Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of Elohim but the Lvim: for them hath YY chosen to carry the ark of Elohim, and to minister unto him for ever.
Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the Lvim in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by their standards.
And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Lvim shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Lvim shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of YY , from the age of twenty years and upward.