Ex. 29:1‑37• 1{i}And this is the thing which thou shalt do to them to hallow them, that they may serve me as priests: take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish,{/i}
2{i}and unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil—of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.{/i}
3{i}And thou shalt put them into one basket, and present them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.{/i}
4{i}And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring near the entrance of the tent of meeting, and shalt bathe them with water.{/i}
5{i}And thou shalt take the garments, and clothe Aaron with the vest, and the cloak of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and shalt gird him with the girdle of the ephod.{/i}
6{i}And thou shalt put the turban upon his head, and fasten the holy diadem to the turban,{/i}
7{i}and shalt take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him.{/i}
8{i}And thou shalt bring his sons near, and clothe them with the vests.{/i}
9{i}And thou shalt gird them with the girdle—Aaron and his sons, and bind the high caps on them; and the priesthood shall be theirs for an everlasting statute; and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.{/i}
10{i}And thou shalt present the bullock before the tent of meeting; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock;{/i}
11{i}and thou shalt slaughter the bullock before Jehovah, at the entrance of the tent of meeting;{/i}
12{i}and thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it on the horns of the altar with thy finger, and shalt pour all the blood at the bottom of the altar.{/i}
13{i}And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the net of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.{/i}
14{i}And the flesh of the bullock, and its skin, and its dung, shalt thou burn with fire outside the camp: it is a sin-offering.{/i}
15{i}And thou shalt take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram;{/i}
16{i}and thou shalt slaughter the ram, and shalt take its blood, and sprinkle it on the altar round about.{/i}
17{i}And thou shalt cut up the ram into its pieces, and wash its inwards, and its legs, and put them upon its pieces, and upon its head;{/i}
18{i}and thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt-offering to Jehovah—a sweet odour; it is an offering by fire to Jehovah.{/i}
19{i}And thou shalt take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram;{/i}
20{i}and thou shalt slaughter the ram, and take of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot; and thou shalt sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.{/i}
21{i}And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him; and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.{/i}
22{i}Also of the ram shalt thou take the fat, and the fat-tail, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the net of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder—for it is a ram of consecration—{/i}
23{i}and one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before Jehovah;{/i}
24{i}and thou shalt put all this in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons, and shalt wave them as a wave-offering before Jehovah.{/i}
25{i}And thou shalt receive them of their hand and burn them upon the altar over the burnt-offering, for a sweet odour before Jehovah: it is an offering by fire to Jehovah.{/i}
26{i}And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of consecration which is for Aaron, and wave it as a wave-offering before Jehovah; and it shall be thy part.{/i}
27{i}And thou shalt hallow the breast of the wave-offering, and the shoulder of the heave-offering, that hath been waved and heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons.{/i}
28{i}And they shall be for Aaron and his sons, as an everlasting statute, on the part of the children of Israel; for it is a heave-offering; and it shall be a heave-offering on the part of the children of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace-offerings, as their heave-offering to Jehovah.{/i}
29{i}And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them.{/i}
30{i}The son that is priest in his stead shall put them on seven days, when he cometh into the tent of meeting to serve in the sanctuary.{/i}
31{i}And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and boil its flesh in a holy place.{/i}
32{i}And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the entrance of the tent of meeting.{/i}
33{i}They shall eat the things with which the atonement was made, to consecrate and to hallow them; but a stranger shall not eat of them, for they are holy.{/i}
34{i}And if any of the flesh of the consecration, and of the bread, remain until the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, for it is holy.{/i}
35{i}And thus shalt thou do to Aaron, and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou consecrate them.{/i}
36{i}And thou shalt offer every day a bullock as a sin-offering for atonement; and the altar shalt thou cleanse from sin, by making atonement for it, and shalt anoint it, to hallow it.{/i}
37{i}Seven days shalt thou make atonement for the altar and hallow it; and the altar shall be most holy: whatever toucheth the altar shall be holy.{/i} (Ex. 29:1‑37)
Num. 3:1‑4:49• 1{i}And these are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Jehovah spoke with Moses on mount Sinai.{/i}
2{i}And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.{/i}
3{i}These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, who were consecrated to exercise the priesthood.{/i}
4{i}And Nadab and Abihu died before Jehovah when they offered strange fire before Jehovah in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no sons; and Eleazar and Ithamar exercised the priesthood in the presence of Aaron their father.{/i}
5{i}And{/i} Jehovah spake with Moses, saying,
6Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him.
7{i}and they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole assembly, before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.{/i}
8{i}And they shall keep all the utensils of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.{/i}
9And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given to him out of the children of Israel.
10And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
11And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
12And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine;
13because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am Jehovah.
14{i}And Jehovah spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying{/i},
15Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.
16And Moses numbered them according to the word of Jehovah, as he was commanded.
17{i}And these are the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.{/i}
18{i}And these are the names of the sons of Gershon according to their families: Libni and Shimei.{/i}
19{i}And the sons of Kohath according to their families: Amram and Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel.{/i}
20{i}And the sons of Merari according to their families: Mahli and Mushi.{/i} These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.
21Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites.
22Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.
23The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.
24And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
25And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle (the outward frame) and the tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
26and 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.
27And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.
28{i}According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, who kept the charge of the sanctuary.{/i}
29{i}The families of the sons of Kohath encamped on the side of the tabernacle southward.{/i}
30{i}And the prince of the father's house of the families of the Kohathites was Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.{/i}
31{i}And their charge was{/i} the ark, and the table; and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the service thereof.
32And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary.
33{i}Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.{/i}
34{i}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.{/i}
35{i}And the prince of the father's house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They encamped on the side of the tabernacle northward.{/i}
36{i}And the charge of the sons of Merari consisted in the oversight of{/i} the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the vessels thereof, and all that serveth thereto,
37{i}and the pillars of the court round about, and their bases, and their pegs, and their cords.{/i}
38{i}And those who encamped before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrising, were Moses, and Aaron and his sons, who kept the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh near shall be put to death.{/i}
39{i}All that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of Jehovah, according to their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.{/i}
40{i}And Jehovah said to Moses, Number all the first-born males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.{/i}
41{i}And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am Jehovah) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites, instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel.{/i}
42{i}And Moses numbered, as Jehovah had commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.{/i}
43{i}And all the firstborn males, by the number of the names, from a month old and upward, according to their numbering, were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.{/i}
44{i}And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,{/i}
45{i}Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am Jehovah.{/i}
46{i}And for those that are to be ransomed, the two hundred and seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, which are in excess over the Levites,{/i}
47{i}thou shalt take five shekels apiece by the poll, according to the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them, —twenty gerahs the shekel;{/i}
48{i}and thou shalt give the money unto Aaron and unto his sons for those in excess among them who are to be ransomed.{/i}
49{i}And Moses took the ransom-money from them that were over and above those who were ransomed by the Levites;{/i}
50{i}of the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, a thousand three hundred and sixty-five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.{/i}
51{i}And Moses gave the money of them that were ransomed to Aaron and to his sons, according to the commandment of Jehovah, —as Jehovah had commanded Moses.{/i}
1{i}And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,{/i}
2{i}Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, according to their fathers' houses,{/i}
3{i}from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, all that enter into the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting.{/i}
4{i}This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting: it is most holy.{/i}
5When the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering veil, and cover the ark of testimony with it:
6and shall put thereon the covering of badgers' (or tachash) skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.
7{i}And upon the table of showbread they shall spread a cloth of blue; and put thereon the dishes, and the cups, and the bowls, and goblets of the drink-offering; and the continual bread shall be thereon.{/i}
8And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet , and cover the same with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put in the staves thereof.
9{i}And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff-trays, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they perform its service;{/i}
10{i}and they shall put it and all the utensils thereof within a covering of badgers' skin, and shall put it upon a pole.{/i}
11{i}And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers' skin, and shall put its staves to it.{/i}
12{i}And they shall take all the instruments of service, wherewith they serve in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers' skin, and shall put them upon a pole.{/i}
13{i}And{/i} they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon.
14{i}and they shall put upon it all the utensils thereof, wherewith they perform service about it: the firepans, the forks, and the shovels, and the bowls, —all the utensils of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers' skin, and put its staves to it.{/i}
15{i}And when Aaron and his sons have ended covering the sanctuary, and all the utensils of the sanctuary, when the camp setteth forward, then afterwards the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it; but they shall not touch the holy things, lest they die. This is what the sons of Kohath have to carry in the tent of meeting.{/i}
16{i}And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall have the oversight of the oil for the light, and the fragrant incense, and the continual oblation, and the anointing oil, —the oversight of the whole tabernacle, and of all that is therein, over the sanctuary, and over its furniture.{/i}
17{i}And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,{/i}
18{i}Ye shall not cut off the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites,{/i}
19{i}but this shall ye do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they draw near unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden;{/i}
20{i}but they shall not go in and see for a moment the holy things, lest they die.{/i}
21{i}And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,{/i}
22{i}Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, according to their fathers' houses, after their families.{/i}
23{i}From thirty years old and upward to fifty years old shalt thou number them; every one that cometh to labour in the work, to perform the service in the tent of meeting.{/i}
24{i}This shall be the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving, and in carrying:{/i}
25{i}they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tent of meeting, its covering, and the covering of badgers' skin that is above upon it, and the curtain of the entrance to the tent of meeting,{/i}
26{i}and the hangings of the court, and the curtain of the entrance, of the gate of the court, which surroundeth the tabernacle and the altar, and the cords thereof, and all the instruments of their service; and all that is to be done for these things shall they perform.{/i}
27{i}At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their carrying, and in all their service; and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their carrying.{/i}
28{i}This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting, and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.{/i}
29{i}The sons of Merari: after their families, according to their fathers' houses shalt thou number them;{/i}
30{i}from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the labour, to perform the service of the tent of meeting.{/i}
31{i}And this shall be the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tent of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and bases thereof,{/i}
32{i}and the pillars of the court round about, and their bases, and their pegs, and their cords, all their instruments, according to all their service; and by name ye shall number to them the materials which are their charge to carry.{/i}
33{i}This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service in the tent of meeting, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.{/i}
34{i}And Moses and Aaron and the princes of the assembly numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their families, and according to their fathers' houses,{/i}
35{i}from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, every one that entered into the labour, for service in the tent of meeting.{/i}
36{i}And those that were numbered of them according to their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.{/i}
37{i}These are they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, every one that served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Jehovah through Moses.{/i}
38{i}And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon, after their families, and according to their fathers' houses,{/i}
39{i}from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, every one that entered into the labour, for service in the tent of meeting,{/i}
40{i}even those that were numbered of them, after their families, according to their fathers' houses, were two thousand six hundred and thirty.{/i}
41{i}These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, all that served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Jehovah.{/i}
42{i}And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, after their families, according to their fathers' houses,{/i}
43{i}from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, every one that entered into the labour, for service in the tent of meeting,{/i}
44{i}even those that were numbered of them according to their families, were three thousand two hundred.{/i}
45{i}These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Jehovah through Moses.{/i}
46{i}All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel numbered, after their families and according to their fathers' houses,{/i}
47{i}from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, every one that came to serve in the work of the service, and in the work of carrying, in the tent of meeting,{/i}
48{i}even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand five hundred and eighty.{/i}
49{i}According to the commandment of Jehovah they were numbered by Moses, every one for his service, and for his burden, and numbered by him, as Jehovah had commanded Moses{/i}. (Num. 3:1‑4:49)
Num. 18:1‑32• 1{i}And Jehovah said to Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.{/i}
2{i}And thy brethren also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring near with thee, that they may unite with thee, and minister unto thee; but thou and thy sons with thee shall serve before the tent of the testimony.{/i}
3{i}And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of the whole tent: only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they may not die, and you as well as they.{/i}
4{i}And they shall unite with thee, and keep the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent; and no stranger shall come near to you.{/i}
5{i}And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar; that there come no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.{/i}
6{i}And I, behold, I have taken your brethren, the Levites, from among the children of Israel; to you are they given as a gift for Jehovah to perform the service of the tent of meeting.{/i}
7{i}But thou and thy sons with thee shall attend to your priesthood for all that concerneth the altar, and for that which is inside the veil; and ye shall perform the service: I give you your priesthood as a service of gift, and the stranger that cometh near shall be put to death.{/i}
8{i}And Jehovah spoke to Aaron, And I, behold, I have given thee the charge of my heave-offerings, of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; to thee have I given them, because of the anointing, and to thy sons by an everlasting statute.{/i}
9{i}This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, of all their oblations, and of all their sin-offerings, and of all their trespass-offerings, which they render unto me, it is most holy for thee and for thy sons.{/i}
10{i}As most holy shalt thou eat it: every male shall eat it; it shall be holy unto thee.{/i}
11{i}And this shall be thine: the heave-offering of their gift, with all the wave-offerings of the children of Israel; I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by an everlasting statute; every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.{/i}
12{i}All the best of the oil, and all the best of the new wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they give to Jehovah, have I given thee.{/i}
13{i}The first ripe of everything that is in their land, which they shall bring to Jehovah, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.{/i}
14{i}Every devoted thing in Israel shall be thine.{/i}
15{i}Everything that breaketh open the womb of all flesh, which they present to Jehovah, of men or of beasts, shall be thine; nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou in any case ransom, and the firstborn of unclean beasts shalt thou ransom.{/i}
16{i}And those that are to be ransomed from a month old shalt thou ransom, according to thy valuation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.{/i}
17{i}But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, thou shalt not ransom: they are holy. Thou shalt sprinkle their blood on the altar, and their fat shalt thou burn as an offering by fire for a sweet odour to Jehovah.{/i}
18{i}And their flesh shall be thine; as the wave-breast and as the right shoulder shall it be thine.{/i}
19{i}All the heave-offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to Jehovah, have I given thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by an everlasting statute: it shall be an everlasting covenant of salt before Jehovah unto thee and thy seed with thee.{/i}
20{i}And Jehovah said to Aaron, In their land thou shalt have no inheritance, neither shalt thou have any portion among them: I am thy portion and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.{/i}
21{i}And to the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithes in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they perform, the service of the tent of meeting.{/i}
22{i}Neither shall the children of Israel henceforth come near the tent of meeting, to bear sin and die.{/i}
23{i}But the Levite, he shall perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it is an everlasting statute throughout your generations. And among the children of Israel shall they possess no inheritance;{/i}
24{i}for I have given for an inheritance to the Levites the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as a heave-offering to Jehovah; therefore I have said of them, They shall possess no inheritance among the children of Israel.{/i}
25{i}And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,{/i}
26{i}And to the Levites shalt thou speak, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer a heave-offering from it for Jehovah, the tenth of the tithe.{/i}
27{i}And your heave-offering shall be reckoned unto you, as the corn from the threshing-floor, and as the fulness of the winepress.{/i}
28{i}Thus ye also shall offer Jehovah's heave-offering of all your tithes, which ye take of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof Jehovah's heave-offering to Aaron the priest.{/i}
29{i}Out of all that is given you ye shall offer the whole heave-offering of Jehovah, —of all the best thereof the hallowed part thereof.{/i}
30{i}And thou shalt say unto them, When ye heave the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as produce of the threshing-floor, and as produce of the winepress.{/i}
31{i}And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households; for it is your reward for your service in the tent of meeting.{/i}
32{i}And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, if ye heave from it the best of it; and ye shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.{/i} (Num. 18:1‑32)