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Read Full Chapter (Numbers 3) Numbers 3:5-6 KJV
"And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him."
Numbers 3:5-6 in Context (Verses 2–9 KJV)
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And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
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These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest’s office.*
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And 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: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the sight of Aaron their father.
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¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him.
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And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle.
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And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.
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And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel.