Cursed be their wrath, for it was willful, and their anger, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

And the sons of Levi did as Moses spoke to them, and there fell of the people in that day to the [number of] three thousand men.

And Moses said to them, You have filled your hands this day to the Lord, each one on his son or on his brother, so that blessing should be given to you.

And to Levi he said, [Let] Levi give his manifestations and his truth to the holy One, whom they tempted in the temptation; they reviled Him at the Water of Strife.

They shall declare Your ordinances to Jacob, and Your law to Israel; they shall place incense in [the time of] Your wrath continually upon Your altar.

So the children of Israel gave to the Levites in their inheritance by the command of the Lord the cities and the country round.

To the greater number you shall give the greater inheritance, and to the lesser number you shall give the lesser inheritance: to each one, as they have been numbered, shall their inheritance be given.

And you shall inherit their land according to your tribes; to the greater number you shall give the larger possession, and to the smaller you shall give the less possession; to whatsoever [part] a man's name shall go forth [by lot], there shall be his [property]: you shall inherit according to the tribes of your families.

And having measured the homer [full], he that gathered much had nothing [left] over, and he that had gathered less had no lack; each gathered according to the need of those who belonged to him.

For I do not [mean] that others should be relieved and you burdened;

but by way of equality, that now at the present time your abundance [may supply] their need, that their abundance also may supply your need, in order that there may be equality.