Numbers 18:20-24 - Duties Of The Levites

²⁰ The Lord spoke to Aaron, "You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any portion of property among them -- I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites.

²¹ See, I have given the Levites all the tithes in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they perform -- the service of the tent of meeting. ²² No longer may the Israelites approach the tent of meeting, or else they will bear their sin and die. ²³ But the Levites must perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites have no inheritance. ²⁴ But I have given to the Levites for an inheritance the tithes of the Israelites that are offered to the Lord as a raised offering. That is why I said to them that among the Israelites they are to have no inheritance."

⁴⁷ But the Levites, according to the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them. ⁴⁸ The Lord had said to Moses, ⁴⁹ "Only the tribe of Levi you must not number or count with the other Israelites. ⁵⁰ But appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, over all its furnishings and over everything in it. They must carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they must attend to it and camp around it. ⁵¹ Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites must take it down, and whenever the tabernacle is to be reassembled, the Levites must set it up. Any unauthorized person who approaches it must be killed.

⁵² "The Israelites will camp according to their divisions, each man in his camp, and each man by his standard. ⁵³ But the Levites must camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that the Lord's anger will not fall on the Israelite community. The Levites are responsible for the care of the tabernacle of the testimony." ⁵⁴ The Israelites did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses -- that is what they did.