Numbers 8:19

Modern English Version

I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the Israelites, to serve the service of the Israelites in the tent of meeting and to make an atonement for the Israelites, so there will be no plague among the Israelites when the Israelites approach the sanctuary.

Cross References

Exodus 12:50

So all the Israelites did it. They did just as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron.

Numbers 1:50

but you will appoint the Levites over the tent of the testimony, and over all its vessels, and over all things that belong to it. They will carry the tabernacle, and all its vessels, and they will minister to it, and will camp around the tabernacle.

Numbers 1:53

But the Levites will camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so there will be no wrath on the congregation of the Israelites. And the Levites will keep the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.

Numbers 16:46

Moses said to Aaron, “Take a censer and put fire in it from off the altar, and put in incense, and go quickly to the assembly, and make an atonement for them, because wrath has gone out from the Lord. The plague has begun.”

Numbers 8:18

I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the Israelites.

Numbers 8:20

Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the Israelites did to the Levites; according to all that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the Israelites did to them.

1 Samuel 6:19

Then He struck the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the Lord. He struck fifty thousand and seventy men. And the people lamented, because the Lord had struck the people with a great slaughter.