The Levites not numbered. NUMBERS, III. camp of Ephraim were an hundred B. C. 1490. thousand and eight thousand and an hundred, throughout their armies. And they shall go forward g ch.10.22. in the third g rank. 25 T The standard of the camp of h ch. 10.25. Dan shall be on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. i ch, 1.46.47. 26 And his host, and those that were numbered of them were three-k Ps 119.6. score and two thousand and seven hundred. 27 And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the captain of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ocran. 23 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred. 29 Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the captain of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan. 30 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred. 31 All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan were an hun-c dred thousand and fifty and seven thousand, and six hundred. They shall go h hindmost with their standards. 32 These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers: all i those that were numbered of the camps, throughout their hosts, were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty. 33 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses. 1 ch.24.2,5,6. (CHAP. 3.) b Ex.28.41. 1 whose hand he ch.26.61. d ch.8.6. 18.2,&c. Levites numbered by families. 4 And Nadab and Abihu died c before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father. 5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 6 Bring d the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him. 7 And they e shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do f the service of the tabernacle. 8 And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle. 9 And thou shalt give g the Levites unto Aaron, and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel. 10 And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's office, and the stranger h that cometh nigh shall be put to death. 11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 12 And I, behold, I have taken the Levites i from among the children Deut.33.10. of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel; therefore the Levites shall be mine; Mal.2.4. e 1 Chr.26.20, fch.1.50. g ch.8.19. 18.6,7. 13 Because all the firstborn k 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 the LORD. 14 T And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, 22. saying, k Ex. 13.2.12. of Aaron and Moses, in the day ver.39. that the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai. ch.26.62. 2 And these are the names of the 2 mouth. sons of Aaron; Nadab a the first born, and Abihu, Eleazar, and m Ge.46.11. Ithamar. 3 These are the names of the sons Ex.6.16. 15 Number 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. 16 And Moses numbered them, according to the 2 word of the LORD, as he was commanded. 17 And these m were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. 18 And these are the names of the sons of Gershon, by their families; Libni, n and Shimei. 19 Ánd the sons of Kohath, by of Aaron, the b priests which were n Ex.6.17-19. their families; Amram, and Ize anointed, 1 whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office. The Merarites. and upward, were six thousand and two hundred. 35 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these e shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward. 36 And 3 under the custody and d charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and all the males, from a month old r Ex.26.1,&c. the bars thereof, and the pillars and upward, even those that were numbered of them, were seven thousand and five hundred. s Ex.27.9,&c. 27 And of Kohath u was the fa- a Ex.26.32. mily of the Amramites, and the thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the vessels thereof, and all that serveth thereto, 37 And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords. 38 T But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping e the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger ƒ that cometh nigh shall be put to death. 39 All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand. 40 And the LORD said unto Moses, Number h all the firstborn family of the Izeharites, and the b 1Chr.6.19. of the males of the children of family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are 32 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the i ver. 12,45. chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the k ver.41. charge of the sanctuary. 33 Of Merari b was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari. 7 ch.18.15. Ex. 13.13. Israel, from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. 41 And i thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) 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. 42 And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel. 43 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 and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen. 44 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 45 Take k 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 the LORD. 46 And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the first 34 And those that were numbered m ver.39-43. born of the children of Israel, of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old which are more m than the Levites; The Levites' service. NUMBERS, IV. 47 Thou shalt even take five n B. C. 1490. shekels apiece by the poll; after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel o is twenty gerahs :) 48 And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons. 49 And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites: n ch.18.16. o Ex.30.13. Lev.27.25. p ver.46,47. 9 ver.48. r Mal.4.4. 50 Of the firstborn of the children (CHAP. 4.) 1Chr.23.3, b ver. 15. c ver. 19. 51 And Moses gave a the money CHAPTER IV. 1 The age and time of the Levites' service. 17 The office of the priests. Is.25.7. 10.20. e Ex.25.10-16. ND the LORD spake unto Moses f 1Ki.8.7,8. A and unto Aaron, saying, 2 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers, 3 From a thirty years old and upward, even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation. 4 This b shall be the service of the sons of Kohath, in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the c most holy things: 5 And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, d and cover the ark e of testimony with it: 6 And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put it in the staves f thereof 5 Ex.25.23 30. h Lev.24.5-8. 1 or, pour The charge of Eleazar. 10 And they shall put it and all vessels thereof within a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put it upon a bar. 11 And upon the golden altar k they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put to the staves thereof: 12 And they shall take all the instruments of ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put them on a bar. 13 And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon: 14 And they shall put upon it all the vessels m thereof, wherewith they minister about it, even the censers, the flesh-hooks and the shovels, and the 2 basons, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers' skins, and put to the staves of it. 15 And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath n shall come to bear it: Ex.25.31-38. but they shall not touch o any holy thing, lest they die. p These q ~things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation. Ex.30.1-5. Ex.25.9. 1Chr.9.29. m Ex.38.3. 2Chr.4.19. 2 or, bowls. n ch.7.9. 10.21. 9 And they shall take a cloth of blue and cover the candlestick i of the light; and his lamps, and his tongs, and his snuff-dishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith ver.3. they minister unto it: 16 T And to the office of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, pertaineth the oil r for the light, and the sweet s incense, and the daily meat offering, t and the anointing oil, u and the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein is, in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof. 17 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 18 Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites: 19 But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most v holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden: 20 But they shall not go in to w see when the holy things are covered, lest they die. 21 T And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 22 Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families; 23 From thirty a years old and Tupward, until fifty years old, shalt Number of Gershonites. NUMBERS, IV. thou number them; all that enter B. C. 1490. in to 2 perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation. 24 This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for 4 burdens. 25 Andy they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers' skins z that is above upon 3 war the 4 or, car- Number of Merarites. 35 From thirty i years old and upward, even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation: 36 And those that were numbered of them, by their families, were two thousand seven hundred and fifty. 37 These were they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do ser gregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses. it, and the hanging for the door of y ch.3.25,26. vice in the tabernacle of the conthe tabernacle of the congregation, 26 And the hangings a of the court, and the hanging for the door z Ex.26.14. of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, b and all the instruments of their service, and all that is made for them: sob Ex.35.18. shall they serve. a Ex.27.9. c ver.33. 27 At the 5 appointment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the ser- 5 mouth. vice of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burdens, and in all their service and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their burdens. 28 This is the service of the fa- d ver.3. milies of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge shall be under the. hand of Ithamar, c the son of Aaron the priest. 6 warfare, 38 And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon, throughout their families, and by the house of their fathers, 39 From thirty years old and upward, even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation, 40 Even those that were numbered of them, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty. 41 These k are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all that might 29 As for the sons of Merari, e ch.3.36,37. do service in the tabernacle of the thou shalt number them after their families, by the house of their fathers; 30 From thirty d years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the 6 service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation. 31 And this e is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards ƒ of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets thereof, f Ex.26.15. g Ex.25.9. h ver.28. Jos.3.6. i ver.47. 32 And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all k ver.22. their instruments, g and with all their service: and by name ye shall reckon the instruments of ver.29. the charge of their burden. 33 This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation, under the hand h of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest. m ver.3.23, 30. IChr.23.3, 27. 31. 34 And Moses and Aaron, and n Ro. 12.6-8. the chief of the congregation, num1Cor.12.4bered the sons of the Kohathites, after their families, and after the house of their fathers, congregation, whom Moses and Aaron did number, according to the commandment of the LORD. 42 T And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers, 43 From thirty years old and upward, even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation. 44 Even those that were numbered of them, after their families, were three thousand and two hundred. 45 These be those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses. 46 All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after the house of their fathers, 47 From m thirty years old and upward, even unto fifty years old, every n one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation, 48 Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand The unclean removed. NUMBERS, V. and five hundred and fourscore. B. C. 1490. 49 According to the commandment of the LORD they were num- o ver. 15.24, bered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his service, o and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as the p LORD commanded Moses. 31. p ver. 1,21. (CHAP. 5.) b Lev. 15.2. c ch.9.6,10, Lev.21.1. d 2Ki.7.3. 2Chr.26.21. e Le.26.11,12. 2Cor.6.16. f Lev.6.2. 5 And the LORD spake unto h Lev.6.5-7. Moses, saying, i 6 Speak unto the children of Is-1 rael, When ƒ a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty; 7 Then they shall confess g their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense h his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed. 7.7. or, heave offering. ch. 18.8,9,19. The trial of jealousy. 14 And the spirit of jealousy l come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled: 15 Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering m for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing n iniquity to remembrance. 16 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD: 17 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water: 18 And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, o and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse: 19 And the priest shall charge her by an oath, p and say unto the woman. If no man have lain with thee, Ex.29.28. and if thou hast not gone aside to Le.6.17,18. uncleanness 2 with another instead 7.6-14. of thy husband, be thou free from De.18.3.4. this bitter water that causeth the Eze.44.29, 30. 1Cor.9.13. curse : 20 But if thou hast gone aside to Mal.3.8-10. another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thine husband: k Lev.18.20. 8 But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed 1 Pr.6.34,35. unto the LORD, even to the priest; besides the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him. 9 And every 1 offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall i be his. 10 And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his. 11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, Cant.8.6. Heb.10.3. o Heb. 13.4. Re.2.19-23. p Mat.26.63. the power q Jos.6.26. 1Sa. 14.24. Ne.10.29. r Jer.29.22. 13 And a man & lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of 3 fall. Ps. 109. 18. her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be not Deut.27.15. witness against her, neither she be u Lev.8.27. taken with the manner; 21 Then the priest shall charge q the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse r and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to 3 rot, and thy belly to swell: 22 And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, s to make thy belly to swell, and And the t woman thy thigh to rot. shall say, Amen, amen. 23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water: 24 And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter. 25 Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave u the offering before the LORD and offer it upon the altar: |