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males, from a month old and above, there were among the children of Israel, and the livestock
eight thousand six hundred keeping charge of of the Levites instead of their livestock. The
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the sanctuary. The families of the children of Levites shall be Mine: I am the LORD. And for
Kohath were to camp on the south side of the the redemption of the two hundred and
tabernacle. And the leader of the fathers’ seventy-three of the firstborn of the children
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house of the families of the Kohathites was of Israel, who are more than the number of the
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Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. Their duty includ- Levites, you shall take five shekels for each
ed the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, one individually; you shall take them in the
the utensils of the sanctuary with which they currency of the shekel of the sanctuary, the
ministered, the screen, and all the work relat- shekel of twenty gerahs. And you shall give
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ing to them. the money, with which the excess number of
32 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest them is redeemed, to Aaron and his sons.”
was to be chief over the leaders of the Levites, 49 So Moses took the redemption money
with oversight of those who kept charge of the from those who were over and above those
sanctuary. who were redeemed by the Levites. From the
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33 From Merari came the family of the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the
Mahlites and the family of the Mushites; these money, one thousand three hundred and sixty-
were the families of Merari. And those who five shekels, according to the shekel of the
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were numbered, according to the number of sanctuary. And Moses gave their redemption
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all the males from a month old and above, money to Aaron and his sons, according to the
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were six thousand two hundred. The leader word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded
of the fathers’ house of the families of Merari Moses.
was Zuriel the son of Abihail. These were to Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron,
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camp on the north side of the tabernacle. 4 saying: “Take a census of the sons of
36 And the appointed duty of the children of Kohath from among the children of Levi, by
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Merari included the boards of the tabernacle, their families, by their fathers’ house, from
its bars, its pillars, its sockets, its utensils, all thirty years old and above, even to fifty years
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the work relating to them, and the pillars of old, all who enter the service to do the work in
the court all around, with their sockets, their the tabernacle of meeting.
pegs, and their cords. 4 “This is the service of the sons of Kohath in
38 Moreover those who were to camp before the tabernacle of meeting, relating to the most
the tabernacle on the east, before the taberna- holy things: When the camp prepares to jour-
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cle of meeting, were Moses, Aaron, and his ney, Aaron and his sons shall come, and they
sons, keeping charge of the sanctuary, to meet shall take down the covering veil and cover
the needs of the children of Israel; but the out- the ark of the Testimony with it. Then they
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sider who came near was to be put to death. shall put on it a covering of badger skins, and
39 All who were numbered of the Levites, whom spread over that a cloth entirely of blue; and
Moses and Aaron numbered at the command- they shall insert its poles.
ment of the LORD, by their families, all the 7 “On the table of showbread they shall
males from a month old and above, were spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the
twenty-two thousand. pans, the bowls, and the pitchers for pouring;
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40 Then the LORD said to Moses: “Number all and the showbread shall be on it. They shall
the firstborn males of the children of Israel spread over them a scarlet cloth, and cover
from a month old and above, and take the the same with a covering of badger skins; and
number of their names. And you shall take they shall insert its poles. And they shall take
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the Levites for Me—I am the LORD—instead a blue cloth and cover the lampstand of the
of all the firstborn among the children of light, with its lamps, its wick-trimmers, its
Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead trays, and all its oil vessels, with which they
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of all the firstborn among the livestock of the service it. Then they shall put it with all its
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children of Israel.” So Moses numbered all utensils in a covering of badger skins, and put
the firstborn among the children of Israel, as it on a carrying beam.
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the LORD commanded him. And all the first- 11 “Over the golden altar they shall spread a
born males, according to the number of blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of
names from a month old and above, of those badger skins; and they shall insert its poles.
who were numbered of them, were twenty-two 12 Then they shall take all the utensils of ser-
thousand two hundred and seventy-three. vice with which they minister in the sanctuary,
44 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: put them in a blue cloth, cover them with a
45 “Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn covering of badger skins, and put them on a
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