And the Lord spake to Moses, saying,
And ye shall know, that I sent to you this commandment, that my covenant were with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.
Soothly thou shalt ordain Aaron and his sons on the religion of priesthood; a stranger that nigheth for to minister, shall die.
I have taken the Levites of the sons of Israel for each first engendered thing that openeth the womb in the sons of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine,