Look, I have selected your fellow Levites from the Israelites as a gift for you, assigned by the Lord to work at the tent of meeting. But you and your sons will carry out your priestly responsibilities(A) for everything concerning the altar and for what is inside the curtain, and you will do that work. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift,[a] but an unauthorized person who comes near the sanctuary will be put to death.”(B)

Support for the Priests and Levites

Then the Lord spoke to Aaron, “Look, I have put you in charge of the contributions(C) brought to me. As for all the holy offerings(D) of the Israelites, I have given them to you and your sons as a portion and a permanent statute.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 18:7 Or curtain. So you are to perform the service; a gift of your priesthood I grant

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