From: ngninja@baptist.email   
      
   Bible Reading for February 12   
      
   Numbers Chapter 3   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   14 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,   
      
   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 word of the LORD, as he was   
   commanded.   
      
   17 And these 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, and Shimei.   
      
   19 And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron,   
   and Uzziel.   
      
   20 And 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 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the   
   Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites.   
      
   22 Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the   
   males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of   
   them were seven thousand and five hundred.   
      
   23 The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle   
   westward.   
      
   24 And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be   
   Eliasaph the son of Lael.   
      
   25 And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the   
   congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering   
   thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,   
      
   26 And the hangings of the court, and the curtain for the door of the   
   court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and the   
   cords of it for all the service thereof.   
      
   27 And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the   
   Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the   
   Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.   
      
   28 In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were   
   eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.   
      
   29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the   
   tabernacle southward.   
      
   30 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the   
   Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.   
      
   31 And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and the   
   candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith   
   they minister, and the hanging, and all the service thereof.   
      
   32 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief   
   of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of   
   the sanctuary.   
      
   33 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the   
   Mushites: these are the families of Merari.   
      
   34 And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all   
   the males, from a month old 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 shall pitch on the side of the   
   tabernacle northward.   
      
   36 And under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall be the   
   boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars 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 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 the charge of the sanctuary for the charge   
   of the children of Israel; and the stranger 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 all the firstborn of the males   
   of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the   
   number of their names.   
      
   41 And 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 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 firstborn of the children of Israel,   
   which are more than the Levites;   
      
   47 Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the   
   shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)   
      
      
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