Counting every male from a month old and upward, there were 8,600. They were responsible for the care<n id="1" /> of the sanctuary.

<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" />

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

Each silver platter weighed 130 shekels, and each silver sprinkling bowl weighed 70 shekels. All the silver of the vessels weighed 2,400 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

The twelve gold pans full of incense weighed 10 shekels each, according to the sanctuary shekel; all the gold of the pans weighed 120 shekels.

You will be responsible for the care of the sanctuary and the care of the altar, so that there will be<n id="1" /> no more wrath on the Israelites.

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).

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Also, on the day of the first fruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the <sc>Lordsc> during your Feast of Weeks, you are to have a holy assembly. You must do no ordinary work.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;On the first day of the seventh month, you are to hold a holy assembly. You must not do your ordinary work, for it is a day of blowing trumpets for you.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;On the tenth day of this seventh month you are to have a holy assembly. You must humble yourselves;<n id="1" /> you must not do any work on it.

<t /><p class="bodytext">So Moses sent them to the war, one thousand from every tribe, with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, who was in charge<n id="1" /> of the holy articles<n id="2" /> and the signal trumpets.

Only the holy things and votive offerings that belong to you, you must pick up and take to the place the <sc>Lordsc> will choose.<n id="1" />

He said:p><t /><p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> came from Sinaip> <p class="poetry">and revealed himself<n id="1" /> to Israel<n id="2" /> from Seir.p> <p class="poetry">He appeared in splendor<n id="3" /> from Mount Paran,p> <p class="poetry">and came forth with ten thousand holy ones.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">With his right hand he gave a fiery law<n id="5" /> to them.p>

The priests and Levites carried the ark of the <sc>Lordsc>, the tent of meeting,<n id="1" /> and all the holy items in the tent.<n id="2" />

The poles were so long their ends were visible from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from beyond that point.<n id="1" /> They have remained there to this very day.

Some of them were in charge of the equipment and articles of the sanctuary,<n id="1" /> as well as the flour, wine, olive oil, incense, and spices.

<p class="poetry">Say this prayer:<n id="1" /> &#8220;Deliver us, O God who delivers us!p> <p class="poetry">Gather us! Rescue us from the nations!p> <p class="poetry">Then we will give thanks<n id="2" /> to your holy name,p> <p class="poetry">and boast about your praiseworthy deeds.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

They were in charge of the meeting tent and the holy place, and helped their relatives, the descendants of Aaron, in the service of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.<n id="1" />p>

They divided them by lots, for there were officials of the holy place and officials designated by God among the descendants of both Eleazar and Ithamar.<n id="1" />

Shelomith<n id="1" /> and his relatives were in charge of all the storehouses containing the consecrated items dedicated by King David, the family leaders who led units of a thousand and a hundred, and the army officers.