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5 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying.
6 Bring near the stock of Levi and stand them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.
7 For they will keep charge for him and charge for the whole congregation before the tent of appointment to serve in the service of the tabernacle.
8 They will keep all the furnishings of the tent of appointment and the charge for the sons of Israel to serve in the service of the tabernacle.
9 To Aaron and to his sons will you give the Levites. They are the ones being given, yea given to Me from the sons of Israel.
10 And to Aaron and his sons shall you commit this that they observe their priesthood. But any alien who comes near shall be put to death.
11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying.
12 As for me, behold, I take the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel instead of every firstborn male opening up the womb among the sons of Israel. So the Levites became Mine,
13 for every firstborn male is Mine. In the day I smote every firstborn male in the land of Egypt I sanctified for Myself every firstborn male in Israel from human unto beast. Mine shall they become:I am Yahweh.
14 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying.
15 Muster the sons of Levi by their fathers' house, by their families; every male from a month old and upward, you shall muster them.
16 So Moses mustered them at the bidding of Yahweh, just as he was instructed.
17 And these were the sons of Levi by their names:Gershon, Kohath and Merari.
18 These were the names of the sons of Gershon by their families:Libni and Shimei;
19 and the sons of Kohath by their families:Amram and Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel;"
20 and the sons of Merari by their families:Mahli and Mushi. These names were those of the Levite families by their fathers' house.
21 Belonging to Gershon were the Libnite family and the Shimeite family. These two were those of the Gershonite families.
22 Their mustered ones according to the number of every male from a month old and upward, their mustered ones were seven thousand five hundred.
23 The Gershonite families encamped behind the tabernacle westward.
24 And the prince of their fathers' house for the Gershonite was Eliasaph son of Lael.
25 The charge of the sons of Gershon at the tent of appointment was the tabernacle and the tent, its covering and the portiere of the opening of the tent of appointment,
26 the slung sheets of the court and the portiere of the portal of the court which was surrounding the tabernacle and the altar, also its cords for all its service.
27 Belonging to Kohath were the Amramite family, the Izharite family, the Hebronite family and the Uzzielite family. These were those of the Kohathite families.
28 According to the number of every male from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred keeping charge of the holy place.
29 The families of the sons of Kohath encamped at the flank of the tabernacle, southward.
30 And the prince of their fathers' house for the Kohathite families was Elizaphan son of Uzziel.
31 And their charge was the coffer and the table and the lampstand and the altars and the furnishings of the holy place with which they shall minister and the portiere and all its service.
32 And the prince of the Levite princes was Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, with the supervision of those keeping charge of the holy place.
33 Belonging to Merari were the Mahlite family and the Mushite family. These two were those of the Merari families.
34 Their mustered ones according to the number of every male from a month old and upward were six thousand two hundred.
35 And the prince of their fathers' house for the families of Merari was Zuriel son of Abihail. At the flank of the tabernacle they encamped, northward.
36 And the supervision, the charge of the sons of Merari, was the hollow tapers of the tabernacle and its bars, its columns and its sockets, all its furnishings and all its service,
37 also the columns of the court round about and their sockets, their pegs and their cords.
38 Those encamping before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of appointment, toward the sunrise, were Moses and Aaron and his sons, the ones keeping charge of the sanctuary as the charge of the sons of Israel. But any alien who comes near shall be put to death.
39 All the ones being mustered of the Levites whom Moses and Aaron mustered at the bidding of Yahweh by their families, every male from a month old and upward were twenty-two thousand.
40 Yahweh said to Moses:Muster every firstborn male of the sons of Israel from a month old and upward and obtain the number of their names.
41 You will take the Levites for Me (I am Yahweh) instead of every firstborn among the sons of Israel, and the beasts of the Levites instead of every firstborn among the beasts of the sons of Israel.
42 So Moses mustered, just as Yahweh had instructed him, every firstborn among the sons of Israel.
43 And all the firstborn males by the number of the names, from a month old and upward, as they had been mustered, were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.