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.”

Numbers 16:9-10

9is it dtoo small a thing for you that the God of Israel has eseparated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do service in the tabernacle of the Lord and to stand before the congregation to minister to them, 10and that he has brought you near him, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? And would you seek the priesthood also?

2 Corinthians 4:5

5For what fwe proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with gourselves as your servants
Greek bondservants
for Jesussake.
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