Numbers 18:2-4

New American Standard Bible 1995

² But bring with you also your brothers, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may be ^(A)joined with you and serve you, while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony. ³ And they shall thus attend to your obligation and the obligation of all the tent, but ^(B)they shall not come near to the furnishings of the sanctuary and ^(C)the altar, or both they and you will die. ⁴ They shall be joined with you and attend to the obligations of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent; but an ^[a]outsider may not come near you.