Bible Verses About Levites

Moshe stood at the entrance to the camp and shouted, "Whoever is for ADONAI, come to me!"All the descendants of Levi rallied around him.

He told them, "Here is what ADONAI, the God of Isra'el, says: 'Each of you, put his sword on his side; and go up and down the camp, from gate to gate; and every man is to kill his own kinsman, his own friend and his own neighbor!"

The sons of Levi did what Moshe said, and that day three thousand of the people died.

But those who were L'vi'im, according to the clan of their fathers, were not counted in this census;

because ADONAI had told Moshe,

"Do not include the clan of Levi when you take the census of the people of Isra'el.

Instead, give the L'vi'im charge over the tabernacle of the testimony, its equipment and everything else connected with it. They are to carry the tabernacle and all its equipment, serve in it and set up their camp around it.

When the tabernacle is to be moved onward, it is the L'vi'im who are to take it down and set it up in the new location; anyone else who involves himself is to be put to death.

The rest of Isra'el are to set up camp, company by company, each man with his own banner.

But the L'vi'im are to camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that no anger will come upon the assembly of the people of Isra'el. The L'vi'im are to be in charge of the tabernacle of the testimony."

This is what the people of Isra'el did - they did everything that ADONAI had ordered Moshe.

"Summon the tribe of Levi, and assign them to Aharon the cohen, so that they can help him.

They are to carry out his duties and the duties of the whole community before the tent of meeting in performing the service of the tabernacle.

They are to be in charge of all the furnishings of the tent of meeting and to carry out all the duties of the people of Isra'el connected with the service of the tabernacle.

Assign the L'vi'im to Aharon and his sons; their one responsibility in regard to the people of Isra'el is to serve him.

You are to appoint Aharon and his sons to carry out the duties of cohanim; anyone else who involves himself is to be put to death."

ADONAI said to Moshe,

"I have taken the L'vi'im from among the people of Isra'el in lieu of every firstborn male that is first from the womb among the people of Isra'el; the L'vi'im are to be mine.

All the firstborn males belong to me, because on the day that I killed all the firstborn males in the land of Egypt, I separated for myself all the firstborn males in Isra'el, both human and animal. They are mine; I am ADONAI."

ADONAI said to Moshe in the Sinai Desert,

"Take a census of the tribe of Levi by clans and families. Count every male a month old or over."

Moshe counted them in the manner ADONAI had said, as he had been ordered.

The names of the sons of Levi were Gershon, K'hat and M'rari.

The names of the sons of Gershon were Livni and Shim'i; they fathered their respective clans;

likewise the sons of K'hat -'Amram,Yitz'har, Hevron and 'Uzi'el -