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Numbers - ch 3 v 1 - 20
- These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day that the LORD spoke 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 who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office.
- And Nadab and Abihu died 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 the sight of Aaron their father.
- And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
- Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.
- 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.
- 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.
- And thou shalt give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given to him out of the children of Israel.
- 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.
- And the LORD spoke to 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 matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine;
- Because all the first-born are mine; for on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, I hallowed to me all the first-born in Israel, both man and beast: mine they shall be: I am the LORD.
- And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
- 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.
- And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, 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 Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
- 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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