Numbers 18:20-24 - Duties Of The Levites

²⁰ And LORD said to Aaron, Thou shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall thou have any portion among them. I am thy portion and thine inheritance among the sons of Israel.

²¹ And to the sons of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the tent of meeting. ²² And henceforth the sons of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die. ²³ But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. And among the sons of Israel they shall have no inheritance. ²⁴ For the tithe of the sons of Israel, which they offer as a heave-offering to LORD, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said to them, Among the sons of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

⁴⁷ But the Levites according to the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them. ⁴⁸ For LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ⁴⁹ Only the tribe of Levi thou shall not number, neither shall thou take the sum of them among the sons of Israel, ⁵⁰ but appoint thou the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all the furniture of it, and over all that belongs to it. They shall bear the tabernacle, and all the furniture of it, and they shall minister to it, and s ⁵¹ And when the tabernacle sets forward, the Levites shall take it down, and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up. And the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

⁵² And the sons of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their armies. ⁵³ But the Levites shall encamp round about the tabernacle of the testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the sons of Israel. And the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony. ⁵⁴ Thus did the sons of Israel. According to all that LORD commanded Moses, so they did.