1. Now these are the records of Aaron and Moses when the Lord spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
2. These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab, the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
3. These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he consecrated to minister as priests.
4. 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. So Eleazar and Ithamar ministered as priests in the presence of Aaron their father.
5. The Lord spoke to Moses:
6. “Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may serve him.
7. They are responsible for his needs and the needs of the whole community before the tent of meeting, by attending to the service of the tabernacle.
8. And they are responsible for all the furnishings of the tent of meeting, and for the needs of the Israelites, as they serve in the tabernacle.
9. You are to assign the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they will be assigned exclusively to him out of all the Israelites.