³ Then Moses said to Aaron, “It is what the Lord spoke, saying,

So Aaron, therefore, kept silent.

⁵ and he spoke to Korah and all his company, saying, “Tomorrow morning the Lord will show who is His, and ^(A)who is holy, and will bring him near to Himself; even ^(B)the one whom He will choose, He will bring near to Himself.

⁴⁰ as a ^[a]reminder to the sons of Israel that ^(A)no ^[b]layman who is not of the ^[c]descendants of Aaron should come near ^(B)to burn incense before the Lord; so that he will not become like Korah and his company—just as the Lord had spoken to him ^[d]through Moses.

¹³ Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers, which are opposite the ^(A)separate area, they are the ^(B)holy chambers where the priests who are ^(C)near to the Lord shall eat the ^(D)most holy things. There they shall lay the most holy things, the grain offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering; for the place is holy.

⁴ It shall be the holy portion of the land; it shall be for the ^(A)priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who ^(B)come near to minister to the Lord, and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.