Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai. Exo 6:20Exo 6:16Exo 6:27Gen 10:1Gen 2:4Gen 5:1Lev 25:1Lev 27:34 These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. Exo 6:23Num 26:601Ch 24:11Ch 6:3Exo 28:1
These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest’s office. Exo 28:41Lev 8:1-9Lev 8:12Lev 8:30Exo 29:1-37Exo 40:13Exo 40:15Heb 7:28 Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD when they offered strange fire before the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the presence of Aaron their father. Lev 10:1-2Num 26:61
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him. Deu 10:8Deu 33:8-9Exo 32:26-29Mal 2:4Num 1:49-53Num 16:9-11Num 18:1-7Num 2:17 They shall keep his requirements, and the requirements of the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle. Num 1:50Num 8:11Num 8:151Ch 23:28-321Ch 26:201Ch 26:221Ch 26:26Num 3:32 They shall keep all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and the obligations of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle. 1Ch 26:20-28Ezr 8:24-30Isa 52:11Num 10:17Num 10:21Num 4:15Num 4:28Num 4:33 You shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons. They are wholly given to him on the behalf of the children of Israel. Num 8:19Eph 4:11Eph 4:8Num 18:6-7 You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood, but the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.” Num 1:51Num 3:38Num 18:7Rom 12:71Ti 4:15-162Ch 26:16-21Act 6:3-4Eph 2:19
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Behold, 1 I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine, Num 18:6Num 3:41Num 8:16Exo 13:2Num 3:45Num 8:18 for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made holy to me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and animal. They shall be mine. I am the LORD.” Exo 13:12Luk 2:23Exo 13:2Exo 13:15Lev 27:26Exo 12:29-30Exo 22:29Exo 34:19
The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, “Count the children of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families. You shall count every male from a month old and upward.” Num 26:622Ti 3:15Mrk 10:14Jer 2:2Jer 31:3Num 1:47Num 18:15-16Num 3:22
Moses counted them according to the LORD’s word, as he was commanded. Num 3:39Num 4:37Deu 21:5Num 3:51Num 4:27Num 4:41Num 4:45Num 4:49
These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Gen 46:11Exo 6:16-191Ch 6:1-21Ch 6:16-19Jos 21:1-45Neh 11:1-12Num 15:5-23Num 23:6-23
These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei. 1Ch 6:17Exo 6:17-191Ch 23:7-111Ch 25:41Ch 26:1-321Ch 6:20-21Neh 12:1-26Num 3:21
The sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Exo 6:181Ch 6:181Ch 15:17-211Ch 15:51Ch 15:8-101Ch 23:12-131Ch 23:18-201Ch 25:4
The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. Exo 6:191Ch 6:191Ch 15:61Ch 23:21-231Ch 24:27-301Ch 25:31Ch 6:291Ch 6:44-47
These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ houses.
Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites. These are the families of the Gershonites.
Those who were counted of them, according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, even those who were counted of them were seven thousand five hundred. Num 4:38-40
The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward. Num 1:53Num 2:17
Eliasaph the son of Lael shall be the prince of the fathers’ house of the Gershonites. The duty of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting shall be the tabernacle, the tent, its covering, the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting, Exo 25:91Ch 23:321Ch 26:21-221Ch 9:14-331Ti 1:182Ch 31:11-182Ch 31:2Col 4:17 the hangings of the court, the screen for the door of the court which is by the tabernacle and around the altar, and its cords for all of its service. Exo 35:18Exo 27:9-16Exo 38:9-16
Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, the family of the Izharites, the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites. These are the families of the Kohathites. 1Ch 26:231Ch 23:12Num 3:19 According to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred keeping the requirements of the sanctuary. Num 3:31Num 3:7Num 4:35-36
The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the south side of the tabernacle. Num 1:53Num 2:10Num 3:23 The prince of the fathers’ house of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. Their duty shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, the screen, and all its service. Exo 25:10-40Exo 26:31-33Exo 27:1-8Exo 30:1-10Exo 31:1-18Exo 36:35-36Exo 37:1Exo 39:33-42 Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the Levites, with the oversight of those who keep the requirements of the sanctuary. 1Ch 26:20-241Ch 9:14-202Ki 25:18Num 20:25-28Num 4:16Num 4:27
Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites. These are the families of Merari. 1Ch 23:211Ch 6:19Num 3:20 Those who were counted of them, according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred. 2 Num 1:21Num 2:11Num 2:9
The prince of the fathers’ house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They shall encamp on the north side of the tabernacle. Num 1:53Num 2:25Num 3:28-29 The appointed duty of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service, Exo 26:15-29Exo 26:32Exo 26:37Exo 27:9-19Exo 35:11Exo 35:18Exo 36:20-34Exo 36:36 the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords.
Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, with Aaron and his sons, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary for the duty of the children of Israel. The outsider who comes near shall be put to death. Num 1:53Num 3:10Num 2:31Ch 6:48-49Num 1:51Num 18:1-5Num 3:23Num 3:29 All who were counted of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron counted at the commandment of the LORD, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand. Num 26:62Mat 7:14Num 4:47-48
The LORD said to Moses, “Count all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. Num 3:152Ti 2:19Exo 32:26-29Heb 12:23Isa 4:3Luk 10:20Num 3:12Num 3:45 You shall take the Levites for me—I am the LORD—instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the livestock of the children of Israel.” Num 3:12Num 3:451Ti 2:6Exo 24:5-6Exo 32:26-29Mat 20:28Num 18:15Num 8:16
Moses counted, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel. All the firstborn males according to the number of names from a month old and upward, of those who were counted of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three. Num 3:39
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am the LORD. Num 3:12Num 3:40-41 For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel who exceed the number of the Levites, Exo 13:13Num 18:15-16 you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; according to the shekel 3 of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs 4); Exo 30:13Lev 27:6Lev 27:25Num 18:16Ezk 45:12Num 3:50 and you shall give the money, with which their remainder is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.”
Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites; from the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels, 5 according to the shekel of the sanctuary; Num 3:46-471Pe 1:181Pe 3:181Ti 2:5-6Heb 9:12Mat 20:28Tit 2:14 and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to the LORD’s word, as the LORD commanded Moses. Num 3:481Co 9:121Pe 5:21Sa 12:3-4Act 20:33Mal 4:4Num 16:15