| Chapter
3 |
| 1 | These
also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spake with
Moses in mount Sinai. |
| 2 |
And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu,
Eleazar, and Ithamar. |
| 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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 11 | 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; |
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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, |
| 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. |
| 18 | And these are the names of the sons of
Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei. |
| 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. |
| 21 | Of Gershon was the family of
the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the
Gershonites. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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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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. |
| 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, |
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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, |
| 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; |
| 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:) |
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48 | And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them
is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons. |
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49 | And Moses took the redemption money of them that
were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites: |
| 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: |
| 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. |
