Then David said, “No one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, because the LORD has chosen them to carry the ark of the LORD and to minister before Him forever.”
At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD
So Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LO
So the LORD said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your father’s house must bear the iniquity involving the sanctuary. An
For this is what the LORD says: David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel,
So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and said, “Take up the ark of the covenant and have seven priests carry seven
In order that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy things, do this for them: Aaron and his sons a
You are to have the Levites stand before Aaron and his sons and then present them before the LORD as a wave offering.
“This applies to the Levites: Men twenty-five years of age or older shall enter to perform the service in the work at th
and commanded the people: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God being carried by the Levitical prie
“Take a census of the Kohathites among the Levites by their clans and families,
But he did not give any to the Kohathites, since they were to carry on their shoulders the holy objects for which they w
“And I will select some of them as priests and Levites,” says the LORD.
To the Levites who taught all Israel and were holy to the LORD, Josiah said: “Put the holy ark in the temple built by So