民3:8And they shall keep all the utensils of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.

民3:9And thou shalt give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given to him out of the children of Israel.

民3:10And Aaron and his sons shalt thou appoint that they may attend to their priest's office; and the stranger that cometh near shall be put to death.

民3:11And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

民3:12And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of every firstborn that breaketh open the womb among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine;

民3:13for every firstborn is mine. On the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both of man and beast; mine shall they be: I am Jehovah.

民3:14And Jehovah spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,

民3:15Number the sons of Levi according to their fathers' houses, after their families; every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.

民3:16And Moses numbered them, according to the commandment of Jehovah, -- as he had been commanded.

民3:17And these are the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.

民3:18And these are the names of the sons of Gershon according to their families: Libni and Shimei.

民3:19And the sons of Kohath according to their families: Amram and Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel.

民3:20And the sons of Merari according to their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.

民3:21Of Gershon, the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites.

民3:22Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, those that were numbered of them were seven thousand five hundred.

民3:23The families of the Gershonites encamped behind the tabernacle westward.

民3:24And the prince of the father's house of the Gershonites was Eliasaph the son of Lael.

民3:25And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting was: the tabernacle and the tent, its covering, and the curtain of the entrance to the tent of meeting.

民3:26And the hangings of the court, and the curtain of the entrance to the court, which surrounds the tabernacle and the altar, and the cords thereof for all its service.

民3:27And of Kohath, 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.