LEVITES

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• Exodus 28:1

  “Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.

• Exodus 29:9

  You shall clothe them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them: and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute: and you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.

• Exodus 32:26

  then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, “Whoever is on Yahweh’s side, come to me!” All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.

• Exodus 32:27

  He said to them, “Yahweh says, the God of Israel, ‘Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.’”

• Exodus 32:28

  The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

• Numbers 1:47

  But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not counted among them.

• Numbers 1:48

  For Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Numbers 1:49

  “Only the tribe of Levi you shall not count, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;

• Numbers 1:50

  but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle, and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.

• Numbers 1:51

  When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

• Numbers 1:52

  The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.

• Numbers 1:53

  But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.”

• Numbers 1:54

  Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they did.

• Numbers 2:17

  “Then the Tent of Meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the middle of the camps. As they encamp, so shall they set out, every man in his place, by their standards.

• Numbers 3:6

  “Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.

• Numbers 3:7

  They shall keep his requirements, and the requirements of the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.

• Numbers 3:8

  They shall keep all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and the obligations of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.

• Numbers 3:9

  You shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons. They are wholly given to him on the behalf of the children of Israel.

• Numbers 3:10

  You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”

• Numbers 3:11

  Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Numbers 3:12

  “Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine:

• Numbers 3:13

  for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made holy to me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and animal. They shall be mine. I am Yahweh.”

• Numbers 3:14

  Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,

• Numbers 3:15

  “Count the children of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families. You shall count every male from a month old and upward.”

• Numbers 3:16

  Moses counted them according to Yahweh’s word, as he was commanded.

• Numbers 3:17

  These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.

• Numbers 3:18

  These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.

• Numbers 3:19

  The sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, and Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

• Numbers 3:20

  The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ houses.

• Numbers 3:21

  Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites: these are the families of the Gershonites.

• Numbers 3:22

  Those who were counted of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those who were counted of them were seven thousand five hundred.

• Numbers 3:23

  The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.

• Numbers 3:24

  The prince of the fathers’ house of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.

• Numbers 3:25

  The duty of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, its covering, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,

• Numbers 3:26

  and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and around the altar, and its cords for all of its service.

• Numbers 3:27

  Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.

• Numbers 3:28

  According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary.

• Numbers 3:29

  The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the south side of the tabernacle.

• Numbers 3:30

  The prince of the fathers’ house of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.

• Numbers 3:31

  Their duty shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all its service.

• Numbers 3:32

  Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the Levites, with the oversight of those who keep the requirements of the sanctuary.

• Numbers 3:33

  Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites. These are the families of Merari.

• Numbers 3:34

  Those who were counted of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred.

• Numbers 3:35

  The prince of the fathers’ house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They shall encamp on the north side of the tabernacle.

• Numbers 3:36

  The appointed duty of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service,

• Numbers 3:37

  the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords.

• Numbers 3:38

  Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary for the duty of the children of Israel. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

• Numbers 3:41

  You shall take the Levites for me (I am Yahweh) 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.”

• Numbers 3:42

  Moses counted, as Yahweh commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.

• Numbers 3:43

  All the firstborn males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those who were counted of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.

• Numbers 3:44

  Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Numbers 3:45

  “Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am Yahweh.

• Numbers 4:1

  Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

• Numbers 4:2

  “Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,

• Numbers 4:3

  from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.

• Numbers 4:4

  “This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting, the most holy things.

• Numbers 4:5

  When the camp moves forward, Aaron shall go in, and his sons, and they shall take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the Testimony with it,

• Numbers 4:6

  and shall put a covering of sealskin on it, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its poles.

• Numbers 4:7

  “On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it.

• Numbers 4:8

  They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.

• Numbers 4:9

  “They shall take a blue cloth, and cover the lamp stand of the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it.

• Numbers 4:10

  They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame.

• Numbers 4:11

  “On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.

• Numbers 4:12

  “They shall take all the vessels of ministry, with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, and cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame.

• Numbers 4:13

  “They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it.

• Numbers 4:14

  They shall put on it all its vessels, with which they minister about it, the fire pans, the meat hooks, the shovels, and the basins; all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its poles.

• Numbers 4:15

  “When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it: but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting.

• Numbers 4:17

  Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

• Numbers 4:18

  “Don’t cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;

• Numbers 4:19

  but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them everyone to his service and to his burden;

• Numbers 4:20

  but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.”

• Numbers 4:21

  Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Numbers 4:22

  “Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers’ houses, by their families;

• Numbers 4:23

  you shall count them from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old; all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.

• Numbers 4:24

  “This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:

• Numbers 4:25

  they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the Tent of Meeting, its covering, and the covering of sealskin that is above on it, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,

• Numbers 4:26

  and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and around the altar, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and whatever shall be done with them. They shall serve in there.

• Numbers 4:27

  At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden, and in all their service; and you shall appoint their duty to them in all their responsibilities.

• Numbers 4:28

  This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the Tent of Meeting: and their duty shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

• Numbers 4:29

  “As for the sons of Merari, you shall count them by their families, by their fathers’ houses;

• Numbers 4:30

  you shall count them from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who enters on the service, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting.

• Numbers 4:31

  This is the duty of their burden, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,

• Numbers 4:32

  and the pillars of the court around it, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name you shall appoint the instruments of the duty of their burden.

• Numbers 4:33

  This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the Tent of Meeting, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.”

• Numbers 4:34

  Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation counted the sons of the Kohathites by their families, and by their fathers’ houses,

• Numbers 4:35

  from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting.

• Numbers 4:36

  Those who were counted of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred fifty.

• Numbers 4:37

  These are those who were counted of the families of the Kohathites, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.

• Numbers 4:38

  Those who were counted of the sons of Gershon, their families, and by their fathers’ houses,

• Numbers 4:39

  from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting,

• Numbers 4:40

  even those who were counted of them, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, were two thousand six hundred thirty.

• Numbers 4:41

  These are those who were counted of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of Yahweh.

• Numbers 4:42

  Those who were counted of the families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,

• Numbers 4:43

  from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting,

• Numbers 4:44

  even those who were counted of them by their families, were three thousand two hundred.

• Numbers 4:45

  These are those who were counted of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.

• Numbers 4:46

  All those who were counted of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel counted, by their families, and by their fathers’ houses,

• Numbers 4:47

  from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered in to do the work of service, and the work of bearing burdens in the Tent of Meeting,

• Numbers 4:48

  even those who were counted of them, were eight thousand five hundred eighty.

• Numbers 4:49

  According to the commandment of Yahweh they were counted by Moses, everyone according to his service, and according to his burden. Thus were they counted by him, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

• Numbers 7:8

  and he gave four wagons and eight oxen to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

• Numbers 8:6

  “Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.

• Numbers 8:7

  You shall do this to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of cleansing on them, let them shave their whole bodies with a razor, and let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.

• Numbers 8:8

  Then let them take a young bull, and its meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and another young bull you shall take for a sin offering.

• Numbers 8:9

  You shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel.

• Numbers 8:10

  You shall present the Levites before Yahweh. The children of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites,

• Numbers 8:11

  and Aaron shall offer the Levites before Yahweh for a wave offering, on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of Yahweh.

• Numbers 8:12

  “The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering to Yahweh, to make atonement for the Levites.

• Numbers 8:13

  You shall set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to Yahweh.

• Numbers 8:14

  Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.

• Numbers 8:15

  “After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting: and you shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.

• Numbers 8:16

  For they are wholly given to me from among the children of Israel; instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Israel, I have taken them to me.

• Numbers 8:17

  For all the firstborn among the children of Israel are mine, both man and animal. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for myself.

• Numbers 8:18

  I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel.

• Numbers 8:19

  I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel; that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come near to the sanctuary.”

• Numbers 8:20

  Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel did so to the Levites. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them.

• Numbers 8:21

  The Levites purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them for a wave offering before Yahweh; and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.

• Numbers 8:23

  Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Numbers 8:24

  “This is that which belongs to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting;

• Numbers 8:25

  and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting on the work, and shall serve no more,

• Numbers 8:26

  but shall minister with their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to perform the duty, and shall do no service. You shall do thus to the Levites concerning their duties.”

• Numbers 10:17

  The tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, went forward.

• Numbers 16:9

  Is it a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of Yahweh’s tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;

• Numbers 17:1

  Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Numbers 17:2

  “Speak to the children of Israel, and take rods from them, one for each fathers’ house, of all their princes according to their fathers’ houses, twelve rods. Write each man’s name on his rod.

• Numbers 17:3

  You shall write Aaron’s name on the rod of Levi; for there shall be one rod for each head of their fathers’ houses.

• Numbers 17:4

  You shall lay them up in the Tent of Meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.

• Numbers 17:8

  On the next day, Moses went into the Tent of the Testimony; and behold, Aaron’s rod for the house of Levi had sprouted, budded, produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.

• Numbers 18:1

  Yahweh said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your fathers’ house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

• Numbers 18:3

  They shall keep your commands, and the duty of the whole Tent; only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they, nor you.

• Numbers 18:4

  They shall be joined to you, and keep the responsibility of the Tent of Meeting, for all the service of the Tent. A stranger shall not come near to you.

• Numbers 18:5

  “You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary and the duty of the altar, that there be no more wrath on the children of Israel.

• Numbers 18:6

  Behold, I myself have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel. They are a gift to you, dedicated to Yahweh, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting.

• Numbers 26:57

  These are those who were counted of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.

• Numbers 26:58

  These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. Kohath became the father of Amram.

• Numbers 26:59

  The name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. She bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.

• Numbers 26:60

  To Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

• Numbers 26:61

  Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before Yahweh.

• Numbers 26:62

  Those who were counted of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not counted among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.

• Deuteronomy 10:8

  At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, to stand before Yahweh to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.

• Deuteronomy 17:9

  You shall come to the priests who are Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict.

• Deuteronomy 27:12

  “These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have crossed over the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

• Deuteronomy 33:9

  He said of his father, and of his mother, ‘I have not seen him.’ He didn’t acknowledge his brothers, nor did he know his own children; for they have observed your word, and keep your covenant.

• Deuteronomy 33:10

  They shall teach Jacob your ordinances, and Israel your law. They shall put incense before you, and whole burnt offering on your altar.

• Joshua 8:33

  All Israel, their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on both sides of the ark before the priests the Levites, who carried the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.

• 1 Chronicles 6:19

  The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ households.

• 1 Chronicles 6:29

  The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son,

• 1 Chronicles 6:30

  Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.

• 1 Chronicles 9:20

  Phinehas the son of Eleazar was ruler over them in time past, and Yahweh was with him.

• 1 Chronicles 9:26

  for the four chief porters, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the rooms and over the treasuries in God’s house.

• 1 Chronicles 9:27

  They stayed around God’s house, because that duty was on them; and to their duty was its opening morning by morning.

• 1 Chronicles 9:28

  Certain of them were in charge of the vessels of service; for these were brought in by count, and these were taken out by count.

• 1 Chronicles 9:29

  Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices.

• 1 Chronicles 9:33

  These are the singers, heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, who lived in the rooms and were free from other service; for they were employed in their work day and night.

• 1 Chronicles 15:2

  Then David said, “No one ought to carry God’s ark but the Levites. For Yahweh has chosen them to carry God’s ark, and to minister to him forever.”

• 1 Chronicles 15:26

  When God helped the Levites who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

• 1 Chronicles 15:27

  David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who bore the ark, the singers, and Chenaniah the choir master with the singers; and David had an ephod of linen on him.

• 1 Chronicles 16:4

  He appointed some of the Levites to minister before Yahweh’s ark, and to commemorate, to thank, and to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel:

• 1 Chronicles 23:2

  He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

• 1 Chronicles 23:3

  The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.

• 1 Chronicles 23:4

  David said, “Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of Yahweh’s house, six thousand were officers and judges,

• 1 Chronicles 23:5

  four thousand were doorkeepers, and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made for giving praise.”

• 1 Chronicles 23:6

  David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

• 1 Chronicles 23:7

  Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.

• 1 Chronicles 23:8

  The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, Zetham, and Joel, three.

• 1 Chronicles 23:9

  The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers’ households of Ladan.

• 1 Chronicles 23:10

  The sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.

• 1 Chronicles 23:11

  Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah didn’t have many sons; therefore they became a fathers’ house in one reckoning.

• 1 Chronicles 23:12

  The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.

• 1 Chronicles 23:13

  The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, forever, to burn incense before Yahweh, to minister to him, and to bless in his name, forever.

• 1 Chronicles 23:14

  But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi.

• 1 Chronicles 23:15

  The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.

• 1 Chronicles 23:16

  The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.

• 1 Chronicles 23:17

  The sons of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.

• 1 Chronicles 23:18

  The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.

• 1 Chronicles 23:19

  The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.

• 1 Chronicles 23:20

  The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second.

• 1 Chronicles 23:21

  The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.

• 1 Chronicles 23:22

  Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their brothers the sons of Kish took them as wives.

• 1 Chronicles 23:23

  The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jeremoth, three.

• 1 Chronicles 23:24

  These were the sons of Levi after their fathers’ houses, even the heads of the fathers’ houses of those who were counted individually, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of Yahweh’s house, from twenty years old and upward.

• 1 Chronicles 23:25

  For David said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem forever.

• 1 Chronicles 23:26

  Also the Levites will no longer need to carry the tabernacle and all its vessels for its service.”

• 1 Chronicles 23:27

  For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were counted, from twenty years old and upward.

• 1 Chronicles 23:28

  For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of Yahweh’s house, in the courts, and in the rooms, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of God’s house;

• 1 Chronicles 23:29

  for the show bread also, and for the fine flour for a meal offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all measurements of quantity and size;

• 1 Chronicles 23:30

  and to stand every morning to thank and praise Yahweh, and likewise in the evening;

• 1 Chronicles 23:31

  and to offer all burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according to the ordinance concerning them, continually before Yahweh;

• 1 Chronicles 23:32

  and that they should keep the duty of the Tent of Meeting, the duty of the holy place, and the duty of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the service of Yahweh’s house.

• 1 Chronicles 26:28

  All that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated, whoever had dedicated anything, it was under the hand of Shelomoth, and of his brothers.

• 1 Chronicles 26:29

  Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.

• 1 Chronicles 29:8

  People with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of Yahweh’s house, under the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.

• 2 Chronicles 17:8

  and with them the Levites, even Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests.

• 2 Chronicles 17:9

  They taught in Judah, having the book of Yahweh’s law with them. They went about throughout all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.

• 2 Chronicles 19:8

  Moreover in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed Levites and priests, and of the heads of the fathers’ households of Israel, for the judgment of Yahweh, and for controversies. They returned to Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 19:9

  He commanded them, saying, “You shall do this in the fear of Yahweh, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.

• 2 Chronicles 19:10

  Whenever any controversy comes to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you must warn them, that they not be guilty towards Yahweh, and so wrath come on you and on your brothers. Do this, and you will not be guilty.

• 2 Chronicles 19:11

  Behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of Yahweh; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all the king’s matters. Also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and may Yahweh be with the good.”

• 2 Chronicles 24:5

  He gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather money to repair the house of your God from all Israel from year to year. See that you expedite this matter.” However the Levites didn’t do it right away.

• 2 Chronicles 24:11

  Whenever the chest was brought to the king’s officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe and the chief priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.

• 2 Chronicles 29:12

  Then the Levites arose, Mahath, the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah;

• 2 Chronicles 29:13

  and of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeuel; and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah;

• 2 Chronicles 29:14

  and of the sons of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.

• 2 Chronicles 29:15

  They gathered their brothers, sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by Yahweh’s words, to cleanse Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 29:16

  The priests went into the inner part of Yahweh’s house to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in Yahweh’s temple into the court of Yahweh’s house. The Levites took it from there to carry it out to the brook Kidron.

• 2 Chronicles 29:17

  Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month they came to Yahweh’s porch. They sanctified Yahweh’s house in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.

• 2 Chronicles 29:18

  Then they went in to Hezekiah the king within the palace, and said, “We have cleansed all Yahweh’s house, including the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, and the table of show bread with all its vessels.

• 2 Chronicles 29:19

  Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign threw away when he was unfaithful, have we prepared and sanctified. Behold, they are before Yahweh’s altar.”

• 2 Chronicles 29:20

  Then Hezekiah the king arose early, gathered the princes of the city, and went up to Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 29:21

  They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. He commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on Yahweh’s altar.

• 2 Chronicles 29:22

  So they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar. They killed the rams, and sprinkled the blood on the altar. They also killed the lambs, and sprinkled the blood on the altar.

• 2 Chronicles 29:23

  They brought near the male goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands on them.

• 2 Chronicles 29:24

  Then the priests killed them, and they made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 29:25

  He set the Levites in Yahweh’s house with cymbals, with stringed instruments, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was from Yahweh by his prophets.

• 2 Chronicles 29:26

  The Levites stood with David’s instruments, and the priests with the trumpets.

• 2 Chronicles 29:27

  Hezekiah commanded them to offer the burnt offering on the altar. When the burnt offering began, Yahweh’s song also began, along with the trumpets and David king of Israel’s instruments.

• 2 Chronicles 29:28

  All the assembly worshiped, the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded. All this continued until the burnt offering was finished.

• 2 Chronicles 29:29

  When they had finished offering, the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped.

• 2 Chronicles 29:30

  Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praises to Yahweh with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. They sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped.

• 2 Chronicles 29:31

  Then Hezekiah answered, “Now you have consecrated yourselves to Yahweh. Come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into Yahweh’s house.” The assembly brought in sacrifices and thank offerings, and as many as were of a willing heart brought burnt offerings.

• 2 Chronicles 29:32

  The number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs. All these were for a burnt offering to Yahweh.

• 2 Chronicles 29:33

  The consecrated things were six hundred head of cattle and three thousand sheep.

• 2 Chronicles 29:34

  But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings. Therefore their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

• 2 Chronicles 29:35

  Also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and with the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of Yahweh’s house was set in order.

• 2 Chronicles 29:36

  Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced, because of that which God had prepared for the people; for the thing was done suddenly.

• 2 Chronicles 30:22

  Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who had good understanding in the service of Yahweh. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings, and making confession to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

• 2 Chronicles 31:11

  Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare rooms in Yahweh’s house, and they prepared them.

• 2 Chronicles 31:12

  They brought in the offerings, the tithes, and the dedicated things faithfully. Conaniah the Levite was ruler over them, and Shimei his brother was second.

• 2 Chronicles 31:13

  Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers under the hand of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king and Azariah the ruler of God’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 31:14

  Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter at the east gate, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute Yahweh’s offerings and the most holy things.

• 2 Chronicles 31:15

  Under him were Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their office of trust, to give to their brothers by divisions, to the great as well as to the small;

• 2 Chronicles 31:16

  besides those who were listed by genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even everyone who entered into Yahweh’s house, as the duty of every day required, for their service in their offices according to their divisions;

• 2 Chronicles 31:17

  and those who were listed by genealogy of the priests by their fathers’ houses, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their offices by their divisions;

• 2 Chronicles 31:18

  and those who were listed by genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation; for in their office of trust they sanctified themselves in holiness.

• 2 Chronicles 31:19

  Also for the sons of Aaron the priests, who were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every city, there were men who were mentioned by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all who were listed by genealogy among the Levites.

• 2 Chronicles 34:9

  They came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought into God’s house, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered from the hands of Manasseh, Ephraim, of all the remnant of Israel, of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 35:1

  Josiah kept a Passover to Yahweh in Jerusalem. They killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

• 2 Chronicles 35:2

  He set the priests in their offices, and encouraged them in the service of Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 35:3

  He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to Yahweh, “Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built. It will no longer be a burden on your shoulders. Now serve Yahweh your God, and his people Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 35:4

  Prepare yourselves after your fathers’ houses by your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.

• 2 Chronicles 35:5

  Stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of your brothers the children of the people, and let there be for each a portion of a fathers’ house of the Levites.

• 2 Chronicles 35:6

  Kill the Passover, sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to Yahweh’s word by Moses.”

• 2 Chronicles 35:7

  Josiah gave to the children of the people, of the flock, lambs and young goats, all of them for the Passover offerings, to all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bulls. These were of the king’s substance.

• 2 Chronicles 35:8

  His princes gave for a freewill offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the rulers of God’s house, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand six hundred small livestock, and three hundred head of cattle.

• 2 Chronicles 35:9

  Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand small livestock and five hundred head of cattle.

• 2 Chronicles 35:10

  So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king’s commandment.

• 2 Chronicles 35:11

  They killed the Passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received of their hand, and the Levites flayed them.

• 2 Chronicles 35:12

  They removed the burnt offerings, that they might give them according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of the children of the people, to offer to Yahweh, as it is written in the book of Moses. They did the same with the cattle.

• 2 Chronicles 35:13

  They roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance. The boiled the holy offerings in pots, in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children of the people.

• 2 Chronicles 35:14

  Afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron were busy with offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night. Therefore the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests the sons of Aaron.

• 2 Chronicles 35:15

  The singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the porters were at every gate. They didn’t need to depart from their service, because their brothers the Levites prepared for them.

• 2 Chronicles 35:16

  So all the service of Yahweh was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on Yahweh’s altar, according to the commandment of king Josiah.

• 2 Chronicles 35:17

  The children of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.

• 2 Chronicles 35:18

  There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet, nor did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, with the priests, the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

• Ezra 2:40

  The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.

• Ezra 2:41

  The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred twenty-eight.

• Ezra 2:42

  The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all one hundred thirty-nine.

• Ezra 2:43

  The temple servants: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

• Ezra 2:44

  the children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon,

• Ezra 2:45

  the children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub,

• Ezra 2:46

  the children of Hagab, the children of Shamlai, the children of Hanan,

• Ezra 2:47

  the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah,

• Ezra 2:48

  the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam,

• Ezra 2:49

  the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,

• Ezra 2:50

  the children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephisim,

• Ezra 2:51

  the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,

• Ezra 2:52

  the children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,

• Ezra 2:53

  the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,

• Ezra 2:54

  the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.

• Ezra 2:55

  The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Hassophereth, the children of Peruda,

• Ezra 3:8

  Now in the second year of their coming to God’s house at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, began the work and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of Yahweh’s house.

• Ezra 3:9

  Then Jeshua stood with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to have the oversight of the workmen in God’s house: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brothers the Levites.

• Ezra 6:20

  Because the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together, all of them were pure. They killed the Passover for all the children of the captivity, for their brothers the priests, and for themselves.

• Ezra 6:21

  The children of Israel who had returned out of the captivity, and all who had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, ate,

• Ezra 8:24

  Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,

• Ezra 8:25

  and weighed to them the silver, the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, his counselors, his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered.

• Ezra 8:26

  I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver, one hundred talents of silver vessels; one hundred talents of gold,

• Ezra 8:27

  twenty bowls of gold weighing one thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright brass, precious as gold.

• Ezra 8:28

  I said to them, “You are holy to Yahweh, and the vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are a freewill offering to Yahweh, the God of your fathers.

• Ezra 8:29

  Watch and keep them, until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers’ households of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the rooms of Yahweh’s house.”

• Ezra 8:30

  So the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.

• Ezra 8:31

  Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way.

• Ezra 8:32

  We came to Jerusalem, and stayed there three days.

• Ezra 8:33

  On the fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levite;

• Ezra 8:34

  everything by number and by weight; and all the weight was written at that time.

• Nehemiah 8:7

  Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law; and the people stayed in their place.

• Nehemiah 8:8

  They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.

• Nehemiah 8:9

  Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, “Today is holy to Yahweh your God. Don’t mourn, nor weep.” For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.

• Nehemiah 8:10

  Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

• Nehemiah 8:11

  So the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Hold your peace, for the day is holy. Don’t be grieved.”

• Nehemiah 8:12

  All the people went their way to eat, to drink, to send portions, and to celebrate, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.

• Nehemiah 8:13

  On the second day, the heads of fathers’ households of all the people, the priests, and the Levites were gathered together to Ezra the scribe, to study the words of the law.

• Nehemiah 11:16

  and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward business of God’s house;

• Nehemiah 12:29

  also from Beth Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had built themselves villages around Jerusalem.

• Nehemiah 12:44

  On that day were men appointed over the rooms for the treasures, for the wave offerings, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, according to the fields of the cities, the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites; for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites who waited.

• Ezekiel 40:44

  Outside of the inner gate were rooms for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south; one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north.

• Malachi 2:4

  You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.

• Malachi 2:5

  “My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name.

• Malachi 2:6

  The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.

• Malachi 2:7

  For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.