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¹ These also [are] the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day [that] the LORD spoke with Moses in mount Sinai.² And these [are] the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the first-born, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.³ These [are] the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who 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 spoke to Moses, saying,⁶ Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.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 to Aaron and to his sons: they [are] wholly given to 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 spoke to Moses, saying,¹² And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel, instead of all the first-born that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine;¹³ Because all the first-born [are] mine; [for] on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, I hallowed to me all the first-born in Israel, both man and beast: mine they shall be: I [am] the LORD.

¹⁴ And the LORD spoke to 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, its covering, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,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 of it.²⁷ And of Kohath [was] the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izharites, 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 with which they minister, and the hanging, and all the service of it.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.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 its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and all its vessels, and all that serveth to it.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 towards 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, whom 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 to Moses, number all the first-born 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 first-born 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 first-born among the children of Israel.⁴³ And all the first-born 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 seventy and three.⁴⁴ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,⁴⁵ Take the Levites instead of all the first-born 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 seventy and three, of the first-born 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.⁴⁸ And thou shalt give to Aaron and to his sons the money, with which the odd number of them is to be redeemed.⁴⁹ And Moses took the redemption-money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:⁵⁰ Of the first-born of the children of Israel he took the money; a thousand three hundred and sixty and five [shekels], after the shekel of the sanctuary.⁵¹ And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed to Aaron, and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.