So shall they be joined unto thee, and shall keep the charge of the tent of meeting, as to all the laborious work of the tent,—but a stranger, shall not come near unto you.
And, when he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they looked into the ark of Yahweh, yea smote of the people seventy men and fifty thousand men, the people mourned, for that Yahweh had smitten the people with a great smiting.
but unto Aaron, and unto his sons, shalt thou give oversight, so shall they keep charge of their priesthood,—and, the stranger who cometh near, shall be put to death.
And, when the habitation is to set forward, the Levites shall take it down, and when the habitation is to be pitched, the Levites, shall set it up, but the stranger that draweth near, shall be put to death.
So shall they keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tent,—only, unto the vessels of the sanctuary, and unto the altar, shall they not come near, lest they die—both they, and ye.
And out of the half allotted to the sons of Israel, shalt thou take one allotted portion out of fifty of the human beings, of the herd, of the asses and of the flock of all b the cattle,—and shalt give them unto the Levites, who keep the charge of the habitation of Yahweh.
but the Levites, shall pitch their tents round about the habitation of the testimony, that there be no wrath upon the assembly of the sons of Israel,—so shall the Levites keep the watch of the habitation of the testimony.
yet shall they wait upon their brethren in the tent of meeting, by keeping charge, but laborious work, shall they not perform,—thus, shalt thou do unto the Levites, as touching their charges.