Numbers 8:18-20

The Voice

¹⁸ But see, I am willing to accept this representative group—that the Levites, from among the Israelites, will be Mine, ¹⁹ given to Aaron and his sons from the Israelite people to do whatever is required concerning the congregation tent: maintaining its service and covering Israel’s sins for them so they don’t make Me send a plague to them because they overstepped the bounds of My sanctuary.