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Numbers-3
The Number and Duties of the Levites
1 These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day that
the Lord spake with Moses in Mount Sinai.
2 And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the firstborn,
and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which were
anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest’s office.
4 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.
5 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 6 Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the
priest, that they may minister unto him.
7 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.
8 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.
9 And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they are
wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel.
10 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.
11 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 12 And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of
Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine;
13 because all the firstborn are mine; f o r on the day that I smote all the
firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine they shall be: I am the Lord.