1 Chronicles 23 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ And David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel in his stead. ² And he assembled all the chief men of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites. ³ And the Levites numbered [themselves] from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls amounted to thirty and eight thousand men. ⁴ Of the overseers over the works of the house of the Lord [there were] twenty-four thousand, and [there were] six thousand scribes and judges; ⁵ and four thousand doorkeepers, and four thousand to praise the Lord with instruments which he made to praise the Lord. ⁶ And David divided them [into] daily courses, for the sons of Levi, for Gedson, Caath, and Merari. ⁷ And for [the family of] Gedson, Edan, and Semei. ⁸ The sons of Edan [were] Jeiel, the chief, and Zethan, and Joel, three. ⁹ The sons of Semei; Salomith, Jeiel, and Dan, three: these [were] the chiefs of the families of Edan. ¹⁰ And to the sons of Semei, Jeth, and Ziza, and Joas, and Beria: these [were] the four sons of Semei. ¹¹ And Jeth was the chief, and Ziza the second: and Joas and Beria did not multiply sons, and they became [only] one reckoning according to the house of their father. ¹² The sons of Caath; Ambram, Isaar, Chebron, Oziel, four. ¹³ The sons of Ambram; Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was appointed for the consecration of the most holy things, he and his sons for ever, to burn incense before the Lord, to minister and bless in his name for ever. ¹⁴ And [as for] Moses the man of God, his sons were reckoned to the tribe of Levi. ¹⁵ The sons of Moses; Gersam, and Eliezer. ¹⁶ The sons of Gersam; Subael the chief. ¹⁷ And the sons of Eliezer were, Rabia the chief: and Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rabia were very greatly multiplied. ¹⁸ The sons of Isaar; Salomoth the chief. ¹⁹ The sons of Chebron; Jeria the chief, Amaria the second, Jeziel the third, Jekemias the fourth. ²⁰ The sons of Oziel; Micha the chief, and Isia the second. ²¹ The sons of Merari; Mooli, and Musi: the sons of Mooli; Eleazar, and Kis. ²² And Eleazar died, and he had no sons, but daughters: and the sons of Kis, their brethren, took them. ²³ The sons of Musi; Mooli, and Eder, and Jarimoth, three. ²⁴ These [are] the sons of Levi according to the houses of their fathers; chiefs of their families according to their numbering, according to the number of their names, according to their polls, doing the works of service of the house of the Lord, from twenty years old and upward. ²⁵ For David said, The Lord God of Israel has given rest to his people, and has taken up his abode in Jerusalem for ever. ²⁶ And the Levites bore not the tabernacle, and all the vessels of it for its service. ²⁷ For by the last words of David was the number of the Levites [taken] from twenty years old and upward. ²⁸ For he appointed them to wait on Aaron, to minister in the house of the Lord, over the courts, and over the chambers, and over the purification of all the holy things, and over the works of the service of the house of God; ²⁹ and for the show-bread, and for the fine flour of the meat-offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for the fried cake, and for the dough, and for every measure; ³⁰ and to stand in the morning to praise and give thanks to the Lord, and so in the evening; ³¹ and [to be] over all the whole burnt offerings that were offered up to the Lord on the sabbaths, and at the new moons, and at the feasts, by number, according to the order [given] to them, continually before the Lord. ³² And they are to keep the charge of the tabernacle of witness, and the charge of the holy place, and the charges of the sons of Aaron their brethren, to minister in the house of the Lord.

⁸ And Abraam failing died in a good old age, an old man and full of days, and was added to his people.

²⁹ And Isaac gave up the ghost and died, and was laid to his family, old and full of days; and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.

¹ And king David [was] old and advanced in days, and they covered him with clothes, and he was not warmed.

³⁰ as I swore to you by the Lord God of Israel, saying, Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead, so will I do this day.

³³ And the king said to them, Take the servants of your lord with you, and mount my son Solomon upon my own mule, and bring him down to Gion. ³⁴ And there let Sadoc the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him to be king over Israel, and do you⌃ sound the trumpet, and you⌃ shall say, Let king Solomon live. ³⁵ And he shall sit upon my throne, and reign in my stead: and I have given charge that he should be for a prince over Israel and Juda. ³⁶ And Banaeas the son of Jodae answered the king and said, So let it be: may the Lord God of my lord the king confirm [it]. ³⁷ As the Lord was with my lord the king, so let him be with Solomon, and let him exalt his throne beyond the throne of my lord king David. ³⁸ And Sadoc the priest went down, and Nathan the prophet, and Banaeas son of Jodae, and the Cherethite, and the Phelethite, and they mounted Solomon upon the mule of king David, and led him away to Gion. ³⁹ And Sadoc the priest took the horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon, and blew the trumpet; and all the people said, Let king Solomon live.

⁵ And of all my sons, (for the Lord has given me many sons,) he has chosen Solomon my son, to set him on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.

²² And they ate and drank joyfully that day before the Lord: and they made Solomon the son of David king a second time, and anointed him king before the Lord, and Sadoc to the priesthood. ²³ And Solomon sat upon the throne of his father David, and was highly honored; and all Israel obeyed him. ²⁴ The princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons of king David his father, were subject to him. ²⁵ And the Lord magnified Solomon over all Israel, and gave him royal glory, such as was not upon any king before him.

²⁸ And he died in a good old age, full of days, in wealth, and glory: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.

²⁶ And you shall come to the grave like ripe corn reaped in its season, or as a heap of the corn-flour collected in proper time.

² And Joshua called together all the children of Israel, and their elders, and their chiefs, and their judges, and their officers; and said to them, I am old and advanced in years.

¹ And Joshua gathered all the tribe of Israel to Selo, and convoked their elders, and their officers, and their judges, and set them before God.

¹ And David took counsel with the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, [even with] every commander.

¹ And David assembled all the chief [men] of Israel, the chief of the judges, and all the chief [men] of the courses [of attendance] on the person of the king, and the captains of thousands and hundreds, and the treasurers, and the lords of his substance, and of all the king's property, and of his sons, together with the eunuchs, and the mighty men, and the warriors of the army, at Jerusalem.

²⁹ And the king sent and gathered the elders of Juda and Jerusalem. ³⁰ And the king went up to the house of the Lord, [he] and all Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that were found in the house of the Lord.

² Take the sum of the children of Caath from the midst of the sons of Levi, after their families, according to the houses of their fathers' households; ³ from twenty-five years old and upward until fifty years, every one that goes in to minister, to do all the works in the tabernacle of witness. ⁴ And these are the works of the sons of Caath in the tabernacle of witness; it is most holy. ⁵ And Aaron and his sons shall go in, when the camp is about to move, and shall take down the shadowing veil, and shall cover with it the ark of the testimony. ⁶ And they shall put on it a cover, even a blue skin, and put on it above a garment all of blue, and shall put the staves through [the rings]. ⁷ And they shall put on the table set forth for show-bread a cloth all of purple, and the dishes, and the censers, and the cups, and the vessels with which one offers drink-offerings; and the continual loaves shall be upon it. ⁸ And they shall put upon it a scarlet cloth, and they shall cover it with a blue covering of skin, and they shall put the staves into it. ⁹ And they shall take a blue covering, and cover the candlestick that gives light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its funnels, and all the vessels of oil with which they minister. ¹⁰ And they shall put it, and all its vessels, into a blue skin cover; and they shall put it on bearers. ¹¹ And they shall put a blue cloth for a cover on the golden altar, and shall cover it with a blue skin cover, and put in its staves. ¹² And they shall take all the instruments of service, with which they minister in the sanctuary: and shall place them in a cloth of blue, and shall cover them with blue skin covering, and put them upon staves. ¹³ And he shall put the covering on the altar, and they shall cover it with a cloth all of purple. ¹⁴ And they shall put upon it all the vessels with which they minister upon it, and the fire-pans, and the flesh hooks, and the cups, and the cover, and all the vessels of the altar; and they shall put on it a blue cover of skins, and shall put in its staves; and they shall take a purple cloth, and cover the laver and its foot, and they shall put it into a blue cover of skin, and put it on bars. ¹⁵ And Aaron and his sons shall finish covering the holy things, and all the holy vessels, when the camp begins to move; and afterwards the sons of Caath shall go in to take up [the furniture]; but shall not touch the holy things, lest they die: these shall the sons of Caath bear in the tabernacle of witness. ¹⁶ Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest is overseer—the oil of the light, and the incense of composition, and the daily meat-offering and the anointing oil, are his charge; even the oversight of the whole tabernacle, and all things that are in it in the holy place, in all the works. ¹⁷ And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, ¹⁸ You⌃ shall not destroy the family of Caath from the tribe out of the midst of the Levites. ¹⁹ This do you⌃ to them, and they shall live and not die, when they approach the holy of holies: Let Aaron and his sons advance, and they shall place them each in his post for bearing. ²⁰ And [so] they shall by no means go in to look suddenly upon the holy things, and die. ²¹ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²² Take the sum of the children of Gedson, and these according to the houses of their lineage, according to their families. ²³ Take the number of them from five and twenty years old and upwards until the age of fifty, every one that goes in to minister, to do his business in the tabernacle of witness. ²⁴ This [is] the public service of the family of Gedson, to minister and to bear. ²⁵ And they shall bear the skins of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of witness, and its veil, and the blue cover that was on it above, and the cover of the door of the tabernacle of witness. ²⁶ And all the curtains of the court which were upon the tabernacle of witness, and the appendages, and all the vessels of service that they minister with they shall attend to. ²⁷ According to the direction of Aaron and his sons shall be the ministry of the sons of Gedson, in all their ministries, and in all their works; and you shall take account of them by name in all things borne by them. ²⁸ This is the service of the sons of Gedson in the tabernacle of witness, and their charge by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. ²⁹ The sons of Merari according to their families, according to the houses of their lineage, take you⌃ the number of them. ³⁰ Take the number of them from five and twenty years old and upwards until fifty years old, every one that goes in to perform the services of the tabernacle of witness. ³¹ And these are the charges of the things borne by them according to all their works in the tabernacle of witness: they shall bear the chapiters of the tabernacle, and the bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and the veil, and [there shall be] their sockets, and their pillars, and the curtain of the door of the tabernacle. ³² And they shall bear the pillars of the court round about, and [there shall be] their sockets, and [they shall bear] the pillars of the veil of the door of the court, and their sockets and their pins, and their cords, and all their furniture, and all their instruments of service: take you⌃ their number by name, and all the articles of the charge of the things borne by them. ³³ This is the ministration of the family of the sons of Merari in all their works in the tabernacle of witness, by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. ³⁴ And Moses and Aaron and the rulers of Israel took the number of the sons of Caath according to their families, according to the houses of their lineage; ³⁵ from five and twenty years old and upwards to the age of fifty years, every one that goes in to minister and do service in the tabernacle of witness. ³⁶ And the numbering of them according to their families was two thousand, seven hundred and fifty. ³⁷ This is the numbering of the family of Caath, every one that ministers in the tabernacle of witness, as Moses and Aaron numbered them by the word of the Lord, by the hand of Moses. ³⁸ And the sons of Gedson were numbered according to their families, according to the houses of their lineage, ³⁹ from five and twenty years old and upward till fifty years old, every one that goes in to minister and to do the services in the tabernacle of witness. ⁴⁰ And the numbering of them according to their families, according to the houses of their lineage, [was] two thousand six hundred and thirty. ⁴¹ This [is] the numbering of the family of the sons of Gedson, every one who ministers in the tabernacle of witness; whom Moses and Aaron numbered by the word of the Lord, by the hand of Moses. ⁴² And also the family of the sons of Merari were numbered according to their divisions, according to the house of their fathers; ⁴³ from five and twenty years old and upward till fifty years old, every one that goes in to minister in the services of the tabernacle of witness. ⁴⁴ And the numbering of them according to their families, according to the houses of their lineage, [was] three thousand and two hundred. ⁴⁵ This [is] the numbering of the family of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered by the word of the Lord, by the hand of Moses. ⁴⁶ All that were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron and the rulers of Israel numbered, [namely], the Levites, according to their families and according to the houses of their lineage, ⁴⁷ from five and twenty years old and upward till fifty years old, every one that goes in to the service of the works, and the [charge of] the things that are carried in the tabernacle of witness. ⁴⁸ And they that were numbered were eight thousand five hundred and eighty. ⁴⁹ He reviewed them by the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses, appointing each man severally over their [respective] work, and over their burdens; and they were numbered, as the Lord commanded Moses.

²⁴ These [are] the sons of Levi according to the houses of their fathers; chiefs of their families according to their numbering, according to the number of their names, according to their polls, doing the works of service of the house of the Lord, from twenty years old and upward.

¹⁸ You shall make for yourself judges and officers in your cities, which the Lord your God gives you in [your] tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment:

⁸ And if a matter shall be too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, and between cause and cause, and between stroke and stroke, and between contradiction and contradiction, matters of judgment in your cities; ⁹ then you shall arise and go up to the place which the Lord your God shall choose, and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days, and they shall search out [the matter] and report the judgment to you. ¹⁰ And you shall act according to the thing which they shall report to you out of the place which the Lord your God shall choose, and you shall observe to do all whatever shall have been by law appointed to you.

⁴⁸ And their brethren according to the houses of their fathers, [were] the Levites who were appointed to all the work of ministration of the tabernacle of the house of God.

²⁸ And [some] of them [were appointed] over the vessels of service, that they should carry them in by number, and carry them out by number. ²⁹ And [some] of them [were] appointed over the furniture, and over all the holy vessels, and over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices. ³⁰ And some of the priests were makers of the ointment, and [appointed to prepare] the spices. ³¹ And Matthathias of the Levites, (he [was] the firstborn of Salom the Corite,) [was set] in charge over the sacrifices of meat-offering of the pan belonging to the high priest. ³² And Banaias the Caathite, from among their brethren, [was set] over the show bread, to prepare it every sabbath.

²⁸ For he appointed them to wait on Aaron, to minister in the house of the Lord, over the courts, and over the chambers, and over the purification of all the holy things, and over the works of the service of the house of God; ²⁹ and for the show-bread, and for the fine flour of the meat-offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for the fried cake, and for the dough, and for every measure; ³⁰ and to stand in the morning to praise and give thanks to the Lord, and so in the evening; ³¹ and [to be] over all the whole burnt offerings that were offered up to the Lord on the sabbaths, and at the new moons, and at the feasts, by number, according to the order [given] to them, continually before the Lord. ³² And they are to keep the charge of the tabernacle of witness, and the charge of the holy place, and the charges of the sons of Aaron their brethren, to minister in the house of the Lord.

²⁰ And the Levites their brethren [were] over the treasures of the house of the Lord, and over the treasures of the hallowed things. ²¹ These [were] the sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gersonite: to Ladan [belonged] the heads of the families: [the son] of Ladan the Gersonite [was] Jeiel. ²² The sons of Jeiel [were] Zethom, and Joel; brethren [who were] over the treasures of the house of the Lord. ²³ To Ambram and Issaar belonged Chebron, and Oziel. ²⁴ And Subael the [son] of Gersam, the [son] of Moses, [was] over the treasures. ²⁵ And Rabias [was] son to his brother Eliezer, and [so was] Josias, and Joram, and Zechri, and Salomoth. ²⁶ This Salomoth and his brethren [were] over all the sacred treasures, which David the king and the heads of families consecrated, [and] the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and princes of the host, ²⁷ things which he took out of cities and from the spoils, and consecrated some of them, so that the building of the house of God should not lack [supplies];

²⁹ For the Issaarites, Chonenia, and [his] sons [were over] the outward ministration over Israel, to record and to judge. ³⁰ For the Chebronites, Asabias and his brethren, a thousand and seven hundred mighty men, [were] over the charge of Israel beyond Jordan westward, for all the service of the Lord and work of the king. ³¹ Of the [family] of Chebron Urias [was] chief, even of the Chebronites according to their generations, according to their families. In the forties year of his reign they were numbered, and there were found mighty men among them in Jazer of Galaad.

⁸ Moreover Josaphat appointed in Jerusalem some of the priests, and Levites, and heads of houses of Israel, for the judgment of the Lord, and to judge the dwellers in Jerusalem.

⁸ And in the second year of their coming to the house of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zorobabel the [son] of Salathiel, and Jesus the [son] of Josedec, and the rest of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all who came from the captivity to Jerusalem, and they appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, over the workmen in the house of the Lord. ⁹ And Jesus and his sons and his brethren stood, Cadmiel and his sons the sons of Juda, over them that wrought the works in the house of God: the sons of Enadad, their sons and their brethren the Levites.

⁹ And Joel son of Zechri [was] overseer over them: and Juda son of Asana was second in the city.

²² And the overseer of the Levites [was] the son of Bani, son of Ozi, son of Asabia, the son of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph the singers [some were] over the house of God,

⁷ For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty.

¹² And the king made the hewn timber [into] buttresses of the house of the Lord and the king's house, and lyres and harps for singers: such hewn timber had not come upon the earth, nor have been seen anywhere until this day.

³¹ And these [were the men] whom David set over the service of the singers in the house of the Lord when the ark was at rest. ³² And they ministered in front of the tabernacle of witness [playing] on instruments, until Solomon built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem; and they stood according to their order for their services. ³³ And these [were the men] that stood, and their sons, of the sons of Caath: Aeman the psalm singer, son of Joel, the son of Samuel, ³⁴ the son of Helcana, the son of Jeroboam, the son of Eliel, the son of Thoas, ³⁵ the son of Suph, the son of Helcana, the son of Maath, the son of Amathi, ³⁶ the son of Helcana, the son of Joel, the son of Azarias, the son of Japhanias, ³⁷ the son of Thaath, the son of Aser, the son of Abiasaph, the son of Core, ³⁸ the son of Isaar, the son of Caath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel. ³⁹ And his brother Asaph, who stood at his right hand; Asaph the son of Barachias, the son of Samaa, ⁴⁰ the son of Michael, the son of Baasia, the son of Melchia, ⁴¹ the son of Athani, the son of Zaarai, ⁴² the son of Adai, the son of Aetham, the son of Zammam, the son of Semei, ⁴³ the son of Jeeth, the son of Gedson, the son of Levi. ⁴⁴ And the sons of Merari their brethren on the left hand: Aetham the son of Kisa, the son of Abai, the son of Maloch, ⁴⁵ the son of Asebi, ⁴⁶ the son of Amessias, the son of Bani, the son of Semer, ⁴⁷ the son of Mooli, the son of Musi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi. ⁴⁸ And their brethren according to the houses of their fathers, [were] the Levites who were appointed to all the work of ministration of the tabernacle of the house of God.

¹⁷ The doorkeepers; Salom, Acum, Telmon, and Diman, and their brethren; Salom [was] the chief; ¹⁸ and [he waited] hitherto in the king's gate eastward: these [are] the gates of the companies of the sons of Levi. ¹⁹ And Sellum the son of Core, the son of Abiasaph, the son of Core, and his brethren belonging to the house of his father, the Corites [were] over the works of the service, keeping the watches of the tabernacle, and their fathers over the camp of the Lord, keeping the entrance. ²⁰ And Phinees son of Eleazar was head over them before the Lord, and these [were] with him. ²¹ Zacharias the son of Mosollami [was] keeper of the door of the tabernacle of witness. ²² All the chosen porters in the gates [were] two hundred and twelve, these [were] in their courts, [this was] their distribution: these David and Samuel the seer established in their charge. ²³ And these and their sons [were] over the gates in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the tabernacle, to keep watch. ²⁴ The gates were toward the four winds, eastward, westward, northward, southward. ²⁵ And their brethren [were] in their courts, to enter in weekly from time to time with these. ²⁶ For four strong [men] have the charge of the gates; and the Levites were over the chambers, and they keep watch over the treasures of the house of God. ²⁷ For the charge [was] upon them, and these [were] charged with the keys to open the doors of the temple every morning.

³³ And these [were] the singers, heads of families of the Levites, [to whom were] established daily courses, for they were employed in the services day and night.

¹⁶ And David said to the chiefs of the Levites, Set your brethren the singers with musical instruments, lutes, harps, and cymbals, to sound aloud with a voice of joy. ¹⁷ So the Levites appointed Aeman the son of Joel; Asaph the son of Barachias [was one] of his brethren; and Aethan the son of Kisaeus was of the sons of Merari their brethren; ¹⁸ and with them their brethren of the second rank, Zacharias, and Oziel, and Semiramoth, and Jeiel, and Elioel, and Eliab, and Banaia, and Maasaia, and Matthathia, and Eliphena, and Makellia, and Abdedom, and Jeiel, and Ozias, the porters. ¹⁹ And the singers, Aeman, Asaph, and Aethan, with brazen cymbals to make [a sound] to be heard. ²⁰ Zacharias, and Oziel, Semiramoth, Jeiel, Oni, Eliab, Maasaeas, Banaeas, with lutes, on alaemoth. ²¹ And Mattathias, and Eliphalu, and Makenia, and Abdedom, and Jeiel, and Ozias, with harps of Amasenith, to make a loud noise. ²² And Chonenia chief of the Levites [was] master of the bands, because he was skillful. ²³ And Barachia and Elcana [were] doorkeepers of the ark. ²⁴ And Somnia, and Josaphat, and Nathanael, and Amasai, and Zacharia, and Banaea, and Eliezer, the priests, were sounding with trumpets before the ark of God: and Abdedom and Jeia [were] doorkeepers of the ark of God.

³⁸ And Abdedom and his brethren [were] sixty and eight; and Abdedom the son of Idithun, and Osa, [were] to be doorkeepers.

⁴¹ And with him [were] Aeman and Idithun, and the rest chosen out by name to praise the Lord, for his mercy [endures] for ever. ⁴² And with them [there were] trumpets and cymbals to sound aloud, and musical instruments for the songs of God: and the sons of Idithun [were] at the gate.

¹ And king David and the captains of the host appointed to their services the sons of Asaph, and of Aeman, and of Idithun, prophesiers with harps, and lutes, and cymbals: and their number was according to their polls serving in their ministrations. ² The sons of Asaph; Sacchur, Joseph, and Nathanias, and Erael: the sons of Asaph [were] next the king. ³ To Idithun [were reckoned] the sons of Idithun, Godolias, and Suri, and Iseas, and Asabias, and Matthathias, six after their father Idithun, sounding loudly on the harp thanksgiving and praise to the Lord. ⁴ To Aeman [were reckoned] the sons of Aeman, Bukias, and Matthanias, and Oziel, and Subael, and Jerimoth, and Ananias, and Anan, and Heliatha, and Godollathi, and Rometthiezer, and Jesbasaca, and Mallithi, and Otheri, and Meazoth. ⁵ All these [were] the sons of Aeman the king's chief player in the praises of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Aeman fourteen sons, and three daughters. ⁶ All these sang hymns with their father in the house of God, with cymbals, and lutes, and harps, for the service of the house of God, near the king, and Asaph, and Idithun, and Aeman. ⁷ And the number of them after their brethren, those instructed to sing to God, every one that understood [singing] was two hundred and eighty-eight.

¹ And for the divisions of the gates: the sons of the Corites [were] Mosellemia, of the sons of Asaph. ² And Mosellemia's firstborn son [was] Zacharias, the second Jadiel, the third Zabadia, the fourth Jenuel, ³ the fifth Jolam, the sixth Jonathan, the seventh Elionai, the eighth Abdedom. ⁴ And to Abdedom [there were born] sons, Samaias the firstborn, Jozabath the second, Joath the third, Sachar the fourth, Nathanael the fifth, ⁵ Amiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Phelathi the eighth: for God blessed him. ⁶ And to Samaias his son were born the sons of his firstborn, chiefs over the house of their father, for they were mighty. ⁷ The sons of Samai; Othni, and Raphael, and Obed, and Elzabath, and Achiud, mighty men, Heliu, and Sabachia, and Isbacom. ⁸ All [these were] of the sons of Abdedom, they and their sons and their brethren, doing mightily in service: in all sixty-two [born] to Abdedom. ⁹ And Mosellemia [had] eighteen sons and brethren, mighty men. ¹⁰ And to Osa of the sons of Merari [there were born] sons, keeping the dominion; though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him chief of the second division. ¹¹ Chelcias the second, Tablai the third, Zacharias the fourth: all these [were] the sons and brethren of Osa, thirteen. ¹² To these [were assigned] the divisions of the gates, to the chiefs of the mighty men the daily courses, even their brethren, to minister in the house of the Lord.

¹⁴ And he established, according to the order of his father David, the courses of the priests, and [that] according to their public ministrations: and the Levites [were appointed] over their charges, to praise and minister before the priests according to the daily order: and the porters were appointed according to their courses to the different gates: for thus [were] the commandments of David the man of God.

¹⁹ And the Levites of the children of Caath, and [they] of the sons of Core, rose up to praise the Lord God of Israel with a loud voice on high. ²⁰ And they rose early in the morning and went out to the wilderness of Thecoe: and as they went out, Josaphat stood and cried, and said, Hear me, Juda, and the dwellers in Jerusalem; put your trust in the Lord God, and your trust shall be honored; trust in his prophet, and you⌃ shall prosper. ²¹ And he took counsel with the people, and set appointed men to sing psalms and praises, to give thanks, and sing the holy songs of praise in going forth before the host: and they said, Give thanks to the Lord, for his mercy [endures] for ever.

²⁵ And he stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, and lutes, and harps, according to the commandment of king David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for by the commandment of the Lord the order [was] in the hand of the prophets. ²⁶ And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.

¹⁵ And the sons of Asaph the psalm-singers [were] at their post according to the commands of David, and Asaph, and Aeman, and Idithom, the prophets of the king: also, the chiefs and the porters of the several gates; —it was not for them to stir from the service of the holy things, for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.

⁷ And [some] of the children of Israel went up, and [some] of the priests, and of the Levites, and the singers, and the doorkeepers, and the Nathinim, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Arthasastha the king.

⁷³ And the priests, and Levites, and porters, and singers, and [some] of the people, and the Nathinim, and all Israel, lived in their cities.

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⁵ who excel in the sound of musical instruments; they have regarded them as dwelling, not as fleeting [pleasures];

¹⁶ And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their kindred, Gedson, Caath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were a hundred and thirty-seven. ¹⁷ And these are the sons of Gedson, Lobeni and Semei, the houses of their family. And the sons of Caath, ¹⁸ Ambram and Issaar, Chebron, and Oziel; and the years of the life of Caath were a hundred and thirty-three years. ¹⁹ And the sons of Merari, Mooli, and Omusi, these are the houses of the families of Levi, according to their kindred. ²⁰ And Ambram took as wife Jochabed the daughter of his father's brother, and she bore to him both Aaron and Moses, and Mariam their sister: and the years of the life of Ambram were a hundred and thirty-two years. ²¹ And the sons of Issaar, Core, and Naphec, and Zechri. ²² And the sons of Oziel, Misael, and Elisaphan, and Segri. ²³ And Aaron took to himself to wife Elisabeth daughter of Aminadab sister of Naasson, and she bore to him both Nadab and Abiud, and Eleazar and Ithamar. ²⁴ And the sons of Core, Asir, and Elkana, and Abiasar, these are the generations of Core.

⁵⁷ And the sons of Levi according to their families; to Gedson, the family of the Gedsonites; to Caath, the family of the Caathites; to Merari, the family of the Merarites. ⁵⁸ These [are] the families of the sons of Levi; the family of the Lobenites, the family of the Chebronites, the family of the Coreites, and the family of the Musites; and Caath begot Amram.

¹ The sons of Levi: Gedson, Caath, and Merari.

¹⁶ The sons of Levi: Gedson, Caath, and Merari.

¹ And [they number] the sons of Aaron in [their] division, Nadab, and Abiud, and Eleazar, and Ithamar.

¹ And for the divisions of the gates: the sons of the Corites [were] Mosellemia, of the sons of Asaph.

²⁵ And he stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, and lutes, and harps, according to the commandment of king David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for by the commandment of the Lord the order [was] in the hand of the prophets.

² And Ezekias appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites, and the courses of each one according to his ministry, to the priests and to the Levites, for the whole burnt offering, and for the peace-offering, and to praise, and to give thanks, and to minister in the gates, [and] in the courts of the house of the Lord.

¹⁰ And the service was duly ordered, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions, according to the command of the king.

¹⁸ And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their separate orders, for the services of God in Jerusalem, according to the writing of the book of Moses.

¹⁷ And these are the sons of Gedson, Lobeni and Semei, the houses of their family. And the sons of Caath,

¹⁷ And these [are] the names of the sons of Gedson; Lobeni, and Semei. ¹⁸ The sons of Caath; Ambram, and Issaar, Chebron, and Oziel. ¹⁹ The sons of Merari; Mooli and Musi: and these [are] the families of Levi, according to their families. ²⁰ To Gedson—to Lobeni his son—[were born] Jeth his son, Zammath his son,

⁷ Of the sons of Gedson; Joel the chief, and his brethren, a hundred and thirty.

²¹ These [were] the sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gersonite: to Ladan [belonged] the heads of the families: [the son] of Ladan the Gersonite [was] Jeiel.

³³ And these [were the men] that stood, and their sons, of the sons of Caath: Aeman the psalm singer, son of Joel, the son of Samuel, ³⁴ the son of Helcana, the son of Jeroboam, the son of Eliel, the son of Thoas,

¹¹ And David called Sadoc and Abiathar the priests, and the Levites, Uriel, Asaia, and Joel, and Semaia, and Eliel, and Aminadab,

¹⁷ So the Levites appointed Aeman the son of Joel; Asaph the son of Barachias [was one] of his brethren; and Aethan the son of Kisaeus was of the sons of Merari their brethren; ¹⁸ and with them their brethren of the second rank, Zacharias, and Oziel, and Semiramoth, and Jeiel, and Elioel, and Eliab, and Banaia, and Maasaia, and Matthathia, and Eliphena, and Makellia, and Abdedom, and Jeiel, and Ozias, the porters.

²⁰ Zacharias, and Oziel, Semiramoth, Jeiel, Oni, Eliab, Maasaeas, Banaeas, with lutes, on alaemoth. ²¹ And Mattathias, and Eliphalu, and Makenia, and Abdedom, and Jeiel, and Ozias, with harps of Amasenith, to make a loud noise.

¹⁸ Ambram and Issaar, Chebron, and Oziel; and the years of the life of Caath were a hundred and thirty-three years.

²⁷ To Caath [belonged] one division, that of Amram, and another division, that of Issaar, and another division, that of Chebron, and another division, that of Oziel: these are the divisions of Caath, according to number.

⁵⁸ These [are] the families of the sons of Levi; the family of the Lobenites, the family of the Chebronites, the family of the Coreites, and the family of the Musites; and Caath begot Amram.

² And the sons of Caath; Ambram, and Issaar, Chebron, and Oziel.

²⁰ And Ambram took as wife Jochabed the daughter of his father's brother, and she bore to him both Aaron and Moses, and Mariam their sister: and the years of the life of Ambram were a hundred and thirty-two years.

¹ And do you take to yourself both Aaron your brother, and his sons, even [them] of the children of Israel; so that Aaron, and Nadab and Abiud, and Eleazar and Ithamar, sons of Aaron, may minister to me. ² And you shall make holy apparel for Aaron your brother, for honor and glory. ³ And speak you to all those who are wise in understanding, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom and perception; and they shall make the holy apparel of Aaron for the sanctuary, in which [apparel] he shall minister to me as priest. ⁴ And these are the garments which they shall make: the breast-plate, and the shoulder-piece, and the full-length robe, and the tunic with a fringe, and the tire, and the girdle; and they shall make holy garments for Aaron and his sons to minister to me as priests. ⁵ And they shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen. ⁶ And they shall make the shoulder-piece of fine linen spun, the woven work of the embroiderer. ⁷ It shall have two shoulder-pieces joined together, fastened on the two sides. ⁸ And the woven work of the shoulder-pieces which is upon it, shall be of one piece according to the work, of pure gold and blue and purple, and spun scarlet and fine twined linen. ⁹ And you shall take the two stones, the stones of emerald, and you shall grave on them the names of the children of Israel. ¹⁰ Six names on the first stone, and the other six names on the second stone, according to their births. ¹¹ [It shall be] the work of the stone-engraver's are; as the graving of a seal you shall engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel. ¹² And you shall put the two stones on the shoulders of the shoulder-piece: they are memorial-stones for the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel before the Lord on his two shoulders, a memorial for them. ¹³ And you shall make circlets of pure gold; ¹⁴ and you shall make two fringes of pure gold, variegated with flowers wreathen work; and you shall put the wreathen fringes on the circlets, fastening them on their shoulder-pieces in front.

³³ They shall eat the offerings with which they were sanctified to fill their hands, to sanctify them; and a stranger shall not eat of them, for they are holy. ³⁴ And if [anything] be left of the flesh of the sacrifice of consecration and of the loaves until the morning, you shall burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, for it is a holy thing. ³⁵ And thus shall you do for Aaron and for his sons according to all things that I have commanded you; seven days shall you fill their hands. ³⁶ And you shall sacrifice the calf of the sin-offering on the day of purification, and you shall purify the altar when you do perform consecration upon it, and you shall anoint it so as to sanctify it. ³⁷ Seven days shall you purify the altar and sanctify it; and the altar shall be most holy, every one that touches the altar shall be hallowed.

⁴⁴ And I will sanctify the tabernacle of testimony and the altar, and I will sanctify Aaron and his sons, to minister as priests to me.

⁶ And you shall set it before the veil that is over the ark of the testimonies, wherein I will make myself known to you from thence. ⁷ And Aaron shall burn upon it fine compound incense every morning; whenever he trims the lamps he shall burn incense upon it. ⁸ And when Aaron lights the lamps in the evening, he shall burn incense upon it; a constant incense-offering always before the Lord for their generations. ⁹ And you shall not offer strange incense upon it, [nor] and offering made by fire, [nor] a sacrifice; and you shall not pour a drink-offering upon it. ¹⁰ And once in the year Aaron shall make atonement on its horns, he shall purge it with the blood of purification for their generations: it is most holy to the Lord.

³⁴ And the Lord said to Moses, Take for yourself sweet herbs, stacte, onycha, sweet galbanum, and transparent frankincense; there shall be an equal weight of each. ³⁵ And they shall make with it perfumed incense, tempered with the are of a perfumer, a pure holy work. ³⁶ And of these you shall beat some small, and you shall put it before the testimonies in the tabernacle of testimony, whence I will make myself known to you: it shall be to you a most holy incense. ³⁷ You⌃ shall not make any for yourselves according to this composition; it shall be to you a holy thing for the Lord. ³⁸ Whosoever shall make any in like manner, so as to smell it, shall perish from his people.

⁹ And you shall take the anointing oil, and shall anoint the tabernacle, and all things in it; and shall sanctify it, and all its furniture, and it shall be holy. ¹⁰ And you shall anoint the altar of burnt offerings, and all its furniture; and you shall hallow the altar, and the altar shall be most holy.

¹² And you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the doors of the tabernacle of witness, and you shall wash them with water. ¹³ And you shall put on Aaron the holy garments, and you shall anoint him, and you shall sanctify him, and he shall minister to me as priest. ¹⁴ And you shall bring up his sons, and shall put garments on them. ¹⁵ And you shall anoint them as you did anoint their father, and they shall minister to me as priests; and it shall be that they shall have an everlasting anointing of priesthood, throughout their generations.

²² And Aaron lifted up his hands on the people and blessed them; and after he had offered the sin-offering, and the whole burnt offerings, and the peace-offerings, he came down. ²³ And Moses and Aaron entered into the tabernacle of witness. And they came out and blessed all the people, and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people.

¹ And the two sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abiud, took each his censer, and put fire therein, and threw incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which the Lord did not command them, ² and fire came forth from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.

¹⁰ to distinguish between sacred and profane, and between clean and unclean,

¹⁷ Why did you⌃ not eat the sin-offering in the holy place? for because it is most holy he has given you this to eat, that you⌃ might take away the sin of the congregation, and make atonement for them before the Lord. ¹⁸ For the blood of it was not brought into the holy place: you⌃ shall eat it within, before [the Lord], as the Lord commanded me.

¹¹ And Aaron shall bring the calf for his sin, and he shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and he shall kill the calf for his sin-offering. ¹² And he shall take his censer full of coals of fire off the altar, which is before the Lord; and he shall fill his hands with fine compound incense, and shall bring it within the veil. ¹³ And he shall put the incense on the fire before the Lord, and the smoke of the incense shall cover the mercy-seat over the tables of testimony, and he shall not die. ¹⁴ And he shall take of the blood of the calf, and sprinkle with his finger on the mercy-seat eastward: before the mercy-seat shall he sprinkle seven times of the blood with his finger. ¹⁵ And he shall kill the goat for the sin-offering that is for the people, before the Lord; and he shall bring in of its blood within the veil, and shall do with its blood as he did with the blood of the calf, and shall sprinkle its blood on the mercy-seat, in front of the mercy-seat. ¹⁶ and he shall make atonement for the sanctuary on account of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and for their trespasses in the matter of all their sins; and thus shall he do to the tabernacle of witness established among them in the midst of their uncleanness. ¹⁷ and there shall be no man in the tabernacle of witness, when he goes in to make atonement in the holy place, until he shall have come out; and he shall make atonement for himself, and for his house, and for all the congregation of the children of Israel. ¹⁸ And he shall come forth to the altar that is before the Lord, and he shall make atonement upon it; and he shall take of the blood of the calf, and of the blood of the goat, and shall put it on the horns of the altar round about. ¹⁹ And he shall sprinkle some of the blood upon it seven times with his finger, and shall purge it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.

³² The priest whoever they shall anoint shall make atonement, and whoever they shall consecrate to exercise the priestly office after his father; and he shall put on the linen robe, the holy garment. ³³ And he shall make atonement for the most holy place, and the tabernacle of witness; and he shall make atonement for the altar, and for the priests; and he shall make atonement for all the congregation.

² Speak to Aaron and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and you shall say to them, This is the word which the Lord has commanded, saying, ³ Every man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers dwelling among you, who shall kill a calf, or a sheep, or a goat in the camp, or who shall kill it out of the camp, ⁴ and shall not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of witness, so as to sacrifice it for a whole burnt offering or peace-offering to the Lord to be acceptable for a sweet smelling savor: and whoever shall kill it without, and shall not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of witness, so as to offer it as a gift to the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord; blood shall be imputed to that man, he has shed blood; that soul shall be cut off from his people. ⁵ That the children of Israel may offer their sacrifices, all that they shall kill in the fields, and bring them to the Lord to the doors of the tabernacle of witness to the priest, and they shall sacrifice them as a peace-offering to the Lord. ⁶ And the priest shall pour the blood on the altar round about before the Lord by the doors of the tabernacle of witness, and shall offer the fat for a sweet smelling savor to the Lord.

²³ Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, Thus you⌃ shall bless the children of Israel, saying to them, ²⁴ The Lord bless you and keep you; ²⁵ the Lord make his face to shine upon you, and have mercy upon you; ²⁶ the Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace. ²⁷ And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel, and I the Lord will bless them.

¹⁶ And Moses said to Core, Sanctify your company, and be ready before the Lord, you and Aaron and they, to-morrow. ¹⁷ And take each man his censer, and you⌃ shall put incense upon them, and shall bring each one his censer before the Lord, two hundred and fifty censers, and you and Aaron shall bring each his censer. ¹⁸ And each man took his censer, and they put on them fire, and laid incense on them; and Moses and Aaron stood by the doors of the tabernacle of witness.

³⁵ And fire went forth from the Lord, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense. ³⁶ And the Lord said to Moses, ³⁷ and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, Take up the brazen censers out of the midst of the men that have been burnt, and scatter the strange fire yonder, for they have sanctified the censers ³⁸ of these sinners against their own souls, and do you make them beaten plates a covering to the altar, because they were brought before the Lord and hallowed; and they became a sign to the children of Israel. ³⁹ And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest took the brazen censers, which the men who had been burnt brought near, and they put them as a covering on the altar: ⁴⁰ a memorial to the children of Israel that no stranger might draw near, who is not of the seed of Aaron, to offer incense before the Lord; so he shall not be as Core and as they that conspired with him, as the Lord spoke to him by the hand of Moses.

⁴⁶ And Moses said to Aaron, Take a censer, and put on it fire from the altar, and put incense on it, and carry it away quickly into the camp, and make atonement for them; for wrath is gone forth from the presence of the Lord, it has begun to destroy the people. ⁴⁷ And Aaron took as Moses spoke to him, and ran among the congregation, for already the plague had begun among the people; and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.

¹ And the Lord spoke to Aaron, saying, You and your sons and your father's house shall bear the sins of the holy things, and you and your sons shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

³ And they shall keep your charges, and the charges of the tabernacle; only they shall not approach the holy vessels and the altar, so both they and you shall not die. ⁴ And they shall be joined to you, and shall keep the charges of the tabernacle of witness, in all the services of the tabernacle; and a stranger shall not approach to you. ⁵ And you⌃ shall keep the charges of the holy things, and the charges of the altar, and [so] there shall not be anger among the children of Israel. ⁶ And I have taken your brethren the Levites out of the midst of the children of Israel, a present given to the Lord, to minister in the services of the tabernacle of witness. ⁷ And you and your sons after you shall keep up your priestly ministration, according to the whole manner of the altar, and that which is within the veil; and you⌃ shall minister in the services as the office of your priesthood; and the stranger that comes near shall die. ⁸ And the Lord said to Aaron, And, behold, I have given you the charge of the first fruits of all things consecrated to me by the children of Israel; and I have given them to you as an honor, and to your sons after you for a perpetual ordinance.

⁵⁹ And the name of his wife [was] Jochabed, daughter of Levi, who bore these to Levi in Egypt, and she bore to Amram, Aaron and Moses, and Mariam their sister.

⁵ And the priests the Levites shall come, because the Lord God has chosen them to stand by him, and to bless in his name, and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be [decided].

²⁸ And I chose the house of your father out of all the tribes of Israel to minister to me in the priest's office, to go up to my altar, and to burn incense, and to wear an ephod. And I gave to the house of your father all the offerings by fire of the children of Israel for food.

³ And the sons of Ambram; Aaron, and Moses, and Mariam: and the sons of Aaron; Nadab, and Abiud, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

¹⁸ And they withstood Ozias the king, and said to him, [It is] not for you, Ozias, to burn incense to the Lord, but only for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to sacrifice: go forth of the sanctuary, for you have departed from the Lord; and this shall not be for glory to you from the Lord god. ¹⁹ And Ozias was angry, and in his hand [was] the censer to burn incense in the temple: and when he was angry with the priests, then the leprosy rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the Lord, over the altar of incense. ²⁰ And Azarias the chief priest, and the [other] priests, turned [to look] at him, and, behold, he [was] leprous in his forehead; and they got him hastily out thence, for he also hasted to go out, because the Lord had rebuked him. ²¹ And Ozias the king was a leper to the day of his death, and he lived [as] a leper in a separate house; for he was cut off from the house of the Lord: and Joathan his son [was set] over his kingdom, judging the people of the land.

¹⁶ For he broke to pieces the brazen gates, and crushed the iron bars.

¹ And this [is] the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

²³ To Ambram and Issaar belonged Chebron, and Oziel. ²⁴ And Subael the [son] of Gersam, the [son] of Moses, [was] over the treasures. ²⁵ And Rabias [was] son to his brother Eliezer, and [so was] Josias, and Joram, and Zechri, and Salomoth.

¹ (91) Praise of a Song, by David. He that dwells in the help of the Highest, shall sojourn under the shelter of the God of heaven.

²² And the woman conceived and bore a son, and Moses called his name Gersam, saying, I am a sojourner in a strange land.

²⁰ And Moses took his wife and his children, and mounted them on the beasts, and returned to Egypt; and Moses took the rod [which he had] from God in his hand.

³ and her two sons: the name of the one was Gersam, [his father] saying, I was a sojourner in a strange land; — ⁴ and the name of the second Eliezer, saying, For the God of my father [is] my helper, and he has rescued me out of the hand of Pharao.

²⁰ And for the sons of Levi that were left, [even] for the sons of Ambram, Sobael: for the sons of Sobael, Jedia.

²⁰ the thirteenth Subael, his sons and his brethren, twelve:

²⁴ And Subael the [son] of Gersam, the [son] of Moses, [was] over the treasures. ²⁵ And Rabias [was] son to his brother Eliezer, and [so was] Josias, and Joram, and Zechri, and Salomoth.

²² and for Isaari, Salomoth: for the sons of Salomoth, Jath.

²⁶ This Salomoth and his brethren [were] over all the sacred treasures, which David the king and the heads of families consecrated, [and] the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and princes of the host,

⁹ Of the sons of Chebrom; Eliel the chief, and his brethren eighty.

¹² The sons of Caath; Ambram, Isaar, Chebron, Oziel, four.

²³ The sons of Ecdiu; Amadia the second, Jaziel the third, Jecmoam the fourth.

¹⁹ And the sons of Merari, Mooli, and Omusi, these are the houses of the families of Levi, according to their kindred. ²⁰ To Gedson—to Lobeni his son—[were born] Jeth his son, Zammath his son,

³⁰ Samaa his son, Angia his son, Asaias his son.

⁶ And David divided them [into] daily courses, for the sons of Levi, for Gedson, Caath, and Merari.

²⁶ The sons of Merari, Mooli, and Musi: the sons of Ozia, ²⁷ [That is, the sons] of Merari by Ozia, —his sons [were] Isoam, and Sacchur, and Abai. ²⁸ To Mooli [were born] Eleazar, and Ithamar; and Eleazar died, and had no sons. ²⁹ For Kis; the sons of Kis; Jerameel. ³⁰ And the sons of Musi; Mooli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These [were] the sons of the Levites according to the houses of their families.

⁶ This [is] the thing which the Lord has appointed the daughters of Salpaad, saying, Let them marry where they please, only let them marry [men] of their father's tribe. ⁷ So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel go about from tribe to tribe, for the children of Israel shall steadfastly continue each in the inheritance of his family's tribe. ⁸ And whatever daughter is heiress to a property of the tribes of the children Israel, [such] women shall be married each to one of her father's tribe, that the sons of Israel may each inherit the property of his father's tribe.

²⁸ To Mooli [were born] Eleazar, and Ithamar; and Eleazar died, and had no sons.

³⁰ And the sons of Musi; Mooli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These [were] the sons of the Levites according to the houses of their families.

² Take the sum of all the congregation of Israel according to their kindred, according to the houses of their fathers' families, according to their number by their names, according to their heads: every male ³ from twenty years old and upwards, every one that goes forth in the forces of Israel, take account of them with their strength; you and Aaron take account of them. ⁴ And with you there shall be each one of the rulers according to the tribe of each: they shall be according to the houses of their families.

¹⁸ And they assembled all the congregation on the first day of the month in the second year; and they registered them after their lineage, after their families, after the number of their names, from twenty years old and upwards, every male according to their number:

²² For the children of Symeon according to their kindred, according to their divisions, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names, according to their polls, all males from twenty years old and upward, every one that goes out with the host,

³² This [is] the numbering of the children of Israel according to the houses of their families: all the numbering of the camps with their forces, [was] six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.

¹⁵ Take the number of the sons of Levi, according to the houses of their families, according to their divisions; number you⌃ them every male from a month old and upwards.

²⁰ and the sons of Merari according to their families, Mooli and Musi; these are the families of the Levites according to the houses of their families.

⁴⁷ you shall even take five shekels a head; you shall take them according to the holy didrachm, twenty oboli to the shekel.

³ from twenty-five years old and upward until fifty years, every one that goes in to minister, to do all the works in the tabernacle of witness.

²⁴ This is the [ordinance] for the Levites; From five and twenty years old and upward, they shall go in to minister in the tabernacle of witness.

¹⁷ And they shall take down the tabernacle, and the sons of Gedson shall set forward, and the sons of Merari, who bear the tabernacle.

²¹ And the sons of Caath shall set forward bearing the holy things, and [the others] shall set up the tabernacle until they arrive.

³ And the Levites numbered [themselves] from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls amounted to thirty and eight thousand men.

²⁷ For by the last words of David was the number of the Levites [taken] from twenty years old and upward.

⁸ And in the second year of their coming to the house of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zorobabel the [son] of Salathiel, and Jesus the [son] of Josedec, and the rest of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all who came from the captivity to Jerusalem, and they appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, over the workmen in the house of the Lord.

¹ And it came to pass when the king sat in his house, and the Lord had given him an inheritance on every side [free] from all his enemies round about him;

¹¹ from the days when I appointed judges over my people Israel: and I will give you rest from all your enemies, and the Lord will tell you that you shall build a house to him.

²⁷ But will God indeed dwell with men upon the earth? if the heaven and heaven of heavens will not suffice you, how much less even this house which I have built to your name?

¹⁸ [Is] not the Lord with you? and he has given you rest round about, for he has given into your hands the inhabitants of the land; and the land is subdued before the Lord, and before his people.

¹¹ Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Sion: declare his dealings among the nations.

¹⁶ Hear me, O Lord; for your mercy is good: according to the multitude of your compassions look upon me.

¹⁸ Draw near to my soul and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.

²¹ and gave their land [for] an inheritance: for his mercy [endures] for ever:

¹⁸ Behold I and the children which God has given me: and they shall be [for] signs and wonders in the house of Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells in mount Sion.

²¹ And I will make inquisition for their blood, and will by no means leave it unavenged: and the Lord shall dwell in Sion.

³ Thus says the Lord; I will return to Sion, and dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a true city, and the mountain of the Lord Almighty a holy mountain.

⁵ And Aaron and his sons shall go in, when the camp is about to move, and shall take down the shadowing veil, and shall cover with it the ark of the testimony.

¹⁵ And Aaron and his sons shall finish covering the holy things, and all the holy vessels, when the camp begins to move; and afterwards the sons of Caath shall go in to take up [the furniture]; but shall not touch the holy things, lest they die: these shall the sons of Caath bear in the tabernacle of witness.

⁴⁹ He reviewed them by the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses, appointing each man severally over their [respective] work, and over their burdens; and they were numbered, as the Lord commanded Moses.

⁹ But to the sons of Caath he gave them not, because they have the ministrations of the sacred things: they shall bear them on their shoulders.

⁸ At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand near before the Lord, to minister and bless in his name to this day.

¹ And these [are] the last words of David. Faithful [is] David the son of Jessae, and faithful the man whom the Lord raised up to be the anointed of the God of Jacob, and beautiful [are] the psalms of Israel.

²⁰ As the dream of one awakening, O Lord, in your city you will despise their image.

⁶ Take the tribe of Levi, and you shall set them before Aaron the priest, and they shall minister to him, ⁷ and shall keep his charges, and the charges of the children of Israel, before the tabernacle of witness, to do the works of the tabernacle. ⁸ And they shall keep all the furniture of the tabernacle of witness, and the charges of the children of Israel as to all the works of the tabernacle. ⁹ And you shall give the Levites to Aaron, and to his sons the priests; they are given for a gift to me of the children of Israel.

⁵ And against the wall of the house he set chambers round about the temple and the ark.

²⁸ And [some] of them [were appointed] over the vessels of service, that they should carry them in by number, and carry them out by number. ²⁹ And [some] of them [were] appointed over the furniture, and over all the holy vessels, and over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices.

¹⁷ and Banaeas the son of Jodae [was] over the Cherethite and the Phelethite, and the sons of David were the chief deputies of the king.

⁴ Of the overseers over the works of the house of the Lord [there were] twenty-four thousand, and [there were] six thousand scribes and judges;

¹³ and [the plan] of the courses of the priests and Levites, for all the work of the service of the house of the Lord, and of the stores of vessels for ministration of the service of the house of the Lord.

⁵ and said to them, Hear, you⌃ Levites: now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of the Lord God of your fathers, and cast out the impurity from the holy places.

¹⁸ And they went in to king Ezekias, and said, We have purified all the things in the house of the Lord, the altar of whole burnt offering, and its vessels, and the table of show-bread, and its vessels; ¹⁹ and all the vessels which king Achaz polluted in his reign, in his apostasy, we have prepared and purified: behold, they are before the altar of the Lord.

¹¹ And Ezekias told them yet farther to prepare chambers for the house of the Lord; and they prepared [them],

³ And he told the Levites that were able [to act] in all Israel, that they should consecrate themselves to the Lord: and they put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built: and the king said, You⌃ must not carry anything on your shoulders: now then minister to the Lord your God, and to his people Israel. ⁴ And prepare yourselves according to the houses of your families, and according to your daily courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and [the order] by the hand of his son Solomon. ⁵ And stand you⌃ in the house according to the divisions of the houses of your families for your brethren the sons of the people; [so] also let there be for the Levites a division of the house of their family. ⁶ And kill you⌃ the passover, and prepare [it] for your brethren, to do according to the word of the Lord, by the hand of Moses.

¹¹ And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hand, and the Levites flayed [the victims]. ¹² And they prepared the whole burnt offering to give to them, according to the division by the houses of families, [even] to the sons of the people, to offer to the Lord, as it is written in the book of Moses. ¹³ And thus [they did] till the morning. And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance; and boiled the holy [pieces] in copper vessels and caldrons, and [the feast] went on well, and they quickly served all the children of the people. ¹⁴ And after they had prepared for themselves and for the priests, for the priests [were engaged] in offering the whole burnt offerings and the fat until night, then the Levites prepared for themselves, and for their brethren the sons of Aaron.

²⁹ Be watchful and keep them, until you⌃ weigh [them] before the chief priests and the Levites, and the chiefs of families in Jerusalem, at the chambers of the house of the Lord.

²⁴ And Phathaia son of Baseza was in attendance on the king in every matter for the people,

⁴ And before this time Eliasib the priest lived in the treasury of the house of our God, connected with Tobias; ⁵ and he made himself a great treasury, and there they were formerly in the habit of bestowing the offerings, and the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithe of the corn, and the wine, and the oil, the ordered portion of the Levites, and singers, and porters; and the first fruits of the priests.

⁹ And I gave orders, and they purified the treasuries: and I restored there the vessels of the house of God, [and] the offerings, and the frankincense.

⁴ and Jechonias, and the captivity of Juda: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.

⁶ And the sides were twice ninety, side against side; and [there was] a space in the wall of the house at the sides round about, that they should be for them that take hold of them to see, that they should not at all touch the walls of the house. ⁷ And the breadth of the upper side [was made] according to the projection out of the wall, against the upper one round about the house, that it might be enlarged above, and that [men] might go up to the upper chambers from those below, and from the ground-sills to the third story. ⁸ And as for the height of the house round about, [each] space between the sides was equal to a reed of six cubits; ⁹ and the breadth of the wall of each side without was five cubits; and the spaces that were left between the sides of the house, ¹⁰ and between the chambers, were a width of twenty cubits, the circumference of the house. ¹¹ And the doors of the chambers were toward the space left by the one door that looked northward, and [there was] one door southward; and the breadth of the remaining open space [was] five cubits in extent round about.

²⁶ And [there were] secret windows; and he measured from side to side, to the roofing of the porch; and the sides of the house were closely planked.

³ ornamented accordingly as the gates of the inner court, and arranged accordingly as the peristyles of the outer court, [with] triple porticos fronting one another.

¹³ And he said to me, The chambers toward the north, and the chambers toward the south, in front of the void spaces, these are the chambers of the sanctuary, wherein the priests the sons of Sadduc, who draw night to the Lord, shall eat the most holy things: and there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat-offering, and the sin-offerings, and the trespass-offerings; because the place is holy.

³⁰ And you shall set upon the table show bread before me continually.

⁴ And if he bring as a gift a sacrifice baked from the oven, a gift to the Lord of fine flour, [he shall bring] unleavened bread kneaded with oil, and unleavened cakes anointed with oil. ⁵ And if your gift [be] a sacrifice from a pan, it is fine flour mingled with oil, unleavened [offerings]. ⁶ And you shall break them into fragments and pour oil upon them: it is a sacrifice to the Lord. ⁷ And if your gift be a sacrifice from the hearth, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.

²⁰ This is the gift of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer to the Lord in the day in which you shall anoint him; the tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sacrifice continually, the half of it in the morning, and the half of it in the evening. ²¹ It shall be made with oil in a frying-pan; he shall offer it kneaded [and] in rolls, an offering of fragments, an offering of a sweet savor to the Lord. ²² The anointed priest who is in his place, [one] of his sons, shall offer it: it is a perpetual statute, it shall all be consumed. ²³ And every sacrifice of a priest shall be thoroughly burnt, and shall not be eaten.

⁹ And whatever flesh shall have touched any unclean thing, it shall not be eaten, it shall be consumed with fire; every one that is clean shall eat the flesh.

³⁵ You⌃ shall not act unrighteously in judgment, in measures and weights and scales. ³⁶ There shall be among you just balances and just weights and just liquid measure. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

⁵ And you⌃ shall take fine flour, and make of it twelve loaves; each loaf shall be of two tenth parts. ⁶ And you⌃ shall put them [in] two rows, each row [containing] six loaves, on the pure table before the Lord. ⁷ And you⌃ shall put on [each] row pure frankincense and salt; and [these things] shall be for loaves for a memorial, set forth before the Lord. ⁸ On the sabbath-day they shall be set forth before the Lord continually before the children of Israel, for an everlasting covenant. ⁹ And they shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat them in the holy place: for this is their most holy portion of the offerings made to the Lord, a perpetual statute.

⁵⁰ He took the silver from the firstborn of the sons of Israel, a thousand three hundred and sixty-five shekels, according to the holy shekel.

⁴⁸ And king Solomon took the furniture which [Chiram] made for the house of the Lord, the golden altar, and the golden table of show bread.

²⁹ And [some] of them [were] appointed over the furniture, and over all the holy vessels, and over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices. ³⁰ And some of the priests were makers of the ointment, and [appointed to prepare] the spices. ³¹ And Matthathias of the Levites, (he [was] the firstborn of Salom the Corite,) [was set] in charge over the sacrifices of meat-offering of the pan belonging to the high priest. ³² And Banaias the Caathite, from among their brethren, [was set] over the show bread, to prepare it every sabbath. ³³ And these [were] the singers, heads of families of the Levites, [to whom were] established daily courses, for they were employed in the services day and night. ³⁴ These [were] the heads of the families of the Levites according to their generations; these chiefs lived in Jerusalem.

¹¹ they sacrifice to the Lord whole burnt offering, morning and evening, and compound incense, and [set] the show bread on the pure table; and [there is] the golden candlestick, and the lamps for burning, to light in the evening: for we keep the charge of the Lord God of our fathers; but you⌃ have forsaken him.

¹⁸ And they went in to king Ezekias, and said, We have purified all the things in the house of the Lord, the altar of whole burnt offering, and its vessels, and the table of show-bread, and its vessels;

³³ the show bread, and the continual meat-offering, and for the continual whole burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moon, for the feast, and for the holy things, and the sin-offerings, to make atonement for Israel, and for the works of the house of our God.

³⁹ One lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the second lamb you shall offer in the evening. ⁴⁰ And a tenth measure of fine flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil, and a drink-offering the fourth part of a hin of wine for one lamb. ⁴¹ And you shall offer the second lamb in the evening, after the manner of the morning-offering, and according to the drink-offering of the morning lamb; you shall offer it an offering to the Lord for a sweet smelling savor, ⁴² a perpetual sacrifice throughout your generations, at the door of the tabernacle of witness before the Lord; wherein I will be known to you from thence, so as to speak to you.

³¹ And these [were the men] whom David set over the service of the singers in the house of the Lord when the ark was at rest. ³² And they ministered in front of the tabernacle of witness [playing] on instruments, until Solomon built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem; and they stood according to their order for their services. ³³ And these [were the men] that stood, and their sons, of the sons of Caath: Aeman the psalm singer, son of Joel, the son of Samuel,

³⁷ And they left there Asaph and his brethren before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to minister before the ark continually, according to the service of each day: from day to day. ³⁸ And Abdedom and his brethren [were] sixty and eight; and Abdedom the son of Idithun, and Osa, [were] to be doorkeepers. ³⁹ And [they appointed] Sadoc the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the Lord in the high place in Gabaon, ⁴⁰ to offer up whole burnt offerings continually morning and evening, and according to all things written in the law of the Lord, which he commanded the children of Israel by Moses the servant of God.

²⁵ And he stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, and lutes, and harps, according to the commandment of king David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for by the commandment of the Lord the order [was] in the hand of the prophets. ²⁶ And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets. ²⁷ And Ezekias told [them] to offer up the whole burnt offering on the altar: and when they began to offer the whole burnt offering, they began to sing to the Lord, and the trumpets [accompanied] the instruments of David king of Israel. ²⁸ And all the congregation worshipped, and the psalm-singers [were] singing, and the trumpets sounding, until the whole burnt sacrifice had been completely offered.

¹⁰ And they laid a foundation for building the house of the Lord: and the priests in their robes stood with trumpets and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the Lord, according to the order of David king of Israel. ¹¹ And they answered [each other] with praise and thanksgiving to the Lord, [saying], For [it is] good, for his mercy to Israel [endures] for ever. And all the people shouted with a loud voice to praise the Lord at the laying the foundation of the house of the Lord.

¹ (93) For the day before the Sabbath, when the land was [first] inhabited, the praise of a Song by David. The Lord reigns; he has clothed himself with honor: the Lord has clothed and girded himself with strength; for he has established the world, which shall not be moved. ² Your throne is prepared of old: you are from everlasting. ³ The rivers have lifted up, O Lord, the rivers have lifted up their voices,

¹ (135) Alleluia. Praise you⌃ the name of the Lord; praise the Lord, [you⌃ his] servants, ² who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God.

¹ (136) Alleluia. Give thanks to the Lord: for he is good: for his mercy [endures] for ever. ² Give thanks to the God of gods; for his mercy [endures] for ever. ³ Give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy [endures] for ever.

¹⁹ Seon king of the Amorites: for his mercy [endures] for ever: ²⁰ and Og king of Basan: for his mercy [endures] for ever:

² I will worship toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your name, on account of your mercy and your truth; for you have magnified your holy name above every thing. ³ In whatever day I shall call upon you, hear me speedily; you shall abundantly provide me with your power in my soul. ⁴ Let all the kings of the earth, o Lord, give thanks to you; for they have heard all the words of your mouth.

¹ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ² Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them, The feasts of the Lord which you⌃ shall call holy assemblies, these are my feasts. ³ Six days shall you do works, but on the seventh day is the sabbath; a rest, a holy convocation to the Lord: you shall not do any work, it is a sabbath to the Lord in all your dwellings. ⁴ These [are] the feasts to the Lord, holy convocations, which you⌃ shall call in their seasons. ⁵ In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, between the evening times is the Lord's passover. ⁶ And on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast of unleavened bread to the Lord; seven days shall you⌃ eat unleavened bread. ⁷ And the first day shall be a holy convocation to you: you⌃ shall do no servile work. ⁸ And you⌃ shall offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord seven days; and the seventh day shall be a holy convocation to you: you⌃ shall do no servile work. ⁹ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁰ Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them, When you⌃ shall enter into the land which I give you, and reap the harvest of it, then shall you⌃ bring a sheaf, the first fruits of your harvest, to the priest; ¹¹ and he shall lift up the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you. On the morrow of the first day the priest shall lift it up. ¹² And you⌃ shall offer on the day on which you⌃ bring the sheaf, a lamb without blemish of a year old for a whole burnt offering to the Lord. ¹³ And its meat-offering two tenth portions of fine flour mingled with oil: it is a sacrifice to the Lord, a smell of sweet savor to the Lord, and its drink-offering the fourth part of a hin of wine. ¹⁴ And you⌃ shall not eat bread, or the new parched corn, until this same day, until you⌃ offer the sacrifices to your God: [it is] a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings. ¹⁵ And you⌃ shall number to yourselves from the day after the sabbath, from the day on which you⌃ shall offer the sheaf of the heave-offering, seven full weeks: ¹⁶ until the morrow after the last week you⌃ shall number fifty days, and shall bring a new meat-offering to the Lord. ¹⁷ You⌃ shall bring from your dwelling loaves, as a heave-offering, two loaves: they shall be of two tenth portions of fine flour, they shall be baked with leaven of the first fruits to the Lord.

²⁴ Speak to the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you⌃ shall have a rest, a memorial of trumpets: it shall be to you a holy convocation.

³⁹ And on the fifteenth day of this seventh month, when you⌃ shall have completely gathered in the fruits of the earth, you⌃ shall keep a feast to the Lord seven days; on the first day there shall be a rest, and on the eighth day a rest.

¹⁰ And in the days of your gladness, and in your feasts, and in your new moons, you⌃ shall sound with the trumpets at your whole burnt offerings, and at the sacrifices of your peace-offerings; and there shall be a memorial for you before your God: I [am] the Lord your God.

¹ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ² Charge the children of Israel, and you shall speak to them, saying, You⌃ shall observe to offer to me in my feasts my gifts, my presents, my burnt offerings for a sweet smelling savor. ³ And you shall say to them, These are the burnt offerings, all that you⌃ shall bring to the Lord; two lambs of a year old without blemish daily, for a whole burnt offering perpetually. ⁴ You shall offer one lamb in the morning, and you shall offer the second lamb towards evening. ⁵ And you shall offer the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat-offering, mingled with oil, with the fourth part of a hin. ⁶ [It is] a perpetual whole burnt offering, a sacrifice offered in the mount of Sina for a sweet smelling savor to the Lord. ⁷ And its drink-offering, the fourth part of a hin to each lamb; in the holy place shall you pour strong drink as a drink-offering to the Lord. ⁸ And the second lamb you shall offer toward evening; you shall offer it according to its meat-offering and according to its drink-offering for a smell of sweet savor to the Lord. ⁹ And on the sabbath-day you⌃ shall offer two lambs of a year old without blemish, and two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat-offering, and a drink-offering. ¹⁰ [It is] a whole burnt offering of the sabbaths on the sabbath days, besides the continued whole burnt offering, and its drink offering. ¹¹ And at the new moons you⌃ shall bring a whole burnt offering to the Lord, two calves of the herd, and one ram, seven lambs of a year old without blemish. ¹² Three tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil for one calf, and two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil for one ram. ¹³ A tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for each lamb, as a meat-offering, a sweet smelling savor, a burnt offering to the Lord. ¹⁴ Their drink-offering shall be the half of a hin for one calf; and the third of a hin for one ram; and the fourth part of a hin of wine for one lamb: this [is] the whole burnt offering monthly throughout the months of the year. ¹⁵ And [he shall offer] one kid of the goats for a sin-offering to the Lord; it shall be offered beside the continual whole burnt offering and its drink-offering. ¹⁶ And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, [is] the passover to the Lord. ¹⁷ And on the fifteenth day of this month [is] a feast; seven days you⌃ shall eat unleavened bread. ¹⁸ And the first day shall be to you a holy convocation; you⌃ shall do no servile work. ¹⁹ And you⌃ shall bring whole burnt offerings, a sacrifice to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, seven lambs of a year old; they shall be to you without blemish. ²⁰ And their meat-offering shall be fine flour mingled with oil; three tenth deals for one calf, and two tenth deals for one ram. ²¹ You shall offer a tenth for each lamb, for the seven lambs. ²² And [you shall offer] one kid of the goats for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you. ²³ Beside the perpetual whole burnt offering in the morning, which is a whole burnt sacrifice for a continuance, ²⁴ these shall you⌃ thus offer daily for seven days, a gift, a sacrifice for a sweet smelling savor to the Lord; beside the continual whole burnt offering, you shall offer its drink-offering. ²⁵ And the seventh day shall be to you a holy convocation; you⌃ shall do no servile work in it. ²⁶ And on the day of the new corn, when you⌃ shall offer a new sacrifice [at the festival] of weeks to the Lord, there shall be to you a holy convocation; you⌃ shall do no servile work, ²⁷ and you⌃ shall bring whole burnt offerings for a sweet smelling savor to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, seven lambs without blemish. ²⁸ Their meat-offering [shall be] fine flour mingled with oil; there shall be three tenth deals for one calf, and two tenth deals for one ram. ²⁹ A tenth for each lamb separately, for the seven lambs; and a kid of the goats,

¹ (82) A Psalm for Asaph. God stands in the assembly of gods; and in the midst [of them] will judge gods. ² How long will you⌃ judge unrighteously, and accept the persons of sinners? Pause. ³ Judge the orphan and poor: do justice to the low and needy. ⁴ Rescue the needy, and deliver the poor out of the hand of the sinner.

¹³ Though you⌃ bring fine flour, [it is] vain; incense is an abomination to me; I can’t bear your new moons, and your sabbaths, and the great day; ¹⁴ [your] fasting, and rest from work, your new moons also, and your feasts my soul hates: you⌃ have become loathsome to me; I will no more pardon your sins.

⁵³ But let the Levites encamp round about the tabernacle of witness fronting it, and [so] there shall be no sin among the children of Israel; and the Levites themselves shall keep the guard of the tabernacle of witness.

³⁸ They that encamp before the tabernacle of witness on the east [shall be] Moses and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charges of the sanctuary according to the charges of the children of Israel; and the stranger that touches them, shall die.

⁴ and the tabernacle of testimony, and the holy furniture that was in the tabernacle of testimony.

²⁷ For the charge [was] upon them, and these [were] charged with the keys to open the doors of the temple every morning.