The Generations of Aaron and Moses – Numbers 3

These also are the generations of Aaron and  Moses in the day that the LORD spake with Moses in  mount Sinai. Numbers 3:1 

Numbers 3:2 And these are the names of the sons of  Aaron; Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and  Ithamar. 

Numbers 3:3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron,  the priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to  minister in the priest’s office. 

Numbers 3:4 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.  

Numbers 3:5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 

Numbers 3:6  Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron  the priest, that they may minister unto him. 

Numbers 3:7 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. 

Numbers 3:8 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. 

Numbers 3:9 And thou shalt give the Levites unto  Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him out  of the children of Israel. 

Numbers 3:10 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. 

Numbers 3:11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,   

Numbers 3:12 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; 

Numbers 3:13 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.  

Numbers 3:14 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the  wilderness of Sinai, saying, 

Numbers 3:15 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.  

Numbers 3:16 And Moses numbered them according to the word of  the LORD, as he was commanded. 

Numbers 3:17 And these were  the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and  Merari. 

Numbers 3:18 And these are the names of the sons of  Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei. 

Numbers 3:19 And  the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar,  Hebron, and Uzziel. 

Numbers 3:20 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. 

Numbers 3:21 Of  Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of  the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites.  

Numbers 3:22 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. 

Numbers 3:23 The families of the  Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.  

Numbers 3:24 And the chief of the house of the father of the  Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael. 

Numbers 3:25 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, 

Numbers 3:26 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.  

Numbers 3:27 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. 

Numbers 3:28 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.  

Numbers 3:29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the  side of the tabernacle southward. 

Numbers 3:30 And the chief of  the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites  shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. 

Numbers 3:31 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.  

Numbers 3:32 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.  

Numbers 3:33 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and  the family of the Mushites: these are the families of  Merari. 

Numbers 3:34 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. 

Numbers 3:35  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. 

Numbers 3:36 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, 

Numbers 3:37 And the pillars of the  court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and  their cords.   

Numbers 3:38 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. 

Numbers 3:39 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.  

Numbers 3:40 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. 

Numbers 3:41  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. 

Numbers 3:42 And Moses  numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn  among the children of Israel. 

Numbers 3:43 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.  

Numbers 3:44 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 

Numbers 3:45  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.  

Numbers 3:46 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; 

Numbers 3:47  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:) 

Numbers 3:48 And thou shalt give the  money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be  redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons. 

Numbers 3:49 And Moses  took the redemption money of them that were over and  above them that were redeemed by the Levites: 

Numbers 3:50 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: 

Numbers 3:51 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.  


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