Números 3

¹ These also [are] theOr, families and kindreds.generations of Aaron and Moses in the day [that] the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai.

² So these are the names of the sonnes of Aaron, Nadab the first borne, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

³ These are the names of the sonnes of Aaron the anoynted Priests, whom Moses did consecrate to minister in the Priests office.

⁴ And Nadab and Abihu diedOr, before the altar.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 theWhile their father lived.sight of Aaron their father.

⁵ Then the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

⁶ Bring the tribe of Levi near, andOffer them to Aaron for the use of the tabernacle.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 congregationWhich belonged to the executing of the high priests commandment, to the oversight of the people, and the service of the tabernacle.before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle.

⁸ They shall also keepe all the instrumentes of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and haue the charge of the children of Israel to doe the seruice of the Tabernacle.

⁹ And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to hisAaron's sons the priests served in the sanctuary in praying for the people and offering sacrifice: the Levites served for the inferior uses of the same.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 theAny that would minister not being a Levite.stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

¹¹ Also the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

¹² Beholde, I haue euen taken the Leuites fro among the childre of Israel: for al the first borne that openeth the matrice among the children of Israel, and the Leuites shalbe mine,

¹³ Because all the first borne are mine: for the same day, that I smote all the first borne in the land of Egypt, I sanctified vnto me all the first borne in Israel, both man and beast: mine they shalbe: I am the Lord.

¹⁴ Moreouer, the Lord spake vnto Moses in the wildernesse of Sinai, saying,

¹⁵ Nomber the children of Leui after the houses of their fathers, in their families: euery male from a moneth olde and aboue shalt thou nomber.

¹⁶ Then Moses nombred them according to the word of the Lord, as he was commanded.

¹⁷ And these are the sonnes of Leui by their names, Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.

¹⁸ Also these are the names of the sonnes of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.

¹⁹ The sonnes also of Kohath by their families: Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Vzziel.

²⁰ And the sonnes of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of Leui, according to the houses of their fathers.

²¹ Of Gershon came the familie of the Libnites, and the familie of the Shimeites: these are the families of the Gershonites.

²² Those that were numbered of them,Only numbering the male children.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 The captaine and auncient of the house of the Gershonites shalbe Eliasaph the sonne of Lael.

²⁵ And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation [shall be] theTheir charge was to carry the covering and hangings of the tabernacle.tabernacle, and the tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,

²⁶ And the hanging of the court, & the vaile of the doore of the court, which is neere the Tabernacle, and neere ye Altar round about, and the cordes of it for all the seruice thereof.

²⁷ And of Kohath came the familie of the Amramites, and the familie of the Izeharites, and the familie of the Hebronites, and the familie of the Vzzielites: 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 theEveryone doing his duty in the sanctuary.charge of the sanctuary.

²⁹ The families of the sonnes of Kohath shall pitch on the Southside of the Tabernacle.

³⁰ The captaine and auncient of the house, & families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the sonne of Vzziel:

³¹ And their charge [shall be] theThe main things within the sanctuary were committed to the Kohathites.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 sonne of Aaron the Priest shalbe chiefe captaine of the Leuites, hauing the ouersight of them that haue the charge of the Sanctuarie.

³³ Of Merari came the familie of the Mahlites, and the familie of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.

³⁴ And the summe of them, according to the nomber of all the males, from a moneth olde and aboue was sixe thousand and two hundreth.

³⁵ The captaine and the ancient of the house of the families of Merari shalbe Zuriel the sonne of Abihail: they shall pitche on the Northside of the Tabernacle.

³⁶ And [under] the custody and charge of the sons of Merari [shall be]The wood work and the rest of the instruments were committed to their charge.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 With the pillars of the court round about, with their sockets, and their pins & their coardes.

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 sanctuaryThat no one should enter into the tabernacle contrary to God's appointment.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 twoSo that the first born of the children of Israel were more by 273, as in (Num_3:43).thousand.

⁴⁰ And the Lord said vnto Moses, Nomber all the first borne that are Males among the children of Israel, from a moneth old and aboue, and take the nomber of their names.

⁴¹ And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I [am] the LORD)So that now the Levites should satisfy the Lord for the first born of Israel, excepting the 273 which were more than the Levites for whom they paid money.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 nombred, as the Lord commanded him, all the first borne of the children of Israel.

⁴³ And all the first borne males rehearsed by name (from a moneth olde and aboue) according to their nomber were two & twentie thousand, two hundreth seuentie and three.

⁴⁴ And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

⁴⁵ Take the Leuites for all the first borne of the children of Israel, and the cattell of the Leuites for their cattel, and the Leuites shalbe mine, (I am the Lord)

⁴⁶ And for the redeeming of the two hundreth seuentie and three, (which are moe then the Leuites) of the first borne of the children of of Israel,

⁴⁷ Thou shalt also take fiue shekels for euery person: after the weight of the Sanctuarie shalt thou take it: ye shekel conteineth twenty gerahs.

⁴⁸ And thou shalt giue the money, wherwith the odde nomber of them is redeemed, vnto Aaron and to his sonnes.

⁴⁹ Thus Moses tooke the redemption of the that were redeemed, being mo then the Leuites:

⁵⁰ Of theOr the two hundred seventy and three which were more than the Levites.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 gaue the money of them that were redeemed, vnto Aaron and to his sonnes according to the word of the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.