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Numbers 18:2-6
New International Version
Numbers 18:2-6
New International Version
2 Bring your fellow Levites from your ancestral tribe to join you and assist you when you and your sons minister(A) before the tent of the covenant law. 3 They are to be responsible to you(B) and are to perform all the duties of the tent,(C) but they must not go near the furnishings of the sanctuary or the altar. Otherwise both they and you will die.(D) 4 They are to join you and be responsible for the care of the tent of meeting—all the work at the tent—and no one else may come near where you are.(E)
5 “You are to be responsible for the care of the sanctuary and the altar,(F) so that my wrath will not fall on the Israelites again. 6 I myself have selected your fellow Levites from among the Israelites as a gift to you,(G) dedicated to the Lord to do the work at the tent of meeting.(H)
Numbers 18:2-6
King James Version
Numbers 18:2-6
King James Version
2 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.
3 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.
4 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.
5 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.
6 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 the Lord, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
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