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* These also [are ] the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day the LORD spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai . * And these [are ] the names of the sons of Aaron : Nadab the first-born , and Abihu , Eleazar , and Ithamar . * These [are ] the names of the sons of Aaron , the priests who were anointed , whom he set apart to minister as priests . * 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 sons . And Eleazar and Ithamar ministered as priest in the presence of Aaron their father . * And the LORD spoke to Moses saying , * Bring the tribe of Levi near , and present them before Aaron the priest , so that they may minister to him . * 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 . * And they shall keep all the vessels of the tabernacle of the congregation , and the charge of the sons of Israel , to do the service of the tabernacle . * And you shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his son . They [are ] wholly given to him out of the sons of Israel . * And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons , and they shall wait on their priest 's office . And the stranger who comes near shall be put to death . * And the LORD spoke to Moses saying , * And I , behold , I have taken the Levites from among the sons of Israel instead of all the first-born that open the womb among the sons of Israel . Therefore the Levites shall be Mine . * Because all the first-born [are ] Mine . On the day that I struck all the first-born in the land of Egypt I set apart to Myself all the first-born in Israel , both man and animal . They shall be Mine . I [am ] the LORD . * And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai saying , * Number the sons of Levi according to their fathers ' house , by their families . You shall number them , every male from a month old and upward . * And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD , as he was commanded . * And these were the sons of Levi by their names : Gershon , and Kohath , and Merari . * And these were the names of the sons of Gershon by their families : Libni and Shimei . * And the sons of Kohath by their families : Amram and Izehar , Hebron and Uzziel . * And the sons of Merari by their families : Mahli and Mushi . These [were ] the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers . * Of Gershon [was ] the family of the Libnites , and the family of the Shimites . These [are ] the families of the Gershonites . * Those who were numbered of them , according to the number of all the males , from a month old and upward ; those numbered of them [were ] seven thousand , five hundred . * The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward . * And the ruler of the house of the father of the Gershonites [shall be ] Eliasaph the son of Lael . * And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation [shall be ] the tabernacle , and the tent , and its covering , and the veil for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation , * and the hangings of the court , and the veil for the door of the court which [is ] by the tabernacle and by the altar all around , and the cords of it , for all the service of it . * And of Kohath [was ] the family of the Amramites , and the family of the Izeharites , the family of the Hebronites , and the family of the Uzzielites . These were the families of the Kohathites . * In number , all the males , from a month old and upward , [were ] eight thousand and six hundred , keeping the charge of the sanctuary . * The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward . * And the ruler of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites [shall be ] Elizaphan the son of Uzziel . * And their charge [shall be ] the ark , and the table , and the lampstand , and the altars , and the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister , and the veil , and all the service of it . * And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest [shall be ] chief over the leaders of the Levites , having the oversight of the ones who keep the charge of the sanctuary . * Of Merari [was ] the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites . These [are ] the families of Merari . * And those numbered of them , according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward , [were ] six thousand and two hundred . * And the ruler of the house of the father of the families of Merari [was ] Zuriel the son of Abihail . They pitched on the side of the tabernacle northward . * And the office and charge of the sons of Merari [were ] the boards of the tabernacle , and its bars , and its pillars , and its sockets , and its vessels , and all its service , * and the pillars of the court all around , and their sockets , and their pins , and their cords . * And those who camp before the tabernacle toward the east , 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 sons of Israel . And the stranger that comes near shall be put to death . * All who were numbered of the Levites , whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the command of the LORD , throughout their families , all the males from a month old and upward , [were ] twenty-two thousand . * And the LORD said to Moses , Number all the first-born of the males of the sons of Israel from a month old and upward , and take the number of their names . * You shall take the Levites for Me , I [am ] the LORD , in the place of all the first-born among the sons of Israel ; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the sons of Israel . * And as the LORD commanded him , Moses numbered all the first-born among the sons of Israel . * And all the first-born males by the number of names , from a month old and upward , of those numbered of them , [were ] twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three . * And the LORD spoke to Moses saying , * Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the sons of Israel , and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle . And the Levites shall be Mine . I [am ] the LORD . * And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and seventy-three of the first-born of the sons of Israel , who are more than the Levites , * you shall even take five shekels each by the head , according to the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take . (The shekel [is ] twenty gerahs .) * And you shall give to Aaron , and to his sons , the silver of the redeemed left over among them . * And Moses took the redemption silver from those who were over and above the ones who were redeemed by the Levites . * He took the silver from the first-born of the sons of Israel : one thousand three hundred and sixty-five [shekels ], according to the shekel of the sanctuary . * And Moses gave the silver from those who were redeemed to Aaron and to his sons , according to the word of the LORD , as the LORD commanded Moses .

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