&#8220;How long must I bear<n id="1" /> with this evil congregation<n id="2" /> that murmurs against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites that they murmured against me.

You are to assign<n id="1" /> the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they will be assigned exclusively<n id="2" /> to him out of all<n id="3" /> the Israelites.

<p class="bodytext">These are the waters of Meribah, because the Israelites contended with the <sc>Lordsc>, and his holiness was maintained<n id="1" /> among them.p>

So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran at the command<n id="1" /> of the <sc>Lordsc>. All of them were leaders<n id="2" /> of the Israelites.p>

But appoint<n id="1" /> the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony,<n id="2" /> over all its furnishings and over everything in it. They must carry<n id="3" /> the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they<n id="4" /> must attend to it and camp around it.<n id="5" />

For they are entirely given<n id="1" /> to me from among the Israelites. I have taken them for myself instead of<n id="2" /> all who open the womb, the firstborn sons of all the Israelites.