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Before the tabernacle of the covenant, that is to say on the east side shall Moses and Aaron camp, with their sons, having the custody of the sanctuary, in the midst of the children of Israel. What stranger soever cometh unto it, shall be put to death.

And the Lord said to Moses: Number the firstborn of the male sex of the children of Israel, from one month and upward, and thou shalt take the sum of them.

And thou shalt take the Levites to me for all the firstborn of the children of Israel, I am the Lord: and their cattle for all the firstborn of the cattle of the children of Israel:

Moses reckoned up, as the Lord had commanded, the firstborn of the children of Israel:

Take the Levites for the firstborn of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites for their cattle, and the Levites shall be mine. I am the Lord.

But for the price of the two hundred and seventy-three, of the firstborn of the children of Israel, that exceed the number of the Levites,

For the firstborn of the children of Israel, one thousand three hundred and sixty-five sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary,

Command the children of Israel, that they cast out of the camp every leper, and whosoever hath an issue of seed, or is defiled by the dead:

And the children of Israel did so, and they cast them forth without the camp, as the Lord had spoken to Moses.

Say to the children of Israel: When a man or woman shall have committed any of all the sins that men are wont to commit, and by negligence shall have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and offended,

All the firstfruits also, which the children of Israel offer, belong to the priest:

Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man whose wife shall have gone astray, and contemning her husband,

But if she be not defiled, she shall not be hurt, and shall bear children.

Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When a man, or woman, shall make a vow to be sanctified, and will consecrate themselves to the Lord:

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

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

Take the Levites out of the midst of the children of Israel, and thou shalt purify them,

And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the covenant, calling together all the multitude of the children of Israel:

And when the Levites are before the Lord, the children of Israel shall put their hands upon them:

And Aaron shall offer the Levites, as a gift in the sight of the Lord from the children of Israel, that they may serve in his ministry.