Numbers 8 Cross References - CAB

¹ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ² Speak to Aaron, and you shall say to him, Whenever you shall set the lamps in order, the seven lamps shall give light opposite the lampstand. ³ And Aaron did so. On one side opposite the lampstand he lighted its lamps, as the Lord appointed Moses. ⁴ And this is the construction of the lampstand: it is solid, golden-- its stem, and its lilies were all solid; according to the pattern which the Lord showed Moses, so he made the lampstand. ⁵ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ⁶ Take the Levites out of the midst of the children of Israel, and you shall purify them. ⁷ And thus shall you perform their purification: you shall sprinkle them with the water of purification, and a razor shall come upon the whole of their body, and they shall wash their garments, and shall be clean. ⁸ And they shall take one calf of the herd, and its grain offering, fine flour mingled with oil; and you shall take a calf of a year old of the herd for a sin offering. ⁹ And you shall bring the Levites before the tabernacle of witness; and you shall assemble all the congregation of the sons of Israel. ¹⁰ And you shall bring the Levites before the Lord; and the sons of Israel shall lay their hands upon the Levites. ¹¹ And Aaron shall separate the Levites for a gift before the Lord from the children of Israel; and they shall be prepared to perform the works of the Lord. ¹² And the Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the calves; and you shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a whole burnt offering to the Lord, to make atonement for them. ¹³ And you shall set the Levites before the Lord, and before Aaron, and before his sons; and you shall give them as a gift before the Lord. ¹⁴ And you shall separate the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel, and they shall be Mine. ¹⁵ And afterwards the Levites shall go in to perform the works of the tabernacle of witness; and you shall purify them, and present them before the Lord. ¹⁶ For these are given to Me for a present out of the midst of the children of Israel: I have taken them to Myself instead of all the firstborn of the sons of Israel that open every womb. ¹⁷ For every firstborn among the children of Israel is Mine, whether of man or beast: in the day in which I struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them to Myself. ¹⁸ And I took the Levites in the place of every firstborn among the children of Israel. ¹⁹ And I gave the Levites presented as a gift to Aaron and his sons out of the midst of the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of witness, and to make atonement for the children of Israel; thus there shall be none among the sons of Israel to draw near to the holy things. ²⁰ And Moses and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel did to the Levites as the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the sons of Israel did to them. ²¹ So the Levites purified themselves and washed their garments, and Aaron presented them as a gift before the Lord, and Aaron made atonement for them, to purify them. ²² And afterwards the Levites went in to minister in their service in the tabernacle of witness before Aaron, and before his sons; as the Lord appointed Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them. ²³ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁴ This is the ordinance for the Levites: From twenty-five years old and upward, they shall go in to minister in the tabernacle of witness. ²⁵ And from fifty years old the Levites shall cease from the ministry, and shall not work any longer. ²⁶ And his brother shall serve in the tabernacle of witness to keep the charges, but he shall not do the works: so shall you do to the Levites in their charges.

³⁷ And you shall make its seven lamps; and you shall set on it the lamps, and they shall shine from one front.

¹⁸ And all the pins of the court round about of brass, and they were overlaid with silver. ¹⁹ And this was the construction of the tabernacle of witness, accordingly as it was commanded to Moses; so that the public service should belong to the Levites, through Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

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²⁵ And he put on it its lamps before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

¹ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ² Command the children of Israel, and let them take for you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to burn a lamp continually,

⁴ You shall burn the lamps on the pure lampstand before the Lord till the morning.

¹⁰⁵ Your law is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my paths.

¹³⁰ The manifestation of Your words will enlighten, and instruct the simple.

²⁰ For He has given the law for a help, that they should not speak according to this word, concerning which there are no gifts to give for it.

¹⁴ You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.

⁹ That was the true Light which lightens every man coming into the world.

¹⁹ And we have the prophetic word made more sure, which you do well to heed, as a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;

¹² And there I turned to see the voice which was speaking with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands,

²⁰ The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands which you saw are the seven churches.

⁵ And from the throne proceeded lightnings and voices and thunders. And seven torches of fire were burning before His throne, which are seven spirits of God;

⁹ And you shall make for Me according to all things which I show you in the mountain; even the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all its furniture: so shall you make it.

¹⁸ And you shall make two cherubim graven in gold, and you shall put them on both sides of the mercy seat.

³¹ And you shall make a lampstand of pure gold; you shall make the lampstand of graven work: its stem and its branches, its bowls, its ornamental knobs, and its lilies shall be of one piece. ³² And six branches shall proceed out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand from one side of it, and three branches of the lampstand from the other side. ³³ And three bowls fashioned like almonds, on each branch a knob and a lily; so to the six branches proceeding from the lampstand, ³⁴ and in the lampstand four bowls fashioned like almonds, in each branch knobs and the flowers of the same. ³⁵ A knob under two branches out of it, and a knob under four branches out of it; so to the six branches proceeding from the lampstand; and in the lampstand four bowls fashioned like almonds. ³⁶ Let the knobs and the branches be of one piece, altogether graven of one piece of pure gold. ³⁷ And you shall make its seven lamps; and you shall set on it the lamps, and they shall shine from one front. ³⁸ And you shall make its wick-trimmers and its snuff-dishes of pure gold. ³⁹ All these articles shall be a talent of pure gold. ⁴⁰ See, you shall make them according to the pattern which was shown you on the mount.

⁷ And they made the court toward the south; the curtains of the court of fine linen twined, a hundred cubits every way,

¹⁷ and their pillars four, and their sockets four of brass, and their hooks of silver, and their chapiters overlaid with silver. ¹⁸ And all the pins of the court round about of brass, and they were overlaid with silver. ¹⁹ And this was the construction of the tabernacle of witness, accordingly as it was commanded to Moses; so that the public service should belong to the Levites, through Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. ²⁰ And Bezalel the son of Uri of the tribe of Judah, did as the Lord commanded Moses. ²¹ And Eliab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan was there, who was chief artificer in the woven works and needle-works and embroideries, in weaving with the scarlet and fine linen. ²² (TEXT OMITTED) ²³ (TEXT OMITTED) ²⁴ (TEXT OMITTED)

¹¹ And David gave Solomon his son the plan of the temple, and its buildings, and its treasuries, and its upper chambers, and the inner store rooms, and the place of the atonement, ¹² and the plan which he had in his mind of the courts of the house of the Lord, and of all the chambers round about, designed for the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries of the holy things, and of the chambers for resting; ¹³ and the plan of the courses of the priests and Levites, for all the work of the service of the house of the Lord, and of the stores of vessels for ministration of the service of the house of the Lord. ¹⁴ And he gave him the account of their weight, both of the gold and silver vessels. ¹⁵ He gave him the weight of the lampstands, and of the lamps. ¹⁶ He gave him likewise the weight of the tables of showbread, of each table of gold, and likewise of the tables of silver. ¹⁷ Also of the flesh-hooks, and vessels for drink offering, and golden bowls. And the weight of the gold and silver articles, and censers, and bowls, according to the weight of each. ¹⁸ And he showed him the weight of the utensils of the altar of incense, which was of pure gold, and the plan of the chariot of the cherubim that spread out their wings, and overshadowed the ark of the covenant of the Lord. ¹⁹ David gave all to Solomon in the Lord's handwriting, according to the knowledge given to him of the work of the pattern.

⁵ who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses had been warned when he was about to complete the tabernacle, for He says, "See, you shall make all things according to the pattern shown to you on the mountain."

²³ Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens to be continually purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves by better sacrifices than these.

¹⁵ And he said to the people, Be ready: for three days do not come near to a woman.

¹¹ Depart! Depart, go out from there, and touch not the unclean thing! Go you out from the midst of her; separate yourselves, you that bear the vessels of the Lord.

¹ Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

⁸ Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

² And Jacob said to his house, and to all that were with him, Remove the strange gods that are with you from the midst of you, and purify yourselves, and change your clothes.

¹⁰ And the Lord said to Moses, Go down and solemnly charge the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments.

⁶ And Moses brought Aaron and his sons near, and washed them with water,

⁷ And he shall sprinkle seven times upon him that was cleansed of his leprosy, and he shall be clean; and he shall let go the living bird into the field. ⁸ And the man that has been cleansed shall wash his garments, and shall shave off all his hair, and shall wash himself in water, and shall be clean; and after that he shall go into the camp, and shall remain out of his house for seven days. ⁹ And it shall come to pass on the seventh day, he shall shave off all his hair, his head and his beard, and his eyebrows, even all his hair shall he shave; and he shall wash his garments, and wash his body with water, and shall be clean.

⁶ And whosoever sits on the seat on which he that has the discharge may have sat, shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean until evening.

¹⁰ And everyone that touches whatsoever shall have been under him shall be unclean until evening; and he that takes them up shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean until evening. ¹¹ And whomsoever he that has the discharge shall touch, if he has not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until evening.

²⁷ Everyone that touches it shall be unclean; and he shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean till evening.

²⁸ And he that burns them shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and afterwards he shall enter into the camp.

⁷ And the priest shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and afterwards he shall go into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean till evening. ⁸ And he that burns her shall wash his garments, and bathe his body, and shall be unclean till evening. ⁹ And a clean man shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up in a clean place outside the camp; and they shall be for the congregation of the children of Israel to keep: it is the water of sprinkling, a purification. ¹⁰ And he that gathers up the ashes of the heifer shall wash his garments, and shall be unclean until evening; and it shall be a perpetual statute for the children of Israel and for the strangers joined to them.

¹³ Everyone that touches the body of a man who has died, and has not been purified, has defiled the tabernacle of the Lord: that soul shall be cut off from Israel, because the water of sprinkling has not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean, his uncleanness is yet upon him.

¹⁷ And they shall take for the unclean of the burnt ashes of purification, and they shall pour upon them running water into a vessel. ¹⁸ And a clean man shall take hyssop, and dip it into the water, and sprinkle it upon the house, and the furniture, and all the souls that are in there, and upon him that touched the human bone, or the slain man, or the corpse, or the tomb. ¹⁹ And the clean man shall sprinkle the water on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day, and on the seventh day he shall purify himself; and the other shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean until evening.

²⁰ And you shall purify every garment and every leather utensil, and all furniture of goat skin, and every wooden vessel.

² Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

⁷ You shall sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be purified; You shall wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.

¹⁵ Thus shall many nations wonder at Him; and kings shall keep their mouths shut; for they to whom no report was brought concerning Him shall see; and they who have not heard, shall consider.

¹⁴ Cleanse your heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that you may be saved; how long will your grievous thoughts be within you?

²⁵ and I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be purged from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, and I will cleanse you.

²⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and unrighteousness. ²⁶ Blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside of them may be clean also.

¹⁰ concerned only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances which are imposed until a time of reformation.

¹³ For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling those having been defiled, sanctifies for the purity of the flesh,

²¹ which as an antitype, baptism now also saves us-(not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

¹⁴ And I said to him, "My lord, you know." So he said to me, "These are those who come out of the Great Tribulation, and have washed their robes and they made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

¹ And these are the things which you shall do to them: you shall sanctify them, so that they shall serve Me in the priesthood; and you shall take one young calf from the herd, and two unblemished rams;

³ And you shall put them on one basket, and you shall offer them on the basket, and the young calf and the two rams.

³ If his gift be a whole burnt offering, he shall bring an unblemished male of the herd to the door of the tabernacle of witness, he shall bring it as acceptable before the Lord.

¹ And if a soul bring a gift, a sacrifice to the Lord, his gift shall be fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and shall put frankincense on it: it is a sacrifice.

³ if the anointed priest should sin so as to cause the people to sin, then shall he bring for his sin, which he has sinned, an unblemished calf of the herd to the Lord for his sin.

¹⁴ and the sin in which they have sinned should become known to them, then shall the congregation bring an unblemished calf of the herd for a sin-offering, and they shall bring it to the doors of the tabernacle of witness.

² Take Aaron and his sons, and his robes and the anointing oil, and the calf for the sin-offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,

³ Thus shall Aaron enter into the holy place: with a calf of the herd for a sin-offering, and having a ram for a whole burnt offering.

⁸ And if you sacrifice a young bull from the herd for a whole burnt offering or for a sacrifice, to perform a vow or a peace offering to the Lord, ⁹ then the worshipper shall offer upon the calf a grain offering, three tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, the half of a hin. ¹⁰ And wine for a drink offering the half of a hin, a sacrifice for an aroma of sweet savor to the Lord.

¹⁰ The Lord also is pleased to purge Him from His stroke. If you give an offering for sin, Your soul shall see a long-lived seed;

³ For what was impossible for the law to do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and concerning sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,

²¹ For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

⁴ And you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the doors of the tabernacle of testimony, and you shall wash them with water. ⁵ And having taken the garments, you shall put on Aaron your brother the full-length robe, the ephod, and the oracle; and you shall join for him the oracle to the ephod. ⁶ And you shall put the turban on his head; and you shall put the plate, even the holy crown, on the turban. ⁷ And you shall take of the anointing oil, and you shall pour it on his head, and shall anoint him, ⁸ and you shall bring his sons, and put garments on them. ⁹ And you shall gird them with sashes, and put the hats upon them, and they shall have a priestly office unto Me forever; and you shall fill the hands of Aaron and the hands of his sons. ¹⁰ And you shall bring the calf to the door of the tabernacle of witness; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the calf, before the Lord, by the doors of the tabernacle of witness. ¹¹ And you shall slay the calf before the Lord, by the doors of the tabernacle of witness. ¹² And you shall take of the blood of the calf, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, but all the rest of the blood you shall pour out at the foot of the altar. ¹³ And you shall take all the fat that is on the belly, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and shall put them upon the altar. ¹⁴ But the flesh of the calf, and his skin, and his dung, you shall burn with fire outside the camp; for it is a sin offering. ¹⁵ And you shall take one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram. ¹⁶ And you shall kill it, and take the blood and pour it on the altar round about. ¹⁷ And you shall divide the ram by his several limbs, and you shall wash the inward parts and the feet with water, and you shall put them on the divided parts with the head. ¹⁸ And you shall offer the whole ram on the altar, a whole burnt offering to the Lord for a sweet-smelling aroma: it is an offering of incense to the Lord. ¹⁹ And you shall take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram. ²⁰ And you shall kill it, and take its blood, and put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, and on the tips of the right ears of his sons, and on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. ²¹ And you shall take of the blood from the altar, and of the anointing oil; and you shall sprinkle it upon Aaron and on his garments, and on his sons and on his sons' garments with him; and he and his garments shall be sanctified, and his sons and his sons' garments with him. But the blood of the ram you shall pour round about upon the altar. ²² And you shall take from the ram its fat, both the fat that covers the belly, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder, for this is a consecration. ²³ And one cake made with oil, and one cake from the basket of unleavened bread set forth before the Lord. ²⁴ And you shall put them all on the hands of Aaron, and on the hands of his sons, and you shall separate them as a separate offering before the Lord. ²⁵ And you shall take them from their hands, and shall offer them up on the altar as a whole burnt offering, for a sweet-smelling aroma before the Lord: it is an offering to the Lord. ²⁶ And you shall take the breast from the ram of consecration which is Aaron's, and you shall separate it as a separate offering before the Lord, and it shall be to you for a portion. ²⁷ And you shall sanctify the separated breast and the shoulder of removal which has been separated, and which has been removed from the ram of consecration, of the portion of Aaron and of his sons. ²⁸ And it shall be a perpetual statute of the children of Israel to Aaron and his sons, for this is a separate offering; and it shall be a special offering from the children of Israel, from the peace offerings of the children of Israel, a special offering to the Lord. ²⁹ And the garments of the sanctuary which is Aaron's shall be his son's after him, for them to be anointed in them, and to fill their hands. ³⁰ The priest (his successor from among his sons who shall go into the tabernacle of witness to minister in the holy place), shall put them on for seven days. ³¹ And you shall take the ram of consecration, and you shall boil the flesh in the holy place. ³² And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the loaves in the basket, by the doors of the tabernacle of witness. ³³ They shall eat the offerings with which they were sanctified to fill their hands, to sanctify them; and a stranger shall not eat of them, for they are holy. ³⁴ And if any is left of the flesh of the sacrifice of consecration and of the loaves until the morning, you shall burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, for it is a holy thing. ³⁵ And thus shall you do for Aaron and for his sons according to all things that I have commanded you; seven days shall you fill their hands. ³⁶ And you shall sacrifice the calf of the sin offering on the day of purification, and you shall purify the altar when you perform consecration upon it, and you shall anoint it so as to sanctify it. ³⁷ Seven days shall you purify the altar and sanctify it; and the altar shall be most holy, everyone that touches the altar shall be hallowed.

¹² And you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the doors of the tabernacle of witness, and you shall wash them with water.

³ and assemble the whole congregation at the door of the tabernacle of witness.

⁴ And he shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering as a thing acceptable for him, to make atonement for him.

⁴⁵ Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle, and the Levites shall be Mine: I am the Lord.

⁶ whom they set before the apostles; and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

² Now as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work which I have called them." ³ Then, fasting and praying, and laying their hands on them, they sent them away.

¹⁴ Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you through prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership.

²² Lay hands on no one hastily, nor share in the sins of others; keep yourself pure.

²⁴ And you shall put them all on the hands of Aaron, and on the hands of his sons, and you shall separate them as a separate offering before the Lord.

³⁰ His hands shall bring the burnt offerings to the Lord; the fat which is on the breast and the lobe of the liver, he shall bring them, so as to set them for a gift before the Lord.

²⁷ And Moses took them at their hands, and Moses offered them on the altar, on the whole burnt offering of consecration, which is an aroma of sweet savor: it is a burnt offering to the Lord.

²⁹ And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood that was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, and on his garments, and his sons, and the garments of his sons with him.

⁴⁹ See, you shall not muster the tribe of Levi, and you shall not take their numbers, in the midst of the children of Israel. ⁵⁰ And you shall set the Levites over the tabernacle of witness, and over all its furniture, and over all things that are in it; and they shall do service in it, and they shall encamp round about the tabernacle. ⁵¹ And in removing the tabernacle, the Levites shall take it down, and in pitching the tabernacle they shall set it up: and let the stranger that advances to touch it die. ⁵² And the children of Israel shall encamp, every man in his own order, and every man according to his company, with their army. ⁵³ But let the Levites encamp round about the tabernacle of witness fronting it, and so there shall be no sin among the children of Israel; and the Levites themselves shall keep the guard of the tabernacle of witness.

⁵ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ⁶ Take the tribe of Levi, and you shall set them before Aaron the priest, and they shall minister to him, ⁷ and shall keep his charges, and the charges of the children of Israel, before the tabernacle of witness, to do the works of the tabernacle. ⁸ And they shall keep all the furniture of the tabernacle of witness, and the charges of the children of Israel as to all the works of the tabernacle. ⁹ And you shall give the Levites to Aaron, and to his sons the priests; they are given for a gift to Me of the children of Israel. ¹⁰ And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons over the tabernacle of witness; and they shall keep their charge of priesthood, and all things belonging to the altar, and within the veil; and the stranger that touches them shall die. ¹¹ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹² Behold, I have taken the Levites from the midst of the children of Israel, instead of every male that opens the womb from among the children of Israel: they shall be their ransom, and the Levites shall be Mine. ¹³ For every firstborn is Mine; in the day in which I struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified to Myself every firstborn in Israel: both of man and beast, they shall be Mine: I am the Lord. ¹⁴ And the Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, saying, ¹⁵ Take the number of the sons of Levi, according to the houses of their families, according to their divisions; and number every male from a month old and upwards. ¹⁶ And Moses and Aaron numbered them by the word of the Lord, as the Lord commanded them. ¹⁷ And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; ¹⁸ and these are the names of the sons of Gershon according to their families: Libni and Shimei; ¹⁹ and the sons of Kohath according to their families: Amram and Izehar, Hebron and Uzziel; ²⁰ and the sons of Merari according to their families: Mahli and Mushi; these are the families of the Levites according to the houses of their families. ²¹ To Gershon belongs the family of Libni, and the family of Shimei: these are the families of Gershon. ²² The numbering of them according to the number of every male from a month old and upwards, their numbering was seven thousand and five hundred. ²³ And the sons of Gershon shall encamp westward behind the tabernacle. ²⁴ And the ruler of the household of the family of Gershon was Eliasaph the son of Lael. ²⁵ And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of witness was the tent and the veil, and the covering of the door of the tabernacle of witness, ²⁶ and the curtains of the court, and the veil of the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and the remainder of all its works. ²⁷ To Kohath belonged one division, that of Amram, and another division, that of Izehar, and another division, that of Hebron, and another division, that of Uzziel: these are the divisions of Kohath, according to number. ²⁸ Every male from a month old and upward, eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charges of the holy things. ²⁹ The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp beside the tabernacle toward the south. ³⁰ And the chief of the house of the families of the divisions of Kohath was Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. ³¹ And their charge was the ark, and the table, and the lampstand, and the altars, and all the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they do holy service, and the veil, and all their works. ³² And the chief over the chief of the Levites was Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, appointed to keep the charges of the holy things. ³³ To Merari belonged the family of Mahli, and the family of Mushi: these are the families of Merari. ³⁴ The mustering of them according to their number, every male from a month old and upwards, was six thousand and fifty. ³⁵ And the head of the house of the families of the division of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They shall encamp by the side of the tabernacle northwards. ³⁶ The oversight of the charge of the sons of Merari included the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, its pillars, its sockets and all their furniture, and their works, ³⁷ and the pillars of the court round about, and their bases, their pins, and their cords. ³⁸ They that encamp before the tabernacle of witness on the east shall be Moses and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charges of the sanctuary according to the charges of the children of Israel; and the stranger that touches them shall die. ³⁹ All the numbering of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered by the word of the Lord, according to their families, every male from a month old and upwards, were twenty-two thousand. ⁴⁰ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Count every firstborn male of the children of Israel from a month old and upwards, and take the number by name. ⁴¹ And you shall take the Levites for Me — I am the Lord-- instead of all the firstborn of the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the cattle of the children of Israel. ⁴² And Moses counted, as the Lord commanded him, every firstborn among the children of Israel. ⁴³ And all the male firstborn in number by name, from a month old and upwards, were according to their numbering twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.

²⁰ And the priest shall present them as an offering before the Lord; it shall be the holy portion for the priest beside the breast of the heave offering and beside the shoulder of the wave offering: and afterwards the Nazirite shall drink wine.

¹⁰ And you shall bring the calf to the door of the tabernacle of witness; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the calf, before the Lord, by the doors of the tabernacle of witness.

²⁰ And he shall do to the calf as he did to the calf of the sin-offering, so shall it be done; and the priest shall make atonement for them, and the trespass shall be forgiven them.

³⁵ And he shall take away all his fat, as the fat of the lamb of the sacrifice of peace-offering is taken away, and the priest shall put it on the altar for a whole burnt offering to the Lord; and the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.

⁷ And if he cannot afford a sheep, he shall bring for his sin which he has sinned, two turtle doves or two young pigeons to the Lord: one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt offering.

⁹ And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin-offering on the side of the altar, but the rest of the blood he shall drop at the foot of the altar, for it is a sin-offering. ¹⁰ And he shall make the second a whole burnt offering, as it is fit; and the priest shall make atonement for his sin which he has sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.

¹⁴ And Moses brought near the calf for the sin-offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the calf of the sin-offering,

¹⁸ And Moses brought near the ram for a whole burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram, and Moses killed the ram. And Moses poured the blood on the altar round about.

³⁴ as he did in this day on which the Lord commanded me to do so, to make an atonement for you.

⁷ And Moses said to Aaron, Draw near to the altar, and offer your sin-offering, and your whole burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself, and for your house; and offer the gifts of the people, and make atonement for them, as the Lord commanded Moses.

¹⁹ And the priest shall sacrifice the sin-offering, and the priest shall make atonement for the person under purification to cleanse him from his sin, and afterwards the priest shall slay the whole burnt offering. ²⁰ And the priest shall offer the whole burnt offering, and the sacrifice upon the altar before the Lord; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be cleansed.

²² and two turtle doves, or two young pigeons, as he can afford; and the one shall be for a sin-offering, and the other for a whole burnt offering.

⁶ And Aaron shall bring the calf for his own sin-offering, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house.

¹¹ And Aaron shall bring the calf for his sin, and he shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and he shall kill the calf for his sin-offering.

¹⁶ And he shall make atonement for the sanctuary on account of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and for their trespasses in the matter of all their sins; and thus shall he do to the tabernacle of witness established among them in the midst of their uncleanness. ¹⁷ And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of witness, when he goes in to make atonement in the holy place, until he shall have come out; and he shall make atonement for himself, and for his house, and for all the congregation of the children of Israel. ¹⁸ And he shall come forth to the altar that is before the Lord, and he shall make atonement upon it; and he shall take of the blood of the calf, and of the blood of the goat, and shall put it on the horns of the altar round about. ¹⁹ And he shall sprinkle some of the blood upon it seven times with his finger, and shall purge it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.

²¹ and Aaron shall lay his hands on the head of the live goat, and he shall declare over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their unrighteousness, and all their sins; and he shall lay them upon the head of the live goat, and shall send him by the hand of a ready man into the wilderness.

¹⁴ And he shall bring his gift to the Lord; one male lamb of a year old without blemish for a whole burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of a year old without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for a peace offering;

¹⁶ And the priest shall bring them before the Lord, and shall offer his sin offering, and his whole burnt offering.

⁸ And they shall take one calf of the herd, and its grain offering, fine flour mingled with oil; and you shall take a calf of a year old of the herd for a sin offering.

²² And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.

⁴ For it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. ⁵ Therefore, when He entered into the world, He said: "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me. ⁶ In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure. ⁷ Then I said, 'Behold, I have come--In the volume of the book it is written of Me-- To do Your will, O God.' " ⁸ Earlier saying, "Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and sacrifices for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them" (which are offered according to the law), ⁹ then He has said, "Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God." He takes away the first in order that He may establish the second. ¹⁰ By which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

¹¹ And Aaron shall separate the Levites for a gift before the Lord from the children of Israel; and they shall be prepared to perform the works of the Lord.

²¹ So the Levites purified themselves and washed their garments, and Aaron presented them as a gift before the Lord, and Aaron made atonement for them, to purify them.

⁶ And I have taken your brothers the Levites out of the midst of the children of Israel, a present given to the Lord, to minister in the services of the tabernacle of witness.

¹ Therefore, brothers, I exhort you through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your intelligent service.

¹⁶ that I should be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God as a priest, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

¹² Behold, I have taken the Levites from the midst of the children of Israel, instead of every male that opens the womb from among the children of Israel: they shall be their ransom, and the Levites shall be Mine.

² speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them, Whatsoever man or woman shall specially vow a vow to separate oneself with purity to the Lord,

¹⁷ For every firstborn among the children of Israel is Mine, whether of man or beast: in the day in which I struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them to Myself.

⁹ Is it a little thing for you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, and brought you near to Himself to minister in the services of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the tabernacle to minister for them? ¹⁰ And He has brought you near and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you, and do you seek to be priests also?

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

¹⁷ And they shall be Mine, says the Lord Almighty, in the day which I appoint for a peculiar possession; and I will make choice of them, as a man makes choice of his son that serves him.

¹ Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the gospel of God

¹⁵ But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called me through His grace,

²⁶ For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, innocent, undefiled, having been separated from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens;

²³ And the sons of Gershon shall encamp westward behind the tabernacle. ²⁴ And the ruler of the household of the family of Gershon was Eliasaph the son of Lael. ²⁵ And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of witness was the tent and the veil, and the covering of the door of the tabernacle of witness, ²⁶ and the curtains of the court, and the veil of the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and the remainder of all its works. ²⁷ To Kohath belonged one division, that of Amram, and another division, that of Izehar, and another division, that of Hebron, and another division, that of Uzziel: these are the divisions of Kohath, according to number. ²⁸ Every male from a month old and upward, eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charges of the holy things. ²⁹ The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp beside the tabernacle toward the south. ³⁰ And the chief of the house of the families of the divisions of Kohath was Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. ³¹ And their charge was the ark, and the table, and the lampstand, and the altars, and all the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they do holy service, and the veil, and all their works. ³² And the chief over the chief of the Levites was Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, appointed to keep the charges of the holy things. ³³ To Merari belonged the family of Mahli, and the family of Mushi: these are the families of Merari. ³⁴ The mustering of them according to their number, every male from a month old and upwards, was six thousand and fifty. ³⁵ And the head of the house of the families of the division of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They shall encamp by the side of the tabernacle northwards. ³⁶ The oversight of the charge of the sons of Merari included the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, its pillars, its sockets and all their furniture, and their works, ³⁷ and the pillars of the court round about, and their bases, their pins, and their cords.

³ from twenty-five years old and upward until fifty years, everyone that goes in to minister, to do all the works in the tabernacle of witness. ⁴ And these are the works of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of witness; it is most holy. ⁵ And Aaron and his sons shall go in, when the camp is about to move, and shall take down the shadowing veil, and they shall cover with it the ark of the Testimony. ⁶ And they shall put a cover on it of blue skin, a garment of all blue, and they shall put the poles through the rings. ⁷ And they shall put on the table set forth for showbread a cloth all of purple, and the dishes, and the censers, and the cups, and the vessels with which one offers drink offerings; and the continual loaves shall be upon it. ⁸ And they shall put upon it a scarlet cloth, and they shall cover it with a blue covering of skin, and they shall put the poles into it. ⁹ And they shall take a blue covering, and cover the lampstand that gives light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its funnels, and all the vessels of oil with which they minister. ¹⁰ And they shall put it, and all its vessels, into a blue skin cover; and they shall put it on bearers. ¹¹ And they shall put a blue cloth for a cover on the golden altar, and shall cover it with a blue skin cover, and put in its poles. ¹² And they shall take all the instruments of service, with which they minister in the sanctuary: and shall place them in a cloth of blue, and shall cover them with blue skin covering, and put them upon poles. ¹³ And he shall put the covering on the altar, and they shall cover it with a cloth all of purple. ¹⁴ And they shall put upon it all the vessels with which they minister upon it, and the firepans, and the flesh-hooks, and the cups, and the cover, and all the vessels of the altar; and they shall put on it a blue cover of skins, and shall put in its poles; and they shall take a purple cloth, and cover the laver and its foot, and they shall put it into a blue cover of skin, and put it on bars. ¹⁵ And Aaron and his sons shall finish covering the holy things, and all the holy vessels, when the camp begins to move; and afterwards the sons of Kohath shall go in to take up the furniture; but shall not touch the holy things, lest they die: these shall the sons of Kohath bear in the tabernacle of witness. ¹⁶ Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest is overseer — the oil of the light, and the incense of composition, and the daily grain offering and the anointing oil, are his charge; even the oversight of the whole tabernacle, and all things that are in it in the holy place, in all the works. ¹⁷ And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, ¹⁸ You shall not destroy the family of Kohath from the tribe out of the midst of the Levites. ¹⁹ But do this in regard to them, and they shall live and not die, when they approach the holy of holies: Let Aaron and his sons advance, and they shall place them each in his post for bearing. ²⁰ And so they shall by no means go in to look suddenly upon the holy things, and die. ²¹ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²² Take the sum of the children of Gershon, and these according to the houses of their lineage, according to there families. ²³ Take the number of them from twenty-five years old and upwards until the age of fifty, everyone that goes in to minister, to do his business in the tabernacle of witness. ²⁴ This is the public service of the family of Gershon, to minister and to bear. ²⁵ And they shall bear the skins of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of witness, and its veil, and the blue cover that was on it above, and the cover of the door of the tabernacle of witness. ²⁶ And all the curtains of the court which were upon the tabernacle of witness, and the appendages, and all the vessels of service that they minister with they shall attend to. ²⁷ According to the direction of Aaron and his sons shall be the ministry of the sons of Gershon, in all their ministries, and in all their works; and you shall take account of them by name in all things borne by them. ²⁸ This is the service of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of witness, and their charge by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. ²⁹ Take the number of the sons of Merari according to their families, according to the houses of their lineage. ³⁰ Take the number of them from twenty-five years old and upwards until fifty years old, everyone that goes in to perform the services of the tabernacle of witness. ³¹ And these are the charges of the things borne by them according to all their works in the tabernacle of witness: they shall bear the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and the veil, and there shall be their sockets, and their pillars, and the curtain of the door of the tabernacle. ³² And they shall bear the pillars of the court round about, and there shall be their sockets, and they shall bear the pillars of the veil of the door of the court, and their sockets and their pins, and their cords, and all their furniture, and all their instruments of service. And you shall take their number by name, and all the articles of the charge of the things borne by them.

¹³ And you shall set the Levites before the Lord, and before Aaron, and before his sons; and you shall give them as a gift before the Lord.

¹ And David was old and full of days, and he made Solomon his son king over Israel in his place. ² And he assembled all the chief men of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites. ³ And the Levites numbered themselves from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls amounted to thirty-eight thousand men. ⁴ Of the overseers over the works of the house of the Lord there were twenty-four thousand, and there were six thousand scribes and judges; ⁵ and four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand to praise the Lord with instruments which he made to praise the Lord. ⁶ And David divided them into daily courses, for the sons of Levi, for Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ⁷ And for the family of Gershon, Laadan, and Shimei. ⁸ The sons of Laadan were Jehiel the chief, Zetham, and Joel — three in all. ⁹ The sons of Shimei were Shelomith, Haziel, and Haran, three in all: these were the chiefs of the families of Laadan. ¹⁰ And to the sons of Shimei were Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah: these were the four sons of Shimei. ¹¹ And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah did not multiply sons, and they became only one reckoning according to the house of their father. ¹² The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel — four in all. ¹³ The sons of Amram were Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was appointed for the consecration of the most holy things, he and his sons forever, to burn incense before the Lord, to minister and bless in His name forever. ¹⁴ And as for Moses the man of God, his sons were reckoned to the tribe of Levi. ¹⁵ The sons of Moses were Gershon, and Eliezer. ¹⁶ Of the sons of Gershon, Shebuel was the chief. ¹⁷ And the sons of Eliezer were Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very greatly multiplied. ¹⁸ Of the sons of Izhar, Shelomith was the chief. ¹⁹ Of the sons of Hebron, Jeriah was the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth. ²⁰ Of the sons of Uzziel, Michah was the chief, and Jesshiah the second. ²¹ The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli were Eleazar, and Kish. ²² And Eleazar died, and he had no sons, but daughters. And the sons of Kish, their brethren, took them as wives. ²³ The sons of Mushi were Mahli, Eder, and Jeremoth — three in all. ²⁴ These are the sons of Levi according to the houses of their fathers; chiefs of their families according to their numbering, according to the number of their names, according to their polls, doing the works of service of the house of the Lord, from twenty years old and upward. ²⁵ For David said, The Lord God of Israel has given rest to His people, and has taken up His abode in Jerusalem forever. ²⁶ And the Levites bore not the tabernacle, or any of the vessels for its service. ²⁷ For by the last words of David was the number of the Levites taken from twenty years old and upward. ²⁸ For he appointed them to wait on Aaron, to minister in the house of the Lord, over the courts, and over the chambers, and over the purification of all the holy things, and over the works of the service of the house of God; ²⁹ and for the showbread, and for the fine flour of the meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for the fried cake, and for the dough, and for every measure; ³⁰ and to stand in the morning to praise and give thanks to the Lord, and so in the evening; ³¹ and to be over all the whole burnt offerings that were offered up to the Lord on the Sabbaths, and at the new moons, and at the feasts, by number, according to the order given to them, continually before the Lord. ³² And they are to keep the charge of the tabernacle of witness, and the charge of the holy place, and the charges of the sons of Aaron their brethren, to minister in the house of the Lord.

¹ And King David and the captains of the army appointed to their services the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, lutes, and cymbals; and their number was according to their polls serving in their ministrations. ² The sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asharelah; the sons of Asaph were next to the king. ³ To Jeduthun were reckoned the sons of Jeduthun, Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shimei, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six after their father Jeduthun, sounding loudly on the harp thanksgiving and praise to the Lord. ⁴ To Heman were reckoned the sons of Heman, Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, Romamti-Ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth. ⁵ All these were the sons of Heman the king's chief player in the praises of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons, and three daughters. ⁶ All these sang hymns with their father in the house of God, with cymbals, lutes, and harps, for the service of the house of God, near the king, and Asaph, and Jeduthun, and Heman. ⁷ And the number of them after their brethren, those instructed to sing to God, everyone that understood singing was two hundred and eighty-eight. ⁸ And they also cast lots for the daily courses, for the great and the small of them, of the perfect ones and the learners. ⁹ And the first lot of his sons and of his brethren came forth to Asaph the son of Joseph, namely, Gedaliah; the second Heneia, his sons and his brethren being twelve. ¹⁰ The third Zaccur, his sons and his brethren were twelve; ¹¹ the fourth Jizri, his sons and his brethren were twelve; ¹² the fifth Nethaniah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ¹³ the sixth Bukkiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ¹⁴ the seventh Jesharelah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ¹⁵ the eighth Jeshaiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ¹⁶ the ninth Mattaniah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ¹⁷ the tenth Shimei, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ¹⁸ the eleventh Azarel, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ¹⁹ the twelfth Hashabiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ²⁰ the thirteenth Shubael, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ²¹ the fourteenth Mattithiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ²² the fifteenth Jerimoth, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ²³ the sixteenth Hananiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ²⁴ the seventeenth Joshbekashah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ²⁵ the eighteenth Hanani, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ²⁶ the nineteenth Mallothi, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

⁹ And you shall give the Levites to Aaron, and to his sons the priests; they are given for a gift to Me of the children of Israel.

²⁹ And it came to pass at midnight that the Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the captive in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all cattle.

² Sanctify to Me every firstborn, first produced, opening every womb among the children of Israel, both of man and beast: it is Mine.

¹² that you shall set apart every offspring opening the womb, the males to the Lord, everyone that opens the womb out of the herds or among your cattle, as many as you shall have: you shall sanctify the males to the Lord. ¹³ Every offspring opening the womb of the donkey you shall change for a sheep; and if you will not change it, you shall redeem it. Every firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem. ¹⁴ And if later on your son should ask you, saying, What is this? Then you shall say to him, With a strong hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. ¹⁵ And when Pharaoh hardened his heart so as not to send us away, He slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of beast; therefore I sacrifice every offspring that opens the womb, the males to the Lord, and every firstborn of my sons I will redeem.

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

¹⁴ And whatsoever man shall consecrate his house as holy to the Lord, the priest shall make a valuation of it between the good and the bad: as the priest shall value it, so shall it stand. ¹⁵ And if he that has sanctified it should redeem his house, he shall add to it the fifth part of the money of the valuation, and it shall be his.

²⁶ And every firstborn which shall be produced among your cattle shall be the Lord's, and no man shall sanctify it: whether calf or sheep, it is the Lord's.

¹³ For every firstborn is Mine; in the day in which I struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified to Myself every firstborn in Israel: both of man and beast, they shall be Mine: I am the Lord.

⁵¹ and He struck down every firstborn in the land of Egypt; the firstfruits of their labors in the tents of Ham.

³⁶ He smote also every firstborn of their land, the firstfruits of all their labor.

⁸ Who struck the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast.

¹² And I gave them My Sabbaths, that they should be for a sign between Me and them, that they should know that I am the Lord that sanctifies them.

²³ (just as it is written in the law of the Lord, "Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the LORD"),

³⁶ do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

¹⁹ And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.

²⁹ By how much worse punishment, do you think, will he be deemed worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, and has regarded as common the blood of the covenant, by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

²⁸ By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them.

¹⁸ Exercising His will He begat us by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.

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

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

⁴⁶ And Moses said to Aaron, Take a censer, and put on it fire from the altar, and put incense on it, and carry it away quickly into the camp, and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone forth from the presence of the Lord, and it has begun to destroy the people.

² And take to yourself your brothers, the tribe of Levi, the family of your father, and let them be joined to you, and let them minister to you; and you and your sons with you shall minister before the tabernacle of witness. ³ And they shall keep your charges, and the charges of the tabernacle; only they shall not approach the holy vessels and the altar, so both they and you shall not die. ⁴ And they shall be joined to you, and shall keep the charges of the tabernacle of witness, in all the services of the tabernacle; and a stranger shall not approach to you. ⁵ And you shall keep the charges of the holy things, and the charges of the altar, and so there shall not be anger among the children of Israel. ⁶ And I have taken your brothers the Levites out of the midst of the children of Israel, a present given to the Lord, to minister in the services of the tabernacle of witness.

¹⁹ And the sons of Jeconiah were not pleased with the men of Beth Shemesh, because they looked into the ark of the Lord; and the Lord struck fifty thousand and seventy men among them. And the people mourned, because the Lord had inflicted on the people a very great plague.

¹⁶ And when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction; and he transgressed against the Lord his God, and went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense. ¹⁷ And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him eighty priests of the Lord, mighty men. ¹⁸ And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said to him, It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, but only for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to sacrifice: Leave the sanctuary, for you have departed from the Lord; and this shall not be for glory to you from the Lord God. ¹⁹ And Uzziah was angry, and in his hand was the censer to burn incense in the temple. And when he was angry with the priests, then the leprosy rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the Lord, over the altar of incense. ²⁰ And Azariah the chief priest, and the other priests, turned to look at him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead; and they got him out of there quickly, for he also hastened to go out, because the Lord had rebuked him.

¹¹ Yet they shall minister in My sanctuary, being porters at the gates of the house, and serving the house; they shall slay the victims and the whole burnt offerings for the people, and they shall stand before the people to minister to them. ¹² Because they ministered to them before their idols, and it became to the house of Israel a punishment of iniquity; therefore have I lifted up My hand against them, says the Lord God. ¹³ And they shall not draw near to Me, to minister to Me in the priests' office, nor to approach the holy things of the children of Israel, nor to approach My Holy of Holies; but they shall bear their reproach for the error in which they erred. ¹⁴ They shall bring them to keep the charges of the house, for all the service of it, and for all that they shall do.

⁷ And thus shall you perform their purification: you shall sprinkle them with the water of purification, and a razor shall come upon the whole of their body, and they shall wash their garments, and shall be clean.

¹¹ And Aaron shall separate the Levites for a gift before the Lord from the children of Israel; and they shall be prepared to perform the works of the Lord. ¹² And the Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the calves; and you shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a whole burnt offering to the Lord, to make atonement for them. ¹³ And you shall set the Levites before the Lord, and before Aaron, and before his sons; and you shall give them as a gift before the Lord.

¹⁵ And afterwards the Levites shall go in to perform the works of the tabernacle of witness; and you shall purify them, and present them before the Lord.

¹² He shall be purified on the third day and the seventh day, and shall be clean; but if he is not purged on the third day and the seventh day, he shall not be clean.

¹⁹ And the clean man shall sprinkle the water on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day, and on the seventh day he shall purify himself; and the other shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean until evening.

¹⁵ Then they killed the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites repented, and purified themselves, and brought whole burnt offerings into the house of the Lord. ¹⁶ And they stood at their post, according to their ordinance, according to the commandment of Moses the man of God; and the priests received the blood from the hand of the Levites. ¹⁷ For a great part of the congregation was not sanctified; and the Levites were ready to kill the Passover for everyone who could not sanctify himself to the Lord.

²⁷ Then the priests the Levites rose up and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to His holy dwelling place, even into heaven.

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

⁸ And his princes gave an offering to the people, and to the priests, and to the Levites: and Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel the chief men gave to the priests of the house of God, they even gave for the Passover sheep, lambs, and kids, two thousand six hundred, and three hundred calves. ⁹ And Conaniah, Benaiah, Shemaiah, Nethaneel his brother, Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, heads of the Levites, gave an offering to the Levites for the Passover, of five thousand sheep and five hundred calves. ¹⁰ And the service was duly ordered, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions, according to the command of the king. ¹¹ And they killed the Passover offerings, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hand, and the Levites skinned the animals. ¹² And they prepared the whole burnt offering to give to them, according to the division by the houses of families, even to the sons of the people, to offer to the Lord, as it is written in the Book of Moses. ¹³ And thus they did till the morning. And they roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance; and boiled the holy pieces in copper vessels and caldrons, and the feast went on well, and they quickly served all the children of the people. ¹⁴ And after they had prepared for themselves and for the priests, for the priests were engaged in offering the whole burnt offerings and the fat until night, then the Levites prepared for themselves, and for their brethren the sons of Aaron. ¹⁵ And the sons of Asaph the psalm-singers were at their post according to the commands of David, and Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, the prophets of the king. Also, the chiefs and the porters of the several gates-it was not for them to stir from the service of the holy things, for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.

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

²³ Take the number of them from twenty-five years old and upwards until the age of fifty, everyone that goes in to minister, to do his business in the tabernacle of witness.

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

²⁴ These are the sons of Levi according to the houses of their fathers; chiefs of their families according to their numbering, according to the number of their names, according to their polls, doing the works of service of the house of the Lord, from twenty years old and upward. ²⁵ For David said, The Lord God of Israel has given rest to His people, and has taken up His abode in Jerusalem forever. ²⁶ And the Levites bore not the tabernacle, or any of the vessels for its service. ²⁷ For by the last words of David was the number of the Levites taken from twenty years old and upward.

¹² and the plan which he had in his mind of the courts of the house of the Lord, and of all the chambers round about, designed for the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries of the holy things, and of the chambers for resting; ¹³ and the plan of the courses of the priests and Levites, for all the work of the service of the house of the Lord, and of the stores of vessels for ministration of the service of the house of the Lord.

⁷ Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink from the milk of the flock?

⁴ For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty by God to the pulling down of strongholds,

¹⁸ This charge I commit to you, my son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that you may war by them the good warfare,

¹² Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold of eternal life, to which you were called and have confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

³ You therefore endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. ⁴ No one serving as a soldier entangles himself in the affairs of civilian life, in order that he may please the one having enlisted him. ⁵ And also if anyone competes in athletics, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.

⁷ I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

³² And the chief over the chief of the Levites was Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, appointed to keep the charges of the holy things.

⁴ And they shall be joined to you, and shall keep the charges of the tabernacle of witness, in all the services of the tabernacle; and a stranger shall not approach to you.

³⁰ And from the half belonging to the children of Israel you shall take one in fifty from the men, and from the oxen, and from the sheep, and from the donkeys, and from all the cattle; and you shall give them to the Levites that keep the charges in the tabernacle of the Lord.

³² And they are to keep the charge of the tabernacle of witness, and the charge of the holy place, and the charges of the sons of Aaron their brethren, to minister in the house of the Lord.

²⁰ And the Levites their brethren were over the treasures of the house of the Lord, and over the treasures of the hallowed things. ²¹ These were the sons of Laadan, the sons of the Gershonite: to Laadan belonged the heads of the families; the son of Laadan the Gershonite was Jehieli. ²² The sons of Jehieli were Zetham and Joel; brethren who were over the treasures of the house of the Lord. ²³ To Amram and Issaar belonged Hebron, and Uzziel. ²⁴ And Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was over the treasures. ²⁵ And Rehabiah was son to his brother Eliezer, and so was Jeshaiah, Joram, Zichri, and Shelomith. ²⁶ This Shelomith and his brethren were over all the sacred treasures, which David the king and the heads of families consecrated, and the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and princes of the host, ²⁷ things which he took out of cities and from the spoils, and consecrated some of them, so that the building of the house of God should not need supplies; ²⁸ and over all the holy things of God dedicated by Samuel the prophet, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, whatsoever they sanctified was by the hand of Shelomith and his brethren. ²⁹ For the Izharites, Chenaniah, and his sons were over the outward ministration over Israel, to record and to judge.

⁸ and you appointed others to keep the charges in My sanctuary.

¹¹ Yet they shall minister in My sanctuary, being porters at the gates of the house, and serving the house; they shall slay the victims and the whole burnt offerings for the people, and they shall stand before the people to minister to them.

¹⁵ Meditate on these things; be in these things, so that your progress may be evident to all.