For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves; therefore the Levites were in charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to YHWH.
But the priests were too few, so that they could not skin all the burnt offerings. Therefore their brothers the Levites helped them until the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves, for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
Y’all are to care for it until the fourteenth day of the same month, and then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will slaughter it at twilight.
Yet they may be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house. They may slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people and stand before them to minister to them.
Those men said to him, “We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of YHWH in its appointed season among the children of Israel?”