Numbers 18:20-24 - Duties Of The Levites

²⁰ And the LORD spake unto Aaron, "Thou shalt have none inheritance in their land, nor part among them. For I am thy part and thy inheritance among the children of Israel.

²¹ And behold, I have given the children of Levi the tenth in Israel to inherit, for the service which they serve in the tabernacle of witness, ²² that the children of Israel henceforth come not nigh the tabernacle of witness, and bear sin and die. ²³ And the Levites shall do the service in the tabernacle of witness and bear their sin, and it shall be a law forever unto your children after you: But among the children of Israel they shall inherit none inheritance. ²⁴ For the tithes of the children of Israel which they heave unto the LORD, I have given the Levites to inherit. Wherefore I have said unto them, 'Among the children of Israel ye shall inherit none inheritance.'"

⁴⁷ But the Levites in the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them. ⁴⁸ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ⁴⁹ "Only see that thou number not the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel. ⁵⁰ But thou shalt appoint the Levites unto the habitation of witness, and to all the apparel thereof and unto all that longeth thereto. For they shall bear the tabernacle and all the ordinance thereof, and they shall minister it and shall pitch their tents round about it. ⁵¹ And when the tabernacle goeth forth, the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is pitched, they shall set it up: for if any stranger come near, he shall die.

⁵² And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man in his own company and every man by his own standard throughout all their hosts. ⁵³ But the Levites shall pitch round about the habitation of witness, that there fall no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel, and the Levites shall wait upon the habitation of witness." ⁵⁴ And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses.