But you and your sons with you are responsible for your priestly duties, for everything at the altar and within the curtain. And you must serve. I give you the priesthood as a gift for service; but the unauthorized person who approaches must be put to death.”

All the raised offerings of the holy things that the Israelites offer to the Lord, I have given to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual ordinance. It is a covenant of salt ¹  forever before the Lord for you and for your descendants with you.”

Of all the most holy offerings reserved ¹  from the fire this will be yours: Every offering of theirs, whether from every grain offering or from every purification offering or from every reparation offering which they bring to me, will be most holy for you and for your sons.

“And this is yours: the raised offering of their gift, along with all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given them to you and to your sons and daughters with you as a perpetual ordinance. Everyone who is ceremonially clean in your household may eat of it.

‘I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not close at hand. ¹  A star ²  will march forth ³  out of Jacob, and a scepter ⁴  will rise out of Israel. He will crush the skulls ⁵  of Moab, and the heads ⁶  of all the sons of Sheth. ⁷ 

But the descendants of Korah did not die.

The descendants of Joseph by their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.

Those numbered from the Gershonites, by their families and by their clans,

He gave two carts and four oxen to the Gershonites, as their service required;

Now these were the Shuthelahites: from Eran, the family of the Eranites.

Pallu’s descendant ¹  was Eliab.

“Take a census ¹  of the Kohathites from among the Levites, by their families and by their clans,

The descendants of Judah were Er and Onan, but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

These were the families of the Ephraimites, according to those numbered of them, 32,500. ¹  These were the descendants of Joseph by their families.

The Issacharites by their families: from Tola, the family of the Tolaites; from Puah, the family of the Puites;

The descendants of Bela were Ard ¹  and Naaman. From Ard, ²  the family of the Ardites; from Naaman, the family of the Naamanites.

The Naphtalites by their families: from Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; from Guni, the family of the Gunites;

The families of the Kohathites were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle.

“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,