Study Desk

When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and ration out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

I also will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to live there will be appalled by it.

But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword to chase after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins.

Yet in spite of this, while they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or abhor them so as to destroy them and break my covenant with them, since I am the Lord their God.

But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest will calculate the price for him in proportion to the years left until the next Year of Jubilee, so that your assessment will be reduced.

So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,

So all the Israelites twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in Israel’s army, were registered by their ancestral families.

The Levites are to camp around the tabernacle of the testimony and watch over it, so that no wrath will fall on the Israelite community.”

But Nadab and Abihu died in the Lord’s presence when they presented unauthorized fire before the Lord in the Wilderness of Sinai, and they had no sons. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests under the direction of Aaron their father.

So Moses registered them in obedience to the Lord as he had been commanded:

So Moses registered every firstborn among the Israelites, as the Lord commanded him.

So Moses collected the redemption amount from those in excess of the ones redeemed by the Levites.

Do this for them so that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy objects: Aaron and his sons are to go in and assign each man his task and transportation duty.

So Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of the community registered the Kohathites by their clans and their ancestral families,

Send away both male or female; send them outside the camp, so that they will not defile their camps where I dwell among them.”

So Moses took the carts and oxen and gave them to the Levites.

So Aaron did this; he set up its lamps to give light in front of the lampstand just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Do this to them for their purification: Sprinkle them with the purification water. Have them shave their entire bodies and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.

Aaron is to present the Levites before the Lord as a presentation offering from the Israelites, so that they may perform the Lord’s work.

In this way you are to separate the Levites from the rest of the Israelites so that the Levites will belong to me.