04:003:001 These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai. 04:003:002 And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 04:003:003 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office. 04:003:004 And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father. 04:003:005 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 04:003:006 Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him. 04:003:007 And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle. 04:003:008 And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle. 04:003:009 And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel. 04:003:010 And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death. 04:003:011 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 04:003:012 And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine; 04:003:013 Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD. 04:003:014 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, 04:003:015 Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them. 04:003:016 And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded. 04:003:017 And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. 04:003:018 And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei. 04:003:019 And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel. 04:003:020 And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers. 04:003:021 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites. 04:003:022 Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.