Numbers 3:1-9 ▼

1 Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time when Yahweh spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.

2 These then are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to minister as priests.

4 But Nadab and Abihu died before Yahweh when they offered strange fire before Yahweh in the wilderness of Sinai; and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar ministered as priests in the lifetime of their father Aaron.

5 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

6 “Bring the tribe of Levi near and have them stand before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.

7 And they shall keep his responsibility and the responsibility for the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, to perform the service of the tabernacle.

8 They shall also keep all the furnishings of the tent of meeting, along with the responsibility of the sons of Israel, to perform the service of the tabernacle.

9 You shall thus give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons; they are wholly given to him from among the sons of Israel.