Numbers 3 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And these are the generations of Aharon and Mosheh when יהוה  spoke with Mosheh on Mount Sinai.

² And these are the names of the sons of Aharon: Naḏ

³ These are the names of the sons of Aharon, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to act as priests.

⁴ And Naḏ

⁵ And יהוה  spoke to Mosheh, saying,

⁶ “Bring the tribe of Lĕ

⁷ and shall guard his duty and the duty of all the congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the Dwelling Place.

⁸ “And they shall guard all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and the duty of the children of Yisra’ĕ

⁹ “And you shall give the Lĕ

¹⁰ “And appoint Aharon and his sons, and they shall guard their priesthood. And the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”

¹¹ And יהוה  spoke to Mosheh, saying,

¹² “Now look, I Myself have taken the Lĕ

¹³ because all the first-born are Mine. On the day that I struck all the first-born in the land of Mitsrayim, I set apart to Myself all the first-born in Yisra’ĕ

¹⁴ And יהוה  spoke to Mosheh in the Wilderness of Sinai, saying,

¹⁵ “Register the children of Lĕ

¹⁶ So Mosheh registered them according to the word of יהוה, as he had been commanded.

¹⁷ And these were the sons of Lĕ

¹⁸ And these are the names of the sons of Gĕ

¹⁹ And the sons of Qehath by their clans: Amram and Yitshar, Ḥ

²⁰ And the sons of Merari by their clans: Maḥ

²¹ From Gĕ

²² Their registered ones, according to the number of all the males from a month old and above, their registered ones were seven thousand five hundred.

²³ The clans of the Gĕ

²⁴ and the leader of the fathers’ house of the Gĕ

²⁵ And the duty of the children of Gĕ

²⁶ and the screens of the courtyard and the covering of the door of the courtyard, which is around the Dwelling Place and the altar, and their cords, according to all its service.

²⁷ And from Qehath came the clan of the Amramites, and the clan of the Yitsharites, and the clan of the Ḥ

²⁸ In number, all the males, from a month old and above, were eight thousand six hundred, guarding the duty of the set-apart place.

²⁹ The clans of the children of Qehath were to camp on the south side of the Dwelling Place.

³⁰ And the leader of the fathers’ house of the clans of the Qehathites was Elitsaphan, son of Uzzi’ĕ

³¹ And their duty was the ark, and the table, and the lampstand, and the altars, and the utensils of the set-apart place used in the service, and the covering, and all its service.

³² And Elʽ

³³ From Merari came the clan of the Maḥ

³⁴ And the number of their registered ones, all the males from a month old and above, were six thousand two hundred.

³⁵ And the leader of the fathers’ house of the clans of Merari was Tsuri’ĕ

³⁶ And the appointed duty of the children of Merari was the boards of the Dwelling Place, and its bars, and its columns, and its sockets, and its utensils, and all its service,

³⁷ and the columns of the courtyard all around, with their sockets, and their pegs, and their cords.

³⁸ And those who were to camp before the Dwelling Place on the east, before the Tent of Meeting, were Mosheh and Aharon, and his sons, guarding the duty of the set-apart place, and the duty of the children of Yisra’ĕ

³⁹ All the registered ones of the Lĕ

⁴⁰ And יהוה  said to Mosheh, “Register all the first-born males of the children of Yisra’ĕ

⁴¹ “And you shall take the Lĕ

⁴² And Mosheh registered all the first-born among the children of Yisra’ĕ

⁴³ And all the first-born males, by the number of names, from one month old and above of their registered ones, were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.

⁴⁴ And יהוה  spoke to Mosheh, saying,

⁴⁵ “Take the Lĕ

⁴⁶ “And for the ransom of the two hundred and seventy-three of the first-born of the children of Yisra’ĕ

⁴⁷ you shall take five sheqels for each one, head by head – take it by the sheqel of the set-apart place, the sheqel of twenty gĕ

⁴⁸ “And you shall give the silver, the ransom of those who are in excess among them, to Aharon and his sons.”

⁴⁹ And Mosheh took the ransom silver from those who were over and above those who were ransomed by the Lĕ

⁵⁰ From the first-born of the children of Yisra’ĕ

⁵¹ And Mosheh gave their ransom silver to Aharon, and to his sons, according to the word of יהוה, as יהוה  had commanded Mosheh.