Numbers 18:5-7

Tree of Life Version

⁵ So you are to attend to the Sanctuary and the care of the altar, so no further wrath will fall on Bnei-Yisrael.

⁶ “See, I have personally taken your kinsmen, the Levites, from among Bnei-Yisrael as a gift for you and your sons with you, dedicated to Adonai to serve in the work of the Tent of Meeting. ⁷ But you and your sons with you are to maintain your priesthood for everything pertaining to the altar and inside the parokhet. I am giving you the ministry of the priesthood as a gift. Anyone unauthorized who approaches will die.”