Numbers 3:8-19
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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.
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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.
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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.
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11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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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;
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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.
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14 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
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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.
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16 And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
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17 And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
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18 And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei.
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19 And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.