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Numbers 3

    ²These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

    ³These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom Aaron consecrated and ordained to minister in the priest's office.

    ⁴But 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. So Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the presence and under the supervision of Aaron their father.^(A)

    ⁵And the Lord said to Moses,

    ⁶Bring the tribe of Levi near and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.

    ⁷And they shall carry out his instructions and the duties connected with the whole assembly before the Tent of Meeting, doing the service of the tabernacle.

    ⁸And they shall keep all the instruments and furnishings of the Tent of Meeting and take charge of [attending] the Israelites, to serve in the tabernacle.

    ⁹And you shall give the Levites [as servants and helpers] to Aaron and his sons; they are wholly given to him from among the Israelites.

    ¹⁰And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall observe and attend to their priest's office; but the excluded [anyone daring to assume priestly duties or privileges who is not of the house of Aaron and called of God] who comes near [the holy things] shall be put to death.

    ¹¹And the Lord said to Moses,

    ¹²Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the Israelites instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the Israelites; and the Levites shall be Mine,

    ¹³For all the firstborn are Mine. On the day that I slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated for Myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast; Mine they shall be. I am the Lord.

    ¹⁴And the Lord said to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai,

    ¹⁵Number the sons of Levi by their fathers' houses and by families. Every male from a month old and upward you shall number.

    ¹⁶So Moses numbered them as he was commanded by the word of the Lord.

    ¹⁷These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

    ¹⁸And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.

    ¹⁹The sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

    ²⁰The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their fathers' houses.

    ²¹Of Gershon were the families of the Libnites and of the Shimeites. These are the families of the Gershonites.

    ²²The males who were numbered of them from a month old and upward totaled 7,500.

    ²³The families of the Gershonites were to encamp behind the tabernacle on the west,

    ²⁴The leader of the fathers' houses of the Gershonites being Eliasaph son of Lael.

    ²⁵And the responsibility of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting was to be the tabernacle, the tent, its covering, and the hangings for the door of the Tent of Meeting,

    ²⁶And the hangings of the court, the curtain for the door of the court which is around the tabernacle and the altar, its cords, and all the service pertaining to them.

    ²⁷Of Kohath were the families of the Amramites, the Izharites, the Hebronites, and the Uzzielites; these are the families of the Kohathites.

    ²⁸The number of all the males from a month old and upward totaled 8,600, attending to the duties of the sanctuary.

    ²⁹The families of the sons of Kohath were to encamp on the south side of the tabernacle,

    ³⁰The chief of the fathers' houses of the families of the Kohathites being Elizaphan son of Uzziel.

    ³¹Their charge was to be the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, and the utensils of the sanctuary with which the priests minister, and the screen, and all the service having to do with these.

    ³²Eleazar son of Aaron the priest was to be chief over the leaders of the Levites, and have the oversight of those who had charge of the sanctuary.

    ³³Of Merari were the families of the Mahlites and the Mushites; these are the families of Merari.

    ³⁴Their number of all the males from a month old and upward totaled 6,200.

    ³⁵And the head of the fathers' houses of the families of Merari was Zuriel son of Abihail; the Merarites were to encamp on the north side of the tabernacle.

    ³⁶And the appointed charge of the sons of Merari was the boards or frames of the tabernacle, and its bars, pillars, sockets or bases, and all the accessories or instruments of it, and all the work connected with them,

    ³⁷And the pillars of the surrounding court and their sockets or bases, with their pegs and their cords.

    ³⁸But those to encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, before the Tent of Meeting, toward the sunrise, were to be Moses and Aaron and his sons, keeping the full charge of the rites of the sanctuary in whatever was required for the Israelites; and the ^[a]excluded [one not a descendant of Aaron and called of God] who came near [the sanctuary] was to be put to death.

    ³⁹All the Levites whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the command of the Lord, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were 22,000.

    ⁴⁰And the Lord said to Moses, Number all the firstborn of the males of the Israelites from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.

    ⁴¹You shall take the Levites for Me instead of all the firstborn among the Israelites. I am the Lord; and you shall take the cattle of the Levites for Me instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the Israelites.

    ⁴²So Moses numbered, as the Lord commanded him, all the firstborn Israelites.

    ⁴³But all the firstborn males from a month old and upward as numbered were 22,273 [273 more than the Levites].

    ⁴⁴And the Lord said to Moses,

    ⁴⁵Take the Levites [for Me] instead of all the firstborn Israelites, and the Levites' cattle instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be Mine. I am the Lord.

    ⁴⁶And for those 273 who are to be redeemed of the firstborn of the Israelites who outnumber the Levites,

    ⁴⁷You shall take five shekels apiece, reckoning by the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs; you shall collect them,

    ⁴⁸And you shall give the ransom silver from the excess number [over the Levites] to be redeemed to Aaron and his sons.

    ⁴⁹So Moses took the redemption money from those who were left over from the number who were redeemed by the Levites.

    ⁵⁰From the firstborn of the Israelites he took the money, 1,365 shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

    ⁵¹And Moses gave the money from those who were ransomed to Aaron and his sons, as the Lord commanded Moses.

Numbers 4

    ²Take a census of the Kohathite division among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers' houses,

    ³From thirty years old and up to fifty years old, all who can enter the service to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.

    ⁴This shall be the responsibility of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting: the most holy things.

    ⁵When the camp prepares to set forward, Aaron and his sons shall take down the veil [screening the Holy of Holies] and cover the ark of the Testimony with it,

    ⁶And shall put on it the covering of dolphin or porpoise skin, and shall spread over that a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in place the poles of the ark.

    ⁷And upon the table of showbread they shall spread a cloth of blue and put on it the plates, the dishes for incense, the bowls, the flagons for the drink offering, and also the continual showbread.

    ⁸And they shall spread over them a cloth of scarlet, and put over that a covering of dolphin or porpoise skin, and put in place the poles [for carrying].

    ⁹And they shall take a cloth of blue and cover the lampstand for the light and its lamps, its snuffers, its ashtrays, and all the oil vessels from which it is supplied.

    ¹⁰And they shall put the lampstand and all its utensils within a covering of dolphin or porpoise skin and shall put it upon the frame [for carrying].

    ¹¹And upon the golden [incense] altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of dolphin or porpoise skin, and shall put in place its poles [for carrying].

    ¹²And they shall take all the utensils of the service with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of dolphin or porpoise skin, and shall put them on the frame [for carrying].

    ¹³And they shall take away the ashes from the altar [of burnt offering] and spread a purple cloth over it.

    ¹⁴And they shall put upon it all its vessels and utensils with which they minister there, the firepans, the fleshhooks or forks, the shovels, the basins, and all the vessels and utensils of the altar, and they shall spread over it all a covering of dolphin or porpoise skin, and shall put in its poles [for carrying].

    ¹⁵When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all its furniture, as the camp sets out, after all that [is done but not before], the sons of Kohath shall come to carry them. But they shall not touch the holy things, lest they die. These are the things of the Tent of Meeting which the sons of Kohath are to carry.

    ¹⁶And Eleazar son of Aaron the priest shall have charge of the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the continual cereal offering, and the anointing oil, with the oversight of all the tabernacle and of all that is in it, of the sanctuary and its utensils.

    ¹⁷And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

    ¹⁸[Since] the tribe of the families of the Kohathites [are only Levites and not priests], do not [by exposing them to the sin of touching the most holy things] cut them off from among the Levites.

    ¹⁹But deal thus with them, that they may live and not die when they approach the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint them each to his work and to his burden [to be carried on the march].

    ²⁰But [the Kohathites] shall not go in to see the sanctuary [the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies] or its holy things, even for an instant, lest they die.

    ²¹And the Lord said to Moses,

    ²²Take a census of the sons of Gershon, by their fathers' houses, by their families.

    ²³From thirty years old and up to fifty years old you shall number them, all who enter for service to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.

    ²⁴This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens [when on the march]:

    ²⁵And they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the Tent of Meeting, its covering, and the covering of dolphin or porpoise skin that is on top of it, and the hanging or screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,

    ²⁶And the hangings of the court, and the hanging or screen for the entrance of the gate of the court which is around the tabernacle and the altar [of burnt offering], and their cords, and all the equipment for their service; whatever needs to be done with them, that they shall do.

    ²⁷Under the direction of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all they have to carry and in all they have to do; and you shall assign to their charge all that they are to carry [on the march].

    ²⁸This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting; and their work shall be under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the [high] priest.

    ²⁹As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families and their fathers' houses;

    ³⁰From thirty years old up to fifty years old you shall number them, everyone who enters the service to do the work of the Tent of Meeting.

    ³¹And this is what they are assigned to carry and to guard [on the march], according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting: the boards or frames of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets or bases,

    ³²And the pillars of the court round about with their sockets or bases, and pegs, and cords, with all their equipment and all their accessories for service; and you shall assign to them by name the articles which they are to carry [on the march].

    ³³This is the work of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their tasks in the Tent of Meeting, under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the [high] priest.

    ³⁴And Moses and Aaron and the leaders of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites by their families and their fathers' houses,

    ³⁵From thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who enters the service to do the work of the Tent of Meeting;

    ³⁶And those who were numbered of them by their families were 2,750.

    ³⁷These were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all who did service in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the command of the Lord through Moses.

    ³⁸And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon, by their families, and by their fathers' houses,

    ³⁹From thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who entered the service to do the work of the Tent of Meeting,

    ⁴⁰Those who were enrolled of them, by their families, by their fathers' houses, were 2,630.

    ⁴¹These were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered as the Lord commanded.

    ⁴²And those numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by their fathers' houses,

    ⁴³From thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service for work in the Tent of Meeting,

    ⁴⁴Even those who were numbered of them by their families, were 3,200.

    ⁴⁵These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the command of the Lord by Moses.

    ⁴⁶All those who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the leaders of Israel counted by their families and by their fathers' houses,

    ⁴⁷From thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who could enter to do the work of service and of burden bearing in the Tent of Meeting,

    ⁴⁸Those that were numbered of them were 8,580.

    ⁴⁹According to the command of the Lord through Moses, they were assigned each to his work of serving and carrying. Thus they were numbered by him, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

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²⁰Then He went to a house [probably Peter's], but a throng came together again, so that Jesus and His disciples could not even take food.

    ²¹And when those ^[a]who belonged to Him (^[b]His kinsmen) heard it, they went out to take Him by force, for they kept saying, He is out of ^[c]His mind (beside Himself, deranged)!

    ²²And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, He is possessed by Beelzebub, and, By [the help of] the prince of demons He is casting out demons.

    ²³And He summoned them to Him and said to them in parables (illustrations or comparisons put beside truths to explain them), How can Satan drive out Satan?

    ²⁴And if a kingdom is divided and rebelling against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

    ²⁵And if a house is divided (split into factions and rebelling) against itself, that house will not be able to last.

    ²⁶And if Satan has raised an insurrection against himself and is divided, he cannot stand but is [surely] coming to an end.

    ²⁷But no one can go into a strong man's house and ransack his household goods right and left and seize them as plunder unless he first binds the strong man; then indeed he may [thoroughly] plunder his house.^(A)

    ²⁸Truly and solemnly I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever abusive and blasphemous things they utter;

    ²⁹But whoever speaks abusively against or maliciously misrepresents the Holy Spirit can never get forgiveness, but is guilty of and is in the grasp of ^[d]an everlasting trespass.

    ³⁰For they ^[e]persisted in saying, ^[f]He has an unclean spirit.

    ³¹Then His mother and His brothers came and, standing outside, they sent word to Him, calling [for] Him.

    ³²And a crowd was sitting around Him, and they said to Him, Your mother and Your brothers and Your sisters are outside asking for You.

    ³³And He replied, Who are My mother and My brothers?

    ³⁴And looking around on those who sat in a circle about Him, He said, See! Here are My mother and My brothers;

    ³⁵For whoever does the things God wills is My brother and sister and mother!