Numbers, Chapter 3:

Number Verses, Chapter 3 of the Bible's Book of Numbers.

The Tribe of Levi

• 1. These are also the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day that the LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai.
• 2. And these are the names of Aaron's sons: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
• 3. These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, who were consecrated to serve as priests.
• 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 spoke to Moses, saying:
• 6. Bring the tribe of Levi and set them before Aaron the priest, so that they may serve him.
• 7. And keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, to minister in the service of the tabernacle.
• 8. And they shall keep all the vessels of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to administer the service of the tabernacle.
• 9. And you shall give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; of all Israel you will give them as a gift, a great gift.
• 10. Therefore Aaron and his sons shall hold the priesthood; but the stranger who comes will be killed.
• 11. And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
• 12. I took the Levites from among the children of Israel in place of all the firstborn that open the womb among the children of Israel; the Levites will be mine.
• 13. For every firstborn is 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 spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying:
• 15. Number of the sons of Levi, according to the house of their fathers, according to their families; all the males from the age of one month upwards, added together by their names, were twenty-two thousand.
• 16. And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
• 17. Bring the tribe of Levi and set them before Aaron the priest, so that they may serve him.
• 18. And you shall give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they are completely given to him from the children of Israel.
• 19. And thou shalt command Aaron and his sons to bear the charge of his priesthood; but the stranger who comes 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 instead of every firstborn that opens the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites will be mine.
• 21. For every firstborn is mine; from the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated them to myself.
• 22. And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
• 23. The number of the firstborn of the males from one month upwards, according to those who were numbered of them, was twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.
• 24. And the LORD spoke to 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 will be mine. I am the LORD.
• 26. And thou shalt speak unto the Levites, saying unto them, When ye receive the tithes of the children of Israel, which I have given you of them for your inheritance, ye shall offer of them a heave offering unto the LORD, the tithes of the tithes.
• 27. And your offering will be counted to you as grain from the threshing floor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
• 28. In the same way you shall also offer a heave offering to the LORD, out of all your tithes that you receive from the children of Israel; and you shall give of them the heave offering of the LORD to Aaron the priest.
• 29. Of all your gifts you shall offer the entire heave offering of the LORD; of the best of them you will offer the heave offering.
• 30. And you shall say to them: When you offer the best of it, then it will be told to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the wine press.
• 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 will not bear sin when you offer the best of it; neither shall ye defile the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.
• 33. They will not approach the sanctuary, so that neither they nor you will die.
• 34. The Levites will therefore perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they will bear their iniquity; It shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, and among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
• 35. For the offering of the children of Israel, which they offered to the LORD as a heave offering, I gave to Aaron and to his sons; it shall be for a perpetual statute unto the children of Israel.
• 36. And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying:
• 37. Bring the sons of Levi and set them before Aaron the priest, so that they may serve him.
• 38. And they shall keep his charge and the charge of the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.
• 39. And they shall do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall keep the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.
• 40. And the Levites will be before Aaron and before his sons, to serve them in their service; let the stranger not come near them.
• 41. So Moses and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did them, according to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites; This is what the children of Israel did to them.
• 42. And the Levites purified themselves, and washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them as an offering before the LORD; and Aaron made atonement for them, to purify them.
• 43. And after this the Levites went in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation, before Aaron and before his sons; as the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.
• 44. And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
• 45. Bring the tribe of Levi over, and set them before Aaron the priest, to serve him.
• 46. And you shall make an offering of Levites for a heave offering to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, that they may serve the children of Israel in the tent of the congregation, and make atonement for the children of Israel, that there may be no plague. among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel came to the sanctuary.
• 47. So Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel did toward the Levites; According to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel toward 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 spoken to the Levites; to present themselves before Aaron the priest to serve him.
• 50. And Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded; This is what they did to the Levites.
• 51. And the Levites purified themselves, and washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them as an offering before the LORD; and Aaron made atonement for them, to purify them.

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