All the days of the desolation it will have the rest it did not have on your Sabbaths when you lived on it.

If the one who consecrates it redeems his house, he must add to it one fifth of its conversion value in silver, and it will belong to him.

“‘If he consecrates to the Lord a field he has purchased, which is not part of his own landed property,

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

So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned specifically by name,

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.

Now these are the records of Aaron and Moses when the Lord spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.

“Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may serve him.

You are to assign the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they will be assigned exclusively to him out of all the Israelites.

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.”

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

So Moses took the redemption money from those who were in excess of those redeemed by the Levites.

“Take a census of the Kohathites from among the Levites, by their families and by their clans,

“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,

Every man’s holy things will be his; whatever any man gives the priest will be his.’”

“‘Then the priest will write these curses on a scroll and then scrape them off into the bitter water.

“‘Then the priest must present all these before the Lord and offer his purification offering and his burnt offering.

So Moses accepted the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.