Numbers 18:5-7

Christian Standard Bible

⁵ “You are to guard the sanctuary and the altar so that wrath may not fall on the Israelites again.^{(A) 6} Look, I have selected your fellow Levites from the Israelites as a gift for you, assigned by the Lord to work at the tent of meeting. ⁷ But you and your sons will carry out your priestly responsibilities^(B) for everything concerning the altar and for what is inside the curtain, and you will do that work. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift,^[a] but an unauthorized person who comes near the sanctuary will be put to death.”^(C)