Num 8:19 | ESV | STEP | And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the people of Israel , to do the service for the people of Israel at the tent of meeting and to make atonement for the people of Israel , that there may be no plague among the people of Israel when the people of Israel come near the sanctuary .

a[See ver. 16 above]

Numbers 8:19

19 ^aAnd I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the people of Israel, to do the service for the people of Israel at the tent of meeting and ^bto make atonement for the people of Israel, ^cthat there may be no plague among the people of Israel when the people of Israel come near the sanctuary.”