Quotes About Community

And the Merarites were numbered by their clans and families,

everyone from thirty to fifty years old who came to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.

The men registered by their clans numbered 3,200.

So Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel numbered by their clans and families all the Levites

from thirty to fifty years old who came to do the work of serving and carrying the Tent of Meeting.

And the number of men was 8,580.

“Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, and anyone who is defiled by a dead body.

You must send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.”

Every sacred contribution the Israelites bring to the priest shall belong to him.

Each manís sacred gifts are his own, but whatever he gives to the priest will belong to the priest.”

Then the LORD said to Moses,

“Tell Aaron and his sons: This is how you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them:

ëMay the LORD bless you and keep you;

So they shall put My name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.”

And the leaders of Israel, the heads of their families, presented an offering. These men were the tribal leaders who had supervised the registration.

They brought as their offering before the LORD six covered carts and twelve oxen—an ox from each leader and a cart from every two leaders—and presented them before the tabernacle.

“Accept these gifts from them, that they may be used in the work of the Tent of Meeting. And give them to the Levites, to each man according to his service.”

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

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

When the altar was anointed, the leaders approached with their offerings for its dedication and presented them before the altar.

And the LORD said to Moses, “Each day one leader is to present his offering for the dedication of the altar.”

On the first day Nahshon son of Amminadab from the tribe of Judah drew near with his offering.

On the second day Nethanel son of Zuar, the leader of Issachar, drew near.

On the third day Eliab son of Helon, the leader of the Zebulunites, drew near.