Add parallel Print Page Options

37 and the pillars around the courtyard, and their bases, pegs, and cords.

38 Those encamped before the tabernacle to the east—before the tent of assembly to the east—were Moses and Aaron and his sons; they will keep the responsibility of the sanctuary for the Israelites;[a] and the stranger[b] who approaches will be put to death. 39 All those counted from the Levites whom Moses and Aaron mustered[c] according to the word of Yahweh,[d] according to their clans, every male from one month[e] and above were twenty-two thousand.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Numbers 3:38 Literally “for the responsibility of the children of Israel”
  2. Numbers 3:38 Or “outsider”
  3. Numbers 3:39 Or “counted,” or “summoned,” or “enrolled”
  4. Numbers 3:39 Literally “the mouth of Yahweh”
  5. Numbers 3:39 Literally “the son of a month”