Numbers 18:20-24 - Duties Of The Levites

²⁰ And the Lord said to Aaron, You will have no heritage in their land, or any part among them; I am your part and your heritage among the children of Israel.

²¹ And to the children of Levi I have given as their heritage all the tenths offered in Israel, as payment for the work they do, the work of the Tent of meeting. ²² In future the children of Israel are not to come near the Tent of meeting, so that death may not come to them because of sin. ²³ But the Levites are to do the work of the Tent of meeting, and be responsible for errors in connection with it: this is a law for ever through all your generations; and among the children of Israel they will have no heritage. ²⁴ For the tenths which the children of Israel give as a lifted offering to the Lord I have given to the Levites as their heritage. and so I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.

⁴⁷ But the Levites, of the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them. ⁴⁸ For the Lord said to Moses, ⁴⁹ Only the tribe of Levi is not to be numbered among the children of Israel, ⁵⁰ But to them you are to give the care of the Tent of meeting with its vessels and everything in it: they are to take up the Tent, and be responsible for everything to do with it, and put up their tents round it. ⁵¹ And when the Tent of meeting goes forward, the Levites are to take it down; and when it is to be put up, they are to do it: any strange person who comes near it is to be put to death.

⁵² The children of Israel are to put up their tents, every man in his tent-circle round his flag. ⁵³ But the tents of the Levites are to be round the Tent of meeting, so that wrath may not come on the children of Israel: the Tent of meeting is to be in the care of the Levites. ⁵⁴ So the children of Israel did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.