Numbers 3:33-51 ▼

33 To Merari the families of the Mahlites, and the families of the Mushites: these they of the families of the Merari.

34 And they being reviewed according to the number of every male, from the son of a month and above, six thousand and two hundred,

35 And the chief of the house of the father to the families of Merari, Zuriel, son of Abihail: by the thigh of the dwelling shall they encamp to the north.

36 And the review of the watches of the sons of Merari, the boards of the dwelling, and its bars, and its pillars, and its bases, and all its vessels, and all its works,

37 And the pillars of the enclosure round about, and their bases, and their pegs, and their cords.

38 And they encamping before the dwelling eastward before the tent of appointment, from the sunrising, Moses and Aaron and his sons, watching the watches of the holy place, for the watches of the sons of Israel; and the stranger coming near shall die.

39 All they being reviewed of the Levites, which Moses reviewed and Aaron, at the mouth of Jehovah, according to their families, every male from the son of a month and above, two and twenty thousand.

40 And Jehovah will say to Moses, Review every first-born male to the sons of Israel, from the son of a month and above, and take up the number of names.

41 And take the Levites for me (I Jehovah) instead of all the first-born of the sons of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the first-born among the cattle of the sons of Israel.

42 And Moses reviewed as Jehovah commanded him, all the first-born of the sons of Israel.

43 And every first-born male shall be according to the number of names, from the son of a month and above, for those being reviewed, two and twenty thousand three and seventy and two hundred.

44 And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying,

45 Take the Levites instead of all the first-born of the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be to me: I Jehovah.

46 And the price of redemption of the three and seventy and two hundred, of those remaining over the Levites, from the first-born of the sons of Israel:

47 And thou shalt take five shekels by the heads, according to the holy shekel thou shalt take: twenty gerahs the shekel.

48 And give the silver to Aaron and to his sons, the price of redemption of those remaining over among them.

49 And Moses will take the silver of the price of their redemption, from those remaining over them redeemed of the Levites.

50 From the first-born of the sons of Israel he took the silver; five and sixty and three hundred and a thousand, according to the holy shekel.

51 And Moses will give the silver of those being redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons, at the mouth of Jehovah, as Jehovah commanded Moses.