These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Numbers 3
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Now these are the generations of and in the day that spoke with in mount .
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And these are the names of the sons of : Nadab the first-born, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
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These are the names of the sons of , the priests that were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest’s office.
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And Nadab and Abihu died before , when they offered strange fire before , in the wilderness of , and they had no children; and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the presence of their father.
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- 5 And spoke unto , saying:
- 6 Bring the tribe of near, and set them before the , that they may minister unto him.
- 7 And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the .
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And they shall keep all the furniture of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the children of , to do the service of the .
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And thou shalt give the Levites unto and to his sons; they are wholly given unto him from the children of .
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- 10 And thou shalt appoint and his sons, that they may keep their ; and the common man that draweth nigh shall be put to death.’
- 11 And spoke unto , saying:
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And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of instead of every first-born that openeth the womb among the children of ; and the Levites shall be Mine;
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- 13 for all the first-born are Mine: on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of I hallowed unto Me all the first-born in , both man and beast, Mine they shall be: I am .’
- 14 And spoke unto in the wilderness of , saying:
- 15 Number the children of by their fathers’ houses, by their families; every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.’
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And numbered them according to the of , as he was commanded.
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- 17 And these were the sons of by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
- 18 And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.
- 19 And the sons of Kohath by their families: Amram and Izhar, and Uzziel.
- 20 And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ houses.
- 21 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites; 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 were to pitch behind the westward;
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- 24 the prince of the fathers’ house of the Gershonites being Eliasaph the son of Lael,
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and the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting the , and the Tent, the covering thereof, and the screen for the door of the tent of meeting,
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Exodus 25:9 Exodus 36:37-38 Exodus 36:8-19 Numbers 3:7 Exodus 40:28 2 Chronicles 31:2 1 Chronicles 26:21-22 1 Chronicles 9:14-33 Exodus 26:1-14 Exodus 40:19 Romans 12:6-8 Mark 13:34 Numbers 10:17 Exodus 26:36-37 2 Chronicles 31:11-18 1 Timothy 1:18 Numbers 7:7 1 Chronicles 23:32 Numbers 4:24-28 Ezra 8:28-30 Colossians 4:17 -
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and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the court—which is by the , and by the , round about—and the cords of it, even whatsoever pertaineth to the service thereof.
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And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites; these are the families of the Kohathites:
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according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, eight thousand and six hundred, keepers of the charge of the .
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The families of the sons of Kohath were to pitch on the side of the southward;
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- 30 the prince of the fathers’ house of the families of the Kohathites being Elizaphan the son of Uzziel,
- 31 and their charge the , and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the wherewith the priests minister, and the screen, and all that pertaineth to the service thereof;
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Eleazar the son of the being prince of the princes of the Levites, and having the oversight of them that keep the charge of the .
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Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites; these are the families of Merari.
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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;
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the prince of the fathers’ house of the families of Merari being Zuriel the son of Abihail; they were to pitch on the side of the northward;
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- 36 the appointed charge of the sons of Merari being the boards of the , and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the instruments thereof, and all that pertaineth to the service thereof;
- 37 and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.
- 38 And those that were to pitch before the eastward, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrising, were , and and his sons, keeping the charge of the , even the charge for the children of ; and the common man that drew nigh was to be put to death.
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All that were numbered of the Levites, whom and numbered at the of , by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand.
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- 40 And said unto : ‘Number all the first-born males of the children of from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.
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And thou shalt take the Levites for Me, even , instead of all the first-born among the children of ; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of .’
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- 42 And numbered, as commanded him, all the first-born among the children of .
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And all the first-born males according to 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.
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- 44 And spoke unto , saying:
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Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of , and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be Mine, even Yahweh’S.
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And as for the redemption of the two hundred and three score and thirteen of the first-born of the children of , that are over and above the number of the Levites,
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thou shalt take five shekels apiece by the poll; after the shekel of the shalt thou take them—the shekel is twenty gerahs.
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- 48 And thou shalt give the money wherewith they that remain over of them are redeemed unto and to his sons.’
- 49 And took the redemption-money from them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites;
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from the first-born of the children of took he the money: a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the .
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And gave the redemption-money unto and to his sons, according to the of , as commanded .
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