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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 #
El #
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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 priests 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 #
El #
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and Ithamar ministered in the priests office in the sight of Aaron their father .
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And the LORD spake unto Moses ,
saying ,
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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 mow #
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to do the service of the tabernacle .
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And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation mow #
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and the charge of the children of Israel Yisra #
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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 Yisra #
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And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons ,
and they shall wait on their priests 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 Yisra #
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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 Yisra #
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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 Shim #
iy #.
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And the sons of Kohath by their families ;
Amram ,
and Izehar ,
Hebron ,
and Uzziel #
Uzziy #
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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 Shim #
iy #:
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 ma #
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even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred me #
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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 La #
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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 mow #
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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 #
Ozziy #
eliy #:
these are the families of the Kohathites .
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In the number of all the males ,
from a month old and upward ma #
al #,
were eight thousand and six hundred me #
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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 #
Uzziy #
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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 #
El #
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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 ma #
al #,
were six thousand and two hundred me #
ah #.
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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 Yisra #
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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 ma #
al #,
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 ma #
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and take the number of their names .
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And thou shalt take the Levites for me (
I am the LORD Y @
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instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel Yisra #
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and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel Yisra #
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And Moses numbered ,
as the LORD commanded him ,
all the firstborn among the children of Israel Yisra #
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And all the firstborn males by the number of names ,
from a month old and upward ma #
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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 Yisra #
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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 #
H7969of the firstborn of the children of Israel Yisra #
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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 .