You are to assign the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they will be assigned exclusively to him out of all the Israelites.

Then they must put it with all its utensils in a covering of fine leather, and put it on a carrying beam.

You must give to the Lord some of the first of your finely ground flour as a raised offering in your future generations.

From where shall I get meat to give to this entire people, for they cry to me, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat!’

Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for me? I wish that all the Lord’s people were prophets, that the Lord would put his Spirit on them!”

“All the best of the olive oil and all the best of the wine and of the wheat, the first fruits of these things that they give to the Lord, I have given to you.

So Israel made a vow to the Lord and said, “If you will indeed deliver this people into our hand, then we will utterly destroy their cities.”

“The daughters of Zelophehad have a valid claim. You must indeed give them possession of an inheritance among their father’s relatives, and you must transfer the inheritance of their father to them.

“Instruct the Israelites to give the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites will possess. You must also give the Levites grazing land around the towns.

“You must give three towns on this side of the Jordan, and you must give three towns in the land of Canaan; they must be towns of refuge.

And give the money for the redemption of the excess number of them to Aaron and his sons.”

So they said to one another, “Let’s appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”

Therefore, announce: ‘I am going to give to him my covenant of peace.

and if he has no daughter, then you are to give his inheritance to his brothers;

You are to take it from their half-share and give it to Eleazar the priest for a raised offering to the Lord.

These towns that you must give shall be your six towns for refuge.

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.

Then they must put over it a covering of fine leather and spread over that a cloth entirely of blue, and then they must insert its poles.

Every man’s holy things will be his; whatever any man gives the priest will be his.’”

So Moses accepted the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.