Numbers Chapter 3

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  Numbers.
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  Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.
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  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 who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest’s office.
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  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. Eleazar and ...
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  The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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  “Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.
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  They shall keep his requirements, and the requirements of the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.
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  They shall keep all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and the obligations of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.
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  You shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons. They are wholly given to him on the behalf of the children of Israel.
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  You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood, but the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”
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  The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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  “Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; and t...
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  for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made holy to me all the firstborn in Israel, bo...
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  The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
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  “Count the children of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families. You shall count every male from a month old and upward.”
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  Moses counted them according to the LORD’s word, as he was commanded.
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  These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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  These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.
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  The sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
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  The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ houses.
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  Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites. These are the families of the Gershonites.
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  Those who were counted of them, according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, even those who were counted of them were seven t...
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  The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.
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  Eliasaph the son of Lael shall be the prince of the fathers’ house of the Gershonites.
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  The duty of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting shall be the tabernacle, the tent, its covering, the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting...
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  the hangings of the court, the screen for the door of the court which is by the tabernacle and around the altar, and its cords for all of its service.
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  Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, the family of the Izharites, the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites. These are the ...
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  According to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred keeping the requirements of the sanctuary.
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  The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the south side of the tabernacle.
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  The prince of the fathers’ house of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
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  Their duty shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, the screen, and all its ser...
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  Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the Levites, with the oversight of those who keep the requirements of the sanctu...
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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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  Those who were counted of them, according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred.
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  The prince of the fathers’ house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They shall encamp on the north side of the tabernacle.
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  The appointed duty of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service,
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  the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords.
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  Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, with Aaron and his sons, keeping ...
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  All who were counted of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron counted at the commandment of the LORD, by their families, all the males from a month old an...
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  The LORD said to Moses, “Count all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.
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  You shall take the Levites for me—I am the LORD—instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the livestock of the Levites instead of...
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  Moses counted, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
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  All the firstborn males according to the number of names from a month old and upward, of those who were counted of them, were twenty-two thousand two ...
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  The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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  “Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levi...
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  For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel who exceed the number of the Levites,
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  you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; according to the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs);
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  and you shall give the money, with which their remainder is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.”
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  Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites;
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  from the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuar...
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  and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to the LORD’s word, as the LORD commanded Moses.