Quotes About Israelites

“Do not number the tribe of Levi in the census with the other Israelites.

Thus the Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

“The Israelites are to camp around the Tent of Meeting at a distance from it, each man under his standard, with the banners of his family.

These are the Israelites, numbered according to their families. The total of those counted in the camps, by their divisions, was 603,550.

But the Levites were not counted among the other Israelites, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

So the Israelites did everything the LORD commanded Moses; they camped under their standards in this way and set out in the same way, each man with his clan and his family.

They shall take care of all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting and fulfill obligations for the Israelites by attending to the service of the tabernacle.

Assign the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they have been given exclusively to him from among the Israelites.

So Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he had been commanded.

The Gershonite clans were to camp on the west, behind the tabernacle,

The clans of the Kohathites were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle,

The leader of the families of the Merarites was Zuriel son of Abihail; they were to camp on the north side of the tabernacle.

Moses, Aaron, and Aaronís sons were to camp to the east of the tabernacle, toward the sunrise, before the Tent of Meeting. They were to perform the duties of the sanctuary as a service on behalf of the Israelites; but any outsider who approached the sanctuary was to be put to death.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Number every firstborn male of the Israelites a month old or more, and list their names.

So Moses numbered all the firstborn of the Israelites, as the LORD had commanded him.

To redeem the 273 firstborn Israelites who outnumber the Levites,

Give the money to Aaron and his sons as the redemption price for the excess among the Israelites.”

He collected the money from the firstborn of the Israelites: 1,365 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

“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.

So the Israelites did this, sending such people outside the camp. They did just as the LORD had instructed Moses.

“Tell the Israelites that when a man or woman acts unfaithfully against the LORD by committing any sin against another, that person is guilty

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

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if a man or woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD,

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