Numbers 18:20-24 - Duties Of The Levites

²⁰ Then Yahweh said to Aaron, "You will not receive an inheritance in their land, and there will not be a plot of ground for you in the midst of the {Israelites}.

²¹ "Behold, I have given to the descendants of Levi every tithe in Israel as an inheritance in return for their service, which they [are] doing, the work of the tent of assembly. ²² The {Israelites} will not come near again to the tent of assembly, or {they will bear sin} and die. ²³ The Levites will perform the service of the tent of assembly, and they will bear their guilt, an eternal decree for all your generations. But they will not receive an inheritance in the midst of the {Israelites} ²⁴ because the tithes of the {Israelites} that are {offered} to Yahweh as a contribution, I have given to the Levites as an inheritance; therefore I said to them, 'They will not receive an inheritance in the midst of the {Israelites}.'"

⁴⁷ The Levites from their ancestors' tribe were not mustered in their midst. ⁴⁸ And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ⁴⁹ "You will not muster the tribe of Levi, and you will not {take a census of} them in the midst of the {Israelites}. ⁵⁰ You will {appoint} them over the tabernacle of the testimony, over all its vessels, and over all that belongs to it. They will carry the tabernacle and all its vessels, and they will care for it; and they will camp around the tabernacle. ⁵¹ And when the tabernacle is set out, the Levites will {take it down}, and when encamping the tabernacle the Levites will set it up; the stranger that approaches [it] will be put to death.

⁵² The {Israelites} will encamp, each in their own camp, and each by their own banner according to their divisions. ⁵³ But the Levites will encamp around the tabernacle of the testimony, and there will not be wrath on the community of the {Israelites}; and the Levites will keep the requirements of the tabernacle of the testimony." ⁵⁴ And the {Israelites} did thus; they did everything that Yahweh commanded Moses.