¹ These are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the Lord spoke to Moses in mount Sinai.

² And these the names of the sons of Aaron: his firstborn Nadab, then Abiu, and Eleazar, and Ithamar.

³ These the names of the sons of Aaron the priests that were anointed, and whose hands were filled and consecrated, to do the functions of priesthood.

⁴ Now Nadab and Abiu died, without children, when they offered strange fire before the Lord, in the desert of Sinai: and Eleazar and Ithamar performed the priestly office in the presence of Aaron their father.

⁵ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

⁶ Bring the tribe of Levi, and make them stand in the sight of Aaron the priest to minister to him, and let them watch,

⁷ And observe whatsoever appertaineth to the service of the multitude before the tabernacle of the testimony,

⁸ And let them keep the vessels of the tabernacle, serving in the ministry thereof.

⁹ And thou shalt give the Levites for a gift,

¹⁰ To Aaron and to his sons, to whom they are delivered by the children of Israel. But thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons over the service of priesthood. The stranger that approacheth to minister, shall be put to death.

¹¹ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying :

¹² I have taken the Levites from the children of Israel, for every firstborn that openeth the womb among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.

¹³ For every firstborn is mine: since I struck the firstborn in the land of Egypt: I have sanctified to myself whatsoever is firstborn in Israel both of man and beast, they are mine: I am the Lord.

¹⁴ And the Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, saying:

¹⁵ Number the sons of Levi by the houses of their fathers and their families, every male from one month and upward.

¹⁶ Moses numbered them as the Lord had commanded.

¹⁷ And there were found sons of Levi by their names, Gerson and Caath and Merari.

¹⁸ The sons of Gerson: Lebni and Semei.

¹⁹ The sons of Caath: Amram, and Jesaar, Hebron and Oziel:

²⁰ The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi.

²¹ Of Gerson were two families, the Lebnites, and the Semeites:

²² Of which were numbered, people of the male sex from one month and upward, seven thousand five hundred.

²³ These shall pitch behind the tabernacle on the west,

²⁴ Under their prince Eliasaph the son of Lael.

²⁵ And their charge shall be in the tabernacle of the covenant:

²⁶ The tabernacle itself and the cover thereof, the hanging that is drawn before the doors of the tabernacle of the covenant, and the curtains of the court: the hanging also that is hanged in the entry of the court of the tabernacle, and whatsoever belongeth to the rite of the altar, the cords of the tabernacle, and all the furniture thereof.

²⁷ Of the kindred of Caath come the families of the Amramites and Jesaarites and Hebronites and Ozielites. These are the families of the Caathites reckoned up by their names:

²⁸ All of the male sex from one month and upward, eight thousand six hundred: they shall have the guard of the sanctuary,

²⁹ And shall camp on the south side.

³⁰ And their prince shall be Elisaphan the son of Oziel:

³¹ And they shall keep the ark, and the table and the candlestick, the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary, wherewith they minister, and the veil, and all the furniture of this kind.

³² And the prince of the princes of the Levites, Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, shall be over them that watch for the guard of the sanctuary.

³³ And of Merari are the families of the Moholites, and Musites, reckoned up by their names :

³⁴ All of the male kind from one month and upward, six thousand two hundred.

³⁵ Their prince Suriel the son of Abihaiel: they shall camp on the north side.

³⁶ Under their custody shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars, and the pillars and their sockets, and all things that pertain to this kind of service:

³⁷ And the pillars of the court round about with their sockets, and the pins with their cords.

³⁸ Before the tabernacle of the covenant, that is to say on the east side, shall Moses and Aaron camp, with their sons, having the custody of the sanctuary, in the midst of the children of Israel. What stranger soever cometh unto it, shall be put to death.

³⁹ All the Levites, that Moses and Aaron numbered according to the precept of the Lord, by their families, of the male kind from one month and upward, were twenty-two thousand.

⁴⁰ And the Lord said to Moses: Number the firstborn of the male sex of the children of Israel, from one month and upward, and thou shalt take the sum of them.

⁴¹ And thou shalt take the Levites to me for all the firstborn of the children of Israel, I am the Lord: and their cattle for all the firstborn of the cattle of the children of Israel:

⁴² Moses reckoned up, as the Lord had commanded, the firstborn of the children of Israel:

⁴³ And the males by their names, from one month and upward, were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.

⁴⁴ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saving:

⁴⁵ Take the Levites for the firstborn of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites for their cattle, and the Levites shall be mine. I am the Lord.

⁴⁶ But for the price of the two hundred and seventy-three, of the firstborn of the children of Israel, that exceed the number of the Levites,

⁴⁷ Thou shalt take five sides for every head, according to the weight of the sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty obols.

⁴⁸ And then shalt give the money to Aaron and his sons, the price of them that are above.

⁴⁹ Moses therefore took the money of them that were above, and whom they had redeemed from the Levites,

⁵⁰ For the firstborn of the children of Israel, one thousand three hundred and sixty-five sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary,

⁵¹ And gave it to Aaron and his sons, according to the word that the Lord had commanded him.

¹ The sons of Levi were Gerson, Caath, and Merari.

² The sons of Caath: Amram, Isaar, Hebron, and Oziel.

³ The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Mary. The sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abiu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

⁴ Eleazar beget Phinees, and Phinees beget Abisue,

⁵ And Abisue beget Bocci, and Bocci begot Ozi.

⁶ Ozi beget Zaraias, and Zaraias beget Maraioth.

⁷ And Maraioth beget Amarias, and Amarias beget Achitob.

⁸ Achitob beget Sadoc, and Sadoc begot Achimaas.

⁹ Achimaas beget Azarias, Azarias begot Johanan,

¹⁰ Johanan beget Azarias. This is he that executed the priestly office in the house which Solomon built in Jerusalem.

¹¹ And Azarias beget Amarias, and Amarias beget Achitob.

¹² And Achitob beget Sadoc, and Sadoc beget Sellum,

¹³ Sellum beget Helcias, and Helcias beget Azarias,

¹⁴ Azarias beget Saraias, and Saraias beget Josedec.

¹⁵ Now Josedec went out, when the Lord carried away Juda, and Jerusalem, by the hands of Nabuchodonosor.

¹⁶ So the sons of Levi were Gerson, Caath, and Merari.

¹⁷ And these are the names of the sons of Gerson: Lobni and Semei.

¹⁸ The sons of Caath : Amram, and Isaar, and Hebron, and Oziel.

¹⁹ The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi. And these are the kindreds of Levi according to their families.

²⁰ Of Gerson: Lobni his son, Jahath his son, Zamma his son,

²¹ Joah his son, Addo his son, Zara his son, Jethrai his son.

²² The sons of Caath, Aminadab his son, Core his son, Asir his son,

²³ Elcana his son, Abiasaph his son, Asir his son,

²⁴ Thahath his son, Uriel his son, Ozias his son, Saul his son.

²⁵ The sons of Elcana: Amasai, and Achimoth.

²⁶ And Elcana. The sons of Elcana: Sophai his son, Nahath his son,

²⁷ Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elcana his son.

²⁸ The sons of Samuel: the firstborn Vasseni, and Abia.

²⁹ And the sons of Merari, Moholi: Lobni his son, Semei his son, Oza his son,

³⁰ Sammaa his son, Haggia his son, Asaia his son.

³¹ These are they, whom David set over the singing men of the house of the Lord, after that the p ark was placed:

³² And they ministered before the tabernacle of the testimony, with singing, until Solomon built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, and they stood according to their order in the ministry.

³³ And these are they that stood with their sons, of the sons of Caath, Hemam a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Sammuel,

³⁴ The son of Elcana, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Thohu,

³⁵ The son of Suph, the son of Elcana, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,

³⁶ The son of Elcana, the son of Johel, the son of Azarias, the son of Sophonias,

³⁷ The son of Thahath, the son of Asir, the son or Abiasaph, the son of Core,

³⁸ The son of Isaar, the son of Caath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.

³⁹ And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, Asaph the son of Barachias, the son of Samaa.

⁴⁰ The son of Michael, the son of Basaia, the son of Melchia.

⁴¹ The son of Athanai, the son of Zara, the son of Adaia.

⁴² The son of Ethan, the son of Zamma, the son of Semei.

⁴³ The son of Jeth, the son of Gerson, the son of Levi.

⁴⁴ And the sons of Merari their brethren, on the left hand, Ethan the son of Cusi, the son of Abdi, the son of Meloch,

⁴⁵ The son of Hasabia, the son of Amasai, the son of Helcias,

⁴⁶ The son of Amasai, the son of Boni, the son of Somer,

⁴⁷ The son of Moholi, the son of Mud, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.

⁴⁸ Their brethren also the Levites, who were appointed for all the ministry of the tabernacle of the house of the Lord.

⁴⁹ But Aaron and his sons offered burnt offerings upon the altar of holocausts, and upon the altar of incense, for very work of the holy of holies: and to pray for Israel according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

⁵⁰ And these are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinees his son, Abisue his son,

⁵¹ Bocci his son, Ozi his son, Zarahia his son,

⁵² Meraioth his son, Amarias his son, Achitob his son,

⁵³ Sadoc his son, Achimaas his son.

⁵⁴ And these are their dwelling places by the towns and confines, to wit, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Caathites: for they fell to them by lot.

⁵⁵ And they gave them Hebron in the land of Juda, and the suburbs thereof round about:

⁵⁶ But the fields of the city, and the villages to Caleb son of Jephone.

⁵⁷ And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities for refuge Hebron, and Lobna, and the suburbs thereof,

⁵⁸ And Jether and Esthemo, with their suburbs, and Helon, and Dabir with their suburbs:

⁵⁹ Asan also, and Bethsames, with their suburbs.

⁶⁰ And out of the tribe of Benjamin: Gabee and its suburbs, Almath with its suburbs, Anathoth also with its suburbs: all their cities throughout their families were thirteen.

⁶¹ And to the sons of Caath that remained of their kindred they gave out of the half tribe of Manasses ten cities in possession.

⁶² And to the sons of Gerson by their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Aser, and out of the tribe of Nephtali, and out of the tribe of Manasses in Basan, thirteen cities. their

⁶³ And to the sons of Merari by families out of the tribe of Ruben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zabulon, they gave by lot twelve cities.

⁶⁴ And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities, and their suburbs.

⁶⁵ And they gave them by lot, out of the tribe of the sons of Juda, and out of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin, these cities which they called by their names.

⁶⁶ And to them that were of the kindred of the sons of Caath, and the cities in their borders were of the tribe of Ephraim.

⁶⁷ And they gave the cities of refuge Sichem with its suburbs in mount Ephraim, and Gazer with its suburbs,

⁶⁸ Jecmaan also with its suburbs, and Beth-horon in like manner,

⁶⁹ Helon also with its suburbs, and Gethremmon in like manner,

⁷⁰ And out of the half tribe of Manasses, Aner and its suburbs, Baalam and its suburbs: to wit, to them that were left of the family of the sons of Caath.

⁷¹ And to the sons of Gersom, out of the kindred of the half tribe of Manasses, Gaulon, in Basan, and its suburbs, and Astharoth with its suburbs.

⁷² Out of the tribe of Issachar, Cedes and its suburbs, and Dabereth with its suburbs;

⁷³ Ramoth also and its suburbs, and Anem with its suburbs.

⁷⁴ And out of the tribe of Aser: Masal with its suburbs, and Abdon in like manner;

⁷⁵ Hucac also and its suburbs, and Rohol with its suburbs.

⁷⁶ And out of the tribe of Nephtali, Cedes in Galilee and its suburbs, Hamon with its suburbs, and Cariathaim, and its suburbs.

⁷⁷ And to the sons of Merari that remained: out of the tribe of Zabulon, Remmono and its suburbs, and Thabor with its suburbs.

⁷⁸ Beyond the Jordan also over against Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Ruben, Bosor in the wilderness with its suburbs, and Jassa with its suburbs;

⁷⁹ Cademoth also and its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs;

⁸⁰ Moreover also out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Galaad and its suburbs, and Manaim with its suburbs;

⁸¹ Hesebon also with its suburbs, and Jazer with its suburbs.