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Primary Verses:
- Num. 1:49-50
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"Only thou shalt not number the
tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the
children of Israel:
But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle
of testimony, and over all the vessels
thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they
shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof;
and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round
about the tabernacle."
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Num. 3:6-9
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"Bring the tribe of Levi near,
and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may
minister unto him.
And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the
whole congregation before the tabernacle of the
congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle.
And they shall keep all the instruments of the
tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the
children of Israel, to do the service of the
tabernacle. And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron
and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him out of
the children of Israel."
Supporting Verses:
- Num 3:11-13
- "And YHVH spake unto Moses, saying, And I, behold,
I have taken the Levites from among the children of
Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the
matrix among the children of Israel:
therefore the Levites
shall be mine; Because all the
firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the
firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all
the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall
they be: I am YHVH."
- Num. 8:6-16
- "Take the Levites from among the children of Israel,
and cleanse them. And thus shalt thou do unto them, to
cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and
let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their
clothes, and so make themselves clean. Then let them
take a young bullock with his meat offering, even fine
flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt
thou take for a sin offering. And thou shalt bring the
Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and
thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of
Israel together: And thou shalt bring the Levites
before YHVH: and the children of Israel shall put their
hands upon the Levites: And Aaron shall offer the
Levites before YHVH for an offering of the children of
Israel, that they may
execute the service of YHVH. And the
Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the
bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin
offering, and the other for a burnt offering, unto YHVH,
to make an atonement for the Levites. And thou shalt
set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and
offer them for an offering unto YHVH.
Thus shalt thou
separate the Levites from among the children of Israel:
and the Levites shall be mine. And
after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of
the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt
cleanse them, and offer them for an offering. For they
are wholly given unto me from among the children of
Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even instead
of the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I
taken them unto me."
- Num. 8:18-20
- "And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn
of the children of Israel.
And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron
and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do
the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle
of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the
children of Israel: that there be no
plague among the children of Israel, when the children
of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary. And Moses, and
Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of
Israel, did to the Levites according unto all that YHVH
commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the
children of Israel unto them."
- Num. 8:24-26
- "This is it that
belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty
and five years old and upward
they shall go in to wait upon the service of the
tabernacle of the congregation: And
from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting
upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more: But
shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of
the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no
service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching
their charge."
- Num. 18:1-6
- "And YHVH said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy
father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the
sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear
the iniquity of your priesthood.
And thy brethren also
of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring
thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and
minister unto thee: but thou and thy
sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of
witness. And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge
of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the
vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither
they, nor ye also, die. And they shall be joined unto
thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the
congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and
a stranger shall not come nigh unto you. And ye shall
keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the
altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children
of Israel. And I,
behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from
among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a
gift for YHVH, to do the service of the tabernacle of
the congregation."
- Num. 18:22-23
- "Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come
nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear
sin, and die. But
the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of
the congregation, and they shall bear
their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever
throughout your generations, that among the children of
Israel they have no inheritance."
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