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NU-3:1 These also [are] the generations of Aaron and Moses in

the day [that]

the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai.

NU-3:2 And these [are] the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab

the firstborn,

and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

NU-3:3 These [are] the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests

which were

anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office.

NU-3:4 And 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:

and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the

sight of

Aaron their father.

NU-3:5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

NU-3:6 Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before

Aaron the

priest, that they may minister unto him.

NU-3:7 And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the

whole

congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do

the service of

the tabernacle.

NU-3:8 And they shall keep all the instruments of the

tabernacle of the

congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do

the service of

the tabernacle.

NU-3:9 And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his

sons: they [are]

wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel.

NU-3:10 And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they

shall wait on

their priest's office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall

be put to

death.

NU-3:11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

NU-3:12 And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the

children of

Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix

among the children

of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine;

NU-3:13 Because all the firstborn [are] mine; [for] on the day

that I smote

all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all

the firstborn in

Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I [am] the LORD.

NU-3:14 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of

Sinai, saying,

NU-3:15 Number the children of Levi after the house of their

fathers, by

their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt

thou number them.

NU-3:16 And Moses numbered them according to the word of the

LORD, as he was

commanded.

NU-3:17 And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon,

and Kohath,

and Merari.

NU-3:18 And these [are] the names of the sons of Gershon by

their families;

Libni, and Shimei.

NU-3:19 And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and

Izehar, Hebron,

and Uzziel.

NU-3:20 And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and

Mushi. These

[are] the families of the Levites according to the house of

their fathers.

NU-3:21 Of Gershon [was] the family of the Libnites, and the

family of the

Shimites: these [are] the families of the Gershonites.

NU-3:22 Those that were numbered of them, according to the

number of all the

males, from a month old and upward, [even] those that were

numbered of them

[were] seven thousand and five hundred.

NU-3:23 The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the

tabernacle

westward.

NU-3:24 And the chief of the house of the father of the

Gershonites [shall

be] Eliasaph the son of Lael.

NU-3:25 And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle

of the

congregation [shall be] the tabernacle, and the tent, the

covering thereof,

and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the

congregation.

NU-3:26 And the hangings of the court, and the curtain for the

door of the

court, which [is] by the tabernacle, and by the altar round

about, and the

cords of it for all the service thereof.

NU-3:27 And of Kohath [was] the family of the Amramites, and

the family of

the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family

of the

Uzzielites: these [are] the families of the Kohathites.

NU-3:28 In the number of all the males, from a month old and

upward, [were]

eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the

sanctuary.

NU-3:29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the

side of the

tabernacle southward.

NU-3:30 And the chief of the house of the father of the

families of the

Kohathites [shall be] Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.

NU-3:31 And their charge [shall be] the ark, and the table, and

the

candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary

wherewith they

minister, and the hanging, and all the service thereof.

NU-3:32 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest [shall be]

chief over the

chief of the Levites, [and have] the oversight of them that keep

the charge of

the sanctuary.

NU-3:33 Of Merari [was] the family of the Mahlites, and the

family of the

Mushites: these [are] the families of Merari.

NU-3:34 And those that were numbered of them, according to the

number of all

the males, from a month old and upward, [were] six thousand and

two hundred.

NU-3:35 And the chief of the house of the father of the

families of Merari

[was] Zuriel the son of Abihail: [these] shall pitch on the side

of the

tabernacle northward.

NU-3:36 And [under] the custody and charge of the sons of

Merari [shall be]

the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the

pillars thereof,

and the sockets thereof, and all the vessels thereof, and all

that serveth

thereto,

NU-3:37 And the pillars of the court round about, and their

sockets, and

their pins, and their cords.

NU-3:38 But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the

east, [even]

before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, [shall be]

Moses, and

Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the

charge of the

children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be

put to death.

NU-3:39 All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and

Aaron numbered

at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their families, all

the males from

a month old and upward, [were] twenty and two thousand.

NU-3:40 And the LORD said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn

of the males

of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take

the number of

their names.

NU-3:41 And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I [am] the

LORD) instead of

all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle

of the Levites

instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children

of Israel.

NU-3:42 And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the

firstborn

among the children of Israel.

NU-3:43 And all the firstborn males by the number of names,

from a month old

and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and

two thousand

two hundred and threescore and thirteen.

NU-3:44 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

NU-3:45 Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the

children of

Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle;

and the Levites

shall be mine: I [am] the LORD.

NU-3:46 And for those that are to be redeemed of the two

hundred and

threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of

Israel, which are

more than the Levites;

NU-3:47 Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll,

after the

shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take [them]: (the shekel [is]

twenty

gerahs:)

NU-3:48 And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number

of them is to

be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.

NU-3:49 And Moses took the redemption money of them that were

over and above

them that were redeemed by the Levites:

NU-3:50 Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the

money; a

thousand three hundred and threescore and five [shekels], after

the shekel of

the sanctuary:

NU-3:51 And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed

unto Aaron and to

his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD

commanded Moses.

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