from a month old and upward, of those who were numbered of them,
were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.
003:044 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
003:045 "Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among
the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites
instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine.
I am Yahweh.
003:046 For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the
firstborn of the children of Israel, who exceed the number
of the Levites,
003:047 you shall take five shekels apiece for each one;
after the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them
(the shekel is twenty gerahs):
003:048 and you shall give the money, with which the remainder of them
is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons."
003:049 Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded
the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites;
003:050 from the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money,
one thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels, after the shekel
of the sanctuary:
003:051 and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons,
according to the word of Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
004:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
004:002 "Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi,
by their families, by their fathers' houses,
004:003 from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old,
all who enter into the service, to do the work in the
Tent of Meeting.
004:004 This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting,
the most holy things.
004:005 When the camp moves forward, Aaron shall go in, and his sons,
and they shall take down the veil of the screen, and cover
the ark of the Testimony with it,
004:006 and shall put a covering of sealskin on it, and shall spread
over it a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its poles.
004:007 On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth,
and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups
with which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it.
004:008 They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same
with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.
004:009 They shall take a blue cloth, and cover the lampstand of the light,
and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes,
and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it.
004:010 They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin,
and shall put it on the frame.
004:011 On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover
it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.
004:012 They shall take all the vessels of ministry, with which they
minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth,