3Numbers 3

CHAP. III. / 1 The sonnes of Aaron. 5 The Leuites are giuen to the Priests for the seruice of the Tabernacle, 11 in stead of the first borne. 14 The Leuites are numbred by their families. 21 The famil

1These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day that the Lord spake with Moses in Mount Sinai.Select Numbers 3:1

2And these are the names of the sonnes of Aaron: Nadab the first borne, and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.Select Numbers 3:2

3These are the names of the sonnes of Aaron the Priests, which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the Priests office.Select Numbers 3:3

4And Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord, when they offered strange fire before the Lord in the wildernesse of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministred in the Priests office in the sight of Aaron their father.Select Numbers 3:4

5And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,Select Numbers 3:5

6Bring the tribe of Leui neere, and present them before Aaron the Priest, that they may minister vnto him.Select Numbers 3:6

7And they shall keepe his charge, and the charge of the whole Congregation before the Tabernacle of the Congregation, to doe the seruice of the Tabernacle.Select Numbers 3:7

8And they shall keepe all the instruments of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to doe the seruice of the Tabernacle.Select Numbers 3:8

9And thou shalt giue the Leuites vnto Aaron and to his sonnes: they are wholly giuen vnto him out of the children of Israel.Select Numbers 3:9

10And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sonnes, and they shall waite on their priests office: and the stranger that commeth nigh, shall bee put to death.Select Numbers 3:10

11And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,Select Numbers 3:11

12And I, behold, I haue taken the Leuites from among the children of Israel, in stead of all the first borne that openeth the matrice among the children of Israel: therefore the Leuites shall be mine,Select Numbers 3:12

13Because all the first borne are mine: for on the day that I smote all the first borne in the land of Egypt, I halowed vnto mee all the first borne in Israel, both man, and beast, mine they shall be: I am the Lord.Select Numbers 3:13

14And the Lord spake vnto Moses, in the wildernesse of Sinai, saying,Select Numbers 3:14

15Number the children of Leui, after the house of their fathers, by their families: euery male from a moneth old and vpward shalt thou number them.Select Numbers 3:15

16And Moses numbred them according to the word of the Lord, as he was commanded.Select Numbers 3:16

17And these were the sonnes of Leui, by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.Select Numbers 3:17

18And these are the names of the sonnes of Gershon, by their families: Libni, and Shimei.Select Numbers 3:18

19And the sonnes of Kohath by their families: Amram, and Izehar, Hebron and Uzziel.Select Numbers 3:19

20And the sonnes of Merari by their families: Mahli, and Mushi: these are the families of the Leuites, according to the house of their fathers.Select Numbers 3:20

21Of Gershon was the familie of the Libnites, and the familie of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites.Select Numbers 3:21

22Those that were numbred of them, according to the number of all the males, from a moneth old and vpward, euen those that were numbred of them, were seuen thousand and fiue hundred.Select Numbers 3:22

23The families of the Gershonites shal pitch behind the Tabernacle Westward.Select Numbers 3:23

24And the chiefe of the house of the father of the Gershonites, shall be Eliasaph the sonne of Lael.Select Numbers 3:24

25And the charge of the sonnes of Gershon, in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, shall be the Tabernacle, and the tent, the couering thereof, and the hanging for the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation:Select Numbers 3:25

26And the hangings of the Court, and the curtaine for the doore of the court, which is by the Tabernacle, and by the Altar round about, and the cords of it, for all the seruice therof.Select Numbers 3:26

27And of Kohath was the familie of the Amramites, and the familie of the Izeharites, and the familie of the Hebronites, and the familie of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.Select Numbers 3:27

28In the number of all the males, from a moneth olde and vpward, were eight thousand, and sixe hundred, keeping the charge of the Sanctuary.Select Numbers 3:28

29The families of the sonnes of Kohath, shall pitch on the side of the Tabernacle Southward.Select Numbers 3:29

30And the chiefe of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shalbe Elizaphan the sonne of Uzziel.Select Numbers 3:30

31And their charge shall be the Arke, and the Table, and the Candlesticke, and the altars, and the vessels of the Sanctuarie, wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the seruice thereof.Select Numbers 3:31

32And Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the Priest, shall be chiefe ouer the chiefe of the Leuites, and haue the ouersight of them that keepe the charge of the Sanctuary.Select Numbers 3:32

33Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.Select Numbers 3:33

34And those that were numbred of them, according to the number of all the males from a moneth old & vpward, were sixe thousand and two hundred.Select Numbers 3:34

35And the chiefe of the house of the father of the families of Merari, was Zuriel the sonne of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of the Tabernacle Northwards.Select Numbers 3:35

36And vnder the custody and charge of the sonnes of Merari, shall bee the boards of the Tabernacle, and the barres thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, & all the vessels thereof, and all that serueth thereto:Select Numbers 3:36

37And the pillars of the Court round about, and their sockets, and their pinnes, and their cords.Select Numbers 3:37

38But those that encampe before the Tabernacle toward the East, euen before the Tabernacle of the Congregation Eastward, shall be Moses and Aaron, and his sonnes, keeping the charge of the Sanctuary, for the charge of the children of Israel: and the stranger that commeth nigh, shall be put to death.Select Numbers 3:38

39All that were numbred of the Leuites, which Moses and Aaron numbred at the commaundement of the Lord, throughout their families, all the males from a moneth old and vpward, were twenty and two thousand.Select Numbers 3:39

40And the Lord said vnto Moses, Number all the first borne of the males of the children of Israel, from a moneth old and vpward, and take the number of their names.Select Numbers 3:40

41And thou shalt take the Leuites for me, (I am the Lord) in stead of all the first borne among the children of Israel, and the cattell of the Leuites, in stead of all the firstlings among the cattell of the children of Israel.Select Numbers 3:41

42And Moses numbred as the Lord commanded him, all the first borne among the children of Israel.Select Numbers 3:42

43And all the first borne males, by the number of names, from a moneth old & vpward, of those that were numbred of them, were twenty and two thousand, two hundred, and threescore and thirteene.Select Numbers 3:43

44And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,Select Numbers 3:44

45Take the Leuites in stead of all the first borne among the children of Israel, and the cattell of the Leuites in stead of their cattell, and the Leuites shalbe mine: I am the Lord.Select Numbers 3:45

46And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteene, of the first borne of the children of Israel, which are more then the Leuites;Select Numbers 3:46

47Thou shalt euen take fiue shekels a piece, by the polle, after the shekel of the Sanctuary shalt thou take them; the shekel is twenty gerahs.Select Numbers 3:47

48And thou shalt giue the money, wherewith the odde number of them is to be redeemed, vnto Aaron and to his sonnes.Select Numbers 3:48

49And Moses tooke the redemption money, of them that were ouer and aboue them that were redeemed by the Leuites.Select Numbers 3:49

50Of the first borne of the children of Israel tooke he the money; a thousand, three hundred, and threescore and fiue shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuary.Select Numbers 3:50

51And Moses gaue the money of them that were redeemed, vnto Aaron and to his sonnes, according to the word of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.Select Numbers 3:51