²⁶ Then speak to^▵ the Levites, and say to^▵ them, When^◦ you take from the sons of Israel the tithes, which I have given to you from them for your inheritance, then you shall lift·​·up^◦ an uplifting^◦ from it for Jehovah, even a tithe^* of the tithe.

²⁴ These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward.