Numbers 3 Cross References - BBE

¹ Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day when the word of the Lord came to Moses on Mount Sinai. ² These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the oldest, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. ³ These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests, on whom the holy oil was put, who were marked out as priests. ⁴ And Nadab and Abihu were put to death before the Lord when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord, in the waste land of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar did the work of priests before Aaron their father. ⁵ And the Lord said to Moses, ⁶ Make the tribe of Levi come near, and put them before Aaron the priest, to be his helpers, ⁷ In order that they may be responsible to him and to all Israel for the care of the Tent of meeting, and to do the work of the House; ⁸ And they will have the care of all the vessels of the Tent of meeting, and will do for the children of Israel all the necessary work of the House. ⁹ Give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; so that they may be his without question from among the children of Israel. ¹⁰ And give orders that Aaron and his sons are to keep their place as priests; any strange person who comes near is to be put to death. ¹¹ And the Lord said to Moses, ¹² See, I have taken the Levites out of the children of Israel to be mine in place of the first sons of the children of Israel; ¹³ For all the first sons are mine; on the day when I put to death all the first sons in the land of Egypt, I took for myself every first male birth of man and beast. They are mine; I am the Lord. ¹⁴ And the Lord said to Moses in the waste land of Sinai, ¹⁵ Let all the children of Levi be numbered by their families and their fathers' houses; let every male of a month old and over be numbered. ¹⁶ So Moses did as the Lord said, numbering them as he had been ordered. ¹⁷ These were the sons of Levi by name: Gershon and Kohath and Merari. ¹⁸ And these are the names of the sons of Gershon, by their families: Libni and Shimei. ¹⁹ And the sons of Kohath, by their families: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel. ²⁰ And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites in the order of their fathers' houses. ²¹ From Gershon come the Libnites and the Shimeites; these are the families of the Gershonites. ²² Those who were numbered of them, the males from one month old and over, were seven thousand, five hundred. ²³ The tents of the Gershonites are to be placed at the back of the House, to the west. ²⁴ The chief of the Gershonites is Eliasaph, the son of Lael. ²⁵ In the Tent of meeting, the Gershonites are to have the care of the House, and the Tent with its cover, and the veil for the door of the Tent of meeting, ²⁶ And the hangings for the open space round the House and the altar, and the curtain for its doorway, and all the cords needed for its use. ²⁷ From Kohath come the Amramites and the Izharites and the Hebronites and the Uzzielites; these are the families of the Kohathites. ²⁸ Those who were numbered of them, the males from one month old and over, were eight thousand, six hundred, who were responsible for the care of the holy place. ²⁹ The tents of the Kohathites are to be placed on the south side of the House. ³⁰ Their chief is Elizaphan, the son of Uzziel. ³¹ In their care are the ark, and the table, and the lights, and the altars, and all the vessels used in the holy place, and the veil, and all they are used for. ³² Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, will be head over all the Levites and overseer of those responsible for the care of the holy place. ³³ From Merari come the Mahlites and the Mushites; these are the families of Merari. ³⁴ Those who were numbered of them, the males of a month old and over, were six thousand, two hundred. ³⁵ The chief of the families of Merari was Zuriel, the son of Abihail: their tents are to be placed on the north side of the House. ³⁶ And in their care are to be all the boards of the Tent, with their rods and pillars and bases, and all the instruments, and all they are used for, ³⁷ And the pillars of the open space round it, with their bases and nails and cords. ³⁸ And those whose tents are to be placed on the east side of the House in front of the Tent of meeting, looking to the dawn, are Moses and Aaron and his sons, who will do the work of the holy place for the children of Israel; and any strange person who comes near will be put to death. ³⁹ All the Levites numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord, all the males of one month old and over numbered in the order of their families, were twenty-two thousand. ⁴⁰ And the Lord said to Moses, Let all the first male children be numbered, and take the number of their names. ⁴¹ And give to me the Levites I am the Lord in place of the first sons of the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites in place of the first births among the cattle of the children of Israel. ⁴² So Moses had all the first sons among the children of Israel numbered, as the Lord said to him. ⁴³ Every first son from a month old and over was numbered by name, and the number came to twenty-two thousand, two hundred and seventy-three. ⁴⁴ And the Lord said to Moses, ⁴⁵ Take the Levites in place of all the first sons of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites in place of their cattle; the Levites are to be mine; I am the Lord. ⁴⁶ And the price you have to give for the two hundred and seventy-three first sons of the children of Israel which are in addition to the number of the Levites, ⁴⁷ Will be five shekels for every one, by the scale of the holy place the shekel is twenty gerahs; ⁴⁸ And this money, the price of those over the number of the Levites, is to be given to Aaron and his sons. ⁴⁹ So Moses took the money, the price of those whose place had not been taken by the Levites; ⁵⁰ From the first sons of Israel he took it, a thousand, three hundred and sixty-five shekels, by the scale of the holy place; ⁵¹ And he gave the money to Aaron and his sons, as the Lord had said.

⁴ These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made.

¹ This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made him in the image of God;

¹ Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: these are the sons which they had after the great flow of waters

¹⁶ And these are the names of the sons of Levi in the order of their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari: and the years of Levi's life were a hundred and thirty-seven.

²⁰ And Amram took Jochebed, his father's sister, as wife; and she gave birth to Aaron and Moses: and the years of Amram's life were a hundred and thirty-seven.

²⁷ These are the men who gave orders to Pharaoh to let the children of Israel go out of Egypt: these are the same Moses and Aaron.

¹ And the Lord said to Moses on Mount Sinai,

³⁴ These are the orders which the Lord gave to Moses for the children of Israel in Mount Sinai.

¹ The book of the generations of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

²³ And Aaron took as his wife Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon; and she gave birth to Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

¹ Now let Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, come near from among the children of Israel, so that they may be my priests, even Aaron, and Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, his sons.

⁶⁰ Aaron's sons were Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

³ And the sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses and Miriam. And the sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

¹ Now the divisions into which the sons of Aaron were grouped were these: the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

⁴¹ These you are to put on Aaron, your brother, and on his sons, putting oil on them, separating them and making them holy, to do the work of priests to me.

¹ This is what you are to do to make them holy, to do the work of priests to me: Take one young ox and two male sheep, without any mark on them, ² And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes on which oil has been put, made of the best bread-meal; ³ Put these in a basket and take them, with the ox and the two sheep. ⁴ And let Aaron and his sons come to the door of the Tent of meeting, and there let them be washed with water. ⁵ Take the robes, and put the coat and the dress and the ephod and the priest's bag on Aaron; put the band of needlework round him, ⁶ And let the head-dress be placed on his head and the holy crown on the head-dress. ⁷ Then take the oil and put it on his head. ⁸ And take his sons and put their robes on them; ⁹ And put the linen bands round Aaron and his sons, and the head-dresses on them, to make them priests by my order for ever: so you are to make Aaron and his sons holy to me. ¹⁰ Then let the ox be taken in front of the Tent of meeting: and let Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head. ¹¹ And you are to put the ox to death before the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting. ¹² Then take some of the blood of the ox, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, draining out all the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. ¹³ And take all the fat covering the inside of the ox, and the fat joining the liver and the two kidneys with the fat round them, and let them be burned on the altar; ¹⁴ But the flesh of the ox and its skin and its waste parts are to be burned outside the circle of the tents, for it is a sin-offering. ¹⁵ Then take one of the sheep, and let Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head. ¹⁶ Then let it be put to death, so that the sides of the altar are marked with its blood. ¹⁷ Then the sheep is to be cut up into its parts, and after washing its legs and its inside parts, you are to put them with the parts and the head, ¹⁸ And let them all be burned on the altar as a burned offering to the Lord: a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord. ¹⁹ Then take the other sheep; and after Aaron and his sons have put their hands on its head, ²⁰ You are to put the sheep to death, and take some of its blood and put it on the point of Aaron's right ear, and of the right ears of his sons, and on the thumbs of their right hands and the great toes of their right feet, dropping the rest of the blood on the sides of the altar. ²¹ Then take some of the blood on the altar, and the oil, and put it on Aaron and his robes and on his sons and on their robes, so that he and his robes and his sons and their robes may be made holy. ²² Then take the fat of the sheep, the fat tail, the fat covering the insides, and the fat joining the liver and the two kidneys with the fat round them, and the right leg; for by the offering of this sheep they are to be marked out as priests: ²³ And take one bit of bread and one cake of oiled bread and one thin cake out of the basket of unleavened bread which is before the Lord: ²⁴ And put them all on the hands of Aaron and of his sons, to be waved for a wave offering before the Lord. ²⁵ Then take them from their hands, and let them be burned on the burned offering on the altar, a sweet smell before the Lord, an offering made by fire to the Lord. ²⁶ Then take the breast of Aaron's sheep, waving it before the Lord; and it is to be your part of the offering. ²⁷ So you are to make holy the breast of the sheep which is waved and the leg which is lifted up on high, that is, of the sheep which is offered for Aaron and his sons; ²⁸ And it will be their part as a right for ever from the children of Israel, it is a special offering from the children of Israel, made from their peace-offerings, a special offering lifted up to the Lord. ²⁹ And Aaron's holy robes will be used by his sons after him; they will put them on when they are made priests. ³⁰ For seven days the son who becomes priest in his place will put them on when he comes into the Tent of meeting to do the work of the holy place. ³¹ Then take the sheep of the wave offering and let its flesh be cooked in water in a holy place. ³² And let Aaron and his sons make a meal of it, with the bread in the basket, at the door of the Tent of meeting. ³³ All those things which were used as offerings to take away sin, and to make them holy to be priests, they may have for food: but no one who is not a priest may have them, for they are holy food. ³⁴ And if any of the flesh of the offering or of the bread is over till the morning, let it be burned with fire; it is not to be used for food, for it is holy. ³⁵ All these things you are to do to Aaron and his sons as I have given you orders: for seven days the work of making them priests is to go on. ³⁶ Every day an ox is to be offered as a sin-offering, to take away sins: and by this offering on it, you will make the altar clean from sin; and you are to put oil on it and make it holy. ³⁷ For seven days you are to make offerings for the altar and make it holy, so that it may become completely holy, and anything touching it will become holy.

¹³ You are to put on Aaron the holy robes; and you are to put oil on him, and make him holy, so that he may be my priest.

¹⁵ And put oil on them as you did on their father, so that they may be my priests: the putting on of oil will make them priests for ever, from generation to generation.

¹ And the Lord said to Moses, ² Take Aaron, and his sons with him, and the robes and the holy oil and the ox of the sin-offering and the two male sheep and the basket of unleavened bread; ³ And let all the people come together at the door of the Tent of meeting. ⁴ And Moses did as the Lord said, and all the people came together at the door of the Tent of meeting. ⁵ And Moses said to the people, This is what the Lord has given orders to be done. ⁶ Then Moses took Aaron and his sons; and after washing them with water, ⁷ He put the coat on him, making it tight with its band, and then the robe, and over it the ephod, with its band of needlework to keep it in place. ⁸ And he put the priest's bag on him, and in the bag he put the Urim and Thummim. ⁹ And on his head he put the head-dress, and in front of the head-dress the plate of gold, the holy crown, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

¹² And some of the oil he put on Aaron's head, to make him holy.

³⁰ And Moses took some of the holy oil and of the blood which was on the altar and put it on Aaron and on his robes, and on his sons and on his sons' robes; and made Aaron holy, and his robes and his sons and his sons' robes with him.

²⁸ The law makes high priests of men who are feeble; but the word of the oath, which was made after the law, gives that position to a Son, in whom all good is for ever complete.

¹ And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their vessels and put fire in them and perfume, burning strange fire before the Lord, which he had not given them orders to do. ² And fire came out from before the Lord, burning them up and causing their destruction before the Lord.

⁶¹ Death overtook Nadab and Abihu when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord.

²⁶ Then Moses took his place at the way into the tents, and said, Whoever is on the Lord's side, let him come to me. And all the sons of Levi came together to him. ²⁷ And he said to them, This is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: Let every man take his sword at his side, and go from one end of the tents to the other, putting to death his brother and his friend and his neighbour. ²⁸ And the sons of Levi did as Moses said; and about three thousand of the people were put to death that day. ²⁹ And Moses said, You have made yourselves priests to the Lord this day; for every one of you has made the offering of his son and his brother; the blessing of the Lord is on you this day.

⁴⁹ Only the tribe of Levi is not to be numbered among the children of Israel, ⁵⁰ But to them you are to give the care of the Tent of meeting with its vessels and everything in it: they are to take up the Tent, and be responsible for everything to do with it, and put up their tents round it. ⁵¹ And when the Tent of meeting goes forward, the Levites are to take it down; and when it is to be put up, they are to do it: any strange person who comes near it is to be put to death. ⁵² The children of Israel are to put up their tents, every man in his tent-circle round his flag. ⁵³ But the tents of the Levites are to be round the Tent of meeting, so that wrath may not come on the children of Israel: the Tent of meeting is to be in the care of the Levites.

¹⁷ Then the Tent of meeting is to go forward, with the tents of the Levites, in the middle of the armies; in the same order as their tents are placed, they are to go forward, every man under his flag.

³³ But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel, as the Lord said to Moses.

⁶ Take the Levites out from among the children of Israel and make them clean. ⁷ And this is how you are to make them clean: let the holy water which takes away sin be put on them, and let the hair all over their bodies be cut off with a sharp blade, and let their clothing be washed and their bodies made clean. ⁸ Then let them take a young ox and its meal offering, crushed grain mixed with oil, and take another ox for a sin-offering. ⁹ And make the Levites come forward in front of the Tent of meeting, and let all the children of Israel come together: ¹⁰ And you are to take the Levites before the Lord: and the children of Israel are to put their hands on them: ¹¹ And Aaron is to give the Levites to the Lord as a wave offering from the children of Israel, so that they may do the Lord's work. ¹² And the Levites are to put their hands on the heads of the oxen, and one of the oxen is to be offered for a sin-offering and the other for a burned offering to the Lord to take away the sin of the Levites. ¹³ Then the Levites are to be put before Aaron and his sons, to be offered as a wave offering to the Lord. ¹⁴ So you are to make the Levites separate from the children of Israel, and the Levites will be mine. ¹⁵ After that, the Levites will go in to do whatever has to be done in the Tent of meeting; you are to make them clean and give them as a wave offering. ¹⁶ For they have been given to me from among the children of Israel; in place of every mother's first son, the first to come to birth in Israel, I have taken them for myself. ¹⁷ For every mother's first son among the children of Israel is mine, the first male birth of man or beast: on the day when I sent death on all the first sons in the land of Egypt, I made them mine. ¹⁸ And in place of the first sons among the children of Israel, I have taken the Levites. ¹⁹ And I have given them to Aaron and to his sons, from among the children of Israel, to undertake for them all the work of the Tent of meeting, and to take away sin from the children of Israel so that no evil may come on them when they come near the holy place. ²⁰ All these things Moses and Aaron and the children of Israel did to the Levites; as the Lord gave orders to Moses about the Levites, so the children of Israel did. ²¹ And the Levites were made clean from sin, and their clothing was washed, and Aaron gave them for a wave offering before the Lord; and Aaron took away their sin and made them clean. ²² And then the Levites went in to do their work in the Tent of meeting before Aaron and his sons: all the orders which the Lord had given Moses about the Levites were put into effect. ²³ And the Lord said to Moses, ²⁴ This is the rule for the Levites: those of twenty-five years old and over are to go in and do the work of the Tent of meeting; ²⁵ But after they are fifty years old, they are to give up their work and do no more; ²⁶ But be with their brothers in the Tent of meeting, taking care of it but doing no work. This is what you are to do in connection with the Levites and their work.

⁹ Does it seem only a small thing to you that the God of Israel has made you separate from the rest of Israel, letting you come near himself to do the work of the House of the Lord, and to take your place before the people to do what has to be done for them; ¹⁰ Letting you, and all your brothers the sons of Levi, come near to him? and would you now be priests? ¹¹ So you and all your band have come together against the Lord; and Aaron, who is he, that you are crying out against him?

¹ And the Lord said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father's family are to be responsible for all wrongdoing in relation to the holy place: and you and your sons are to be responsible for the errors which come about in your work as priests. ² Let your brothers, the family of Levi, come near with you, so that they may be joined with you and be your servants: but you and your sons with you are to go in before the ark of witness. ³ They are to do your orders and be responsible for the work of the Tent; but they may not come near the vessels of the holy place or the altar, so that death may not overtake them or you. ⁴ They are to be joined with you in the care of the Tent of meeting, doing whatever is needed for the Tent: and no one of any other family may come near you. ⁵ You are to be responsible for the holy place and the altar, so that wrath may never again come on the children of Israel. ⁶ Now, see, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: they are given to you and to the Lord, to do the work of the Tent of meeting. ⁷ And you and your sons with you are to be responsible as priests for the altar and everything on it, and everything inside the veil; you are to do the work of priests; I have given you your position as priests; and any other man who comes near will be put to death.

⁸ At that time the Lord had the tribe of Levi marked out to take up the ark of the Lord's agreement, to be before the Lord and to do his work and to give blessings in his name, to this day.

⁸ And of Levi he said, Give your Thummim to Levi and let the Urim be with your loved one, whom you put to the test at Massah, with whom you were angry at the waters of Meribah; ⁹ Who said of his father, Who is he? and of his mother, I have not seen her; he kept himself separate from his brothers and had no knowledge of his children: for they have given ear to your word and kept your agreement.

⁴ And you will be certain that I have sent this order to you, so that it might be my agreement with Levi, says the Lord of armies.

⁵⁰ But to them you are to give the care of the Tent of meeting with its vessels and everything in it: they are to take up the Tent, and be responsible for everything to do with it, and put up their tents round it.

³² Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, will be head over all the Levites and overseer of those responsible for the care of the holy place.

¹¹ And Aaron is to give the Levites to the Lord as a wave offering from the children of Israel, so that they may do the Lord's work.

¹⁵ After that, the Levites will go in to do whatever has to be done in the Tent of meeting; you are to make them clean and give them as a wave offering.

³⁰ And from the part given to the children of Israel, take one out of every fifty, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep, and give it to the Levites who have the care of the House of the Lord.

²⁸ Their place was by the side of the sons of Aaron in all the work of the house of the Lord, in the open spaces and in the rooms, in the making clean of all the holy things, in doing all the work of the house of the Lord, ²⁹ The holy bread was in their care, and the crushed grain for the meal offering, of unleavened cakes or meal cooked over the fire or in water; they had control of all sorts of weights and measures; ³⁰ They had to take their places every morning to give praise and make melody to the Lord, and in the same way at evening; ³¹ At every offering of burned offerings to the Lord, on Sabbaths, and at the new moons, and on the regular feasts, in the number ordered by the law, at all times before the Lord; ³² And they had the care of the Tent of meeting and the holy place, under the direction of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the work of the house of the Lord.

²⁰ And the Levites their brothers were responsible for the stores of the house of God and the holy things.

²² The sons of Jehieli: Zetham and Joel, his brother, had the care of the stores of the house of the Lord.

²⁶ Shelomoth and his brothers were responsible for all the store of holy things which David the king and the heads of families, the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and the captains of the army, had given to the Lord.

¹⁵ And after the holy place and all its vessels have been covered up by Aaron and his sons, when the tents of the people go forward, the sons of Kohath are to come and take it up; but the holy things may not be touched by them for fear of death.

²⁸ This is the work of the family of the Gershonites in the Tent of meeting, and they will be under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

³³ This is the work which the sons of Merari are to do in connection with the Tent of meeting, under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

¹⁷ Then the House was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who were responsible for moving the House, went forward.

²¹ Then the Kohathites went forward with the holy place; the others put up the House ready for their coming.

²⁰ And the Levites their brothers were responsible for the stores of the house of God and the holy things. ²¹ The sons of Ladan: sons of the Gershonites of the family of Ladan, heads of families of Ladan the Gershonite, Jehieli. ²² The sons of Jehieli: Zetham and Joel, his brother, had the care of the stores of the house of the Lord. ²³ Of the Amramites, of the Izharites, of the Hebronites, of the Uzzielites: ²⁴ And Shebuel, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was controller of the stores. ²⁵ And his brothers: of Eliezer, Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomoth his son. ²⁶ Shelomoth and his brothers were responsible for all the store of holy things which David the king and the heads of families, the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and the captains of the army, had given to the Lord. ²⁷ From the goods taken in war, they gave, as a holy offering, materials for the building of the house of the Lord. ²⁸ And everything Samuel the prophet and Saul, the son of Kish, and Abner, the son of Ner, and Joab, the son of Zeruiah, had made holy; whatever anyone had given, it was under the care of Shelomoth and his brothers.

²⁴ So I put on one side twelve of the chiefs of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them, ²⁵ And gave to them by weight the silver and the gold and the vessels, all the offering for the house of our God which the king and his wise men and his captains and all Israel there present had given: ²⁶ Measuring into their hands six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels, a hundred talents' weight, and a hundred talents of gold, ²⁷ And twenty gold basins, of a thousand darics, and two vessels of the best bright brass, equal in value to gold. ²⁸ And I said to them, You are holy to the Lord and the vessels are holy: and the silver and the gold are an offering freely given to the Lord, the God of your fathers. ²⁹ Take care of them and keep them, till you put them on the scales before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and the chiefs of the families of Israel, in Jerusalem, in the rooms of the house of the Lord. ³⁰ So the priests and the Levites took the weight of silver and gold and the vessels, to take them to Jerusalem into the house of our God.

¹¹ Away! away! go out from there, touching no unclean thing; go out from among her; be clean, you who take up the vessels of the Lord.

¹⁹ And I have given them to Aaron and to his sons, from among the children of Israel, to undertake for them all the work of the Tent of meeting, and to take away sin from the children of Israel so that no evil may come on them when they come near the holy place.

⁸ For this reason he says, He went up on high, taking his prisoners with him, and gave freely to men.

¹¹ And he gave some as Apostles, and some, prophets; and some, preachers of the good news; and some to give care and teaching;

⁹ And put the linen bands round Aaron and his sons, and the head-dresses on them, to make them priests by my order for ever: so you are to make Aaron and his sons holy to me.

⁵¹ And when the Tent of meeting goes forward, the Levites are to take it down; and when it is to be put up, they are to do it: any strange person who comes near it is to be put to death.

³⁸ And those whose tents are to be placed on the east side of the House in front of the Tent of meeting, looking to the dawn, are Moses and Aaron and his sons, who will do the work of the holy place for the children of Israel; and any strange person who comes near will be put to death.

³⁵ Then fire came out from the Lord, burning up the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the perfume.

⁴⁰ To be a sign, kept in memory for ever by the children of Israel, that no man who is not of the seed of Aaron has the right of burning spices before the Lord, so that he may not be like Korah and his band: as the Lord said to him by the mouth of Moses.

³ They are to do your orders and be responsible for the work of the Tent; but they may not come near the vessels of the holy place or the altar, so that death may not overtake them or you.

⁷ And you and your sons with you are to be responsible as priests for the altar and everything on it, and everything inside the veil; you are to do the work of priests; I have given you your position as priests; and any other man who comes near will be put to death.

¹⁹ But the Lord sent destruction on seventy men of the people of Beth-shemesh for looking into the ark of the Lord; and great was the sorrow of the people for the destruction which the Lord had sent on them.

⁷ And the wrath of the Lord, burning against Uzzah, sent destruction on him because he had put his hand on the ark, and death came to him there by the ark of God.

³² They gave worship with songs before the House of the Tent of meeting, till Solomon put up the house of the Lord in Jerusalem; and they took their places for their work in their regular order.

¹⁶ But when he had become strong, his heart was lifted up in pride, causing his destruction; and he did evil against the Lord his God; for he went into the Temple of the Lord for the purpose of burning perfumes on the altar of perfumes. ¹⁷ And Azariah the priest went in after him, with eighty of the Lord's priests, who were strong men; ¹⁸ And they made protests to Uzziah the king, and said to him, The burning of perfumes, Uzziah, is not your business but that of the priests, the sons of Aaron, who have been made holy for this work: go out of the holy place, for you have done wrong, and it will not be to your honour before God. ¹⁹ Then Uzziah was angry; and he had in his hand a vessel for burning perfume; and while his wrath was bitter against the priests, the mark of the leper's disease came out on his brow, before the eyes of the priests in the house of the Lord by the altar of perfumes. ²⁰ And Azariah, the chief priest, and all the priests, looking at him, saw the mark of the leper on his brow, and they sent him out quickly and he himself went out straight away, for the Lord's punishment had come on him. ²¹ So King Uzziah was a leper till the day of his death, living separately in his private house; for he was cut off from the house of God; and Jotham his son was ruling over his house, judging the people of the land.

⁸ And you have not taken care of my holy things; but you have put them as keepers to take care of my work in my holy place.

³ Take then from among you seven men of good name, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, to whom we may give control of this business. ⁴ Then we will give all our time to prayer and the teaching of the word.

⁷ Or the position of a Deacon of the church, let a man give himself to it; or he who has the power of teaching, let him make use of it;

¹⁹ So then you are no longer as those who have no part or place in the kingdom of God, but you are numbered among the saints, and of the family of God,

¹⁵ Have a care for these things; give yourself to them with all your heart, so that all may see how you go forward. ¹⁶ Give attention to yourself and your teaching. Go on in these things; for in doing so you will get salvation for yourself and for those who give hearing to you.

⁴ If he had been on earth he would not have been a priest at all, because there are other priests who make the offerings ordered by the law;

¹⁹ So then, my brothers, being able to go into the holy place without fear, because of the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ By the new and living way which he made open for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; ²¹ And having a great priest over the house of God, ²² Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:

² Let the first male child of every mother among the children of Israel be kept holy for me, even the first male birth among man or beast; for it is mine.

⁴¹ And give to me the Levites I am the Lord in place of the first sons of the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites in place of the first births among the cattle of the children of Israel.

⁴⁵ Take the Levites in place of all the first sons of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites in place of their cattle; the Levites are to be mine; I am the Lord.

¹⁶ For they have been given to me from among the children of Israel; in place of every mother's first son, the first to come to birth in Israel, I have taken them for myself.

¹⁸ And in place of the first sons among the children of Israel, I have taken the Levites.

⁶ Now, see, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: they are given to you and to the Lord, to do the work of the Tent of meeting.

²⁹ And in the middle of the night the Lord sent death on every first male child in the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power to the child of the prisoner in the prison; and the first births of all the cattle. ³⁰ Then Pharaoh got up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and a great cry went up from Egypt; for there was not a house where someone was not dead.

¹² You are to put on one side for the Lord every mother's first male child, the first-fruit of her body, and the first young one of every beast; every male is holy to the Lord.

¹⁵ And when Pharaoh made his heart hard and would not let us go, the Lord sent death on all the first sons in Egypt, of man and of beast: and so every first male who comes to birth is offered to the Lord; but for all the first of my sons I give a price.

²⁹ Do not keep back your offerings from the wealth of your grain and your vines. The first of your sons you are to give to me.

¹⁹ Every first male child is mine; the first male birth of your cattle, the first male of every ox and sheep.

²⁶ But a man may not give by oath to the Lord the first-fruits of cattle which are offered to the Lord: if it is an ox or a sheep it is the Lord's.

¹⁶ For they have been given to me from among the children of Israel; in place of every mother's first son, the first to come to birth in Israel, I have taken them for myself. ¹⁷ For every mother's first son among the children of Israel is mine, the first male birth of man or beast: on the day when I sent death on all the first sons in the land of Egypt, I made them mine.

¹⁵ The first birth of every living thing which is offered to the Lord, of man or beast, is to be yours; but for the first sons of man payment is to be made, and for the first young of unclean beasts.

³⁰ And the best of all the first-fruits of everything, and every offering which is lifted up of all your offerings, will be for the priests: and you are to give the priest the first of your bread-making, so causing a blessing to come on your house.

²³ As it says in the law of the Lord, Every mother's first male child is to be holy to the Lord,

²³ To the great meeting and church of the first of those who are named in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of good men made complete,

⁴⁷ But the Levites, of the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.

²² Those who were numbered of them, the males from one month old and over, were seven thousand, five hundred.

²⁸ Those who were numbered of them, the males from one month old and over, were eight thousand, six hundred, who were responsible for the care of the holy place.

³⁴ Those who were numbered of them, the males of a month old and over, were six thousand, two hundred.

³⁹ All the Levites numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord, all the males of one month old and over numbered in the order of their families, were twenty-two thousand. ⁴⁰ And the Lord said to Moses, Let all the first male children be numbered, and take the number of their names.

⁴³ Every first son from a month old and over was numbered by name, and the number came to twenty-two thousand, two hundred and seventy-three.

¹⁵ The first birth of every living thing which is offered to the Lord, of man or beast, is to be yours; but for the first sons of man payment is to be made, and for the first young of unclean beasts. ¹⁶ Payment is to be made for these when they are a month old, at the value fixed by you, a price of five shekels by the scale of the holy place, that is, twenty gerahs to the shekel.

⁶² Of these, twenty-three thousand males, from one month old and over, were numbered: they were not numbered with the rest of the children of Israel, for they had no heritage among the children of Israel.

¹⁷ Those who have given me their love are loved by me, and those who make search for me with care will get me.

² Go and say in the ears of Jerusalem, The Lord says, I still keep the memory of your kind heart when you were young, and your love when you became my bride; how you went after me in the waste of sand, in an unplanted land.

³ From far away he saw the Lord: my love for you is an eternal love: so with mercy I have made you come with me.

¹⁴ And when Jesus saw it, he was angry, and said to them, Let the little children come to me, and do not keep them away; for of such is the kingdom of God.

¹⁵ And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus.

²¹ And the children of Israel did as he said; and Joseph gave them carts as had been ordered by Pharaoh, and food for their journey.

³⁹ All the Levites numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord, all the males of one month old and over numbered in the order of their families, were twenty-two thousand.

⁵¹ And he gave the money to Aaron and his sons, as the Lord had said.

²⁷ From the mouth of Aaron and his sons the Gershonites will have word about all the things they are to do and take up; you are to give them their orders.

³⁷ This is the number of those of the Kohathites who did the work in the Tent of meeting, as they were numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord.

⁴¹ This is the number of the sons of Gershon who did the work in the Tent of meeting, as they were numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord.

⁴⁵ This is the number of the sons of Merari, numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord.

⁴⁹ At the order of the Lord they were numbered by Moses, every one in relation to his work and to his part in the transport; so they were numbered by Moses at the order of the Lord.

⁵ Then the priests, the sons of Levi, are to come near; for they have been marked out by the Lord your God to be his servants and to give blessings in the name of the Lord; and by their decision every argument and every blow is to be judged:

¹¹ And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari;

¹⁶ And these are the names of the sons of Levi in the order of their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari: and the years of Levi's life were a hundred and thirty-seven. ¹⁷ The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, in the order of their families. ¹⁸ And the sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel: and the years of Kohath's life were a hundred and thirty-three. ¹⁹ And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi: these are the families of the Levites, in the order of their generations.

⁵ And for the drink offering, you are to give with the burned offering or other offering, the fourth part of a hin of wine for every lamb. ⁶ Or for a male sheep, give as a meal offering two tenth parts of a measure of the best meal mixed with a third part of a hin of oil: ⁷ And for the drink offering give a third part of a hin of wine, for a sweet smell to the Lord. ⁸ And when you make ready a young ox for a burned or other offering, or for the effecting of an oath, or for peace-offerings to the Lord: ⁹ Then with the ox give a meal offering of three tenth parts of a measure of the best meal mixed with half a hin of oil. ¹⁰ And for the drink offering: give half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire for a sweet smell to the Lord. ¹¹ This is to be done for every young ox and for every male sheep or he-lamb or young goat. ¹² Whatever number you make ready, so you are to do for every one. ¹³ All those who are Israelites by birth are to do these things in this way, when giving an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord. ¹⁴ And if a man from another country or any other person living among you, through all your generations, has the desire to give an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord, let him do as you do. ¹⁵ There is to be one law for you and for the man of another country living with you, one law for ever from generation to generation; as you are, so is he to be before the Lord. ¹⁶ The law and the rule are to be the same for you and for those from other lands living with you. ¹⁷ And the Lord said to Moses, ¹⁸ Say to the children of Israel, When you come into the land where I am guiding you, ¹⁹ Then, when you take for your food the produce of the land, you are to give an offering lifted up before the Lord. ²⁰ Of the first of your rough meal you are to give a cake for a lifted offering, lifting it up before the Lord as the offering of the grain-floor is lifted up. ²¹ From generation to generation you are to give to the Lord a lifted offering from the first of your rough meal. ²² And if in error you go against any of these laws which the Lord has given to Moses, ²³ All the laws which the Lord has given you by the hand of Moses, from the day when the Lord gave them, and ever after from generation to generation;

⁶ So he went back to him where he was waiting by his burned offering with all the chiefs of Moab. ⁷ And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, From Aram Balak has sent for me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East: come, put curses on Jacob for me and be angry with Israel. ⁸ How may I put curses on him who is not cursed by God? how may I be angry with him with whom the Lord is not angry? ⁹ From the top of the rocks I see him, looking down on him from the hills: it is a people made separate, not to be numbered among the nations. ¹⁰ Who is able to take the measure of the dust of Jacob or the number of the thousands of Israel? May my death be the death of the upright and my last end like his! ¹¹ Then Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I sent for you so that my haters might be cursed, and see, you have given them a blessing. ¹² And in answer he said, Am I not ordered to say only what the Lord puts into my mouth? ¹³ And Balak said to him, Come with me now into another place from which you will not be able to see them all, but only the outskirts of them; and you will send curses on them from there. ¹⁴ So he took him into the country of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and there they made seven altars, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar. ¹⁵ Then he said to Balak, Take your place here by your burned offering, while I go over there to the Lord. ¹⁶ And the Lord came to Balaam, and put words in his mouth, and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say. ¹⁷ So he came to him where he was waiting by his burned offering with the chiefs of Moab by his side. And Balak said to him, What has the Lord said? ¹⁸ And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, Up! Balak, and give ear; give attention to me, O son of Zippor: ¹⁹ God is not a man, to say what is false; or the son of man, that his purpose may be changed: what he has said, will he not do? and will he not give effect to the words of his mouth? ²⁰ See, I have had orders to give blessing: and he has given a blessing which I have no power to take away. ²¹ He has seen no evil in Jacob or wrongdoing in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the glad cry of a king is among them. ²² It is God who has taken them out of Egypt; his horns are like those of the mountain ox. ²³ No evil power has effect against Jacob, no secret arts against Israel; at the right time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, See what God has done!

¹ Now when Balaam saw that it was the Lord's pleasure to give his blessing to Israel, he did not, as at other times, make use of secret arts, but turning his face to the waste land, ² And lifting up his eyes, he saw Israel there, with their tents in the order of their tribes: and the spirit of God came on him. ³ And moved by the spirit, he said, These are the words of Balaam, son of Beor, the words of the man whose eyes are open: ⁴ He says, whose ears are open to the words of God, who has seen the vision of the Ruler of all, falling down, but having his eyes open: ⁵ How fair are your tents, O Jacob, your houses, O Israel! ⁶ They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by the riverside, like flowering trees planted by the Lord, like cedar-trees by the waters. ⁷ Peoples will be in fear before his strength, his arm will be on great nations: his king will be higher than Agag, and his kingdom made great in honour. ⁸ It is God who has taken him out of Egypt; his horns are like those of the mountain ox; the nations warring against him will be his food, their bones will be broken, they will be wounded with his arrows. ⁹ He took his sleep stretched out like a lion, and like a she-lion: by whom will his rest be broken? May a blessing be on everyone who gives you blessing, and a curse on everyone by whom you are cursed. ¹⁰ Then Balak was full of wrath against Balaam, and angrily waving his hands he said to Balaam, I sent for you so that those who are against me might be cursed, but now, see, three times you have given them a blessing. ¹¹ Go back quickly to the place you came from: it was my purpose to give you a place of honour, but now the Lord has kept you back from honour. ¹² Then Balaam said to Balak, Did I not say to the men you sent to me, ¹³ Even if Balak gave me his house full of silver and gold, it would not be possible for me to go outside the orders of the Lord, doing good or evil at the impulse of my mind; whatever the Lord says I will say? ¹⁴ So now I will go back to my people: but first let me make clear to you what this people will do to your people in days to come. ¹⁵ Then he went on with his story and said, These are the words of Balaam, the son of Beor, the words of him whose eyes are open: ¹⁶ He says, whose ear is open to the words of God, who has knowledge of the Most High, who has seen the vision of the Ruler of all, falling down and having his eyes open: ¹⁷ I see him, but not now: looking on him, but not near: a star will come out of Jacob, and a rod of authority out of Israel, sending destruction to the farthest limits of Moab and on the head of all the sons of Sheth. ¹⁸ Edom will be his heritage, and he will put an end to the last of the people of Seir. ¹⁹ And Israel will go on in strength, and Jacob will have rule over his haters. ²⁰ Then, turning his eyes to Amalek, he went on with his story and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his part will be destruction for ever. ²¹ And looking on the Kenites he went on with his story and said, Strong is your living-place, and your secret place is safe in the rock. ²² But still the Kenites will be wasted, till Asshur takes you away prisoner. ²³ Then he went on with his story and said, But who may keep his life when God does this? ²⁴ But ships will come from the direction of Kittim, troubling Asshur and troubling Eber, and like the others their fate will be destruction. ²⁵ Then Balaam got up and went back to his place: and Balak went away.

⁵⁷ These were those of the Levites who were numbered by their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites. ⁵⁸ These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. And Kohath was the father of Amram.

¹ Then the heads of the families of the Levites came to Eleazar the priest and Joshua, the son of Nun, and to the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel; ² And said to them in Shiloh in the land of Canaan, The Lord gave orders by Moses that we were to have towns for living in, with their grass-lands for our cattle. ³ And the children of Israel out of their heritage gave to the Levites these towns with their grass-lands, by the order of the Lord. ⁴ And the heritage came out for the families of the Kohathites: the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, were given thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin. ⁵ The rest of the children of Kohath by their families were given ten towns from the tribes of Ephraim and Dan and the half-tribe of Manasseh. ⁶ The children of Gershon by their families were given thirteen towns from the tribes of Issachar and Asher and Naphtali and the half-tribe of Manasseh which was in Bashan. ⁷ The children of Merari by their families were given twelve towns from the tribes of Reuben and Gad and Zebulun. ⁸ All these towns with their grass-lands the children of Israel gave by the decision of the Lord to the Levites, as the Lord had given orders by Moses. ⁹ From the tribes of the children of Judah and the children of Simeon they gave these towns, listed here by name: ¹⁰ These were for the children of Aaron among the families of the Kohathites, of the children of Levi: for they came first in the distribution. ¹¹ They gave them Kiriath-arba, the town of Arba, the father of Anak, which is Hebron in the hill-country of Judah, with its grass-lands. ¹² But the open country round the town, and its unwalled places, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, as his property. ¹³ And to the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Libnah with its grass-lands; ¹⁴ And Jattir with its grass-lands, and Eshtemoa with its grass-lands; ¹⁵ And Holon with its grass-lands, and Debir with its grass-lands; ¹⁶ And Ain, and Juttah, and Beth-shemesh, with their grass-lands; nine towns from those two tribes. ¹⁷ And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave Gibeon and Geba with their grass-lands; ¹⁸ Anathoth and Almon with their grass-lands, four towns. ¹⁹ Thirteen towns with their grass-lands were given to the children of Aaron, the priests. ²⁰ The rest of the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, were given towns from the tribe of Ephraim. ²¹ And they gave them Shechem with its grass-lands in the hill-country of Ephraim, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Gezer with its grass-lands; ²² And Kibzaim and Beth-horon with their grass-lands, four towns. ²³ And from the tribe of Dan, Elteke and Gibbethon with their grass-lands; ²⁴ Aijalon and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, four towns. ²⁵ And from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, two towns. ²⁶ All the towns of the rest of the families of the children of Kohath were ten with their grass-lands. ²⁷ And to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, they gave from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Ashtaroth with its grass-lands, two towns. ²⁸ And from the tribe of Issachar, Kishion and Daberath with their grass-lands; ²⁹ Jarmuth and En-gannim with their grass-lands, four towns. ³⁰ And from the tribe of Asher, Mishal and Abdon, with their grass-lands: ³¹ Helkath and Rehob with their grass-lands, four towns. ³² And from the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Hammoth-dor and Kartan with their grass-lands, three towns. ³³ All the towns of the Gershonites with their families were thirteen with their grass-lands. ³⁴ And to the rest of the Levites, that is, the families of the children of Merari, they gave from the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam and Kartah with their grass-lands; ³⁵ Dimnah and Nahalal with their grass-lands, four towns. ³⁶ And from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer and Jahaz with their grass-lands; ³⁷ Kedemoth and Mephaath with their grass-lands, four towns. ³⁸ And from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Mahanaim with their grass-lands; ³⁹ Heshbon and Jazer with their grass-lands, four towns. ⁴⁰ All these towns were given to the children of Merari by their families, that is, the rest of the families of the Levites; and their heritage was twelve towns. ⁴¹ All the towns of the Levites, among the heritage of the children of Israel, were forty-eight towns with their grass-lands. ⁴² Every one of these towns had grass-lands round it. ⁴³ So the Lord gave to Israel all the land which he gave by oath to their fathers; so it became their heritage and their living-place. ⁴⁴ And the Lord gave them peace on every side, as he had said to their fathers: all those who were against them gave way before them, for the Lord gave them all up into their hands. ⁴⁵ The Lord kept faith with the house of Israel about all the good which he said he would do for them, and all his words came true.

¹ The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ² And the sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

¹⁶ The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. ¹⁷ And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei. ¹⁸ And the sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. ¹⁹ The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites listed by the names of their fathers.

¹ And the rulers of the people were living in Jerusalem: the rest of the people made selection, by the decision of chance, of one out of every ten to be living in Jerusalem, the holy town; the other nine to go to the other towns. ² And the people gave a blessing to all the men who were freely offering to take up their places in Jerusalem. ³ Now these are the chiefs of the divisions of the country who were living in Jerusalem: but in the towns of Judah everyone was living on his heritage in the towns, that is, Israel, the priests, the Levites, the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants. ⁴ And in Jerusalem there were living certain of the children of Judah and of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah, the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, of the children of Perez; ⁵ And Maaseiah, the son of Baruch, the son of Col-hozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of the Shilonite. ⁶ All the sons of Perez living in Jerusalem were four hundred and sixty-eight men of good position. ⁷ And these are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu, the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jeshaiah. ⁸ And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred and twenty-eight. ⁹ And Joel, the son of Zichri, was their overseer; and Judah, the son of Hassenuah, was second over the town. ¹⁰ Of the priests: Jedaiah, the son of Joiarib, Jachin, ¹¹ Seraiah, the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God, ¹² And their brothers who did the work of the house, eight hundred and twenty-two; and Adaiah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah,

²¹ From Gershon come the Libnites and the Shimeites; these are the families of the Gershonites.

¹⁷ And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.

²⁰ Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son, ²¹ Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son.

⁷ Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei. ⁸ The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham and Joel, three. ⁹ The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth and Haziel and Haran, three; these were the heads of the families of Ladan. ¹⁰ And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zizah and Jeush and Beriah; these four were the sons of Shimei. ¹¹ Jahath was the chief and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah had only a small number of sons, so they were grouped together as one family.

⁴ Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth;

¹ For the divisions of the door-keepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah, the son of Kore, of the sons of Ebiasaph. ² And Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the oldest, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth, ³ Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Eliehoenai the seventh. ⁴ And Obed-edom had sons: Shemaiah the oldest, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethanel the fifth, ⁵ Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth; for the blessing of God was on him. ⁶ And Shemaiah his son had sons, rulers over the family of their father, for they were able men. ⁷ The sons of Shemaiah: Othni and Rephael and Obed, Elzabad, whose brothers were great men of war, Elihu and Semachiah. ⁸ All these were sons of Obed-edom: they and their sons and their brothers, able men and strong for the work; sixty-two sons of Obed-edom. ⁹ Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, eighteen able men. ¹⁰ And Hosah, a son of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief for though he was not the oldest, his father made him chief; ¹¹ Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: Hosah had thirteen sons and brothers. ¹² Of these were the divisions of the door-keepers, men of authority, having responsible positions like their brothers to be servants in the house of the Lord. ¹³ And the families were taken by the decision of the Lord for every door; the small family had the same chance as the great. ¹⁴ And the care of the door on the east came out for Shelemiah. Then the name of Zechariah his son, a man wise in discussion, came out, and the door on the north was given to him. ¹⁵ To Obed-edom, that on the south; and to his sons, the store-house. ¹⁶ To Hosah, the door on the west, by the door of Shallecheth, at the footway which goes up, watch by watch. ¹⁷ On the east were six Levites a day, and on the north and the south four a day, and for the store-house two and two. ¹⁸ For the pillared way, on the west, four at the footway and two at the pillared way itself. ¹⁹ These were the divisions of door-keepers, of the sons of the Korahites and of the sons of Merari. ²⁰ And the Levites their brothers were responsible for the stores of the house of God and the holy things. ²¹ The sons of Ladan: sons of the Gershonites of the family of Ladan, heads of families of Ladan the Gershonite, Jehieli. ²² The sons of Jehieli: Zetham and Joel, his brother, had the care of the stores of the house of the Lord. ²³ Of the Amramites, of the Izharites, of the Hebronites, of the Uzzielites: ²⁴ And Shebuel, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was controller of the stores. ²⁵ And his brothers: of Eliezer, Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomoth his son. ²⁶ Shelomoth and his brothers were responsible for all the store of holy things which David the king and the heads of families, the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and the captains of the army, had given to the Lord. ²⁷ From the goods taken in war, they gave, as a holy offering, materials for the building of the house of the Lord. ²⁸ And everything Samuel the prophet and Saul, the son of Kish, and Abner, the son of Ner, and Joab, the son of Zeruiah, had made holy; whatever anyone had given, it was under the care of Shelomoth and his brothers. ²⁹ Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons had to do all the public business of Israel, in relation to judges and men in authority. ³⁰ Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, seventeen hundred able men, were overseers of Israel on the other side of the Jordan, to the west, being responsible for all the work of the Lord's house and for the work done by the king's servants. ³¹ Of the Hebronites, Jerijah was the chief of all the Hebronites, in their generations by families. In the fortieth year of the rule of David a search was made, and able men were seen among them at Jazer of Gilead. ³² And his brothers were two thousand, seven hundred able men, heads of families, whom King David made overseers over the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in everything to do with God, and for the king's business.

¹ Now these are the priests and the Levites who went up with Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, ² Amariah, Malluch, Hattush, ³ Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth, ⁴ Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah, ⁵ Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah, ⁶ Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah, ⁷ Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brothers in the days of Jeshua. ⁸ And the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who was over the music-makers, he and his brothers. ⁹ And Bakbukiah and Unno, their brothers, were opposite them in their watches. ¹⁰ And Jeshua was the father of Joiakim, and Joiakim was the father of Eliashib, and Eliashib was the father of Joiada, ¹¹ And Joiada was the father of Jonathan, and Jonathan was the father of Jaddua. ¹² And in the days of Joiakim there were priests, heads of families: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah; ¹³ Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan; ¹⁴ Of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph; ¹⁵ Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai; ¹⁶ Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam; ¹⁷ Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai; ¹⁸ Of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan; ¹⁹ And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi; ²⁰ Of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber; ²¹ Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethanel. ²² The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, were listed as heads of families; and the priests, when Darius the Persian was king. ²³ The sons of Levi, heads of families, were recorded in the book of the histories, even till the days of Johanan, the son of Eliashib. ²⁴ And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua, the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers opposite them, to give blessing and praise as ordered by David, the man of God, watch against watch. ²⁵ Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were door-keepers keeping the watch at the store-houses of the doors. ²⁶ These were in the days of Joiakim, the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the ruler and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.

¹⁸ And the sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel: and the years of Kohath's life were a hundred and thirty-three.

²⁷ From Kohath come the Amramites and the Izharites and the Hebronites and the Uzzielites; these are the families of the Kohathites.

¹⁸ And the sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

³⁸ The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.

⁵ Of the sons of Kohath: Uriel the chief, and his brothers, a hundred and twenty;

⁸ Of the sons of Elizaphan: Shemaiah the chief, and his brothers, two hundred; ⁹ Of the sons of Hebron: Eliel the chief, and his brothers, eighty; ¹⁰ Of the sons of Uzziel: Amminadab the chief, and his brothers, a hundred and twelve.

¹⁷ So Heman, the son of Joel, and, of his brothers, Asaph, the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan, the son of Kushaiah, were put in position by the Levites; ¹⁸ And with them their brothers of the second order, Zechariah, Bani and Jaaziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Unni, Eliab and Benaiah and Maaseiah and Mattithiah and Eliphelehu and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom and Jeiel, the door-keepers. ¹⁹ So those who made melody, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were put in position, with brass instruments, sounding loudly; ²⁰ And Zechariah and Aziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel, Unni and Eliab and Maaseiah and Benaiah, with corded instruments put to Alamoth. ²¹ And Mattithiah and Eliphelehu and Mikneiah and Obed-edom and Jeiel and Azaziah, with corded instruments on the octave, to give the first note of the song.

¹² The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four. ¹³ The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was made separate and holy, he and his sons for ever, for the care of the most holy things and the burning of offerings before the Lord, to do his work and give blessings in his name for ever.

¹⁸ The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the first. ¹⁹ The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth. ²⁰ The sons of Uzziel: Micah the first, and Isshiah the second.

¹⁹ And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi: these are the families of the Levites, in the order of their generations.

³³ From Merari come the Mahlites and the Mushites; these are the families of Merari.

¹⁹ The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites listed by the names of their fathers.

²⁹ The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son,

⁴⁴ And on the left their brothers, the sons of Merari: Ethan, the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch, ⁴⁵ The son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah, ⁴⁶ The son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer, ⁴⁷ The son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.

⁶ Of the sons of Merari: Asaiah the chief, and his brothers, two hundred and twenty;

²¹ The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish. ²² And at his death Eleazar had no sons, but only daughters, and their relations, the sons of Kish, took them as wives. ²³ The sons of Mushi: Mahli and Eder and Jeremoth, three.

²⁷ The sons of Merari: of Jaaziah, Shoham and Zaccur and Ibri. ²⁸ Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons. ²⁹ Of Kish: the sons of Kish, Jerahmeel. ³⁰ And the sons of Mushi: Mahli and Eder and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites by their families.

³ Of Jeduthun: the six sons of Jeduthun, Gedaliah and Zeri and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah and Mattithiah; under the direction of their father Jeduthun who, acting as a prophet, with corded instruments gave praise and glory to the Lord.

³⁸ And those of the sons of Gershon who were numbered by families, ³⁹ All those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work in the Tent of meeting, ⁴⁰ Who were numbered by families in the order of their fathers' houses, were two thousand, six hundred and thirty.

⁵³ But the tents of the Levites are to be round the Tent of meeting, so that wrath may not come on the children of Israel: the Tent of meeting is to be in the care of the Levites.

⁹ Make the House and everything in it from the designs which I will give you.

¹ And you are to make a House for me, with ten curtains of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman. ² Every curtain is to be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure. ³ Five curtains are to be joined together, and the other five are to be joined together. ⁴ And you are to put twists of blue cord on the edge of the outside curtain of the first group of five, and on the edge of the outside curtain of the second group of five; ⁵ Fifty twists on one curtain and fifty on the other, the twists to be opposite one another. ⁶ Then make fifty gold hooks, joining the curtains together by the hooks, and in this way the House will be made. ⁷ And you are to make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the House, eleven curtains. ⁸ Every curtain is to be thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure. ⁹ Five of these curtains are to be joined together, and the other six are to be joined together, the sixth being folded over to make a hanging in front of the tent. ¹⁰ And you are to put fifty twists of cord on the edge of the outside curtain of one group, and fifty twists on the edge of the outside curtain of the other group. ¹¹ Then make fifty brass hooks and put the hooks into the twists, joining the tent together to make it one. ¹² And the folded part which is over of the curtains of the tent, the half-curtain which is folded back, will be hanging down over the back of the House. ¹³ And the cubit which is over of the ten curtains at the sides will be hanging over the two sides of the House as a cover. ¹⁴ And then you are to make a cover for the tent, of sheepskins coloured red, and a cover of leather over that.

³⁶ And you are to make a curtain for the doorway of the Tent, of the best linen with needlework of blue and purple and red. ³⁷ And make five pillars for the curtain, of hard wood plated with gold; their hooks are to be of gold and their bases of brass

⁸ Then all the expert workmen among them made the House with its ten curtains; of the best linen, blue and purple and red, they made them, with winged ones worked by expert designers. ⁹ Every curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure. ¹⁰ And five curtains were joined together, and the other five curtains were joined together. ¹¹ And they put twists of blue cord on the edge of the outside curtain of the first group, and in the same way on the outside curtain of the second group. ¹² Fifty twists on the one curtain and fifty on the edge of the curtain of the other group; the twists being opposite to one another. ¹³ And they made fifty hooks of gold, joining the curtains one to another with the hooks; and so the House was made. ¹⁴ And they made curtains of goats' hair for the tent; eleven curtains were made. ¹⁵ Every curtain was thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure. ¹⁶ Five curtains were joined together to make one group, and six curtains were joined together to make the other group. ¹⁷ And they put fifty twists of cord on the edge of the outside curtain of the first group, and fifty twists on the edge of the outside curtain of the second group, ¹⁸ And fifty hooks of brass for joining them together to make the tent. ¹⁹ And they made a cover of sheepskins coloured red, to go over the tent, and a cover of leather over that.

³⁷ And they made a curtain for the door of the tent, of the best linen with needlework of blue and purple and red; ³⁸ And five pillars for the curtain, with their hooks; the heads of the pillars were of gold and they were circled with bands of gold; and their five bases were of brass.

¹⁹ Stretching the outer tent over it, and covering it, as the Lord had given him orders.

²⁸ And he put up the curtain at the doorway of the House.

⁷ In order that they may be responsible to him and to all Israel for the care of the Tent of meeting, and to do the work of the House;

²⁴ This is to be the work of the Gershonites, the things they are to do and take up. ²⁵ They are to take up the curtains of the House, and the Tent of meeting with its cover and the leather cover over it, and the hangings for the door of the Tent of meeting; ²⁶ And the hangings for the open space round the House and the altar, and the curtain for its doorway, with the cords and all the things used for them; whatever is necessary for these, they are to do. ²⁷ From the mouth of Aaron and his sons the Gershonites will have word about all the things they are to do and take up; you are to give them their orders. ²⁸ This is the work of the family of the Gershonites in the Tent of meeting, and they will be under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

⁷ Two carts and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon for their work;

¹⁴ And of the Levites: Shemaiah, the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari; ¹⁵ And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah, the son of Mica, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph; ¹⁶ And Obadiah, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah, the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who were living in the small towns of the Netophathites. ¹⁷ And the door-keepers: Shallum and Akkub and Talmon and Ahiman and their brothers: Shallum was the chief. ¹⁸ Up till then they had been at the king's door to the east. They were door-keepers for the tents of the sons of Levi. ¹⁹ And Shallum, the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his family, the Korahites, were responsible for everything which had to be done in connection with the order of worship, keepers of the doors of the Tent; their fathers had had the care of the tents of the Lord, being keepers of the doorway. ²⁰ In the past Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, had been ruler over them; may the Lord be with him! ²¹ Zechariah, the son of Meshelemiah, was keeper of the door of the Tent of meeting. ²² There were two hundred and twelve whose business it was to keep the doorway. These were listed by families in the country places where they were living, whom David and Samuel the seer put in their responsible positions. ²³ So they and their sons had the care of the doors of the house of the Lord, the house of the Tent, as watchers. ²⁴ There were keepers of the doors on the four sides, to the east, west, north, and south. ²⁵ And their brothers, in the country places where they were living, were to come in every seven days to be with them from time to time. ²⁶ For the four chief door-keepers, who were Levites, had a special position, looking after the rooms and the store-houses of the house of God. ²⁷ Their sleeping-rooms were round the house of God, for they had the care of it, and were responsible for opening it morning by morning. ²⁸ Certain of them had the care of the vessels used in worship, to keep an account of them when they came in and when they were taken out again. ²⁹ And some of them were responsible for the holy things and for the vessels of the holy place, and the meal and the wine and the oil and the perfume and the spices. ³⁰ And some of the sons of the priests were responsible for crushing the spices. ³¹ And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, the oldest son of Shallum the Korahite, was responsible for cooking the flat cakes. ³² And some of their brothers, sons of the Kohathites, were responsible for the holy bread which was put in order before the Lord, to get it ready every Sabbath. ³³ And these were those who had the ordering of the music and songs, heads of families of the Levites, who were living in the rooms, and were free from other work, for their work went on day and night.

³² And they had the care of the Tent of meeting and the holy place, under the direction of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the work of the house of the Lord.

²¹ The sons of Ladan: sons of the Gershonites of the family of Ladan, heads of families of Ladan the Gershonite, Jehieli. ²² The sons of Jehieli: Zetham and Joel, his brother, had the care of the stores of the house of the Lord.

² Then Hezekiah put in order the divisions of the priests and Levites, every man in his division, in relation to his work, for the burned offerings and peace-offerings, and for the ordering of worship and for giving praise at the doors of the Lord's house.

¹¹ Then Hezekiah said that store-rooms were to be made ready in the house of the Lord; and this was done. ¹² And in them they put all the offerings and the tenths and the holy things, keeping nothing back, and over them was Conaniah the Levite, with Shimei his brother second to him. ¹³ And Jehiel and Azaziah and Nahath and Asahel and Jerimoth and Jozabad and Eliel and Ismachiah and Mahath and Benaiah were overseers, under the directions of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the order of Hezekiah the king and Azariah, the ruler of the house of God. ¹⁴ And Kore, the son of Imnah the Levite, the keeper of the east door, had control of the offerings freely given to God, and the distribution of the offerings of the Lord and the most holy things. ¹⁵ And under him were Eden and Miniamin and Jeshua and Shemaiah and Amariah and Shecaniah, in the towns of the priests, who were made responsible for giving it to all their brothers, by divisions, to small and great: ¹⁶ As well as to all the males, of three years old and over, listed by their families, who went into the house of the Lord to do what was needed day by day, for their special work with their divisions. ¹⁷ And the families of the priests were listed by their fathers' names, but the Levites, of twenty years old and over, were listed in relation to their work in their divisions; ¹⁸ And in the lists were all their little ones and their wives and their sons and daughters, through all the people: they made themselves holy in the positions which they were given.

³⁴ It is as when a man who is in another country for a time, having gone away from his house, and given authority to his servants and to everyone his work, gives the porter an order to keep watch.

⁶ And having different qualities by reason of the grace given to us, such as the quality of a prophet, let it be made use of in relation to the measure of our faith; ⁷ Or the position of a Deacon of the church, let a man give himself to it; or he who has the power of teaching, let him make use of it; ⁸ He who has the power of comforting, let him do so; he who gives, let him give freely; he who has the power of ruling, let him do it with a serious mind; he who has mercy on others, let it be with joy.

¹⁷ Say to Archippus, See that you do the work which the Lord has given you to do.

¹⁸ This order I give to you, Timothy my son, in harmony with the words of the prophets about you, so that by them you may be strong, fighting the good fight,

⁹ And let there be an open space round the House, with hangings for its south side of the best linen, a hundred cubits long. ¹⁰ Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases are to be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their bands are to be of silver. ¹¹ And on the north side in the same way, hangings a hundred cubits long, with twenty pillars of brass on bases of brass; their hooks and their bands are to be of silver. ¹² And for the open space on the west side, the hangings are to be fifty cubits wide, with ten pillars and ten bases; ¹³ And on the east side the space is to be fifty cubits wide. ¹⁴ On the one side of the doorway will be hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases; ¹⁵ And on the other side, hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases. ¹⁶ And across the doorway, a veil of twenty cubits of the best linen, made of needlework of blue and purple and red, with four pillars and four bases.

¹⁸ The nails for the House, and the nails for the open space and their cords;

⁹ To make the open space, he put hangings on the south side, of the best linen, a hundred cubits long: ¹⁰ Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were brass; and the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver. ¹¹ And for the north side. hangings a hundred cubits long, on twenty brass pillars in brass bases, with silver hooks and bands. ¹² And on the west side, hangings fifty cubits long, on ten pillars in ten bases, with silver bands. ¹³ And on the east side, the open space was fifty cubits long. ¹⁴ The hangings on one side of the doorway were fifteen cubits long, on three pillars with their three bases; ¹⁵ And the same on the other side of the doorway; on this side and on that the hangings were fifteen cubits long, on three pillars with their three bases. ¹⁶ All the hangings were of the best linen.

¹⁹ And the sons of Kohath, by their families: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel.

¹² The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.

²³ Of the Amramites, of the Izharites, of the Hebronites, of the Uzzielites:

³¹ In their care are the ark, and the table, and the lights, and the altars, and all the vessels used in the holy place, and the veil, and all they are used for.

³⁵ Numbering all those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work in the Tent of meeting; ³⁶ And the number of all these was two thousand, seven hundred and fifty.

¹⁰ On the south side is the flag of the children of Reuben, in the order of their armies, with Elizur, the son of Shedeur, as their chief.

²³ The tents of the Gershonites are to be placed at the back of the House, to the west.

¹⁰ And they are to make an ark of hard wood; two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half wide and high. ¹¹ It is to be plated inside and out with the best gold, with an edge of gold all round it ¹² And make four rings of gold for it, to be fixed on its four feet, two rings on one side of it and two on the other. ¹³ And make rods of the same wood, plating them with gold. ¹⁴ And put the rods through the rings at the sides of the ark, for lifting it. ¹⁵ The rods are to be kept in the rings, and never taken out. ¹⁶ Inside the ark you are to put the record which I will give you. ¹⁷ And you are to make a cover of the best gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. ¹⁸ And at the two ends of the cover you are to make two winged ones of hammered gold, ¹⁹ One at one end and one at the other; the winged ones are to be part of the cover. ²⁰ And their wings are to be outstretched over the cover, and the winged ones are to be opposite one another, facing the cover. ²¹ And put the cover over the ark, and in the ark the record which I will give you. ²² And there, between the two winged ones on the cover of the ark, I will come to you, face to face, and make clear to you all the orders I have to give you for the children of Israel. ²³ And you are to make a table of the same wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high, ²⁴ Plated with the best gold, with a gold edge all round it; ²⁵ And make a frame all round it, as wide as a man's hand, with a gold edge to the frame. ²⁶ And make four gold rings and put them at the four angles, on the four feet of the table; ²⁷ The rings are to be fixed under the frame to take the rods with which the table is to be lifted. ²⁸ Make rods of the same wood, plated with gold, for lifting the table. ²⁹ And make the table-vessels, the spoons and the cups and the basins for liquids, all of the best gold. ³⁰ And on the table at all times you are to keep my holy bread. ³¹ And you are to make a support for lights, of the best gold; its base and its pillar are to be of hammered gold; its cups, its buds, and its flowers are to be made of the same metal. ³² It is to have six branches coming out from its sides; three branches from one side and three from the other. ³³ Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a flower, on all the branches. ³⁴ And on the pillar, four cups like almond flowers, every one with its bud and its flower: ³⁵ And under every two branches a bud, made with the branch, for all the six branches of it. ³⁶ The buds and the branches are to be made of the same metal; all together one complete work of hammered gold. ³⁷ Then you are to make its seven vessels for the lights, putting them in their place so that they give light in front of it. ³⁸ And the instruments and trays for use with it are all to be of the best gold. ³⁹ A talent of gold will be needed for it, with all these vessels. ⁴⁰ And see that you make them from the design which you saw on the mountain.

³¹ And you are to make a veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman: ³² Hanging it by gold hooks from four pillars of wood, plated with gold and fixed in silver bases. ³³ And you are to put up the veil under the hooks, and put inside it the ark of the law: the veil is to be a division between the holy place and the most holy.

¹ And make an altar of hard wood, a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high. ² Put horns at the four angles of it, made of the same, plating it all with brass. ³ And make all its vessels, the baskets for taking away the dust of the fire, the spades and basins and meat-hooks and fire-trays, of brass. ⁴ And make a network of brass, with four brass rings at its four angles. ⁵ And put the network under the shelf round the altar so that the net comes half-way up the altar. ⁶ And make rods for the altar, of hard wood, plated with brass. ⁷ And put the rods through the rings at the two opposite sides of the altar, for lifting it. ⁸ The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain.

¹ And you are to make an altar for the burning of perfume; of hard wood let it be made. ² The altar is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high, and its horns are to be made of the same. ³ It is to be plated with the best gold, the top of it and the sides and the horns, with an edging of gold all round it. ⁴ Under the edge on the two opposite sides, you are to make two gold rings, to take the rods for lifting it. ⁵ And make these rods of the same wood, plating them with gold. ⁶ And let it be placed in front of the veil before the ark of the law, before the cover which is over the law, where I will come face to face with you. ⁷ And on this altar sweet spices are to be burned by Aaron every morning when he sees to the lights. ⁸ And every evening, when he puts the lights up in their places, the spices are to be burned, a sweet-smelling smoke going up before the Lord from generation to generation for ever. ⁹ No strange perfume, no burned offering or meal offering, and no drink offering is to be offered on it. ¹⁰ And once every year Aaron is to make its horns clean: with the blood of the sin-offering he is to make it clean once every year from generation to generation: it is most holy to the Lord.

¹ And the Lord said to Moses, ² I have made selection of Bezalel, the son of Uri, by name, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: ³ And I have given him the spirit of God and made him wise and full of knowledge and expert in every sort of handwork, ⁴ To do all sorts of delicate work in gold and silver and brass; ⁵ In cutting stones for framing, and to do every form of woodwork. ⁶ And I have made selection of Oholiab with him, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all who are wise I have put the knowledge to make whatever I have given you orders to have made; ⁷ The Tent of meeting, and the ark of the law, and the cover which is on it, and all the things for the tent, ⁸ And the table with its vessels, and the holy light-support with all its vessels, and the altar for the burning of spices, ⁹ And the altar of burned offerings with all its vessels, and the washing-vessel with its base, ¹⁰ And the robes of needlework, the holy robes for Aaron and for his sons, for their use when acting as priests, ¹¹ And the holy oil, and the perfume of sweet spices for the holy place; they will do whatever I have given you orders to have done. ¹² And the Lord said to Moses, ¹³ Say to the children of Israel that they are to keep my Sabbaths; for the Sabbath day is a sign between me and you through all your generations; so that you may see that I am the Lord who makes you holy. ¹⁴ So you are to keep the Sabbath as a holy day; and anyone not honouring it will certainly be put to death: whoever does any work on that day will be cut off from his people. ¹⁵ Six days may work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death. ¹⁶ And the children of Israel are to keep the Sabbath holy, from generation to generation, by an eternal agreement. ¹⁷ It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever; because in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he took his rest and had pleasure in it. ¹⁸ And when his talk with Moses on Mount Sinai was ended, he gave him the two stones of the law, two stones on which was the writing made by the finger of God.

³⁵ And he made the veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with winged ones designed by expert workmen. ³⁶ And they made four pillars for it of hard wood plated with gold: they had hooks of gold and four silver bases.

¹ And Bezalel made the ark of hard wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide and a cubit and a half high; ² Plating it inside and out with the best gold, and putting an edge of gold all round it. ³ And he made four gold rings for its four angles, two on one side and two on the other, ⁴ And rods of the same wood plated with gold. ⁵ These rods he put in the rings at the sides of the ark, for lifting it. ⁶ And he made the cover all of gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. ⁷ And he made two winged ones, hammered out of one bit of gold, for the two ends of the cover;

¹ The altar of burned offerings he made of hard wood; a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, ² And he put horns at its four angles made of the same, plating it all with brass; ³ And brass was used for all the vessels of the altar, the baskets and the spades, the basins and the meat-hooks and the fire-trays; all the vessels he made of brass ⁴ And he made a network of brass for the altar, under the frame round it, stretching half-way up; ⁵ And four rings for the four angles of this network, to take the rods. ⁶ The rods he made of hard wood plated with brass. ⁷ He put the rods through the rings at the opposite sides of the altar for lifting it; he made the altar hollow, boarded in with wood.

³³ Then they took the House to Moses, the tent with all the things for it; its hooks, its boards, its rods, its pillars, and its bases; ³⁴ The outer cover of sheepskins coloured red, and the cover of leather, and the veil for the doorway; ³⁵ The ark of the law, with its rods and its cover; ³⁶ The table, with all its vessels and the holy bread; ³⁷ The support for the lights, with the vessels for the lights to be put in their places on it, and all its vessels, and the oil for the lights; ³⁸ And the gold altar, and the holy oil, and the sweet perfume for burning, and the curtain for the doorway of the tent; ³⁹ And the brass altar, with its network of brass, and its rods and all its vessels, and the washing-vessel and its base; ⁴⁰ The hangings for the open space, with the pillars and their bases, and the curtain for the doorway, and the cords and nails, and all the instruments necessary for the work of the House of the Tent of meeting; ⁴¹ The robes for use in the holy place, and the holy robes for Aaron and his sons when acting as priests. ⁴² The children of Israel did everything as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

² On the first day of the first month you are to put up the House of the Tent of meeting. ³ And inside it put the ark of the law, hanging the veil before it. ⁴ And put the table inside, placing all the things on it in order; and put in the support for the lights, and let its lights be burning. ⁵ And put the gold altar for burning perfumes in front of the ark of the law, hanging the curtain over the doorway of the House. ⁶ And put the altar of burned offerings before the doorway of the House of the Tent of meeting. ⁷ And let the washing-vessel, with water in it, be put between the Tent of meeting and the altar. ⁸ And put up the hangings forming the open space all round it, with the curtain over its doorway. ⁹ And take the holy oil and put it on the House and everything in it, and make it and everything in it holy: ¹⁰ And put oil on the altar of burned offering, and make it and all its vessels holy; this altar is to be most holy. ¹¹ And put oil on the washing-vessel and its base, and make them holy. ¹² Then let Aaron and his sons come to the door of the Tent of meeting; and after washing them with water, ¹³ You are to put on Aaron the holy robes; and you are to put oil on him, and make him holy, so that he may be my priest. ¹⁴ And take his sons with him and put coats on them; ¹⁵ And put oil on them as you did on their father, so that they may be my priests: the putting on of oil will make them priests for ever, from generation to generation. ¹⁶ And Moses did this; as the Lord gave him orders, so he did.

³⁰ And between the altar and the Tent of meeting he put the vessel with water in it for washing.

⁴ And this is to be the work of the sons of Kohath in connection with the most holy things. ⁵ When all the people go forward, Aaron is to go in with his sons, and take down the veil of the curtain, covering the ark of witness with it; ⁶ And putting over it the leather cover and over that a blue cloth; and putting its rods in place. ⁷ And on the table of the holy bread they are to put a blue cloth, and on it all the vessels, the spoons and the basins and the cups; and the holy bread with them; ⁸ And over them they are to put a red cloth, covering it with a leather cover, and putting its rods in their places. ⁹ And they are to take a blue cloth, covering with it the light-support with its lights and its instruments and its trays and all the oil vessels which are used for it: ¹⁰ All these they are to put in a leather cover, and put it on the frame. ¹¹ On the gold altar they are to put a blue cloth, covering it with a leather cover; and they are to put its rods in their places. ¹² All the vessels which are used in the holy place they are to put in a blue cloth, covering them with a leather cover, and put them on the frame. ¹³ And they are to take away the burned waste from the altar, and put a purple cloth on it; ¹⁴ Placing on the cloth all its vessels, the fire-baskets, the meat-hooks, the spades, and the basins; all the vessels of the altar; they are to put a leather cover over all these, and put its rods in their places. ¹⁵ And after the holy place and all its vessels have been covered up by Aaron and his sons, when the tents of the people go forward, the sons of Kohath are to come and take it up; but the holy things may not be touched by them for fear of death. ¹⁶ And Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, is to be responsible for the oil for the light, and the sweet perfumes for burning, and the regular meal offering, and the holy oil; the House and the holy place and everything in it will be in his care.

¹⁶ And Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, is to be responsible for the oil for the light, and the sweet perfumes for burning, and the regular meal offering, and the holy oil; the House and the holy place and everything in it will be in his care.

²⁵ So take Aaron and Eleazar, his son, up into Mount Hor; ²⁶ And take Aaron's robes off him and put them on Eleazar, his son: and death will come to Aaron there, and he will be put to rest with his people. ²⁷ So Moses did as the Lord had said, and before the eyes of all the people they went up Mount Hor. ²⁸ And Moses took off Aaron's robes, and put them on Eleazar, his son; and there on the top of the mountain death came to Aaron: then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.

¹⁸ And the captain of the armed men took Seraiah, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and the three door-keepers;

¹⁴ And of the Levites: Shemaiah, the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari; ¹⁵ And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah, the son of Mica, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph; ¹⁶ And Obadiah, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah, the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who were living in the small towns of the Netophathites. ¹⁷ And the door-keepers: Shallum and Akkub and Talmon and Ahiman and their brothers: Shallum was the chief. ¹⁸ Up till then they had been at the king's door to the east. They were door-keepers for the tents of the sons of Levi. ¹⁹ And Shallum, the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his family, the Korahites, were responsible for everything which had to be done in connection with the order of worship, keepers of the doors of the Tent; their fathers had had the care of the tents of the Lord, being keepers of the doorway. ²⁰ In the past Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, had been ruler over them; may the Lord be with him!

²⁰ And the Levites their brothers were responsible for the stores of the house of God and the holy things. ²¹ The sons of Ladan: sons of the Gershonites of the family of Ladan, heads of families of Ladan the Gershonite, Jehieli. ²² The sons of Jehieli: Zetham and Joel, his brother, had the care of the stores of the house of the Lord. ²³ Of the Amramites, of the Izharites, of the Hebronites, of the Uzzielites: ²⁴ And Shebuel, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was controller of the stores.

²⁰ And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites in the order of their fathers' houses.

²¹ The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.

²¹ Forty-six thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Reuben were numbered.

⁹ The number of all the armies of Judah was a hundred and eighty-six thousand, four hundred. They go forward first.

¹¹ The number of his army was forty-six thousand, five hundred.

²⁵ On the north side will be the flag of the children of Dan, with Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai, as their chief.

²⁸ Those who were numbered of them, the males from one month old and over, were eight thousand, six hundred, who were responsible for the care of the holy place. ²⁹ The tents of the Kohathites are to be placed on the south side of the House.

¹⁵ And you are to make upright boards of hard wood for the House. ¹⁶ Every board is to be ten cubits high and a cubit and a half wide. ¹⁷ Every board is to be joined to the one nearest to it by two tongues, and so for every board in the House. ¹⁸ These are the boards needed for the house; twenty boards for the south side, ¹⁹ With forty silver bases under the twenty boards, two bases under every board to take its tongues. ²⁰ And twenty boards for the second side of the house on the north, ²¹ With their forty silver bases, two under every board. ²² And six boards for the back of the House on the west, ²³ With two boards for the angles of the House at the back. ²⁴ The two are to be joined together at the base and at the top to one ring, forming the two angles. ²⁵ So there are to be eight boards, with their sixteen silver bases, two bases under every board. ²⁶ And make rods of the same wood, five for the boards on the one side, ²⁷ And five for the boards on the other side of the House, and five for the west side of the House at the back. ²⁸ And the middle rod is to go through the rings of all the boards from end to end. ²⁹ And the boards are to be plated with gold, having gold rings for the rods to go through: and the rods are to be plated with gold.

³² Hanging it by gold hooks from four pillars of wood, plated with gold and fixed in silver bases.

³⁷ And make five pillars for the curtain, of hard wood plated with gold; their hooks are to be of gold and their bases of brass

⁹ And let there be an open space round the House, with hangings for its south side of the best linen, a hundred cubits long. ¹⁰ Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases are to be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their bands are to be of silver. ¹¹ And on the north side in the same way, hangings a hundred cubits long, with twenty pillars of brass on bases of brass; their hooks and their bands are to be of silver. ¹² And for the open space on the west side, the hangings are to be fifty cubits wide, with ten pillars and ten bases; ¹³ And on the east side the space is to be fifty cubits wide. ¹⁴ On the one side of the doorway will be hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases; ¹⁵ And on the other side, hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases. ¹⁶ And across the doorway, a veil of twenty cubits of the best linen, made of needlework of blue and purple and red, with four pillars and four bases. ¹⁷ All the pillars round the open space are to have silver bands, with hooks of silver and bases of brass. ¹⁸ The open space is to be a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, with sides five cubits high, curtained with the best linen, with bases of brass. ¹⁹ All the instruments for the work of the House, and all its nails, and the nails of the open space are to be of brass.

¹¹ The House and its tent and its cover, its hooks and its boards, its rods and its pillars and its bases;

²⁰ And for the uprights of the House they made boards of hard wood. ²¹ The boards were ten cubits long and one cubit and a half wide. ²² Every board had two tongues fixed into it; all the boards were made in this way. ²³ They made twenty boards for the south side of the House: ²⁴ And for these twenty boards, forty silver bases, two bases under every board, to take its tongues. ²⁵ And for the second side of the House, on the north, they made twenty boards, ²⁶ With their forty silver bases, two bases for every board. ²⁷ And for the west side of the House, at the back, they made six boards, ²⁸ And two boards for the angles at the back. ²⁹ These were joined together at the base and at the top to one ring, so forming the two angles. ³⁰ So there were eight boards with sixteen bases of silver, two bases under every board. ³¹ And they made rods of hard wood; five for the boards on one side of the House, ³² And five for the boards on the other side of the House, and five for the boards at the back, on the west. ³³ The middle rod was made to go right through the rings of all the boards from one end to the other. ³⁴ All the boards were plated with gold, and the rings through which the rods went were of gold, and the rods were plated with gold.

³⁶ And they made four pillars for it of hard wood plated with gold: they had hooks of gold and four silver bases.

¹⁷ And the bases of the pillars were of brass; their hooks and the bands round the tops of them were of silver; all the pillars were ringed with silver. ¹⁸ And the curtain for the doorway of the open space was of the best linen, with designs of blue and purple and red in needlework; it was twenty cubits long and five cubits high, to go with the hangings round the sides. ¹⁹ There were four pillars with their bases, all of brass, the hooks being of silver, and their tops and their bands being covered with silver. ²⁰ All the nails used for the House and the open space round it were of brass.

³³ Then they took the House to Moses, the tent with all the things for it; its hooks, its boards, its rods, its pillars, and its bases;

²⁹ The sons of Merari are to be numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses; ³⁰ Every one from thirty to fifty years old who is able to do the work of the Tent of meeting. ³¹ And this is their part in the work of the Tent of meeting: the transport of the boards and the rods of the Tent, with the pillars and their bases; ³² And the pillars of the open space outside it, with their bases and their nails and cords and all the instruments used, and everything which has to be done there; all the instruments for which they are responsible are to be numbered by name. ³³ This is the work which the sons of Merari are to do in connection with the Tent of meeting, under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

⁸ And four carts and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari for their work, under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

³ Those whose tents are on the east side, looking to the dawn, will be round the flag of the children of Judah, with Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, as their chief.

⁷ In order that they may be responsible to him and to all Israel for the care of the Tent of meeting, and to do the work of the House; ⁸ And they will have the care of all the vessels of the Tent of meeting, and will do for the children of Israel all the necessary work of the House.

¹⁰ And give orders that Aaron and his sons are to keep their place as priests; any strange person who comes near is to be put to death.

²⁹ The tents of the Kohathites are to be placed on the south side of the House.

³⁵ The chief of the families of Merari was Zuriel, the son of Abihail: their tents are to be placed on the north side of the House.

¹ And the Lord said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father's family are to be responsible for all wrongdoing in relation to the holy place: and you and your sons are to be responsible for the errors which come about in your work as priests. ² Let your brothers, the family of Levi, come near with you, so that they may be joined with you and be your servants: but you and your sons with you are to go in before the ark of witness. ³ They are to do your orders and be responsible for the work of the Tent; but they may not come near the vessels of the holy place or the altar, so that death may not overtake them or you. ⁴ They are to be joined with you in the care of the Tent of meeting, doing whatever is needed for the Tent: and no one of any other family may come near you. ⁵ You are to be responsible for the holy place and the altar, so that wrath may never again come on the children of Israel.

⁴⁸ And their brothers the Levites were responsible for all the work of the Tent of the house of God. ⁴⁹ But Aaron and his sons made offerings on the altar of burned offering, and on the altar of perfume, for all the work of the most holy place, and to take away the sin of Israel, doing everything ordered by Moses, the servant of God.

⁴⁷ Those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work of the Tent of meeting and of its transport, ⁴⁸ Came to eight thousand, five hundred and eighty.

¹⁴ For narrow is the door and hard the road to life, and only a small number make discovery of it.

¹² See, I have taken the Levites out of the children of Israel to be mine in place of the first sons of the children of Israel;

¹⁵ Let all the children of Levi be numbered by their families and their fathers' houses; let every male of a month old and over be numbered.

⁶ The Lord will keep in mind, when he is writing the records of the people, that this man had his birth there. Selah.

³ And it will come about that the rest of the living in Zion, and of those who have been kept from destruction in Jerusalem, will be named holy, even everyone who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem:

²⁰ Do not be glad, however, because you have power over spirits, but because your names are recorded in heaven.

³ And I make request to you, true helper in my work, to see to the needs of those women who took part with me in the good news, with Clement and the rest of my brother-workers whose names are in the book of life.

¹⁹ But God's strong base is unchanging, having this sign, The Lord has knowledge of those who are his: and, Let everyone by whom the name of the Lord is named be turned away from evil.

⁵ He who overcomes will be dressed in white, and I will not take his name from the book of life, and I will give witness to his name before my Father, and before his angels.

⁴ These are they who have not made themselves unclean with women; for they are virgins. These are they who go after the Lamb wherever he goes. These were taken from among men to be the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

⁵ And he sent some of the young men of the children of Israel to make burned offerings and peace-offerings of oxen to the Lord. ⁶ And Moses took half the blood and put it in basins; draining out half of the blood over the altar.

²⁸ Even as the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.

⁶ Who gave himself as an offering for all; witness of which was to be given at the right time;

⁴⁰ And the Lord said to Moses, Let all the first male children be numbered, and take the number of their names. ⁴¹ And give to me the Levites I am the Lord in place of the first sons of the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites in place of the first births among the cattle of the children of Israel.

¹³ And for the young of an ass you may give a lamb in payment, or if you will not make payment for it, its neck is to be broken; but for all the first sons among your children, let payment be made.

¹³ And this is what they are to give; let every man who is numbered give half a shekel, by the scale of the holy place: the shekel being valued at twenty gerahs: this money is an offering to the Lord.

⁶ And if the person is from one month to five years old, then the value for a male will be five shekels of silver, and for a female three shekels.

²⁵ And let all your values be based on the shekel of the holy place, that is, twenty gerahs to the shekel.

⁵⁰ From the first sons of Israel he took it, a thousand, three hundred and sixty-five shekels, by the scale of the holy place;

¹⁶ Payment is to be made for these when they are a month old, at the value fixed by you, a price of five shekels by the scale of the holy place, that is, twenty gerahs to the shekel.

¹² And the shekel is to be twenty gerahs: five shekels are five, and ten shekels are ten, and your maneh is to be fifty shekels

⁴⁶ And the price you have to give for the two hundred and seventy-three first sons of the children of Israel which are in addition to the number of the Levites, ⁴⁷ Will be five shekels for every one, by the scale of the holy place the shekel is twenty gerahs;

⁵ For there is one God and one peacemaker between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, ⁶ Who gave himself as an offering for all; witness of which was to be given at the right time;

¹⁴ Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.

¹² And has gone once and for ever into the holy place, having got eternal salvation, not through the blood of goats and young oxen, but through his blood.

¹⁸ Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,

¹⁸ Because Christ once went through pain for sins, the upright one taking the place of sinners, so that through him we might come back to God; being put to death in the flesh, but given life in the Spirit;

⁴⁸ And this money, the price of those over the number of the Levites, is to be given to Aaron and his sons.

¹⁵ Then Moses was very angry, and said to the Lord, Give no attention to their offering: not one of their asses have I taken, or done wrong to any of them.

³ Here I am: give witness against me before the Lord and before the man on whom he has put the holy oil: whose ox or ass have I taken? to whom have I been untrue? who has been crushed down by me? from whose hand have I taken a price for the blinding of my eyes? I will give it all back to you. ⁴ And they said, You have never been untrue to us or cruel to us; you have taken nothing from any man.

⁴ Keep in mind the law of Moses, my servant, which I gave him in Horeb for all Israel, even the rules and the decisions.

³³ I have had no desire for any man's silver or gold or clothing.

¹² If others have a part in this right over you, have we not even more? But we did not make use of our right, so that we might put nothing in the way of the good news of Christ.

² Keep watch over the flock of God which is in your care, using your authority, not as forced to do so, but gladly; and not for unclean profit but with a ready mind;