Quotes about Levites
Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, in order to carry it.
— Exodus 25:14
So Moses stood at the entrance to the camp and said, “Whoever is for the LORD, come to me.” And all the Levites gathered around him.
— Exodus 32:26
The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people fell dead.
— Exodus 32:28
This is the inventory for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the Testimony, as recorded at Moses’ command by the Levites under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.
— Exodus 38:21
As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the cities they possess.
— Leviticus 25:32
So whatever belongs to the Levites may be redeemed—a house sold in a city they possess—and must be released in the Jubilee, because the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the Israelites.
— Leviticus 25:33
The Levites, however, were not numbered along with them by the tribe of their fathers.
— Numbers 1:47
Instead, you are to appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony, all its furnishings, and everything in it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its articles, care for it, and camp around it.
— Numbers 1:50
Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to be pitched, the Levites are to set it up. Any outsider who goes near it must be put to death.
— Numbers 1:51
But the Levites are to camp around the tabernacle of the Testimony and watch over it, so that no wrath will fall on the congregation of Israel. So the Levites are responsible for the tabernacle of the Testimony.”
— Numbers 1:53
In the middle of the camps, the Tent of Meeting is to travel with the camp of the Levites. They are to set out in the order they encamped, each in his own place under his standard.
— Numbers 2:17
But the Levites were not counted among the other Israelites, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
— Numbers 2:33