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And you shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons; they are wholly given to him as a gift out of the children of Israel.

Behold I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the first-born that open the womb among the children of Israel; therefore the Levites shall be mine;

Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families; every male from a month old and upward, you shall number them.

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 in addition to the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

And the LORD said to Moses, Number all the first-born of the males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.

And you shall present the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel.

And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the first-born among the children of Israel,

Present the Levites instead of all the first-born 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.

And for the redemption of the two hundred and seventy-three of the first-born of the children of Israel, that are above the number of the Levites,

From the first-born of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand three hundred and sixty-five shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary:

Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper and every one who has a discharge and whosoever has defiled himself;

And the children of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp; as the LORD had said to Moses, so did the children of Israel.

Say to the children of Israel, When a man or a woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do wrong in the sight of the LORD, and that person shall be guilty,

And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel which they bring to the priest shall be his.

Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, If any mans wife does wrong, and commits a trespass against him,

Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When a man or woman shall separate himself to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate himself to the LORD,

Speak to Aaron and to his sons and say to them, Thus you shall bless the children of Israel, saying to them,

And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel, and I will bless them.

Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.

And you shall bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation; and you shall gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together;