They traveled from Libnah and camped at Rissah.

They traveled from Makheloth and camped at Tahath.

They traveled from Tahath and camped at Terah.

They traveled from Abronah and camped at Ezion-geber.

“Only the tribe of Levi you must not number or count with the other Israelites.

These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he consecrated to minister as priests.

From the firstborn males of the Israelites he collected the money, 1,365 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

So Moses and Aaron and the leaders of the community numbered the Kohathites by their families and by clans,

You are to have the Levites stand before Aaron and his sons, and then offer them as a wave offering to the Lord.

These were the traveling arrangements of the Israelites according to their companies when they traveled.

Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground before the whole assembled community of the Israelites.

The people contended with Moses, saying, “If only we had died when our brothers died before the Lord!

“To these the land must be divided as an inheritance according to the number of the names.

“So the total of the towns you will give the Levites is forty-eight. You must give these together with their grazing lands.

you must then designate some towns as towns of refuge for you, to which a person who has killed someone unintentionally may flee.

then he must confess his sin that he has committed and must make full reparation, add one fifth to it, and give it to whomever he wronged.

or when jealous feelings come over a man and he becomes suspicious of his wife; then he must have the woman stand before the Lord, and the priest will carry out all this law upon her.

The Lord said to Moses, “Bring Aaron’s staff back before the testimony to be preserved for a sign to the rebels, so that you may bring their murmurings to an end before me, that they will not die.”

And those that must be redeemed you are to redeem when they are a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of silver according to the sanctuary shekel (which is twenty gerahs).

But the Levites must perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites have no inheritance.