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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 Yahweh 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 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in Israel's army, were registered by their ancestral houses.

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 money 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 houses,

You must 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.

This is what you must do 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.

From the Israelites, I have given the Levites exclusively to Aaron and his sons to perform the work for the Israelites at the tent of meeting and to make atonement on their behalf, so that no plague will come against the Israelites when they approach the sanctuary."

After that, the Levites came to do their work at the tent of meeting in the presence of Aaron and his sons. So they did to them as the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites.

So Moses told the Israelites to observe the Passover,