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Duties of Priests and Levites

1 Then the Lord said to Aaron: a“You and your sons and your father’s house with you shall bbear the iniquity related to the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity associated with your priesthood.  
2 Also bring with you your brethren of the atribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may be bjoined with you and serve you while you and your sons are with you before the tabernacle of1 witness.  
3 They shall attend to your needs and aall the needs of the tabernacle; bbut they shall not come near the articles of the sanctuary and the altar, clest they die—they and you also.  
4 They shall be joined with you and attend to the needs of the tabernacle of meeting, for all the work of the tabernacle; abut an outsider shall not come near you.  
5 And you shall attend to the duties of the sanctuary and athe duties of the altar, bthat there may be no more wrath on the children of Israel.  
6 Behold, I Myself have ataken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel; bthey are a gift to you, given by the Lord, to do the work of the tabernacle of meeting.  
7 Therefore ayou and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for everything at the altar and bbehind the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood to you as a cgift for service, but the outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Numbers 18:2-7

thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi—The departments of the sacred office, to be filled respectively by the priests and Levites, are here assigned to each. To the priests was committed the charge of the sanctuary and the altar, while the Levites were to take care of everything else about the tabernacle. The Levites were to attend the priests as servants—bestowed on them as "gifts" to aid in the service of the tabernacle—while the high and dignified office of the priesthood was a "service of gift." "A stranger," that is, one, neither a priest nor a Levite, who should intrude into any departments of the sacred office, should incur the penalty of death.




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