And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting.

And this is to be the work of the sons of Kohath in connection with the most holy things.

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;

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;

And over them they are to put a red cloth, covering it with a leather cover, and putting its rods in their places.

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:

All these they are to put in a leather cover, and put it on the frame.

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.

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.

And they are to take away the burned waste from the altar, and put a purple cloth on it;

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.

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.

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.

And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

Do not let the family of the Kohathites be cut off from among the Levites;

But do this to them, so that life and not death may be theirs when they come near the most holy things; let Aaron and his sons go in and give to every one his work and that which he is to take up;

But they themselves are not to go in to see the holy place, even for a minute, for fear of death.

And the Lord said to Moses,

All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting.

This is to be the work of the Gershonites, the things they are to do and take up.

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;

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.

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.

The sons of Merari are to be numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses;

Every one from thirty to fifty years old who is able to do the work of the Tent of meeting.

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.

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.

Numbering all those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work in the Tent of meeting;

And the number of all these was two thousand, seven hundred and fifty.

All those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work in the Tent of meeting,

Who were numbered by families in the order of their fathers' houses, were two thousand, six hundred and thirty.

All those from thirty to fifty years old who did the work in the Tent of meeting,

Who were numbered by families, were three thousand, two hundred.

Those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work of the Tent of meeting and of its transport,

Came to eight thousand, five hundred and eighty.

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.

And the Lord said to Moses,

Give orders to the children of Israel to put outside the tent-circle every leper, and anyone who has any sort of flow from his body, and anyone who is unclean from the touch of the dead;

Male or female they are to be put outside the tent-circle, so that they may not make unclean my resting-place among them.

So the children of Israel did as the Lord had said to Moses, and put them outside the tent-circle.

And the Lord said to Moses,

Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman does any of the sins of men, going against the word of the Lord, and is in the wrong;

Let them say openly what they have done; and make payment for the wrong done, with the addition of a fifth part, and give it to him to whom the wrong was done.

But if the man has no relation to whom the payment may be made, then the payment for sin made to the Lord will be the priest's, in addition to the sheep offered to take away his sin.

And every offering lifted up of all the holy things which the children of Israel give to the priest, will be his.

And every man's holy things will be his: whatever a man gives to the priest will be his.

And the Lord said to Moses,

Say to the children of Israel, If any man's wife does wrong, sinning against him

Then let him take her to the priest, offering for her the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal, without oil or perfume; for it is a meal offering of a bitter spirit, a meal offering keeping wrongdoing in mind.

And he will make her take an oath, and say to her, If no man has been your lover and you have not been with another in place of your husband, you are free from this bitter water causing the curse;

Then the priest will put the oath of the curse on the woman, and say to her, May the Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people, sending on you wasting of the legs and disease of the stomach;

And he will give to the woman the bitter water for drink; and the bitter water causing the curse will go into her.

And the priest will take from her hand the meal offering of doubt, waving it before the Lord, and will take it to the altar;

Or for a husband who, in a bitter spirit, has doubts in his heart about his wife; let him take her to the priest, who will put in force this law.

And the Lord said to Moses,

Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman takes an oath to keep himself separate and give himself to the Lord;

He is to keep himself from wine and strong drink, and take no mixed wine or strong drink or any drink made from grapes, or any grapes, green or dry.

All the time he is separate he may take nothing made from the grape-vine, from its seeds to its skin.

He may not make himself unclean for his father or his mother, his sister or his brother, if death comes to them; because he is under an oath to keep himself separate for God.

All the time he is separate he is holy to the Lord.

If death comes suddenly to a man at his side, so that he becomes unclean, let his hair be cut off on the day when he is made clean, on the seventh day.

And on the eighth day let him take to the priest, at the door of the Tent of meeting, two doves or two young pigeons;

And the priest will give one for a sin-offering and the other for a burned offering to take away the sin which came on him on account of the dead, and he will make his head holy that same day.

And he will give to the Lord his days of being separate, offering a he-lamb of the first year as an offering for error: but the earlier days will be a loss, because he became unclean.

And this is the law for him who is separate, when the necessary days are ended: he is to come to the door of the Tent of meeting,

And make his offering to the Lord; one he-lamb of the first year, without a mark, for a burned offering, and one female lamb of the first year, without a mark, for a sin-offering, and one male sheep, without a mark, for peace-offerings,

This is the law for him who takes an oath to keep himself separate, and for his offering to the Lord on that account, in addition to what he may be able to get; this is the law of his oath, which he will have to keep.

And the Lord said to Moses,

Say to Aaron and his sons, These are the words of blessing which are to be used by you in blessing the children of Israel; say to them,

And they came with their offerings before the Lord, six covered carts and twelve oxen; a cart for every two of the chiefs, and for every one an ox.

And the Lord said to Moses,

Take the things from them, to be used for the work of the Tent of meeting; and give them to the Levites, to every man what is needed for his work.

So Moses took the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.

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

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.

But to the sons of Kohath he gave nothing; because they had the care of the holy place, taking it about on their backs.

And the chiefs gave an offering for the altar on the day when the holy oil was put on it; they made their offering before the altar.

And the Lord said to Moses, Let every chief on his day give his offering to make the altar holy.

And he who made his offering on the first day was Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:

And his offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering;

And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nahshon, the son of Amminadab.

On the second day Nethanel, the son of Zuar, chief of Issachar, made his offering:

He gave one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering;

And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nethanel, the son of Zuar.

On the third day Eliab, the son of Helon, chief of the children of Zebulun:

His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering;

And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliab, the son of Helon.

On the fourth day Elizur, the son of Shedeur, chief of the children of Reuben:

His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering;

And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elizur, the son of Shedeur.

On the fifth day Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai, chief of the children of Simeon:

His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering;

And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai.

On the sixth day Eliasaph, the son of Reuel, chief of the children of Gad:

His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering;

And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliasaph, the son of Reuel

On the seventh day Elishama, the son of Ammihud, chief of the children of Ephraim:

His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering;

And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elishama, the son of Ammihud.