Num 8:13-14, 24-26, 18:1-8, Isa 66:21, Jer 33:17-22 | ESV | STEP | And you shall set the Levites before Aaron and his sons , and shall offer them as a wave offering to the Lord .

Numbers 8:13-14

13 And you shall set the Levites before Aaron and his sons, and shall offer them as ^aa wave offering to the Lord.

14 “Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the people of Israel, and ^bthe Levites shall be mine.

Numbers 8:24-26

24 “This applies to the Levites: ^cfrom twenty-five years old and upward they ^{▼▼Hebrew he; also verses 25, 26} shall come to do duty in the service of the tent of meeting. 25 And from the age of fifty years they shall withdraw from the duty of the service and serve no more. 26 They minister ^{▼▼Hebrew He ministers} to their brothers in the tent of meeting ^fby keeping guard, but they shall do no service. Thus shall you do to the Levites in assigning their duties.”

Numbers 18:1-8

Duties of Priests and Levites

1 So the Lord said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your father’s house with you shall ^gbear iniquity connected with the sanctuary, ^hand you and your sons with you shall bear iniquity connected with your priesthood. 2 And with you bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may ⁱjoin you and ^jminister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony. 3 They shall keep guard over you and ^kover the whole tent, ^lbut shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary or to the altar ^mlest they, and you, die. 4 They shall join you and keep guard over the tent of meeting for all the service of the tent, ⁿand no outsider shall come near you. 5 And you shall ^okeep guard over the sanctuary and over the altar, ^pthat there may never again be wrath on the people of Israel. 6 ^qAnd behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the people of Israel. ^rThey are a gift to you, given to the Lord, to do the service of the tent of meeting. 7 And ^syou and your sons with you shall guard your priesthood for all that concerns the altar and ^tthat is within the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood as a gift, ^{▼▼Hebrew service of gift} and ^vany outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”

8 Then the Lord spoke to Aaron, “Behold, ^wI have given you charge of the contributions made to me, all the consecrated things of the people of Israel. I have given them to you ^xas a portion and to your sons as a perpetual due.

Isaiah 66:21

21 ^yAnd some of them also I will take for priests and for Levites, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 33:17-22

17 “For thus says the Lord: ^zDavid shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel, 18 ^aaand the Levitical priests shall never lack a man in my presence to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to make sacrifices forever.”

19 The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: 20 ^ab“Thus says the Lord: ^acIf you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, ^adso that day and night will not come at their appointed time, 21 ^aethen also my covenant with David my servant may be broken, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and my covenant with the Levitical priests my ministers. 22 As ^afthe host of heaven cannot be numbered and ^agthe sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant, and the Levitical priests who minister to me.”