Holy Scripture
Numbers 3:5
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“Further, the priests are described as being more eminent than the Levites; for this same Scripture tells us that "the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 'Bring the tribe of Levi and make them stand in the sight of Aaron the priest, to minister to him.' " Do you see how here too he both speaks of the priests as superior to t…”
Source: Septuagint
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5And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
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3These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests whom they consecrated to the priesthood.
4And Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord, when they offered strange fire before the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai; and they had no children; and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priests’ office with Aaron their father.
— Numbers 3:5 —
6Take the tribe of Levi, and thou shalt set them before Aaron the priest, and they shall minister to him,
7and shall keep his charges, and the charges of the children of Israel, before the tabernacle of witness, to do the works of the tabernacle.