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

You are to bring the Levites before the tent of meeting and assemble the entire community of the Israelites.

You are to have the Levites stand before Aaron and his sons, and then offer them as a wave offering to the Lord.

“Therefore you will say to them, ‘When you offer up the best of it, then it will be credited to the Levites as the product of the threshing floor and as the product of the winepress.

The grazing lands around the towns that you will give to the Levites must extend to a distance of 500 yards from the town wall.

“So the total of the towns you will give the Levites is forty-eight. You must give these together with their grazing lands.

Be careful not to overlook the Levites as long as you live in the land.

As for the Levites in your villages, you must not ignore them, for they have no allotment or inheritance along with you.

and serves in the name of the Lord his God like his fellow Levites who stand there before the Lord.

“The Levites will call out to every Israelite with a loud voice:

he commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the Lord’s covenant,

The rest of the Kohathite clans of the Levites were allotted cities from the tribe of Ephraim.

The Levites received within the land owned by the Israelites forty-eight cities in all and their grazing areas.

There was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah. He was a Levite who had been temporarily residing among the tribe of Judah.

So the Levite agreed to stay with the man; the young man was like a son to Micah.

Micah paid the Levite; the young man became his priest and lived in Micah’s house.

They stopped there, went inside the young Levite’s house (which belonged to Micah), and asked him how he was doing.

The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites by their families.

The rest of their fellow Levites were assigned to perform the remaining tasks at God’s sanctuary.

So the Israelites gave to the Levites these cities and their pasturelands.