Numbers 3:10-12

New International Reader's Version

¹⁰ Appoint Aaron and his sons to serve as priests. Anyone else who approaches the sacred tent must be put to death.”

¹¹ The Lord also said to Moses, ¹² “I have taken the Levites from among the Israelites. I have taken them in place of the son born first to each woman in Israel. The Levites belong to me.