Thematic Bible
Numbers 3:1 (show verse)
These also are the generations of Aaron and of Moses in the day that the LORD spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.
Numbers 3:2 (show verse)
And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab, the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Numbers 3:3 (show verse)
These are the names of the sons of Aaron, anointed priests, whose hands he filled to administer the priesthood.
Numbers 3:4 (show verse)
But Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no sons; and Eleazar and Ithamar exercised the priesthood in the sight of Aaron, their father.
Numbers 3:5 (show verse)
And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 3:6 (show verse)
Bring the tribe of Levi near and present them before Aaron, the priest, that they may minister unto him.
Numbers 3:7 (show verse)
And they shall keep his commandment and the commandment of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the testimony, to minister in the service of the tabernacle.
Numbers 3:8 (show verse)
And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the testimony and the charge of the sons of Israel, to minister in the service of the tabernacle.
Numbers 3:9 (show verse)
And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons; they are completely given unto him out of the sons of Israel.
Numbers 3:10 (show verse)
And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons that they shall guard their priesthood; and the stranger that comes near shall be put to death.
Numbers 3:11 (show verse)
And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 3:12 (show verse)
Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the sons of Israel instead of all the firstborn that open the womb among the sons of Israel; therefore the Levites shall be mine;
Numbers 3:13 (show verse)
because all the firstborn are mine; from the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both of men and of animals; they shall be mine: I am the LORD.
Numbers 3:14 (show verse)
The LORD also spoke unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
Numbers 3:15 (show verse)
Number the sons of Levi by the houses of their fathers, by their families; thou shalt number every male from a month old and upward.
Numbers 3:16 (show verse)
And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
Numbers 3:17 (show verse)
And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon and Kohath and Merari.
Numbers 3:18 (show verse)
And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.
Numbers 3:19 (show verse)
And the sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
Numbers 3:20 (show verse)
And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the houses of their fathers.
Numbers 3:21 (show verse)
Of Gershon was the family of Libni and the family of Shimei; these are the families of Gershon.
Numbers 3:22 (show verse)
Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, those that were numbered of them were seven thousand five hundred.
Numbers 3:23 (show verse)
The families of Gershon shall pitch behind the tabernacle to the west;
Numbers 3:24 (show verse)
and the prince of the house of the father of the Gershonites, Eliasaph, son of Lael.
Numbers 3:25 (show verse)
And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the testimony shall be the tabernacle and the tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the testimony,
Numbers 3:26 (show verse)
and the hangings of the court and the curtain for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and the cords of it for all the service thereof.
Numbers 3:27 (show verse)
And of Kohath was the family of Amram and the family of Izehar and the family of Hebron and the family of Uzziel; these are the families of the Kohathites.
Numbers 3:28 (show verse)
In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were eight thousand six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.
Numbers 3:29 (show verse)
The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle towards the Negev;
Numbers 3:30 (show verse)
and the prince of the house of the father of the families of Kohath, Elizaphan, son of Uzziel.
Numbers 3:31 (show verse)
And their charge shall be the ark and the table and the lampstand and the altars and the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the veil, with all its service.
Numbers 3:32 (show verse)
And Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, shall be principal over the princes of the Levites and have the oversight of those that keep the charge of the sanctuary.
Numbers 3:33 (show verse)
Of Merari was the family of Mahli and the family of Mushi; these are the families of Merari.
Numbers 3:34 (show verse)
And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred;
Numbers 3:35 (show verse)
and the prince of the house of the father of the families of Merari, Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle to the Aquilon.
Numbers 3:36 (show verse)
And under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle and the bars thereof and the pillars thereof and the sockets thereof and all the instruments thereof, with all its service,
Numbers 3:37 (show verse)
and the pillars of the court round about and their sockets and their stakes and their cords.
Numbers 3:38 (show verse)
And those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, before the tabernacle of the testimony towards the sunrise, shall be Moses and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the sons of Israel; and the stranger that comes near shall be put to death.
Numbers 3:39 (show verse)
All that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron, according to the word of the LORD, numbered by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.
Numbers 3:40 (show verse)
And the LORD said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the males of the sons of Israel from a month old and upward and take the number of their names.
Numbers 3:41 (show verse)
And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel and the animals of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the animals of the sons of Israel.
Numbers 3:42 (show verse)
And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the sons of Israel.
Numbers 3:43 (show verse)
And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.
Numbers 3:44 (show verse)
And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 3:45 (show verse)
Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel and the animals of the Levites instead of their animals, and the Levites shall be mine; I am the LORD.
Numbers 3:46 (show verse)
And for the ransoms of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the sons of Israel, who are more than the Levites,
Numbers 3:47 (show verse)
thou shalt take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them (the shekel is of twenty gerahs).
Numbers 3:48 (show verse)
And thou shalt give the money, of the ransoms of the odd number of them, unto Aaron and to his sons.
Numbers 3:49 (show verse)
And Moses took the ransom money of those that were over and above the ones that were redeemed by the Levites
Numbers 3:50 (show verse)
and received of the firstborn of the sons of Israel, in money, a thousand three hundred and sixty-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
Numbers 3:51 (show verse)
And Moses gave the money of the ransoms unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.