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Chapter 3 |
| 1 | These also are
the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spake with Moses in
mount Sinai. |
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| And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the
firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. |
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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. |
| 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. |
| 5 | And the LORD
spake unto Moses, saying, |
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6 | Bring the tribe of Levi near, and
present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him.
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| 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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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| And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
| 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; |
| 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. |
| 14 | And the LORD spake unto Moses in the
wilderness of Sinai, saying, |
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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. |
| 16 | And Moses numbered them
according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded. |
| 17 | And these
were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
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| 18 | And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni,
and Shimei. |
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19 | And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram,
and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel. |
| 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. |
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21 | Of Gershon was the family
of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the
Gershonites. |
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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. |
| 23 | The families
of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward. |
| 24 | And
the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the
son of Lael. |
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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, |
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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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
| 29 | The families of the sons of Kohath shall
pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward. |
| 30 | And the
chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be
Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. |
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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. |
| 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. |
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33 | Of Merari was the family of the
Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of
Merari. |
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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, |
| 37 | And the pillars of the court round about,
and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 42 | And Moses
numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of
Israel. |
| 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. |
| 44 | And the LORD
spake unto Moses, saying, |
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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. |
| 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; |
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| 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:) |
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| And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number
of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons. |
| 49 | And Moses
took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were
redeemed by the Levites: |
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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: |
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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. |
