The Levites' offices,

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and their number. daily meat-offering, and the anointing oil, shall reckon the instruments of the charge and the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of their burden.

of all that therein is, in the sanctuary, and 33 This is the service of the families of

in the vessels thereof.

17 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

18 Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites: 19 But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden:

20 But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die. 21 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

22 Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the house of their fathers, by their families;

23 From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.

24 This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens: 25 And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers' skins that is above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,

the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the tabernacle of the congregation, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

34 ¶ And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their families, and after the house of their fathers,

35 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation:

36 And those that were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.

37 These were they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

38¶ And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon, throughout their families, and by the house of their fathers,

39 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,

40 Even those that were numbered of them, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty.

26 And the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by 41 These are they that were numbered the altar round about, and their cords, and of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all the instruments of their service, and all all that might do service in the tabernacle that is made for them: so shall they of the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD.

serve.

27 At the appointment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burdens, and in all their service and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their burdens.

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28 This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

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29 ¶ As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after their families, by the house of their fathers;

42 ¶ And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers,

43 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,

44 Even those that were numbered of them after their families, were three thousand and two hundred.

45 These be those that were numbered 30 From thirty years old and upward of the families of the sons of Merari, whom even unto fifty years old shalt thou number Moses and Aaron numbered according to them, every one that entereth into the ser- the word of the LORD by the hand of Movice, to do the work of the tabernacle of the ses. congregation.

46 All those that were numbered of the 31 And this is the charge of their burden, Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the according to all their service in the taber-chief of Israel numbered, after their faminacle of the congregation; the boards of lies, and after the house of their fathers, the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the 47 From thirty years old and upward pillars thereof, and sockets thereof, even unto fifty years old, every one that

32 And the pillars of the court round came to do the service of the ministry, and about, and their sockets, and their pins, the service of the burden in the tabernacle and their cords, with all their instruments, of the congregation,

and with all their service: and by name yel 48 Even those that were numbered of

The unclean put out of camp.

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The trial of jealousy.

them, were eight thousand and five hundred an offering of jealousy, an offering of meand fourscore.

morial, bringing iniquity to remembrance. 16 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD:

49 According to the commandment of the LORD they were numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his ser- 17 And the priest shall take holy water vice, and according to his burden thus in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that were they numbered of him, as the LORD is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest commanded Moses. shall take, and put it into the water:

CHAP. V.

AND the LORD spake unto Moses, say

ing,

18 And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in 2 Command the children of Israel, that her hands, which is the jealousy-offering: they put out of the camp every leper, and and the priest shall have in his hand the every one that hath an issue, and whoso- bitter water that causeth the curse: ever is defiled by the dead:

3 Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.

4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the chil

dren of Israel.

5¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

19 And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse :

20 But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:

21 Then the priest shall charge the wo6 Speak unto the children of Israel, man with an oath of cursing, and the priest When a man or woman shall commit any shall say unto the woman, The LORD make sin that men commit, to do a trespass thee a curse and an oath among thy people, against the LORD, and that person be guilty; when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, 7 Then they shall confess their sin which and thy belly to swell;

they have done: and he shall recompense 22 And this water that causeth the curse his trespass with the principal thereof, and shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give to swell, and thy thigh to rot. And the woit unto him against whom he hath trespass- man shall say, Amen, amen.

ed.

23 And the priest shall write these curses

8 But if the man have no kinsman to in a book, and he shall blot them out with recompense the trespass unto, let the tres- the bitter water:

pass be recompensed unto the LORD, even 24 And he shall cause the woman to drink to the priest; beside the ram of the atone- the bitter water that causeth the curse: and ment, whereby an atonement shall be made the water that causeth the curse shall enter for him. into her, and become bitter.

9 And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.

10 And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.

11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,

25 Then the priest shall take the jealousy-offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar:

26 And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.

27 And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if 13 And a man lie with her carnally, and she be defiled, and have done trespass it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and against her husband, that the water that be kept close, and she be defiled, and there causeth the curse shall enter into her, and be no witness against her, neither she be become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and taken with the manner; her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be

14 And the spirit of jealousy come upon a curse among her people. him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she 28 And if the woman be not defiled, but be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come be clean; then she shall be free, and shall upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, conceive seed. and she be not defiled:

29 This is the law of jealousies, when a 15 Then shall the man bring his wife wife goeth aside to another instead of her unto the priest, and he shall bring her of husband, and is defiled;

fering for her, the tenth part of an ephah 30 Or when the spirit of jealousy comof barley-meal; he shall pour no oil upon eth upon him, and he be jealous over his it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is wife, and shall set the woman before the

NUMBERS. Form of blessing the people.

15 And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and 31 Then shall the man be guiltless from wafers of unleavened bread anointed with iniquity, and this woman shall bear her ini- oil, and their meat-offering and their drinkquity. offerings.

16 And the priest shall bring them beAND the LORD spake unto Moses, say-fore the LORD, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his burnt-offering: 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and 17 And he shall offer the ram for a sasay unto them, When either man or woman crifice of peace-offerings unto the LORD, shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a with the basket of unleavened bread: the Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the priest shall offer also his meat-offering, and his drink-offering.

3 He shall separate himself from wine 18 And the Nazarite shall shave the head and strong drink, and shall drink no vine- of his separation at the door of the tabergar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, nacle of the congregation, and shall take neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, the hair of the head of his separation, and nor eat moist grapes, or dried. put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace-offerings.

19 And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened 5 All the days of the vow of his separa- cake out of the basket, and one unleavened tion there shall no razor come upon his wafer, and shall put them upon the hands head until the days be fulfilled, in the of the Nazarite, after the hair of his sepawhich he separateth himself unto the ration is shaven: LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.

11 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-of-the fering, and make an atonement for him,

for that he sinned by the dead, and shall

hallow his head that same day.

12 And he shall consecrate unto the and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and LORD the days of his separation, and shall all the instruments thereof, both the altar bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass- and all the vessels thereof, and had anointoffering but the days that were before ed them, and sanctified them; shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.

3 And they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered wagons, and twelve 14 And he shall offer his offering unto oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and the LORD, one he-lamb of the first year for each one an ox: and they brought them without blemish for a burnt-offering, and before the tabernacle.

one ewe-lamb of the first year without ble- 4 And the LORD spake unto Moses, mish for a sin-offering, and one ram without saying, blemish for peace-offerings,

dedication of the temple.

do the service of the tabernacle of the con-both of them full of fine flour mingled with gregation; and thou shalt give them unto oil for a meat-offering: the Levites, to every man according to his

service.

8 And four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

26 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

27 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering: 28 One kid of the goats for a sin-offering: 29 And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.

30 On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben, did offer:

9 But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service of the sanctuary 31 His offering was one silver charger, belonging unto them was that they should of the weight of an hundred and thirty bear upon their shoulders. shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels,

10 And the princes offered for dedi- after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of cating of the altar in the day that it was them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a anointed, even the princes offered their of meat-offering: fering before the altar.

11 And the LORD said unto Moses, They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedicating of the altar.

32 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

33 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering: 34 One kid of the goats for a sin-offer

12 And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Am-ing: minadab, of the tribe of Judah :

35 And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, 13 And his offering was one silver two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs charger, the weight whereof was an hun- of the first year: this was the offering of dred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of Elizur the son of Shedeur.

seventy shekels, after the shekel of the 36 On the fifth day Shelumiel the son sanctuary; both of them were full of fine of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of flour mingled with oil for a meat-offering: Simeon, did offer:

14 One spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense:

15 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering: 16 One kid of the goats for a sin-offering:

17 And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

37 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat-offering:

38 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

39 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering: 40 One kid of the goats for a sin-offer

18 On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offering:

19 He offered for his offering one silver 41 And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, charger, the weight whereof was an hun- two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs dred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of of the first year: this was the offering of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanc- Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. tuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat-offering:

20 One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense:

42 ¶ On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad, offered:

43 His offering was one silver charger, of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, a silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a

21 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering: 22 One kid of the goats for a sin-offering: 23 And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, meat-offering: two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nethaneel the son of Zuar.

24 On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun, did offer:

44 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

45 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering:

46 One kid of the goats for a sin-offering: 47 And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, 25 His offering was one silver charger, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs the weight whereof was an hundred and of the first year: this was the offering of thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;' 48 On the seventh day Elishama the

71 And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs 49 His offering was one silver charger, of the first year: this was the offering of the weight whereof was an hundred and Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy 72 ¶ On the eleventh day Pagiel the son shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; of Ocran, prince of the children of Asher, both of them full of fine flour mingled with offered:

50 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy

of incense: 51 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; of the first year, for a burnt-offering: both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat-offering:

76 One kid of the goats for a sin-offering: 77 And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs 55 His offering was one silver charger, of the first year: this was the offering of of the weight of an hundred and thirty Pagiel the son of Ocran.

shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, 78 ¶ On the twelfth day Ahira the son after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of of Enan, prince of the children of Naphthem full of fine flour mingled with oil for tali, offered:

56 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full the weight whereof was an hundred and

thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy

of incense: 57 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; of the first year for a burnt-offering: both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat-offering:

64 One kid of the goats for a sin-offering: 65 And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, 86 The golden spoons were twelve, full two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, of the first year: this was the offering of after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the Abidan the son of Gideoni. gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels.

87 All the oxen for the burnt-offering were twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the 67 His offering was one silver charger, lambs of the first year twelve, with their the weight whereof was an hundred and meat-offering: and the kids of the goats thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy for sin-offering, twelve. shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; 88 And all the oxen for the sacrifice of both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat-offering:

the peace-offerings were twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he-goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after that it was anointed.

89 And when Moses was gone into the 70 One kid of the goats for a sin-offering: tabernacle of the congregation to speak with