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The sons of Aaron. The Levites are numbered. 2 And these are the names of the sons of 21 ¶ Of Gershon was the family of Aaron; Nadab the first-born, and Abihu, the Libnites, and the family of the ShimEleazar, and Ithamar. ites: these are the families of the Gershon3 These are the names of the sons of ites. Aaron, the priests which were anointed, 22 Those that were numbered of them, whom he consecrated to minister in the according to the number of all the males, priest's office. from a month old and upward, even those 4 And Nadab and Abihu died before the that were numbered of them, were seven LORD, when they offered strange fire before thousand and five hundred. 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,

23 The families of the Gershonites' shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward. 24 And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.

25 And the charge of the sons of Ger6 Bring the tribe of Levi near, and pre-shon in the tabernacle of the congregation sent them before Aaron the priest, that shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the they may minister unto him. covering thereof, and the hanging for the And they shall keep his charge, and door of the tabernacle of the congregathe charge of the whole congregation be- tion,

fore the tabernacle of the congregation, to 26 And the hangings of the court, and do the service of the tabernacle. the curtain for the door of the court, which

8 And they shall keep all the instru- is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round ments of the tabernacle of the congrega- about, and the cords of it, for all the service tion, and the charge of the children of Is- thereof. rael, to do the service of the tabernacle.

27¶ And of Kohath was the family of 9 And thou shalt give the Levites unto the Amramites, and the family of the IzeAaron and to his sons: they are wholly harites, and the family of the Hebronites, given unto him out of the children of Israel. and the family of the Uzzielites: these are 10 And thou shalt appoint Aaron and the families of the Kohathites.

his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's 28 In the number of all the males from a office and the stranger that cometh nigh month old and upward, were eight thousand shall be put to death. and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.

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 first-born that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine;

29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward.

30 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.

13 Because all the first-born are mine: 31 And their charge shall be the ark, and for on the day that I smote all the first- the table, and the candlestick, and the alborn in the land of Egypt, I hallowed unto tars, and the vessels of the sanctuary whereme all the first-born in Israel, both man and with they minister, and the hanging, and beast mine they shall be: I am the LORD. all the service thereof.

14 And the LORD spake unto Moses in 32 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the the wilderness of Sinai, saying, priest shall be chief over the chief of the 15 Number the children of Levi after Levites, and have the oversight of them the house of their fathers, by their families: that keep the charge of the sanctuary. every male from a month old and upward 33 Of Merari was the family of the shalt thou number them. Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: 16 And Moses numbered them according these are the families of Merari. to the word of the LORD, as he was com- 34 And those that were numbered of manded. them, according to the number of all the 17 And these were the sons of Levi, by males from a month old and upward, were their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and six thousand and two hundred. 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; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

35 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward.

36 And under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the 20 And the sons of Merari by their fa- pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and milies; Mahli, and Mushi: these are the all the vessels thereof, and all that serveth families of the Levites, according to the thereto, house of their fathers.

37 And the pillars of the court round

The first-born redeemed.

CHAP. IV. about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.

Services of the Levites.

2 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers;

3 From thirty years old and upward, even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the

38 But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward shall be Moses and Aaron, and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary, for congregation. the charge of the children of Israel; and 41 This shall be the service of the sons the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congreto death. gation, about the most holy things.

39 All that were numbered of the Levites, 5 And when the camp setteth forward, which Moses and Aaron_numbered at the Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they commandment of the LORD, throughout shall take down the covering vail, and cover their families, all the males from a month the ark of testimony with it:

old and upward, were twenty and two thou- 6 And shall put thereon the covering of sand. badgers' skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.

40 And the LORD said unto Moses, Number all the first-born of the males of the children of Israel, from a month old and upward, and take the number of their

7 And upon the table of shew-bread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, 41 And thou shalt take the Levites for and covers to cover withal and the contime (I am the LORD) instead of all the first-nual bread shall be thereon:

names.

born among the children of Israel; and the 8 And they shall spread upon them a cattle of the Levites, instead of all the first-cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a lings among the cattle of the children of covering of badgers' skins, and shall put in Israel. the staves thereof. 42 And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the first-born among the children of Israel.

9 And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his snuff-dishes, and all the oil-vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it:

43 And all the first-born males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of 10 And they shall put it, and all the vesthem, were twenty and two thousand two sels thereof, within a covering of badgers hundred and threescore and thirteen. skins, and shall put it upon a bar. 44 And the LORD spake unto Moses,

saving.

11 And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a 45 Take the Levites instead of all the covering of badgers' skins, and shall put first-born among the children of Israel, and to the staves thereof: the cattle of the Levites instead of their 12 And they shall take all the instru cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: Iam ments of ministry, wherewith they minister the LORD. in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of 46 And for those that are to be redeemed blue, and cover them with a covering of of the two hundred and threescore and thir- badgers' skins, and shall put them on a teen, of the first-born of the children of Is-bar. rael, which are more than the Levites:

13 And they shall take away the ashes 47 Thou shalt even take five shekels from the altar, and spread a purple cloth apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the thereon: sanctuary shalt thou take them: the shekel is twenty gerahs.

14 And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister 48 And thou shalt give the money, about it, even the censers, the flesh-hooks, wherewith the odd number of them is to be and the shovels, and the basins, all the vesredeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons. sels of the altar; and they shall spread 49 And Moses took the redemption-mo- upon it a covering of badgers' skins, and ney of them that were over and above them put to the staves of it. that were redeemed by the Levites:

15 And when Aaron and his sons have

50 Of the first-born of the children of Is- made an end of covering the sanctuary, and rael took he the money; a thousand three all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp hundred and threescore and five shekels, is to set forward; after that, the sons of Koafter the shekel of the sanctuary: hath shall come to bear it: but they shall

51 And Moses gave the money of them not touch any holy thing, lest they die. that were redeemed unto Aaron, and to his These things are the burden of the sons sons, according to the word of the LORD, as of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congrethe LORD commanded Moses.

CHAP. IV.

A

gation.

16 And to the office of Eleazar the son ND the LORD spake unto Moses and of Aaron the priest pertaineth the oil for unto Aaron, saying, the light, and the sweet incense, and the

The Levites' offices,

NUMBERS.

and their number. daily meat-offering, and the anointing oil, shall reckon the instruments of the charge and the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of their burden. of all that therein is, in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.

17¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

33 This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the tabernacle of the congregation, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

34 And Moses and Aaron and the

18 Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites: 19 But thus do unto them, that they may chief of the congregation numbered the live, and not die, when they approach unto sons of the Kohathites after their families the most holy things: Aaron and his sons and after the house of their fathers, shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden:

20 But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die. 21 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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

35 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation:

36 And those that were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.

37 These were they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that 23 From thirty years old and upward un- might do service in the tabernacle of the til fifty years old shalt thou number them; congregation, which Moses and Aaron did all that enter in to perform the service, to number according to the commandment of do the work in the tabernacle of the con- the LORD by the hand of Moses. gregation.

24 This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens: 25 And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers' skins that is above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,

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

39 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,

40 Even those that were numbered of them, throughout their families, by the 26 And the hangings of the court, and house of their fathers, were two thousand the hanging for the door of the gate of the and six hundred and thirty. court, which is by the tabernacle and by 41 These are they that were numbered the altar round about, and their cords, and of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all the instruments of their service, and all all that might do service in the tabernacle that is made for them: so shall they of the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD.

serve.

27 At the appointment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of 42 ¶ And those that were numbered of the Gershonites, in all their burdens, and in the families of the sons of Merari, throughall their service: and ye shall appoint unto out their families, by the house of their fathem in charge all their burdens. thers,

28 This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

29 As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after their families, by the house of their fathers;

43 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,

44 Even those that were numbered of them after their families, were three thousand and two hundred.

45 These be those that were numbered 30 From thirty years old and upward of the families of the sons of Merari, whom even unto fifty years old shalt thou number Moses and Aaron numbered according to them, every one that entereth into the ser- the word of the LORD by the hand of Movice, to do the work of the tabernacle of the ses. congregation.

46 All those that were numbered of the 31 And this is the charge of their burden, Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the according to all their service in the taber- chief of Israel numbered, after their fami nacle of the congregation; the boards of lies, and after the house of their fathers, the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the 47 From thirty years old and upward pillars thereof, and sockets thereof, even unto fifty years old, every one that

32 And the pillars of the court round came to do the service of the ministry, and about, and their sockets, and their pins, the service of the burden in the tabernacle and their cords, with all their instruments, of the congregation,

and with all their service: and by name ye 48 Even those that were numbered of

The unclean put out of camp.

CHAP. V.

The trial of jealousy.

them, were eight thousand and five hundred an offering of jealousy, an offering of meand fourscore. morial, bringing iniquity to remembrance. 16 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD:

49 According to the commandment of the LORD they were numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his ser- 17 And the priest shall take holy water vice, and according to his burden: thus in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that were they numbered of him, as the LORD is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest commanded Moses. shall take, and put it into the water: 18 And the priest shall set the woman

CHAP. V.

AND the LORD spake unto Moses, say-before the Lord, and uncover the woman's

ing, head, and put the offering of memorial in 2 Command the children of Israel, that her hands, which is the jealousy-offering: they put out of the camp every leper, and and the priest shall have in his hand the every one that hath an issue, and whoso- bitter water that causeth the curse: ever is defiled by the dead:

3 Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.

4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.

5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

19 And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:

20 But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:

21 Then the priest shall charge the wo6 Speak unto the children of Israel, man with an oath of cursing, and the priest When a man or woman shall commit any shall say unto the woman, The LORD make sin that men commit, to do a trespass thee a curse and an oath among thy people, against the LORD, and that person be guilty; when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, 7 Then they shall confess their sin which and thy belly to swell;

they have done: and he shall recompense 22 And this water that causeth the curse his trespass with the principal thereof, and shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give to swell, and thy thigh to rot. And the woit unto him against whom he hath trespass-man shall say, Amen, amen.

ed.

23 And the priest shall write these curses

8 But if the man have no kinsman to in a book, and he shall blot them out with recompense the trespass unto, let the tres- the bitter water:

pass be recompensed unto the LORD, even 24 And he shall cause the woman to drink to the priest; beside the ram of the atone- the bitter water that causeth the curse: and ment, whereby an atonement shall be made the water that causeth the curse shall enter for him. into her, and become bitter.

9¶ And every offering of all the holy 25 Then the priest shall take the jeathings of the children of Israel, which they lousy-offering out of the woman's hand, bring unto the priest, shall be his. and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar:

10 And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.

11 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

26 And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the wa

12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and ter. say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, 27 And when he hath made her to drink and commit a trespass against him, the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if 13 And a man lie with her carnally, and she be defiled, and have done trespass it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and against her husband, that the water that be kept close, and she be defiled, and there causeth the curse shall enter into her, and be no witness against her, neither she be became bitter, and her belly shall swell, and taken with the manner; her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be curse among her people.

14 And the spirit of jealousy come upon a him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she 28 And if the woman be not defiled, but be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come be clean; then she shall be free, and shall upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, conceive seed.

and she be not defiled:

29 This is the law of jealousies, when a

15 Then shall the man bring his wife wife goeth aside to another instead of her unto the priest, and he shall bring her of husband, and is defiled;

fering for her, the tenth part of an ephah 30 Or when the spirit of jealousy comof barley-meal; he shall pour no oil upon eth upon him, and he be jealous over his it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is wife, and shall set the woman before the

The law of the Nazarites.

NUMBERS. Form of blessing the people.

LORD, and the priest shall execute upon 15 And a basket of unleavened bread, her all this law. cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and 31 Then shall the man be guiltless from wafers of unleavened bread anointed with iniquity, and this woman shall bear her ini- oil, and their meat-offering and their drinkquity. offerings.

CHAP. VI.

16 And the priest shall bring them beAND the LORD spake unto Moses, say-fore the LORD, and shall offer his sin-offer

ing,

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the LORD:

ing, and his burnt-offering:

17 And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat-offering, and his drink-offering.

3 He shall separate himself from wine 18 And the Nazarite shall shave the head ⚫ and strong drink, and shall drink no vine- of his separation at the door of the tabergar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, nacle of the congregation, and shall take neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, the hair of the head of his separation, and nor eat moist grapes, or dried. put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace-offerings.

4 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine-tree, from the kernels even to the husk.

5 All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.

6 All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall come at no dead body.

7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.

S All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD.

9 And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.

10 And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:

11 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering, and make an atonement for him,

for that he sinned by the dead, and shall

hallow his head that same day.

19 And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair of his separation is shaven:

20 And the priest shall wave them for a wave-offering before the LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the wave-breast, and heave-shoulder: and after that, the Nazarite may drink wine.

21 This is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, and of his offering unto the LORD for his separation, beside that that his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation.

22 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

23 Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them,

24 The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: 25 The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:

26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

27 And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel, and I will bless them. CHAP. VII.

AND it came to pass on the day that

Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, 12 And he shall consecrate unto the and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and LORD the days of his separation, and shall all the instruments thereof, both the altar bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass- and all the vessels thereof, and had anointoffering but the days that were before ed them, and sanctified them; shall be lost, because his separation was de- 2 That the princes of Israel, heads of filed. the house of their fathers, who were the 13 And this is the law of the Nazarite, princes of the tribes, and were over them when the days of his separation are fulfill- that were numbered, offered: ed: he shall be brought unto the door of 3 And they brought their offering before the tabernacle of the congregation: the LORD, six covered wagons, and twelve 14 And he shall offer his offering unto oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and the LORD, one he-lamb of the first year for each one an ox: and they brought them without blemish for a burnt-offering, and before the tabernacle.

one ewe-lamb of the first year without ble- 4 And the LORD spake unto Moses, mish for a sin-offering, and one ram without saying, blemish for peace-offerings,

5 Take it of them, that they may be to