³ Then Moses said to Aaron, “It is what the Lord spoke, saying,

So Aaron, therefore, kept silent.

⁵ and he spoke to Korah and all his group, saying, “Tomorrow morning the Lord will make known who is His, and ^(A)who is holy, and will bring that one near to Himself; indeed, ^(B)the one whom He will choose, He will bring near to Himself.

⁴⁰ as a reminder to the sons of Israel so that ^(A)no ^[a]layman, anyone who was not of the ^[b]descendants of Aaron, would approach ^(B)to burn incense before the Lord; then he would not become like Korah and his group—just as the Lord had spoken to him ^[c]through Moses.

¹³ Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers, which are opposite the ^(A)separate area, they are the ^(B)holy chambers where the priests who are ^(C)near to the Lord shall eat the ^(D)most holy things. There they shall set the most holy things, the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering; for the place is holy.

⁴ It shall be the holy portion of the land; it shall be for the ^(A)priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who ^(B)come near to serve the Lord, and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.