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These are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the Lord spoke to Moses in mount Sinai .
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And these the names of the sons of Aaron :
his firstborn Nadab ,
then Abiu ,
and Eleazar ,
and Ithamar .
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These the names of the sons of Aaron the priests that were anointed ,
and whose hands were filled and consecrated ,
to do the functions of priesthood .
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Now Nadab and Abiu died ,
without children ,
when they offered strange fire before the Lord ,
in the desert of Sinai :
and Eleazar and Ithamar performed the priestly office in the presence of Aaron their father .
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And the Lord spoke to Moses ,
saying :
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Bring the tribe of Levi ,
and make them stand in the sight of Aaron the priest to minister to him ,
and let them watch ,
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And observe whatsoever appertaineth to the service of the multitude before the tabernacle of the testimony ,
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And let them keep the vessels of the tabernacle ,
serving in the ministry thereof .
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And thou shalt give the Levites for a gift ,
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To Aaron and to his sons ,
to whom they are delivered by the children of Israel
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And the Lord spoke to Moses ,
saying :
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I have taken the Levites from the children of Israel ,
for every firstborn that openeth the womb among the children of Israel ,
and the Levites shall be mine .
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For every firstborn is mine :
since I struck the firstborn in the land of Egypt :
I have sanctified to myself whatsoever is firstborn in Israel both of man and beast ,
they are mine :
I am the Lord .
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And the Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai ,
saying :
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Number the sons of Levi by the houses of their fathers and their families ,
every male from one month and upward .
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Moses numbered them as the Lord had commanded .
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And there were found sons of Levi by their names ,
Gerson and Caath and Merari .
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The sons of Gerson :
Lebni and Semei .
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The sons of Caath :
Amram ,
and Jesaar ,
Hebron and Oziel :
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The sons of Merari :
Moholi and Musi .
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Of Gerson were two families ,
the Lebnites ,
and the Semeites :
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Of which were numbered ,
people of the male sex from one month and upward ,
seven thousand five hundred .
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These shall pitch behind the tabernacle on the west ,
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Under their prince Eliasaph the son of Lael .
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And their charge shall be in the tabernacle of the covenant :
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The tabernacle itself and the cover thereof ,
the hanging that is drawn before the doors of the tabernacle of the covenant ,
and the curtains of the court :
the hanging also that is hanged in the entry of the court of the tabernacle ,
and whatsoever belongeth to the rite of the altar ,
the cords of the tabernacle ,
and all the furniture thereof .
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Of the kindred of Caath come the families of the Amramites and Jesaarites and Hebronites and Ozielites .
These are the families of the Caathites reckoned up by their names :
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All of the male sex from one month and upward ,
eight thousand six hundred :
they shall have the guard of the sanctuary ,
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And shall camp on the south side .
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And their prince shall be Elisaphan the son of Oziel :
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And they shall keep the ark ,
and the table and the candlestick ,
the altars ,
and the vessels of the sanctuary ,
wherewith they minister ,
and the veil ,
and all the furniture of this kind .
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And the prince of the princes of the Levites ,
Eleazar ,
the son of Aaron the priest ,
shall be over them that watch for the guard of the sanctuary .
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And of Merari are the families of the Moholites ,
and Musites ,
reckoned up by their names :
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All of the male kind from one month and upward ,
six thousand two hundred .
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Their prince Suriel the son of Abihaiel :
they shall camp on the north side .
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Under their custody shall be the boards of the tabernacle ,
and the bars ,
and the pillars and their sockets ,
and all things that pertain to this kind of service :
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And the pillars of the court round about with their sockets ,
and the pins with their cords .
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Before the tabernacle of the covenant ,
that is to say on the east side ,
shall Moses and Aaron camp ,
with their sons ,
having the custody of the sanctuary ,
in the midst of the children of Israel .
What stranger soever cometh unto it ,
shall be put to death .
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All the Levites ,
that Moses and Aaron numbered according to the precept of the Lord ,
by their families ,
of the male kind from one month and upward ,
were twenty-two thousand .
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And the Lord said to Moses :
Number the firstborn of the male sex of the children of Israel ,
from one month and upward ,
and thou shalt take the sum of them .
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And thou shalt take the Levites to me for all the firstborn of the children of Israel ,
I am the Lord :
and their cattle for all the firstborn of the cattle of the children of Israel :
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Moses reckoned up ,
as the Lord had commanded ,
the firstborn of the children of Israel :
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And the males by their names ,
from one month and upward ,
were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three .
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And the Lord spoke to Moses ,
saving :
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Take the Levites for the firstborn of the children of Israel ,
and the cattle of the Levites for their cattle ,
and the Levites shall be mine .
I am the Lord .
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But for the price of the two hundred and seventy-three ,
of the firstborn of the children of Israel ,
that exceed the number of the Levites ,
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Thou shalt take five sides for every head ,
according to the weight of the sanctuary .
A sicle hath twenty obols .
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And then shalt give the money to Aaron and his sons ,
the price of them that are above .
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Moses therefore took the money of them that were above ,
and whom they had redeemed from the Levites ,
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For the firstborn of the children of Israel ,
one thousand three hundred and sixty-five sicles ,
according to the weight of the sanctuary ,
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And gave it to Aaron and his sons ,
according to the word that the Lord had commanded him .