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L
ORD
, when they offered strange fire before the L
ORD
, 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.
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And the L
ORD
spake unto Moses, saying,
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Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before
Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him.
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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.
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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.
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And thou shalt give the Levites
unto Aaron and to his sons: they
are
wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel.
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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.
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And the L
ORD
spake unto Moses, saying,
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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;
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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 L
ORD
.
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And the L
ORD
spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
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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.
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And Moses numbered them according to the word of the L
ORD
, as he
was commanded.
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And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and
Merari.
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And these
are
the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei.
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And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
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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.
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Of Gershon
was
the family of the Libnites, and the family of the
Shimites: these
are
the families of the Gershonites.
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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.
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The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind
the tabernacle westward.
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And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites
shall be
Eliasaph the son of Lael.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side
of the tabernacle southward.
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And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the
Kohathites
shall be
Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
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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
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