David gathered together the descendants of Aaron and the Levites:

David ¹  assembled all the leaders of Israel, along with the priests and the Levites.

Their fellow Levites were in charge of the storehouses ¹  in God’s temple and the storehouses containing consecrated items.

When all Israel’s elders had arrived, the Levites lifted the ark.

He brought in the priests and Levites and assembled them in the square on the east side.

When Hezekiah asked the priests and Levites about the heaps,

They slaughtered the Passover lambs and the priests splashed the blood, ¹  while the Levites skinned the animals.

The Levites: the descendants of Jeshua and Kadmiel (through the line of Hodaviah): 74.

The Levites: the descendants of Jeshua (through Kadmiel, through the line of Hodaviah), 74.

The sum total of the Levites in the holy city was 284.

And I will choose some of them as priests and Levites,” says the Lord.

A priest of Aaron’s line ¹  will be with the Levites when the Levites collect the tithes, and the Levites will bring up a tenth of the tithes to the temple of our God, to the storerooms of the treasury.

But the Levites were not numbered among the other Israelites, as the Lord commanded Moses.

“Bring the tribe of Levi near, ¹  and present ²  them before Aaron the priest, that they may serve him. ³ 

You are to assign ¹  the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they will be assigned exclusively ²  to him out of all ³  the Israelites.

The sons of Merari by their families were Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their clans.

Now the head of all the Levitical leaders ¹  was Eleazar son of Aaron the priest. He was appointed over those who were responsible ²  for the sanctuary.

And for the redemption of the 273 firstborn males of the Israelites who exceed the number of the Levites,

So Moses took the redemption money ¹  from those who were in excess of those redeemed by the Levites.

“Take a census ¹  of the Kohathites from among the Levites, by their families and by their clans,