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they are wholly given to him from among the sons of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons that they may keep their priesthood, but the layman who comes near shall be put to death. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Again the L<font size="1">ORD</font> spoke to Moses, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Now, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the sons of Israel instead of every firstborn, the first issue of the womb among the sons of Israel. So the Levites shall be Mine. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>For all the firstborn are Mine; on the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified to Myself all the firstborn in Israel, from man to beast. They shall be Mine; I am the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Then the L<font size="1">ORD</font> spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>Number the sons of Levi by their fathers households, by their families; every male from a month old and upward you shall number. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>So Moses numbered them according to the word of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, just as he had been commanded. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>These then are the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon and Kohath and Merari. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei; <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>and the sons of Kohath by their families: Amram and Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel; <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>and the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers households. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Of Gershon <i>was</i> the family of the Libnites and the family of the Shimeites; these <i>were</i> the families of the Gershonites. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>Their numbered men, in the numbering of every male from a month old and upward, <i>even</i> their numbered men <i>were</i> 7,500. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle westward, <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>and the leader of the fathers households of the Gershonites <i>was</i> Eliasaph the son of Lael. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Duties of the Priests</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>Now the duties of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting <i>involved</i> the tabernacle and the tent, its covering, and the screen for the doorway of the tent of meeting, <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the doorway of the court which is around the tabernacle and the altar, and its cords, according to all the service concerning them. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>Of Kohath <i>was</i> the family of the Amramites and the family of the Izharites and the family of the Hebronites and the family of the Uzzielites; these were the families of the Kohathites. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>In the numbering of every male from a month old and upward, <i>there were</i> 8,600, performing the duties of the sanctuary. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>The families of the sons of Kohath were to camp on the southward side of the tabernacle, <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>and the leader of the fathers households of the Kohathite families was Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>Now their duties <i>involved</i> the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, and the utensils of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all the service concerning them; <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>and Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest <i>was</i> the chief of the leaders of Levi, <i>and had</i> the oversight of those who perform the duties of the sanctuary. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>Of Merari <i>was</i> the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites; these <i>were</i> the families of Merari. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-34.htm" target="_top"><b>34</b></a></span>Their numbered men in the numbering of every male from a month old and upward, <i>were</i> 6,200. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-35.htm" target="_top"><b>35</b></a></span>The leader of the fathers households of the families of Merari <i>was</i> Zuriel the son of Abihail. They <i>were</i> to camp on the northward side of the tabernacle. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-36.htm" target="_top"><b>36</b></a></span>Now the appointed duties of the sons of Merari <i>involved</i> the frames of the tabernacle, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its equipment, and the service concerning them, <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-37.htm" target="_top"><b>37</b></a></span>and the pillars around the court with their sockets and their pegs and their cords. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-38.htm" target="_top"><b>38</b></a></span>Now those who were to camp before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrise, are Moses and Aaron and his sons, performing the duties of the sanctuary for the obligation of the sons of Israel; but the layman coming near was to be put to death. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-39.htm" target="_top"><b>39</b></a></span>All the numbered men of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the command of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> by their families, every male from a month old and upward, <i>were</i> 22,000. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Firstborn Redeemed</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-40.htm" target="_top"><b>40</b></a></span>Then the L<font size="1">ORD</font> said to Moses, Number every firstborn male of the sons of Israel from a month old and upward, and make a list of their names. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-41.htm" target="_top"><b>41</b></a></span>You shall take the Levites for Me, I am the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the cattle of the sons of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-42.htm" target="_top"><b>42</b></a></span>So Moses numbered all the firstborn among the sons of Israel, just as the L<font size="1">ORD</font> had commanded him; <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-43.htm" target="_top"><b>43</b></a></span>and all the firstborn males by the number of names from a month old and upward, for their numbered men were 22,273. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-44.htm" target="_top"><b>44</b></a></span>Then the L<font size="1">ORD</font> spoke to Moses, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-45.htm" target="_top"><b>45</b></a></span>Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel and the cattle of the Levites. And the Levites shall be Mine; I am the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-46.htm" target="_top"><b>46</b></a></span>For the ransom of the 273 of the firstborn of the sons of Israel who are in excess beyond the Levites, <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-47.htm" target="_top"><b>47</b></a></span>you shall take five shekels apiece, per head; you shall take <i>them</i> in terms of the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-48.htm" target="_top"><b>48</b></a></span>and give the money, the ransom of those who are in excess among them, to Aaron and to his sons. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-49.htm" target="_top"><b>49</b></a></span>So Moses took the ransom money from those who were in excess, beyond those ransomed by the Levites; <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-50.htm" target="_top"><b>50</b></a></span>from the firstborn of the sons of Israel he took the money in terms of the shekel of the sanctuary, 1,365. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/3-51.htm" target="_top"><b>51</b></a></span>Then Moses gave the ransom money to Aaron and to his sons, at the command of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, just as the L<font size="1">ORD</font> had commanded Moses. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/numbers/3.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/numbers/3.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/numbers/3.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/numbers/3.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/numbers/3.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/numbers/3.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/numbers/3.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/holy_in_christ/fifth_day_holiness_and_redemption.htm">Fifth Day. Holiness and Redemption. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Sanctify unto me all the first-born.'--Ex. xiii. 2. 'All the first-born are mine; for on the day I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt I sanctified unto me all the first-born in Israel: mine they shall be: I am the Lord.'--Num. iii. 13, viii. 17. 'For I am the Lord your God that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.'--Lev. xi. 45. 'I have redeemed thee; thou art mine.'--Isa. xliii. 1. At Horeb we saw how the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/holy_in_christ/fifth_day_holiness_and_redemption.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Andrew Murray—</span><span class="citation2">Holy in Christ</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/athanasius/select_works_and_letters_or_athanasius/section_1_it_will_be.htm">It Will be Attempted to Give a Complete List of his Writings In</a><br></span><span class="snippet">chronological order; those included in this volume will be marked with an asterisk and enumerated in this place without remark. The figures prefixed indicate the probable date. (1) 318: *Two books contra Gentes,' viz. c. Gent. and De Incarn. (2) 321-2: *Depositio Arii (on its authorship, see Introd.) (3) 328-373: *Festal Letters. (4) 328-335? *Ecthesis or Expositio Fidei. (5) Id.? *In Illud Omnia, etc. (6) 339: *Encyclica ad Episcopos ecclesiæ catholicæ. (7) 343: *Sardican Letters (46, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/athanasius/select_works_and_letters_or_athanasius/section_1_it_will_be.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Athanasius—</span><span class="citation2">Select Works and Letters or Athanasius</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcgarvey/the_four-fold_gospel/xii_circumcision_temple_service_and.htm">Circumcision, Temple Service, and Naming of Jesus. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">(the Temple at Jerusalem, b.c. 4) ^C Luke II. 21-39. ^c 21 And when eight days [Gen. xvii. 12] were fulfilled for circumcising him [The rite was doubtless performed by Joseph. By this rite Jesus was "made like unto his brethren" (Heb. ii. 16, 17); that is, he became a member of the covenant nation, and became a debtor to the law--Gal. v. 3] , his name was called JESUS [see Luke i. 59], which was so called by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. [Luke i. 31.] 22 And when the days of their <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcgarvey/the_four-fold_gospel/xii_circumcision_temple_service_and.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">J. W. McGarvey—</span><span class="citation2">The Four-Fold Gospel</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/the_ten_commandments/2_5_the_fifth_commandment.htm">The Fifth Commandment</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.' Exod 20: 12. Having done with the first table, I am next to speak of the duties of the second table. The commandments may be likened to Jacob's ladder: the first table respects God, and is the top of the ladder that reaches to heaven; the second respects superiors and inferiors, and is the foot of the ladder that rests on the earth. By the first table, we walk religiously towards God; by <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/the_ten_commandments/2_5_the_fifth_commandment.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas Watson—</span><span class="citation2">The Ten Commandments</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/the_life_and_times_of_jesus_the_messiah/appendix_ii_philo_of_alexandria.htm">Appendix ii. Philo of Alexandria and Rabbinic Theology. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">(Ad. vol. i. p. 42, note 4.) In comparing the allegorical Canons of Philo with those of Jewish traditionalism, we think first of all of the seven exegetical canons which are ascribed to Hillel. These bear chiefly the character of logical deductions, and as such were largely applied in the Halakhah. These seven canons were next expanded by R. Ishmael (in the first century) into thirteen, by the analysis of one of them (the 5th) into six, and the addition of this sound exegetical rule, that where two <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/the_life_and_times_of_jesus_the_messiah/appendix_ii_philo_of_alexandria.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alfred Edersheim—</span><span class="citation2">The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/numbers.htm">Numbers</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Like the last part of Exodus, and the whole of Leviticus, the first part of Numbers, i.-x. 28--so called,[1] rather inappropriately, from the census in i., iii., (iv.), xxvi.--is unmistakably priestly in its interests and language. Beginning with a census of the men of war (i.) and the order of the camp (ii.), it devotes specific attention to the Levites, their numbers and duties (iii., iv.). Then follow laws for the exclusion of the unclean, v. 1-4, for determining the manner and amount of restitution <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/numbers.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Edgar McFadyen—</span><span class="citation2">Introduction to the Old Testament</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/numbers/3-5.htm">Numbers 3:5 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/numbers/3-5.htm">Numbers 3:5 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/numbers/3-5.htm">Numbers 3:5 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/numbers/3-5.htm">Numbers 3:5 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/numbers/3-5.htm">Numbers 3:5 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/numbers/3-5.htm">Numbers 3:5 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/numbers/3-5.htm">Numbers 3:5 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../numbers/3-4.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Numbers 3:4"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Numbers 3:4" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../numbers/3-6.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Numbers 3:6"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Numbers 3:6" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/numbers/3-5.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>