And give the money for the redemption of the excess number of them to Aaron and his sons.”p>

<p class="bodytext">Their responsibilities included the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, and the utensils of the sanctuary with which they ministered,<n id="1" /> the curtain, and all their service.<n id="2" />

Now the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the <sc>Lordsc> had killed among them; the <sc>Lordsc> also executed judgments on their gods.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;They must take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand of the light, with its lamps, its wick-trimmers, its trays, and all its oil vessels, with which they service it.

Then they must place on it all its implements with which they serve there &#8211; the trays, the meat forks, the shovels, the basins, and all the utensils of the altar &#8211; and they must spread on it a covering of fine leather, and then insert its poles.<n id="1" />p>

&#8220;Send out men to investigate<n id="1" /> the land of Canaan, which I am giving<n id="2" /> to the Israelites. You are to send one man from each ancestral tribe,<n id="3" /> each one a leader among them.&#8221;