1 These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spoke with Moses in mount Sinai. Compare verse
2 And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. Compare verse
3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office. Compare verse
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. Compare verse
6 Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him. Compare verse
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. Compare verse
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. Compare verse
9 And you shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given to him out of the children of Israel. Compare verse
10 And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's office: and the stranger that comes near shall be put to death. Compare verse
11 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, Compare verse
12 And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that opens the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine; Compare verse
13 Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed to me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: my shall they be: I am the LORD. Compare verse
14 And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, Compare verse
15 Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shall you number them. Compare verse
16 And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded. Compare verse
17 And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. Compare verse
18 And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei. Compare verse
19 And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Compare verse
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. Compare verse
21 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites. Compare verse
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. Compare verse
23 The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward. Compare verse
24 And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael. Compare verse
25 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, Compare verse
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 thereof. Compare verse
27 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: these are the families of the Kohathites. Compare verse
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. Compare verse
29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward. Compare verse
30 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. Compare verse
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 thereof. Compare verse
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. Compare verse
33 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari. Compare verse
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. Compare verse
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. Compare verse
36 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 serves thereto, Compare verse
37 And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords. Compare verse
38 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; and the stranger that comes near shall be put to death. Compare verse
39 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, were twenty and two thousand. Compare verse
40 And the LORD said to Moses, Number all the firstborn of the males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. Compare verse
41 And you shall take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the cattle of the children of Israel. Compare verse
42 And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel. Compare verse
43 And all the firstborn 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 three score and thirteen. Compare verse
44 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, Compare verse
45 Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn 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. Compare verse
46 And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and three score and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of Israel, which are more than the Levites; Compare verse
47 You shall even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shall you take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:) Compare verse
48 And you shall give the money, with which the odd number of them is to be redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons. Compare verse
49 And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites: Compare verse
50 Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money; a thousand three hundred and three score and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: Compare verse
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. Compare verse