an office of service: therefore the stranger that cometh near shall be slain.

¶ Again the Lord spake unto Aaron, Behold, I have given thee the keeping of mine [b]offerings, of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel: unto thee have I given them for the anointing’s sake, and to thy sons for a perpetual ordinance.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 18:7 Or, gift.
  2. Numbers 18:8 As the firstfruit, firstborn, and the tenths.

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