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Numbers - ch 3 v 1 - 20
- Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Jehovah spake with Moses in mount Sinai.
- And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the first-born, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
- These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests that were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office.
- And Nadab and Abihu died before Jehovah, when they offered strange fire before Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children; and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the presence of Aaron their father.
- And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
- Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him.
- And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.
- And they shall keep all the furniture of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.
- And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him on the behalf of the children of Israel.
- And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
- And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
- And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the first-born that openeth the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine:
- for all the first-born are mine; on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the first-born in Israel, both man and beast; mine they shall be: I am Jehovah.
- And Jehovah spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
- Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.
- And Moses numbered them according to the word of Jehovah, as he was commanded.
- And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
- And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.
- And the sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, and Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
- And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.
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