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Numbers 3:39 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" All who were counted of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron counted at the commandment of the LORD, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand. "
Numbers 3:39
Verse in Context
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37 the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords.
38 Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, with Aaron and his sons, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary for the duty of the children of Israel. The outsider who comes near shall be put to death.
39 All who were counted of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron counted at the commandment of the LORD, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.
40 The LORD said to Moses, “Count all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.
41 You shall take the Levites for me—I am the LORD—instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the livestock of the children of Israel.”
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Numbers 3:1
"Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai."
Numbers 3:2
"These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar."
Numbers 3:3
"These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest’s office."
Numbers 3:4
"Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD when they offered strange fire before the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the presence of Aaron their father."
Numbers 3:5
"The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,"
Numbers 3:6
"“Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him."
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