Also bring with you your brethren of the (A)tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may be (B)joined with you and serve you while you and your sons are with you before the tabernacle of [a]witness. They shall attend to your [b]needs and (C)all the needs of the tabernacle; (D)but they shall not come near the articles of the sanctuary and the altar, (E)lest they die—they and you also. They shall be joined with you and attend to the needs of the tabernacle of meeting, for all the work of the tabernacle; (F)but an outsider shall not come near you.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 18:2 testimony
  2. Numbers 18:3 service

Bring your fellow Levites from your ancestral tribe to join you and assist you when you and your sons minister(A) before the tent of the covenant law. They are to be responsible to you(B) and are to perform all the duties of the tent,(C) but they must not go near the furnishings of the sanctuary or the altar. Otherwise both they and you will die.(D) They are to join you and be responsible for the care of the tent of meeting—all the work at the tent—and no one else may come near where you are.(E)

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