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Numbers 3 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:1 - And these are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day in which the Lord spoke to Moses in mount Sina.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:2 - And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the first-born; and Abiud, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:3 - These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests whom they [fn]consecrated to the priesthood.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:4 - And Nadab and Abiud died before the Lord, when they offered strange fire before the Lord, in the wilderness of Sina; and they had no children; and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priests' office with Aaron their father.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:5 - And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:6 - Take the tribe of Levi, and thou shalt set them before Aaron the priest, and they shall minister to him,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:7 - and shall keep his charges, and the charges of the children of Israel, before the tabernacle of witness, to do the works of the tabernacle.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:8 - And they shall keep all the furniture of the tabernacle of witness, and the charges of the children of Israel as to all the works of the tabernacle.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:9 - And thou shalt give the Levites to Aaron, and to his sons the priests; they are given for a gift to me of the children of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:10 - And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons over the tabernacle of witness; and they shall keep their charge of priesthood, and all things belonging to the altar, and within the veil; and the stranger that touches them shall die.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:11 - And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:12 - Behold, I have taken the Levites from the midst of the children of Israel, instead of every male that opens the womb from among the children of Israel: they shall be their ransom, and the Levites shall be mine.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:13 - For every first-born is mine; in the day in which I smote every first-born in the land of Egypt, I sanctified to myself every first-born in Israel: both of man and beast, they shall be mine: I am the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:14 - And the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sina, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:15 - Take the number of the sons of Levi, according to the houses of their families, according to their divisions; number ye them every male from a month old and upwards.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:16 - And Moses and Aaron numbered them by the [fn]word of the Lord, as the Lord commanded them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:17 - And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gedson, Caath, and Merari.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:18 - And these are the names of the sons of Gedson according to their families; Lobeni and Semei:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:19 - and the sons of Caath according to their families; Amram and Issaar, Chebron and Oziel:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:20 - and the sons of Merari according to their families, Mooli and Musi; these are the families of the Levites according to the houses of their families.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:21 - To Gedson belongs the family of Lobeni, and the family of Semei: these are the families of Gedson.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:22 - The numbering of them according to the number of every male from a month old and upwards, their numbering was seven thousand and five hundred.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:23 - And the sons of Gedson shall encamp westward behind the tabernacle.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:24 - And the ruler of the household of the family of Gedson was Elisaph the son of Dael.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:25 - And the charge of the sons of Gedson in the tabernacle of witness was the tent and the veil, and the covering of the door of the tabernacle of witness,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:26 - and the curtains of the court, and the veil of the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and the remainder of all its works.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:27 - To Caath belonged one division, that of Amram, and another division, that of Issaar, and another division, that of Chebron, and another division, that of Oziel: these are the divisions of Caath, according to number.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:28 - Every male from a month old and upward, eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charges of the holy things.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:29 - The families of the sons of Caath, shall encamp beside the tabernacle toward the south.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:30 - And the chief of the house of the families of the divisions of Caath, was Elisaphan the son of Oziel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:31 - And their charge was the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and all the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they do holy service, and the veil, and all their works.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:32 - And the chief over the chief of the Levites, was Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, appointed to keep the charges of the holy things.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:33 - To Merari belonged the family of Mooli, and the family of Musi: these are the families of Merari.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:34 - The mustering of them according to number, every male from a month old and upwards, was six thousand and fifty.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:35 - And the head of the house of the families of the division of Merari, was Suriel the son of Abichail: they shall encamp by the side of the tabernacle northwards.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:36 - The oversight of the charge of the sons of Merari included the chapiters of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and all their furniture, and their works,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:37 - and the pillars of the court round about, and their bases, and their pins, and their cords.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:38 - They that encamp before the tabernacle of witness on the east shall be Moses and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charges of the sanctuary according to the charges of the children of Israel; and the stranger that touches them, shall die.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:39 - All the numbering of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered by the word of the Lord, according to their families, every male from a month old and upwards, were two and twenty thousand.
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Numbers 3:39 Commentaries
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:40 - And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Count every first-born male of the children of Israel from a month old and upwards, and take the number by name.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:41 - And thou shalt take the Levites for me—I am the Lord—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 children of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:42 - And Moses counted, as the Lord commanded him, every first-born among the children of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:43 - And all the male first-born in number by name, from a month old and upwards, were according to their numbering twenty-two thousand and two hundred and seventy-three.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:44 - And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:45 - 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 mine; I am the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:46 - And for the ransoms of the two hundred and seventy-three which exceed the Levites in number of the first-born of the sons of Israel;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:47 - thou shalt even take five shekels a head; thou shalt take them according to the holy didrachm, twenty oboli to the shekel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:48 - And thou shalt give the money to Aaron and to his sons, the ransom of those who exceed in number among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:49 - And Moses took the silver, the ransom of those that exceeded in number [fn]the redemption of the Levites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:50 - He took the silver from the first-born of the sons of Israel, a thousand three hundred and sixty-five shekels, according to the holy shekel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:51 - And Moses gave the ransom of them that were over to Aaron and his sons, by the [fn]word of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.
BES Footnotes
Gr. accomplished their hands to minister: according to the Hebrew idiom, filled their hands.
Gr. voice.
i. e. the number redeemed by the Levites.
Gr. voice.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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