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the hanging, and all the service thereof.
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.
33
Of Merari
was
the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these
are
the families
of Merari.
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.
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.
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,
37
And the pillars of the court round about, and their
sockets, and their pins, and their cords.
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.
39
All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment
of the L
ORD
, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward,
were
twenty
and two thousand.
40
And the L
ORD
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.
41
And thou shalt take the Levites
for me (I
am
the L
ORD
) 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
numbered, as the L
ORD
commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
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.
44
And the L
ORD
spake unto Moses, saying,
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 L
ORD
.
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;
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:)
48
And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them
is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.
49
And Moses took the redemption money of them
that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:
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:
51
And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed unto Aaron and
to his sons, according to the word of the L
ORD
, as the L
ORD
commanded Moses.
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