24 “This is what applies to the Levites:* From twenty-five years old upward he will come to enter into the company in the service of the tent of meeting.

3 And they must keep their obligation to you and their obligation to the entire tent.+ Only to the utensils of the holy place and to the altar they must not come near that they may not die,+ neither they nor YOU men.

30 And from the half of the sons of Israel you should take one out of fifty,* of humankind, of the herd, of the asses and of the flock, of every sort of domestic animal, and you must give them to the Levites,+ the keepers of the obligation of Jehovah’s tabernacle.”+

32 And they took care of the guarding+ of the tent of meeting and the guarding of the holy place+ and the guarding of the sons of Aaron their brothers for the service of the house of Jehovah.+

10 As for us, Jehovah is our God,+ and we have not left him; but priests are ministering to Jehovah, the sons of Aaron, and also the Levites in the work.+