Numbers 18:5-7
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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)
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- 18:7 Or curtain. So you are to perform the service; a gift of your priesthood I grant
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