Numbers 18:2 Cross References - NSB

² »Bring the other Levites from your ancestor’s tribe to join you and help you and your sons serve in front of the tent of the words of my promise.

³⁴ She became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. She said: »Now at last my husband will become attached to me because I have given him three sons.« She named him Levi.

⁶ »Bring the tribe of Levi, and have them stand in front of the priest Aaron to assist him. ⁷ »They will work for him and the whole community in front of the tent of meeting, doing what needs to be done for the inner tent. ⁸ »They will take care of all the furnishings in the tent of meeting and work for the Israelites, doing what needs to be done for the inner tent. ⁹ »Give the Levites to Aaron and his sons. The Levites will be the only Israelites given to them. ¹⁰ »Appoint Aaron and his sons to serve as priests. Anyone else who tries to do the priests’ duties must be put to death.« ¹¹ Jehovah said to Moses: ¹² »Out of all the Israelites, I have taken the Levites to be substitutes for every firstborn male offspring among them. The Levites are mine, ¹³ because every firstborn is mine. The day I killed every firstborn male in Egypt, I set apart as holy every firstborn in Israel, whether human or animal. They will be mine. I am Jehovah.«

¹⁵ »When Aaron and his sons finished covering the holy things and the camp is ready to move, the Kohathites will come to carry all the holy articles. They must never touch the holy things, or they will die. The Kohathites will carry all the things from the tent of meeting.

¹⁹ »I assign the Levites to Aaron and his sons, as a gift from the Israelites. They are to work in the tent for the people of Israel and to protect the Israelites from the disaster that would strike them if they came too near the Holy Place.«

²² The people did everything Jehovah commanded Moses concerning the Levites. Thus the Levites were qualified to work in the tent under Aaron and his sons.

⁴⁰ He followed Jehovah’s command given through Moses. The copper-covered altar will remind Israel that no one but a descendant of Aaron may come near to burn incense to Jehovah. Everyone else will die like Korah and his followers.

⁷ Moses put the staffs in Jehovah’s presence in the tent of the testimony.

⁴ »They are to work with you and fulfill their responsibilities for all the service in the tent. No unqualified person may work with you.

³⁹ David left Zadok and his priestly relatives to serve in Jehovah’s Tent at the place of worship in Gibeon. ⁴⁰ They were ordered to sacrifice burnt offerings to Jehovah. This happened on the altar of burnt offerings continually, morning and evening, as written in the Law of Jehovah that he gave Israel.

¹⁶ They stood in their regular places as instructed by the law of Moses. Moses was a man of God. The priests sprinkled the blood they received from the Levites.

¹⁵ »‘But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept charge of my sanctuary when the sons of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me. They shall stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the Lord Jehovah.