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Numbers 3
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- 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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- 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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- 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.
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- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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- Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before
Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him.
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- 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.
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- 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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- 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,
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- 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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- 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.
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- And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of
Sinai, saying,
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- 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.
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- And Moses numbered them according to the word of the
LORD, as he was commanded.
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- And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon,
and Kohath, and Merari.
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- And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their
families; Libni, and Shimei.
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- And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and
Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
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- 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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- 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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- 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.
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- The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the
tabernacle westward.
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- And the chief of the house of the father of the
Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
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- 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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- 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.
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- 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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- 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.
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- The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the
side of the tabernacle southward.
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- 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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- 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.
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- 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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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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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- And the pillars of the court round about, and their
sockets, and their pins, and their cords.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the
firstborn among the children of Israel.
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- 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.
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- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- And Moses took the redemption money of them that were
over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:
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- 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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- 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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