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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   Day 55, 24 February 2025   
      
   1) Numbers 3, Numbers 4   
      
   NUMBERS 3   
   The Sons of Aaron   
      
   1 (Ex 6:20) These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses   
   in the day that the Lord spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.   
   2 (Ex 6:23; Nu 26:60) These are the names of the sons of Aaron:   
   Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.   
   3 (Ex 28:41; Lev 8:1-9) These are the names of the sons of Aaron,   
   the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister as priests.   
   4 (Lev 10:1-2; Nu 26:61) Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord when   
   they brought strange fire before the Lord in the Wilderness of Sinai,   
   and they had no children, and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered   
   as priests in the sight of Aaron their father.   
      
   [1] These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the   
   LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai.   
   [2] And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the firstborn, and   
   Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.   
   [3] These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which were   
   anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office.   
   [4] And 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: and   
   Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron   
   their father.   
      
   Duties of the Levites   
      
   5 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:   
   6 Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest,   
   and they will minister to him.   
   7 (Nu 1:50; 8:11)nThey will keep his directives, and serve the whole   
   congregation before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.   
   8 They will keep all the instruments of the tent of meeting,   
   and attend to the needs of the children of Israel,   
   to do the service of the tabernacle.   
   9 (Nu 8:19) You will give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons.   
   They are wholly given to him from the children of Israel.   
   10 (Nu 1:51; 3:38) You will appoint Aaron and his sons,   
   and they will attend to their priesthood,   
   and the foreigner that approaches will be put to death.   
   11 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:   
   12 (Nu 3:41; 8:16) I Myself have taken the Levites from among   
   the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that open   
   the womb among the children of Israel. Therefore the Levites will be Mine   
   13 (Ex 13:2; 13:12) because all the firstborn are Mine, for on the day   
   that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I set apart to Me   
   all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast. They will be Mine.   
   I am the Lord.   
      
   [5] And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,   
   [6] Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest,   
   that they may minister unto him.   
   [7] And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation   
   before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do 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 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 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 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;   
   [13] Because 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 the LORD.   
      
   A Census of the Levites   
      
   14 The Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, saying:   
   15 (Nu 26:62) Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers,   
   by their families. You will number every male from a month old and older.   
   16 Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord, as he was commanded.   
   17 (Ge 46:11; Ex 6:16-19) These were the sons of Levi by their names:   
   Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.   
   18 (1Ch 6:17) These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families:   
   Libni and Shimei;   
   19 (Ex 6:18; 1Ch 6:18) the sons of Kohath by their families:   
   Amram, and Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel;   
   20 (Ex 6:19; 1Ch 6:19) the sons of Merari by their families:   
   Mahli and Mushi.   
   These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.   
   21 From Gershon was the family of the Libnites   
   and the family of the Shimeites. These are the families of the Gershonites.   
   22 Those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males,   
   from a month old and older, those who were numbered of them were 7500.   
   23 (Nu 1:53) The families of the Gershonites were to camp   
   behind the west side of the tabernacle.   
   24 The chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites was Eliasaph   
   the son of Lael.   
   25 (Ex 25:9) The charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting   
   included the tabernacle, and the tent, its covering, and the hanging   
   for the door of the tent of meeting,   
   26 (Ex 35:18) the hangings of the court, the curtain for the opening   
   of the court that is around the tabernacle and the altar,   
   and its cords-all the service pertaining to these.   
   27 (1Ch 26:23) Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites,   
   and the family of the Izharites, and the family of the Hebronites,   
   and the family of the Uzzielites. These are the families of the Kohathites.   
   28 The number of all the males, from a month old and older, were 8600,   
   keeping the guard of the sanctuary.   
   29 (Nu 1:53) The families of the sons of Kohath   
   were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle.   
   30 The chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites   
   was Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.   
   31 Their duty included the ark, and the table, and the lampstand,   
   and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary they minister with,   
    and the hanging, and all its service.   
   32 Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest was to be chief over the leaders   
   of the Levites and to have the oversight of those who kept the guard   
   of the sanctuary.   
   33 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites.   
   These are the families of Merari. 34Those who were numbered of them,   
   according to the number of all the males from a month old and older,   
   were 6200.   
   35 (Nu 1:53; 2:25) The chief of the house of the father of the families   
   of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail.   
   These were to camp on the north side of the tabernacle.   
   36 (Ex 26:32; 26:37) Under the oversight and guard of the sons of Merari   
   were the frames of the tabernacle, the bars, the pillars, the sockets,   
   all their accessories, all the service pertaining to these,   
      
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