Only the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, neither shalt thou take the sum of them among the children of Israel;
Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am Jehovah.
Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
and it shall be unto him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.
Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.