Bible Verses About The Levites

and Moses standeth in the gate of the camp, and saith, `Who is for Jehovah? --unto me!' and all the sons of Levi are gathered unto him;

and he saith to them, `Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Put each his sword by his thigh, pass over and turn back from gate to gate through the camp, and slay each his brother, and each his friend, and each his relation.'

And the sons of Levi do according to the word of Moses, and there fall of the people on that day about three thousand men,

And the Levites, for the tribe of their fathers, have not numbered themselves in their midst,

seeing Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

`Only, the tribe of Levi thou dost not number, and their sum thou dost not take up in the midst of the sons of Israel;

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,

`Number the sons of Levi by the house of their fathers, by their families; every male from a son of a month and upward thou dost number them.'

And Moses numbereth them according to the command of Jehovah, as he hath been commanded.

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Number every first-born male of the sons of Israel from a son of a month and upward, and take up the number of their names;

and thou hast taken the Levites for Me (I am Jehovah), instead of every first-born among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of every firstling among the cattle of the sons of Israel.'

And Moses numbereth, as Jehovah hath commanded him, all the first-born among the sons of Israel.

And all the first-born--male--by the number of names, from a son of a month and upward, of their numbered ones, are two and twenty thousand two hundred and seventy and three.

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

`Take the Levites instead of every first-born among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites have been Mine; I am Jehovah.

that Aaron and his sons have come in, in the journeying of the camp, and have taken down the vail of the hanging, and have covered with it the ark of the testimony;

and have put on it a covering of badger skin, and have spread a garment completely of blue above, and have placed its staves.

`And on the table of the presence they spread a garment of blue, and have put on it the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and the cups of the libation, and the bread of continuity is on it,

and they have spread over them a garment of scarlet, and have covered it with a covering of badger skin, and have placed its staves,

and have taken a garment of blue, and have covered the candlestick of the lamp, and its lights, and its snuffers, and its snuff-dishes, and all its oil vessels wherewith they minister to it;

and they have put it and all its vessels unto a covering of badger skin, and have put it on the bar.

`And on the golden altar they spread a garment of blue, and have covered it with a covering of badger skin, and have placed its staves;

and have taken all the vessels of ministry wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and have put them unto a garment of blue, and have covered them with a covering of badger skin, and have put them on the bar,

and have removed the ashes of the altar, and have spread over it a garment of purple;

and have put on it all its vessels wherewith they minister about it, the censers, the hooks, and the shovels, and the bowls, all the vessels of the altar, and have spread on it a covering of badger skin, and have placed its staves: