Then David said, It is unleaveful, that the ark of God be borne about of any others, no but of the deacons [or Levites], which the Lord chose to bear it, and for to minister to him into without end.
and they shall be under the hand of the sons of Aaron, into the worship of the house of the Lord, in porches, and in chambers, and in the place of cleansing, and in the saintuary, and in all works of the service of the temple of the Lord.
and that they keep the observ-ances of the tabernacle of the bond of peace of the Lord, and the custom of the saintuary, and the observance of the sons of Aaron, their brethren, that they minister in the house of the Lord.
And they ordained priests in their orders, and deacons [or Levites] in their whiles, upon the works of God in Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.
Soothly, I gave to the sons of Levi all the tithes of Israel into possession, for the service by which they serve me in the tabernacle of [the] bond of peace;
Soothly the tabernacle of witnessing shall be raised up by the offices of deacons [or Levites], and by their companies; as it shall be raised up by them, so it shall be taken down by them; all they shall go forth by their places and orders.
In that time I separated the lineage of Levi, that it should bear the ark of the bond of peace of the Lord, and it should stand before him in service, and should bless in his name, into this present day.