Aaron

"Aharon is to go back into the tent of meeting, where he is to remove the linen garments he put on when he entered the Holy Place, and he is to leave them there.

"Speak to Aharon and his sons and to all the people of Isra'el. Tell them that this is what ADONAI has ordered:

ADONAI said to Moshe, "Speak to the cohanim, the sons of Aharon; tell them: 'No cohen is to make himself unclean for any of his people who dies,

"Tell Aharon, 'None of your descendants who has a defect may approach to offer the bread of his God.

no one descended from Aharon the cohen who has such a defect may approach to present the offerings for ADONAI made by fire; he has a defect and is not to approach to offer the bread of his God.

Moshe said these things to Aharon, his sons and all the people of Isra'el.

"Tell Aharon and his sons to separate themselves from the holy things of the people of Isra'el which they set apart as holy for me, so that they will not profane my holy name; I am ADONAI.

"'Any descendant of Aharon with tzara'at or a discharge is not to eat the holy things until he is clean. Anyone who has touched a person made unclean by a dead body, or who has had a seminal emission,

"Speak to Aharon and his sons and to the entire people of Isra'el; tell them: 'When anyone, whether a member of the house of Isra'el or a foreigner living in Isra'el, brings his offering, either in connection with a vow or as a voluntary offering, and brings it to ADONAI as a burnt offering,

Outside the curtain of the testimony in the tent of meeting, Aharon is to arrange for the light to be kept burning always from evening until morning before ADONAI ; this is to be a permanent regulation through all your generations.

They will belong to Aharon and his sons; and they are to eat them in a holy place; because for him they are, of the offerings for ADONAI made by fire, especially holy. This is a permanent law."

twenty years old and over who are subject to military service in Isra'el. You and Aharon are to enumerate them company by company.

So Moshe and Aharon took these men who had been designated by name;

Moshe, Aharon and the twelve leaders of Isra'el, each from a clan,

ADONAI said to Moshe and Aharon,

These are the descendants of Aharon and Moshe as of the day when ADONAI spoke with Moshe on Mount Sinai.

The names of the sons of Aharon are: Nadav the firstborn, Avihu, El'azar and Itamar.

These were the names of the sons of Aharon the cohen, whom he anointed and ordained as cohanim.

But Nadav and Avihu died in the presence of ADONAI when they offered unauthorized fire before ADONAI in the Sinai Desert, and they had no children; El'azar and Itamar served as cohanim in the presence of Aharon their father.

"Summon the tribe of Levi, and assign them to Aharon the cohen, so that they can help him.

Assign the L'vi'im to Aharon and his sons; their one responsibility in regard to the people of Isra'el is to serve him.

You are to appoint Aharon and his sons to carry out the duties of cohanim; anyone else who involves himself is to be put to death."

El'azar the son of Aharon the cohen was first among the chiefs of the L'vi'im and supervised those in charge of the Holy Place.

Those who were to camp in front of the tabernacle on the east, in front of the tent of meeting toward the sunrise, were Moshe, Aharon and his sons who were in charge of the Holy Place. They carried out their responsibility on behalf of the people of Isra'el, and anyone else who involved himself was to be put to death.

The total number of L'vi'im whom Moshe and Aharon counted by their clans, all the males a month old and over, was 22,000.