Numbers 3

¹These are the generations of Aaron and Moyses in the day that our Lord spake to Moyses in Mount Sinai.

²And these be the names of the sons of Aaron: his first begotten Nadab, then Abiu, and Eleazar, and Ithamar.

³These are the names of the sons of Aaron the Priests that were anointed, and whose hands were filled and consecrated, to do the function of the priesthood.

⁴For Nadab and Abiu died, when they offered the strange fire in the sight of our Lord, in the desert of Sinai, without children: and Eleazar and Ithamar did the function of priesthood in the presence of Aaron their father.

⁵And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:

⁶Bring the tribe of Levi, & make them stand in the sight of Aaron the Priest to minister unto him, and let them watch,

⁷and observe whatsoever pertaineth to the service of the multitude before the tabernacle of testimony,

⁸and let them keep the vessels of the tabernacle, serving in the ministry thereof.

⁹And thou shalt give the Levites for a gift,

¹⁰to Aaron and to his sons, to whom they are delivered of the children of Israel. But Aaron and his sons thou shalt appoint over the service of priesthood. The stranger, that approacheth to minister, shall die.

¹¹And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:

¹²I have taken the Levites from the children of Israel, for every first born, that openeth the matrice among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.

¹³For the first born is mine: since I struck the first born in the Land of Ægypt: I have sanctified to me whatsoever is first born in Israel from man unto beast, they are mine: I the Lord.

¹⁴And our Lord spake to Moyses in the desert of Sinai, saying:

¹⁵Number the sons of Levi by the houses of their fathers and their families, every male from one month & upward.

¹⁶Moyses numbered, as our Lord had commanded,

¹⁷& there were found the sons of Levi by their names, Gerson & Caath and Merari.

¹⁸The sons of Gerson: Lebni & Semei.

¹⁹The sons of Caath: Amram, and Iesaar, Hebron & Oziel.

²⁰The sons of Merari: Moholi & Musi.

²¹Of Gerson were two families, the Lebnitical, & Semeitical:

²²of whom were numbered the people of male sex from one month & upward, seven thousand five hundred.

²³These shall pitch behind the tabernacle on the West,

²⁴under their Prince Heliasaph, the son of Lael.

²⁵And their charge shall be in the tabernacle of covenant,

²⁶the tabernacle it-self and the cover thereof, the hanging that is drawn before the doors of the roof of covenant, and the curtains of the court: the hanging also that is hanged in the entry of the court of the tabernacle, and whatsoever pertaineth to the rite of the altar, the cords of the tabernacle, and all the furniture thereof.

²⁷The kindred of Caath shall have the peoples of the Amramites, and Iesaarites, and Hebronites, and Ozielites. These are the families of the Caathites reckoned by their names:

²⁸all of the male sex from one month and upward, eight thousand six hundred, they shall have the guard of the Sanctuary,

²⁹and shall camp on the south side.

³⁰And their Prince shall be Elizaphan the son of Oziel:

³¹and they shall keep the ark, and table, and the candlestick, the altars, and the vessels of the Sanctuary, wherein the ministration is, and the veil, and all such kind of implements.

³²And the Prince of the Princes of the Levites, Eliazar, the son of Aaron the Priest, shall be over them that watch for the custody of the Sanctuary.

³³But of Merari shall be the peoples of the Moholites, and Musites, reckoned by their names:

³⁴all of the male kind from one month & upward, six thousand two hundred.

³⁵There Prince Suriel the son of Abihaiel: they shall camp on the north side.

³⁶Under their custody shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars, and the pillars and their feet, and all things that pertain to this kind of service:

³⁷and the pillars of the court round about with their feet, and the pins with the cords.

³⁸Before the tabernacle of covenant, that is to say, on the east side, shall Moyses and Aaron camp, with their sons, having the custody of the Sanctuary, in the midst of the children of Israel. What stranger soever cometh thereto, shall die.

³⁹All the Levites, that Moyses and Aaron numbered, according to the precept of our Lord by their families in the male kind from one month and upward, were twenty two thousand.

⁴⁰And our Lord said to Moyses: Number the first-born of the male sex of the children of Israel, from one month and upward, and thou shalt have the sum of them.

⁴¹And thou shalt take the Levites unto me for all the first-born of the children of Israel, I am the Lord: & their cattle for all the first-born of the cattle of the children of Israel.

⁴²Moyses reckoned, as our Lord had commanded, the first-born of the children of Israel.

⁴³And the males by their names, from one month & upward, were twenty two thousand two hundred seventy three.

⁴⁴And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:

⁴⁵Take the Levites for the first-born of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites for their cattle, & the Levites shall be mine. I am the Lord.

⁴⁶But for the price of two hundred seventy three of the first-born of the children of Israel, that exceed the number of the Levites,

⁴⁷thou shalt take five sicles for every head, after the measure of the Sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty oboles.

⁴⁸And thou shalt give the money to Aaron and to his sons the price of them that are above.

⁴⁹Moyses therefore took their money, that were above, & whom he redeemed of the Levites,

⁵⁰for the first born of the children of Israel, a thousand three hundred sixty five sicles, according to the weight of the Sanctuary,

⁵¹and gave it to Aaron & his sons, according to the word that our Lord had commanded him.