Numbers, Chapter 3:

Numbers Verses, Chapter 3 of the Book of Numbers in the Bible.

the tribe of levi

• 1. These also are the generations of Aaron and of Moses, on the day that the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
• 2. And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Itamar.
• 3. These are the names of the sons of Aaron, anointed priests, who were consecrated to administer the priesthood.
• 4. But Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai; and they had no children; but Eleazar and Ithamar administered the priesthood before Aaron their father.
• 5. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
• 6. Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may serve him.
• 7. And keep his charge, and the charge of all the congregation before the tent of meeting, to minister in the service of the tabernacle.
• 8. And they shall keep all the utensils of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the children of Israel, to administer the service of the tabernacle.
• 9. And thou shalt give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons; out of all Israel thou shalt give them a gift, a high gift.
• 10. Therefore Aaron and his sons shall hold the priesthood; but the stranger who approaches will be killed.
• 11. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
• 12. I took the Levites from among the children of Israel in place of all the firstborn that opens the womb among the children of Israel; the Levites will be mine.
• 13. For all the firstborn are mine; from the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified to myself every firstborn in Israel, from man to beast; mine will be. I am the LORD.
• 14. And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
• 15. Number of the sons of Levi, according to their fathers' houses, according to their families; all the males from the age of a month and upward, added by their names, numbered twenty-two thousand.
• 16. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
• 17. Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may serve him.
• 18. And thou shalt give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons; they are fully given to him from the children of Israel.
• 19. And Aaron and his sons thou shalt command to have the charge of his priesthood; but the stranger who approaches will be killed.
• 20. And the LORD said unto Moses, In this same Leviticus is the tribe of Levi; and I have taken her from among the children of Israel in place of all the firstborn that opens the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine.
• 21. For all the firstborn are mine; from the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I consecrated them to myself.
• 22. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
• 23. The number of the firstborn males from a month old and upward, according to those who were numbered of them, was twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.
• 24. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
• 25. Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the animals of the Levites instead of their animals; and the Levites shall be mine. I am the LORD.
• 26. And you shall speak to the Levites, saying to them, When you receive the tithes of the children of Israel, which I have given you from them for your inheritance, you shall offer from them a heave offering to the LORD, the tithes of the tithes.
• 27. And your heave offering shall be counted unto you as the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.
• 28. In the same way ye shall offer a heave offering unto the LORD out of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give of it the heave offering of the LORD unto Aaron the priest.
• 29. Of all your gifts ye shall offer all the heave offering of the LORD; of the best of them you shall offer the heave offering.
• 30. And you shall say to them, When you offer the best of it, then it shall be counted to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the winepress.
• 31. And you shall eat in every place, you and your household; for it is your reward for your service in the tent of meeting.
• 32. And you shall not bear sin, when you offer the best of it; neither shall you defile the holy things of the children of Israel, lest you die.
• 33. They shall not approach the sanctuary, so that neither they nor you die.
• 34. The Levites shall therefore perform the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity; throughout your generations it shall be a perpetual statute, and among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
• 35. For the offering of the children of Israel, which they offer to the LORD for a heave offering, I have given to Aaron and to his sons; for an everlasting statute it shall be with the children of Israel.
• 36. And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
• 37. Bring the sons of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may serve him.
• 38. And they shall keep his charge and the charge of all the congregation before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.
• 39. And they shall do service in the tabernacle of meeting, and shall keep the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.
• 40. And the Levites shall stand before Aaron and before his sons, to serve them in their service; that the stranger does not approach them.
• 41. So Moses and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did according to all that the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites; so did the children of Israel.
• 42. And the Levites purified themselves, and washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them for an offering before the LORD; and Aaron made propitiation for them, to purify them.
• 43. And after that the Levites went in to do their service in the tent of meeting before Aaron and before his sons; as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.
• 44. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
• 45. Bring the tribe of Levi through, and place them before Aaron the priest, that they may serve him.
• 46. And thou shalt make an offering of the Levites for an offering to Aaron and his sons, among the children of Israel, that they may perform the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of meeting, and make atonement for the children of Israel, that there be no plague. among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel approached the sanctuary.
• 47. So did Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel, towards the Levites; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel to them.
• 48. And the Levites stood before Moses and before Aaron on the same day,
• 49. and also to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the word which the LORD commanded to be done to the Levites; to stand before Aaron the priest to serve him.
• 50. And Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded; so they did to the Levites.
• 51. And the Levites purified themselves, and washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them for an offering before the LORD; and Aaron made atonement for them, to cleanse them.

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