Verse 21
Numbers 3:21
Bible in Basic English
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From Gershon come the Libnites and the Shimeites; these are the families of the Gershonites.
Original Language Text
hebrew
לְ/גֵ֣רְשׁ֔וֹן מִשְׁפַּ֨חַת֙ הַ/לִּבְנִ֔י וּ/מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַ/שִּׁמְעִ֑י אֵ֣לֶּה הֵ֔ם מִשְׁפְּחֹ֖ת הַ/גֵּרְשֻׁנִּֽי
English Translation
To Gershon, the family of the Libnite and the family of the Shimeite, these are the families of the Gershonites.
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Chapter 3 Context
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Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day when the word of the Lord came to Moses...
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These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the oldest, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
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These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests, on whom the holy oil was put, who were marked...
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And Nadab and Abihu were put to death before the Lord when they made an offering of strange fire bef...
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And the Lord said to Moses,
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Make the tribe of Levi come near, and put them before Aaron the priest, to be his helpers,
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In order that they may be responsible to him and to all Israel for the care of the Tent of meeting,...
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And they will have the care of all the vessels of the Tent of meeting, and will do for the children...
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Give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; so that they may be his without question from among the chil...
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And give orders that Aaron and his sons are to keep their place as priests; any strange person who c...
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And the Lord said to Moses,
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See, I have taken the Levites out of the children of Israel to be mine in place of the first sons of...
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For all the first sons are mine; on the day when I put to death all the first sons in the land of Eg...
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And the Lord said to Moses in the waste land of Sinai,
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Let all the children of Levi be numbered by their families and their fathers' houses; let every male...
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So Moses did as the Lord said, numbering them as he had been ordered.
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These were the sons of Levi by name: Gershon and Kohath and Merari.
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And these are the names of the sons of Gershon, by their families: Libni and Shimei.
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And the sons of Kohath, by their families: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel.
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And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites in...
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From Gershon come the Libnites and the Shimeites; these are the families of the Gershonites.
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Those who were numbered of them, the males from one month old and over, were seven thousand, five hu...
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The tents of the Gershonites are to be placed at the back of the House, to the west.
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The chief of the Gershonites is Eliasaph, the son of Lael.
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In the Tent of meeting, the Gershonites are to have the care of the House, and the Tent with its cov...
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And the hangings for the open space round the House and the altar, and the curtain for its doorway,...
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From Kohath come the Amramites and the Izharites and the Hebronites and the Uzzielites; these are th...
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Those who were numbered of them, the males from one month old and over, were eight thousand, six hun...
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The tents of the Kohathites are to be placed on the south side of the House.
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Their chief is Elizaphan, the son of Uzziel.
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In their care are the ark, and the table, and the lights, and the altars, and all the vessels used i...
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Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, will be head over all the Levites and overseer of those respon...
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From Merari come the Mahlites and the Mushites; these are the families of Merari.
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Those who were numbered of them, the males of a month old and over, were six thousand, two hundred.
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The chief of the families of Merari was Zuriel, the son of Abihail: their tents are to be placed on...
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And in their care are to be all the boards of the Tent, with their rods and pillars and bases, and a...
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And the pillars of the open space round it, with their bases and nails and cords.
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And those whose tents are to be placed on the east side of the House in front of the Tent of meeting...
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All the Levites numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord, all the males of one month old...
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And the Lord said to Moses, Let all the first male children be numbered, and take the number of thei...
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And give to me the Levites (I am the Lord) in place of the first sons of the children of Israel; and...
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So Moses had all the first sons among the children of Israel numbered, as the Lord said to him.
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Every first son from a month old and over was numbered by name, and the number came to twenty-two th...
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And the Lord said to Moses,
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Take the Levites in place of all the first sons of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Lev...
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And the price you have to give for the two hundred and seventy-three first sons of the children of I...
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Will be five shekels for every one, by the scale of the holy place (the shekel is twenty gerahs);
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And this money, the price of those over the number of the Levites, is to be given to Aaron and his s...
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So Moses took the money, the price of those whose place had not been taken by the Levites;
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From the first sons of Israel he took it, a thousand, three hundred and sixty-five shekels, by the s...
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And he gave the money to Aaron and his sons, as the Lord had said.
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