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 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.
and of [the] Nethinims, which David and the princes had given to the services of deacons [or Levites], they brought two hundred and twenty Nethinims; all these were called by their names.
Whether it is little to you, that God of Israel [hath] separated you from all the people, and hath joined you to himself, that ye should serve him in the service of the tabernacle, and that ye should stand before the multitude of the people, and serve him?
But also take thou with thee thy brethren of the lineage of Levi, and the sceptre, or power, of thy father, and be they ready, that they minister to thee. Forsooth thou and thy sons shall minister in the tabernacle of witnessing;
and I gave them by free gift to Aaron and to his sons, from the midst of the people, that they serve me for Israel, in the tabernacle of the bond of peace, and that they pray for them, lest vengeance be in the people, if they be hardy to nigh to the saintuary.