Numbers 8:19

New Century Version

From all the Israelites I have given the Levites to Aaron and his sons so that they may serve the Israelites at the Meeting Tent. They will help remove the Israelites’ sins so they will belong to the Lord and so that no disaster will strike the Israelites when they approach the Holy Place.”

Cross References

Exodus 12:50

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

Numbers 1:50

Instead put the Levites in charge of the Holy Tent of the Agreement and everything that is with it. They must carry the Holy Tent and everything in it, and they must take care of it and make their camp around it.

Numbers 1:53

But the Levites must make their camp around the Holy Tent of the Agreement so that I will not be angry with the Israelites. The Levites will take care of the Holy Tent of the Agreement.”

Numbers 16:46

Then Moses said to Aaron, “Get your pan, and put fire from the altar and incense in it. Hurry to the people and remove their sin. The Lord is angry with them; the sickness has already started.”

Numbers 8:18

But I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn in Israel.

Numbers 8:20

So Moses, Aaron, and all the Israelites obeyed and did with the Levites what the Lord commanded Moses.

1 Samuel 6:19

But some of the men of Beth Shemesh looked into the Ark of the Lord. So God killed seventy of them. The people of Beth Shemesh cried because the Lord had struck them down.