Bible Verses About Levites: Set apart as ministers of religion

And the Levites, for the tribe of their fathers, have not numbered themselves in their midst,

seeing Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

`Only, the tribe of Levi thou dost not number, and their sum thou dost not take up in the midst of the sons of Israel;

and thou, appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its vessels, and over all that it hath; they bear the tabernacle, and all its vessels, and they serve it; and round about the tabernacle they encamp.

`And in the journeying of the tabernacle, the Levites take it down, and in the encamping of the tabernacle, the Levites raise it up; and the stranger who is coming near is put to death.'

And the sons of Israel have encamped, each by his camp, and each by his standard, by their hosts;

and the Levites encamp round about the tabernacle of the testimony; and there is no wrath on the company of the sons of Israel, and the Levites have kept the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.

And the sons of Israel do according to all that Jehovah hath commanded Moses; so they have done.

`Bring near the tribe of Levi, and thou hast caused it to stand before Aaron the priest, and they have served him,

and kept his charge, and the charge of all the company before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle;

and they have kept all the vessels of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the sons of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle;

and thou hast given the Levites to Aaron and to his sons; they are surely given to him out of the sons of Israel.

`And Aaron and his sons thou dost appoint, and they have kept their priesthood, and the stranger who cometh near is put to death.'

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

`And I, lo, I have taken the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel instead of every first-born opening a womb among the sons of Israel, and the Levites have been Mine;

for Mine is every first-born, in the day of My smiting every first-born in the land of Egypt I have sanctified to Myself every first-born in Israel, from man unto beast; Mine they are; I am Jehovah.'

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,

`Number the sons of Levi by the house of their fathers, by their families; every male from a son of a month and upward thou dost number them.'

And Moses numbereth them according to the command of Jehovah, as he hath been commanded.

And these are numbered ones of the Levite by their families: of Gershon is the family of the Gershonite; of Kohath the family of the Kohathite; of Merari the family of the Merarite.

These are families of the Levite: the family of the Libnite, the family of the Hebronite, the family of the Mahlite, the family of the Mushite, the family of the Korathite. And Kohath hath begotten Amram,

and the name of Amram's wife is Jochebed, daughter of Levi, whom one hath born to Levi in Egypt; and she beareth to Amram Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam their sister.

And born to Aaron Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar;

and Nadab dieth--Abihu also--in their bringing near strange fire before Jehovah.

And their numbered ones are three and twenty thousand, every male from a son of a month and upwards, for they have not numbered themselves in the midst of the sons of Israel; for an inheritance hath not been given to them in the midst of the sons of Israel.