the Levites: Numbers 18:21-24; Deuteronomy 12:17-19; Luke 10:1-8; 1 Thessalonians 5:12-13
kept the charge: Numbers 31:30; Psalms 134:1; Isaiah 56:10-11
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Numbers 31:47
Numbers 31:47
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