Moreover, you are to tell the Israelites, ‘If any man curses his God he will bear responsibility for his sin,

but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.

If, however, he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free in the jubilee year, he and his children with him,

These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses to tell the Israelites at Mount Sinai.

Now these are the names of the men who are to help you: from Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;

“The Israelites will camp according to their divisions, each man in his camp, and each man by his standard.

The Israelites did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses – that is what they did.

But the Levites were not numbered among the other Israelites, as the Lord commanded Moses.

These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab, the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

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

So you are to appoint Aaron and his sons, and they will be responsible for their priesthood; but the unauthorized person who comes near must be put to death.”

The sons of Merari by their families were Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their clans.

Those of them who were numbered, counting every male from a month old and upward, were 7,500.

And the responsibilities of the Gershonites in the tent of meeting included the tabernacle, the tent with its covering, the curtain at the entrance of the tent of meeting,

Now the head of all the Levitical leaders was Eleazar son of Aaron the priest. He was appointed over those who were responsible for the sanctuary.

Those of them who were numbered, counting every male from a month old and upward, were 6,200.

So Moses numbered all the firstborn males among the Israelites, as the Lord had commanded him.

And for the redemption of the 273 firstborn males of the Israelites who exceed the number of the Levites,

“Also take a census of the Gershonites, by their clans and by their families.

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