Numbers 1:50
1:50 But appoint
the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony,
over all its furnishings and over everything in it. They must carry
the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they
must attend to it and camp around it.
Numbers 3:39
3:39 All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered by the word
of the
Lord, according to their families, every male from a month old and upward, were 22,000.
Numbers 8:19
8:19 I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the Israelites, to do the work for the Israelites in the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the Israelites, so there will be no plague among the Israelites when the Israelites come near the sanctuary.”
Numbers 18:23-24
18:23 But the Levites must perform the service
of the tent of meeting, and they must bear their iniquity.
It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites
have no inheritance.
18:24 But I have given
to the Levites for an inheritance the tithes of the Israelites that are offered
to the
Lord as a raised offering. That is why I said to them that among the Israelites they are to have no inheritance.”
Numbers 18:26
18:26 “You are to speak to the Levites, and you must tell them, ‘When you receive from the Israelites the tithe that I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you are to offer up
from it as a raised offering to the
Lord a tenth of the tithe.
Numbers 31:30
31:30 From the Israelites’ half-share you are to take one portion out of fifty of the people, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep – from every kind of animal – and you are to give them to the Levites, who are responsible for the care of the
Lord’s tabernacle.”
Numbers 31:47
31:47 From the Israelites’ share Moses took one of every fifty people and animals and gave them to the Levites who were responsible for the care of the Lord’s tabernacle, just as the Lord commanded Moses.
Numbers 35:6
35:6 Now from these towns that you will give to the Levites you must select six towns of refuge to which a person who has killed someone may flee.
And you must give them forty-two other towns.
Numbers 35:8
35:8 The towns you will give must be from the possession of the Israelites. From the larger tribes you must give more; and from the smaller tribes fewer. Each must contribute some of its own towns to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance allocated to each.