3 And these [are] births of Aaron and Moses, in the day of Jehovah's speaking with Moses in mount Sinai.

² And these [are] the names of the sons of Aaron: the first-born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar;

³ these [are] the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whose hand he hath consecrated for acting as priest.

⁴ And Nadab dieth -- Abihu also -- before Jehovah, in their bringing near strange fire before Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai, and sons they had not; and Eleazar -- Ithamar also -- acteth as priest in the presence of Aaron their father.

⁵ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

⁶ `Bring near the tribe of Levi, and thou hast caused it to stand before Aaron the priest, and they have served him,

⁷ and kept his charge, and the charge of all the company before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle;

⁸ and they have kept all the vessels of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the sons of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle;

⁹ and thou hast given the Levites to Aaron and to his sons; they are surely given to him out of the sons of Israel.

¹⁰ `And Aaron and his sons thou dost appoint, and they have kept their priesthood, and the stranger who cometh near is put to death.'

¹¹ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

¹² `And I, lo, I have taken the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel instead of every first-born opening a womb among the sons of Israel, and the Levites have been Mine;

¹³ for Mine [is] every first-born, in the day of My smiting every first-born in the land of Egypt I have sanctified to Myself every first-born in Israel, from man unto beast; Mine they are; I [am] Jehovah.'

¹⁴ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,

¹⁵ `Number the sons of Levi by the house of their fathers, by their families; every male from a son of a month and upward thou dost number them.'

¹⁶ And Moses numbereth them according to the command of Jehovah, as he hath been commanded.

¹⁷ And these are sons of Levi 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, [are] Amram and Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel.

²⁰ And the sons of Merari by their families [are] Mahli and Mushi; these are the families of the Levites, by the house of their fathers.

²¹ Of Gershon [is] the family of the Libnite, and the family of the Shimite; these are the families of the Gershonite.

²² Their numbered ones, in number, every male from a son of a month and upward, their numbered ones [are] seven thousand and five hundred.

²³ The families of the Gershonite, behind the tabernacle, do encamp westward.

²⁴ And the prince of a father's house for the Gershonite [is] Eliasaph son of Lael.

²⁵ And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting [is] the tabernacle, and the tent, its covering, and the vail at the opening of the tent of meeting,

²⁶ and the hangings of the court, and the vail at the opening of the court, which [is] by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and its cords, to all its service.

²⁷ And of Kohath [is] the family of the Amramite, and the family of the Izharite, and the family of the Hebronite, and the family of the Uzzielite; these are families of the Kohathite.

²⁸ In number, all the males, from a son of a month and upward, [are] eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.

²⁹ The families of the sons of Kohath encamp by the side of the tabernacle southward.

³⁰ And the prince of a father's house for the families of the Kohathite [is] Elizaphan son of Uzziel.

³¹ And their charge [is] the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary with which they serve, and the vail, and all its service.

³² And [to] the prince of the princes of the Levites, Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, [is] the oversight of the keepers of the charge of the sanctuary.

³³ Of Merari [is] the family of the Mahlite, and the family of the Mushite; these [are] the families of Merari.

³⁴ And their numbered ones, in number, all the males from a son of a month and upward, [are] six thousand and two hundred.

³⁵ And the prince of a father's house for the families of Merari [is] Zuriel son of Abihail; by the side of the tabernacle they encamp northward.

³⁶ And the oversight -- the charge of the sons of Merari -- [is] the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and all its vessels, and all its service,

³⁷ and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.

³⁸ And those encamping before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of meeting, at the east, [are] Moses and Aaron, and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the sons of Israel, and the stranger who cometh near is put to death.

³⁹ All those numbered of the Levites whom Moses numbered -- Aaron also -- by the command of Jehovah, by their families, every male from a son of a month and upward, [are] two and twenty thousand.

⁴⁰ And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Number every first-born male of the sons of Israel from a son of a month and upward, and take up the number of their names;

⁴¹ and thou hast taken the Levites for Me (I [am] Jehovah), instead of every first-born among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of every firstling among the cattle of the sons of Israel.'

⁴² And Moses numbereth, as Jehovah hath commanded him, all the first-born among the sons of Israel.

⁴³ And all the first-born -- male -- by the number of names, from a son of a month and upward, of their numbered ones, are two and twenty thousand two hundred and seventy and three.

⁴⁴ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

⁴⁵ `Take the Levites instead of every first-born among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites have been Mine; I [am] Jehovah.

⁴⁶ `And [from] those ransomed of the two hundred and seventy and three (who are more than the Levites) of the first-born of the sons of Israel,

⁴⁷ thou hast even taken five shekels a-piece by the poll -- by the shekel of the sanctuary thou takest; twenty gerahs the shekel [is];

⁴⁸ and thou hast given the money to Aaron, and to his sons, whereby those over and above are ransomed.'

⁴⁹ And Moses taketh the ransom money from those over and above those ransomed by the Levites;

⁵⁰ from the first-born of the sons of Israel he hath taken the money, a thousand and three hundred and sixty and five -- by the shekel of the sanctuary;

⁵¹ and Moses giveth the money of those ransomed to Aaron, and to his sons, according to the command of Jehovah, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.

4 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, and unto Aaron, saying,

² `Take up the sum of the sons of Kohath from the midst of the sons of Levi, by their families, by the house of their fathers;

³ from a son of thirty years and upward, even till a son of fifty years, every one going in to the host, to do work in the tent of meeting.

⁴ `This [is] the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting, the holy of holies:

⁵ that Aaron and his sons have come in, in the journeying of the camp, and have taken down the vail of the hanging, and have covered with it the ark of the testimony;

⁶ and have put on it a covering of badger skin, and have spread a garment completely of blue above, and have placed its staves.

⁷ `And on the table of the presence they spread a garment of blue, and have put on it the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and the cups of the libation, and the bread of continuity is on it,

⁸ and they have spread over them a garment of scarlet, and have covered it with a covering of badger skin, and have placed its staves,

⁹ and have taken a garment of blue, and have covered the candlestick of the lamp, and its lights, and its snuffers, and its snuff-dishes, and all its oil vessels wherewith they minister to it;

¹⁰ and they have put it and all its vessels unto a covering of badger skin, and have put [it] on the bar.

¹¹ `And on the golden altar they spread a garment of blue, and have covered it with a covering of badger skin, and have placed its staves;

¹² and have taken all the vessels of ministry wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and have put [them] unto a garment of blue, and have covered them with a covering of badger skin, and have put [them] on the bar,

¹³ and have removed the ashes of the altar, and have spread over it a garment of purple;

¹⁴ and have put on it all its vessels wherewith they minister about it, the censers, the hooks, and the shovels, and the bowls, all the vessels of the altar, and have spread on it a covering of badger skin, and have placed its staves:

¹⁵ `And Aaron hath finished -- his sons also -- covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, in the journeying of the camp, and afterwards do the sons of Kohath come in to bear [it], and they do not come unto the holy thing, that they have died; these [things are] the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting.

¹⁶ `And the oversight of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, [is] the oil of the lamp, and the spice-perfume, and the present of continuity, and the anointing oil, the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that [is] in it, in the sanctuary, and in its vessels.'

¹⁷ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

¹⁸ `Ye do not cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathite from the midst of the Levites;

¹⁹ but this do to them, and they have lived, and do not die in their drawing nigh the holy of holies: -- Aaron and his sons go in, and have set them, each man to his service, and unto his burden,

²⁰ and they go not in to see when the holy thing is swallowed, that they have died.'

²¹ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

²² `Take up the sum of the sons of Gershon also by the house of their fathers, by their families;

²³ from a son of thirty years and upward, till a son of fifty years thou dost number them, every one who is going in to serve the host, to do the service in the tent of meeting.

²⁴ `This [is] the service of the families of the Gershonite, to serve -- and for burden,

²⁵ and they have borne the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tent of meeting, its covering, and the covering of the badger [skin] which [is] on it above, and the vail at the opening of the tent of meeting,

²⁶ and the hangings of the court, and the vail at the opening of the gate of the court which [is] by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the vessels of their service, and all that is made for them -- and they have served.

²⁷ `By the command of Aaron and his sons is all the service of the sons of the Gershonite in all their burden, and in all their service; and ye have laid a charge on them concerning the charge of all their burden.

²⁸ This [is] the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonite in the tent of meeting; and their charge [is] under the hand of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

²⁹ `The sons of Merari, by their families, by the house of their fathers, thou dost number them;

³⁰ from a son of thirty years and upward even unto a son of fifty years thou dost number them, every one who is going in to the host, to do the service of the tent of meeting.

³¹ `And this [is] the charge of their burden, of all their service in the tent of meeting; the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets,

³² and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, of all their vessels, and of all their service; and by name ye do number the vessels of the charge of their burden.

³³ `This [is] the service of the families of the sons of Merari, for all their service, in the tent of meeting, by the hand of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.'

³⁴ And Moses numbereth -- Aaron also, and the princes of the company -- the sons of the Kohathite, by their families, and by the house of their fathers,

³⁵ from a son of thirty years and upward even unto a son of fifty years, every one who is going in to the host, for service in the tent of meeting,

³⁶ and their numbered ones, by their families, are two thousand seven hundred and fifty.

³⁷ These [are] those numbered of the families of the Kohathite, every one who is serving in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, by the command of Jehovah, by the hand of Moses.

³⁸ And those numbered of the sons of Gershon, by their families, and by the house of their fathers,

³⁹ from a son of thirty years and upward even unto a son of fifty years, every one who is going in to the host, for service in the tent of meeting,

⁴⁰ even their numbered ones, by their families, by the house of their fathers, are two thousand and six hundred and thirty.

⁴¹ These [are] those numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, every one who is serving in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered by the command of Jehovah.

⁴² And those numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by the house of their fathers,

⁴³ from a son of thirty years and upward even unto a son of fifty years, every one who is going in to the host, for service in the tent of meeting,

⁴⁴ even their numbered ones, by their families, are three thousand and two hundred.

⁴⁵ These [are] those numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, by the command of Jehovah, by the hand of Moses.

⁴⁶ All those numbered, whom Moses numbered -- Aaron also, and the princes of Israel -- of the Levites, by their families, and by the house of their fathers,

⁴⁷ from a son of thirty years and upward even unto a son of fifty years, every one who is going in to do the work of the service, even the service of burden in the tent of meeting,

⁴⁸ even their numbered ones are eight thousand and five hundred and eighty;

⁴⁹ by the command of Jehovah hath [one] numbered them, by the hand of Moses, each man by his service, and by his burden, with his numbered ones, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.