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And as for those that are left of you, I will send a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword; and they shall fall when none pursues.

And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them completely, and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God;

but I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am Yahweh.

Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When a man shall accomplish a vow, the persons shall be for Yahweh by your estimation.

And if it is from five years old even to twenty years old, then your estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

And if it is from a month old even to five years old, then your estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female your estimation shall be three shekels of silver.

And if it is from sixty years old and upward; if it is a male, then your estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy.

He shall not search whether it is good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he changes it at all, then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.

These are the commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses for the sons of Israel in mount Sinai.

These were those numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: there was one man [each] for his fathers' house.

For Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

for all the first-born are mine; on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt I hallowed to me all the first-born in Israel, from man to beast; they shall be mine: I am Yahweh.

And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering thereof, and the screen for the door of the tent of meeting,

and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and the cords of it for all the service thereof.

And those that encamp before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrising, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the sons of Israel; and the stranger that comes near shall be put to death.

And you shall take the Levites for me (I am Yahweh) instead of all the first-born among the sons of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstborns among the cattle of the sons of Israel:

And for the redemption of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the first-born of the sons of Israel, that are over and above [the number of] the Levites,

And the charge of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the continual meal-offering, and the anointing oil, the charge of all the tabernacle, and of all that is therein, the sanctuary, and the furniture thereof.

but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, or they will die.