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Numbers 18 📜 📕 ↷
Duties of Priests and Levites
1 AND our Lord said to Aaron: Thou, and thy sons, and the house of thy father with thee shall bear the iniquity of the Sanctuary: both thou & thy sons together shall bear the sins of your priesthood.📜💬📚
2 But thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, and the sceptre of thy father take with thee, and let them be ready at hand, and minister to thee: but thou and thy sons shall minister in the tabernacle of testimony.📜💬📚
3 And the Levites shall watch upon thy precepts, and upon all the works of the tabernacle: so notwithstanding, that they approach not to the vessels of the Sanctuary and to the altar, lest both they die, and you perish withal.📜💬📚
4 But let them be with thee, and watch in the custodies of the tabernacle, and in all the ceremonies thereof. A stranger shall not join with you.📜💬📚
5 Watch in the custody of the Sanctuary, and in the ministry of the altar: lest indignation rise upon the children of Israel.📜💬📚
6 I have given you your brethren the Levites out of the midst of the children of Israel, and have delivered them a gift to the Lord, to serve in the ministries of his tabernacle.📜💬📚
7 And thou and thy sons look to your priesthood: and all things that pertain to the service of the altar, and that are within the veil, shall be executed by the Priests. If any stranger approach, he shall be slain.📜💬📚
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