And these [are] the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn; and Abiud, Eleazar and Ithamar.

And Nadab and Abiud 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 priests' office with Aaron their father.

Take the tribe of Levi, and you shall set them before Aaron the priest, and they shall minister to him,

And they shall keep all the furniture of the tabernacle of witness, and the charges of the children of Israel as to all the works of the tabernacle.

And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons over the tabernacle of witness; and they shall keep their charge of priesthood, and all things belonging to the altar, and within the veil; and the stranger that touches them shall die.

Behold, I have taken the Levites from the midst of the children of Israel, instead of every male that opens the womb from among the children of Israel: they shall be their ransom, and the Levites shall be Mine.

And the Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, saying,

And Moses and Aaron numbered them by the word of the Lord, as the Lord commanded them.

and these [are] the names of the sons of Gershon according to their families: Libni and Shimei;

and the sons of Merari according to their families: Mahli and Mushi; these are the families of the Levites according to the houses of their families.

The numbering of them according to the number of every male from a month old and upwards, their numbering [was] seven thousand and five hundred.

And the ruler of the household of the family of Gershon [was] Eliasaph the son of Lael.

and the curtains of the court, and the veil of the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and the remainder of all its works.

Every male from a month old and upward, eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charges of the holy things.

And the chief of the house of the families of the divisions of Kohath [was] Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.

And the chief over the chief of the Levites [was] Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, appointed to keep the charges of the holy things.

The mustering of them according to their number, every male from a month old and upwards, [was] six thousand and fifty.

The oversight of the charge of the sons of Merari [included] the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, its pillars, its sockets and all their furniture, and their works,

They that encamp before the tabernacle of witness on the east [shall be] Moses and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charges of the sanctuary according to the charges of the children of Israel; and the stranger that touches them shall die.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Count every firstborn male of the children of Israel from a month old and upwards, and take the number by name.

And Moses counted, as the Lord commanded him, every firstborn among the children of Israel.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And for the ransoms of the two hundred and seventy-three which exceed the Levites in number of the firstborn of the sons of Israel,

And you shall give the money to Aaron and to his sons, the ransom of those who exceed in number among them.

He took the silver from the firstborn of the sons of Israel, a thousand three hundred and sixty-five shekels, according to the holy shekel.

Take the sum of the children of Kohath from the midst of the sons of Levi, after their families, according to the houses of their fathers' households;

And these are the works of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of witness; it is most holy.

And they shall put a cover on it of blue skin, a garment of all blue, and they shall put the poles through [the rings].

And they shall put upon it a scarlet cloth, and they shall cover it with a blue covering of skin, and they shall put the poles into it.

And they shall put it, and all its vessels, into a blue skin cover; and they shall put it on bearers.

And they shall take all the instruments of service, with which they minister in the sanctuary: and shall place them in a cloth of blue, and shall cover them with blue skin covering, and put them upon poles.

And they shall put upon it all the vessels with which they minister upon it, and the firepans, and the flesh-hooks, and the cups, and the cover, and all the vessels of the altar; and they shall put on it a blue cover of skins, and shall put in its poles; and they shall take a purple cloth, and cover the laver and its foot, and they shall put it into a blue cover of skin, and put it on bars.

Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest is overseer- the oil of the light, and the incense of composition, and the daily grain offering and the anointing oil, are his charge; even the oversight of the whole tabernacle, and all things that are in it in the holy place, in all the works.

You shall not destroy the family of Kohath from the tribe out of the midst of the Levites.

And [so] they shall by no means go in to look suddenly upon the holy things, and die.

Take the sum of the children of Gershon, and these according to the houses of their lineage, according to there families.

This [is] the public service of the family of Gershon, to minister and to bear.

And all the curtains of the court which were upon the tabernacle of witness, and the appendages, and all the vessels of service that they minister with they shall attend to.

This is the service of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of witness, and their charge by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

Take the number of them from twenty-five years old and upwards until fifty years old, everyone that goes in to perform the services of the tabernacle of witness.

And they shall bear the pillars of the court round about, and [there shall be] their sockets, and [they shall bear] the pillars of the veil of the door of the court, and their sockets and their pins, and their cords, and all their furniture, and all their instruments of service. And you shall take their number by name, and all the articles of the charge of the things borne by them.

And Moses and Aaron and the rulers of Israel took the number of the sons of Kohath according to their families, according to the houses of their lineage,

And the numbering of them according to their families was two thousand, seven hundred and fifty.

And the sons of Gershon were numbered according to their families, according to the houses of their lineage,

And the numbering of them according to their families, according to the houses of their lineage, [was] two thousand six hundred and thirty.

And also the family of the sons of Merari were numbered according to their divisions, according to the house of their fathers;

And the numbering of them according to their families, according to the houses of their lineage, [was] three thousand two hundred.

All that were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron and the rulers of Israel numbered, [namely], the Levites, according to their families and according to the houses of their lineage,

And they that were numbered were eight thousand five hundred and eighty.

Speak to Aaron, and you shall say to him, Whenever you shall set the lamps in order, the seven lamps shall give light opposite the lampstand.

And this [is] the construction of the lampstand: [it is] solid, golden-- its stem, and its lilies [were] all solid; according to the pattern which the Lord showed Moses, so he made the lampstand.

Take the Levites out of the midst of the children of Israel, and you shall purify them.

And they shall take one calf of the herd, and its grain offering, fine flour mingled with oil; and you shall take a calf of a year old of the herd for a sin offering.

And you shall bring the Levites before the Lord; and the sons of Israel shall lay their hands upon the Levites.

And the Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the calves; and you shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a whole burnt offering to the Lord, to make atonement for them.

And you shall separate the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel, and they shall be Mine.

For these are given to Me for a present out of the midst of the children of Israel: I have taken them to Myself instead of all the firstborn of the sons of Israel that open every womb.

And I took the Levites in the place of every firstborn among the children of Israel.

And Moses and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel did to the Levites as the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the sons of Israel did to them.

And afterwards the Levites went in to minister in their service in the tabernacle of witness before Aaron, and before his sons; as the Lord appointed Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.

This is the [ordinance] for the Levites: From twenty-five years old and upward, they shall go in to minister in the tabernacle of witness.

And his brother shall serve in the tabernacle of witness to keep the charges, but he shall not do the works: so shall you do to the Levites in their charges.

These [are] the families of the sons of Levi; the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Korahites, and the family of the Musites; and Kohath begot Amram.

And to Aaron were born both Nadab and Abiud, and Eleazar, and Ithamar.

And there were according to their numbering, twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because they have no inheritance in the midst of the children of Israel.

And the sons of Kohath [were] Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

Eleazar begot Phinehas, Phinehas begot Abishua;

Uzzi begot Zerahiah, Zerahiah begot Meraioth;

Ahitub begot Zadok, and Zadok begot Ahimaaz;

Johanan begot Azariah (he ministered as priest in the house which Solomon built in Jerusalem);

Ahitub begot Zadok, and Zadok begot Shallum;

Azariah begot Seraiah, and Seraiah begot Jehozadak.

The sons of Levi [were] Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

The sons of Kohath [were] Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

Of Gershon were Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,

The sons of Kohath [were] Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,

Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.

[As for] Elkanah, his sons [were] Zophai, Nahath his son,

The sons of Samuel [were] Joel the firstborn, and Abijah.

Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, and Asaiah his son.

And they ministered in front of the tabernacle of witness, [playing] on instruments, until Solomon built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem; and they stood according to their order for their services.

the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,

the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,

the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.

the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah,

the son of Adaiah, the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,

And the sons of Merari their brethren on the left hand [were] Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,

the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shamer,

And their brethren according to the houses of their fathers, [were] the Levites who were appointed to all the work of ministration of the tabernacle of the house of God.

And these [were] the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,

Meraioth his son, Amarih his son, Ahitub his son,

And these [are] their residences in their villages, in their coasts, to the sons of Aaron, to their family the Kohathites; for they had the lot.

But the fields of the city, and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

Jethar and her suburbs, Debir and her suburbs,

And of the tribe of Benjamin: Geba and her suburbs, Alemeth and her suburbs, and Anathoth and her suburbs. All their cities [were] thirteen cities according to their families.

And to the sons of Gershon according to their families [there were given] thirteen cities of the tribe of Issachar, of the tribe of Asher, of the tribe of Naphtali, and of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

So the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities and their suburbs.

And [to the members] of the families of the sons of Kohath there were also given the cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim.

Jokmeam and her suburbs, Beth Horon and her suburbs,

And of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Aner and her suburbs, and Bileam and her suburbs, to the sons of Kohath that were left, according to [each] family.

And out of the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh and her suburbs, Daberath and her suburbs,

And of the tribe of Asher: Mashal and her suburbs, Abdon and her suburbs,

And of the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee and her suburbs, Hammon and her suburbs, and Kirjathaim and her suburbs.

And beyond the Jordan, Jericho west of the Jordan, [they gave] out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness and her suburbs, Jahzah and her suburbs,

Out of the tribe of Gad: Ramoth Gilead and her suburbs, Mahanaim and her suburbs,