| 1 | These also [are] the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day [that] the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai. |
| 2 | And these [are] the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 5 | And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
| 6 | Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 9 | And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they [are] wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel. |
| 10 | And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death. |
| 11 | And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
| 12 | 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: therefore the Levites shall be mine; |
| 13 | 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, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I [am] the LORD. |
| 14 | And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, |
| 15 | 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. |
| 16 | And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded. |
| 17 | And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. |
| 18 | And these [are] the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei. |
| 19 | And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel. |
| 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. |
| 21 | Of Gershon [was] the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these [are] the families of the Gershonites. |
| 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. |
| 23 | The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward. |
| 24 | And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites [shall be] Eliasaph the son of Lael. |
| 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, |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 29 | The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward. |
| 30 | And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites [shall be] Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. |
| 31 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 33 | Of Merari [was] the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these [are] the families of Merari. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 serveth thereto, |
| 37 | And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords. |
| 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 cometh nigh shall be put to death. |
| 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. |
| 40 | And the LORD said unto 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. |
| 41 | And thou shalt 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 firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel. |
| 42 | And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel. |
| 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 threescore and thirteen. |
| 44 | And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
| 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. |
| 46 | And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of Israel, which are more than the Levites; |
| 47 | 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:) |
| 48 | And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons. |
| 49 | And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites: |
| 50 | 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: |
| 51 | 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. |
