Ezekiel 44:11 References
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"Yet they shall be aministers in My sanctuary, having boversight at the gates of the house and cministering in the house; they shall dslaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall estand before them to minister to them.
a Numbers 3:5-37, Numbers 4:1-33, Numbers 18:2-7
Numbers 3
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Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
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"They shall perform the duties for him and for the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, to do the aservice of the tabernacle.
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"They shall also keep all the furnishings of the tent of meeting, along with the duties of the sons of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.
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"You shall thus agive the Levites to Aaron and to his sons; they are wholly given to him from among the sons of Israel.
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"So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons that athey may keep their priesthood, but bthe layman who comes near shall be put to death."
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Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
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"Now, behold, I ahave taken the Levites from among the sons of Israel instead of every bfirstborn, the first issue of the womb among the sons of Israel. So the Levites shall be Mine.
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"For aall the firstborn are Mine; on the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified to Myself all the firstborn in Israel, from man to beast. They shall be Mine; I am the Lord."
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"aNumber the sons of Levi by their fathers' households, by their families; every male from a month old and upward you shall number."
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So Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord, just as he had been commanded.
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and the sons of Kohath by their families: Amram and Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel;
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and the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' households.
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Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites and the family of the Shimeites; these were the families of the Gershonites.
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Their numbered men, in the numbering of every male from a month old and upward, even their numbered men were 7,500.
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The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle westward,
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and the leader of the fathers' households of the Gershonites was Eliasaph the son of Lael.
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Now athe duties of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting involved the tabernacle and bthe tent, its covering, and cthe screen for the doorway of the tent of meeting,
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and athe hangings of the court, and bthe screen for the doorway of the court which is around the tabernacle and the altar, and its cords, according to all the service concerning them.
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Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites and the family of the Izharites and the family of the Hebronites and the family of the Uzzielites; these were the families of the Kohathites.
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In the numbering of every male from a month old and upward, there were 8,600, performing the duties of the sanctuary.
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The families of the sons of Kohath were to camp on the southward side of the tabernacle,
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and the leader of the fathers' households of the Kohathite families was Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
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Now atheir duties involved bthe ark, cthe table, dthe lampstand, ethe altars, and the utensils of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all the service concerning them;
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and Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest was the chief of the leaders of Levi, and had the oversight of those who perform the duties of the sanctuary.
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Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites; these were the families of Merari.
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Their numbered men in the numbering of every male from a month old and upward, were 6,200.
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The leader of the fathers' households of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They were to acamp on the northward side of the tabernacle.
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Now the appointed duties of the sons of Merari involved the frames of the tabernacle, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its equipment, and the service concerning them,
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and the pillars around the court with their sockets and their pegs and their cords.
Numbers 4
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Then the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
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"Take a census of the descendants of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers' households,
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from athirty years and upward, even to fifty years old, all who enter the service to do the work in the tent of meeting.
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"This is the work of the descendants of Kohath in the tent of meeting, concerning the most holy things.
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"When the camp sets out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and they shall take down athe veil of the screen and cover the bark of the testimony with it;
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and they shall lay a acovering of porpoise skin on it, and shall spread over it a cloth of pure blue, and shall insert its poles.
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"Over the table of the bread of the Presence they shall also spread a cloth of blue and put on it the dishes and the pans and the sacrificial bowls and the jars for the drink offering, and athe continual bread shall be on it.
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"They shall spread over them a cloth of scarlet material, and cover the same with a covering of porpoise skin, and they shall insert its poles.
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"Then they shall take a blue cloth and cover the alampstand for the light, balong with its lamps and its snuffers, and its trays and all its oil vessels, by which they serve it;
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and they shall put it and all its utensils in a covering of porpoise skin, and shall put it on the carrying bars.
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"Over the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth and cover it with a covering of porpoise skin, and shall insert its poles;
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and they shall take all the utensils of service, with which they serve in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth and cover them with a covering of porpoise skin, and put them on the carrying bars.
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"They shall also put on it all its utensils by which they serve in connection with it: the firepans, the forks and shovels and the basins, all the utensils of the altar; and they shall spread a cover of porpoise skin over it and insert its poles.
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"When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy objects and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, when the camp is to set out, after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry them, so that they will not touch the holy objects aand die. These are the things in the tent of meeting which the sons of Kohath are to carry.
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"The responsibility of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest is athe oil for the light and the bfragrant incense and cthe continual grain offering and dthe anointing oil--the responsibility of all the tabernacle and of all that is in it, with the sanctuary and its furnishings."
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Then the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
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"Do not let the tribe of the families of the Kohathites be cut off from among the Levites.
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"But do this to them that they may live and anot die when they approach the most holy objects: Aaron and his sons shall go in and assign each of them to his work and to his load;
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Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
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"Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers' households, by their families;
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from athirty years and upward to fifty years old, you shall number them; all who enter to perform the service to do the work in the tent of meeting.
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"This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in carrying:
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they shall carry athe curtains of the tabernacle and the tent of meeting with its covering and bthe covering of porpoise skin that is on top of it, and the screen for the doorway of the tent of meeting,
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and athe hangings of the court, and the screen for the doorway of the gate of the court which is around the tabernacle and the altar, and their cords and all the equipment for their service; and all that is to be done, they shall perform.
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"All the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their loads and in all their work, shall be performed at the command of Aaron and his sons; and you shall assign to them as a duty all their loads.
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"This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the tent of meeting, and their duties shall be under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
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"As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families, by their fathers' households;
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from athirty years and upward even to fifty years old, you shall number them, everyone who enters the service to do the work of the tent of meeting.
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"Now this is the duty of their loads, for all their service in the tent of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle and its bars and its pillars and its sockets,
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and the pillars around the court and their sockets and their pegs and their cords, with all their equipment and with all their service; and you shall assign each man by name the items he is to carry.
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"This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service in the tent of meeting, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest."
Numbers 18
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"But bring with you also your brothers, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may be ajoined with you and serve you, while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.
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"And they shall thus attend to your obligation and the obligation of all the tent, but athey shall not come near to the furnishings of the sanctuary and bthe altar, or both they and you will die.
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"They shall be joined with you and attend to the obligations of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent; but an outsider may not come near you.
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"So you shall attend to the aobligations of the sanctuary and the obligations of the altar, bso that there will no longer be wrath on the sons of Israel.