Numbers 3:10-13
3:10 So you are to appoint Aaron and his sons, and they will be responsible for their priesthood;
but the unauthorized person
who comes near must be put to death.”
3:11 Then the Lord spoke to Moses:
3:12 “Look, I myself have taken the Levites from among the Israelites instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the Israelites. So the Levites belong to me,
3:13 because all the firstborn are mine. When I destroyed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I set apart for myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast. They belong to me. I am the Lord.”
Numbers 4:15
4:15 “When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, when the camp is ready to journey, then the Kohathites will come to carry them; but they must not touch any holy thing, or they will die. These are the responsibilities of the Kohathites with the tent of meeting.
Numbers 16:40
16:40 It was a memorial for the Israelites, that no outsider who is not a descendant of
Aaron should approach to burn incense before the
Lord, that he might not become like Korah and his company – just as the
Lord had spoken by the authority
of Moses.
Numbers 17:7
17:7 Then Moses placed the staffs before the
Lord in the tent of the testimony.
Numbers 17:1
The Budding of Aaron’s Staff
17:1 The Lord spoke to Moses:
Numbers 16:39-40
16:39 So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers presented by those who had been burned up, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar.
16:40 It was a memorial for the Israelites, that no outsider who is not a descendant of
Aaron should approach to burn incense before the
Lord, that he might not become like Korah and his company – just as the
Lord had spoken by the authority
of Moses.
Numbers 16:2
16:2 and rebelled against Moses, along with some of the Israelites, 250 leaders
of the community, chosen from the assembly,
famous men.
Numbers 30:16
30:16 These are the statutes that the Lord commanded Moses, relating to a man and his wife, and a father and his young daughter who is still living in her father’s house.
Ezekiel 44:15
The Levitical Priests
44:15 “‘But the Levitical priests, the descendants of Zadok who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, will approach me to minister to me; they will stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the sovereign Lord.