Numbers 4
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Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
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"Take a census of the sons of a Kohath from among the children of Levi, by their families, by their fathers' house,
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b "from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, all who enter the service to do the work in the tabernacle of meeting.
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c "This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of meeting, relating to d the most holy things:
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"When the camp prepares to journey, Aaron and his sons shall come, and they shall take down e the covering veil and cover the f ark of the Testimony with it.
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"Then they shall put on it a covering of badger skins, and spread over that a cloth entirely of g blue; and they shall insert h its poles.
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"On the i table of showbread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the pans, the bowls, and the pitchers for pouring; and the j showbread shall be on it.
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"They shall spread over them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of badger skins; and they shall insert its poles.
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"And they shall take a blue cloth and cover the k lampstand of the light, l with its lamps, its wick-trimmers, its trays, and all its oil vessels, with which they service it.
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"Then they shall put it with all its utensils in a covering of badger skins, and put it on a carrying beam.
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"Over m the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of badger skins; and they shall insert its poles.
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"Then they shall take all the n utensils of service with which they minister in the sanctuary, put them in a blue cloth, cover them with a covering of badger skins, and put them on a carrying beam.
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"Also they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth over it.
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"They shall put on it all its implements with which they minister there - the firepans, the forks, the shovels, the basins, and all the utensils of the altar - and they shall spread on it a covering of badger skins, and insert its poles.
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"And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, when the camp is set to go, then o the sons of Kohath shall come to carry them; p but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. q These are the things in the tabernacle of meeting which the sons of Kohath are to carry.
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"The appointed duty of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest is r the oil for the light, the s sweet incense, t the daily grain offering, the u anointing oil, the oversight of all the tabernacle, of all that is in it, with the sanctuary and its furnishings."
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Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
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"Do not cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;
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"but do this in regard to them, that they may live and not die when they approach v the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint each of them to his service and his task.
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w "But they shall not go in to watch while the holy things are being covered, lest they die."
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Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
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"Also take a census of the sons of x Gershon, by their fathers' house, by their families.
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y "From thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, you shall number them, all who enter to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of meeting.
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"This is the z service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and carrying:
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a "They shall carry the b curtains of the tabernacle and the tabernacle of meeting with its covering, the covering of c badger skins that is on it, the screen for the door of the tabernacle of meeting,
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"the screen for the door of the gate of the court, the hangings of the court which are around the tabernacle and altar, and their cords, all the furnishings for their service and all that is made for these things: so shall they serve.
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"Aaron and his sons shall assign all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, all their tasks and all their service. And you shall appoint to them all their tasks as their duty.
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"This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of meeting. And their duties shall be d under the authority of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
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"As for the sons of e Merari, you shall number them by their families and by their fathers' house.
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f "From thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, you shall number them, everyone who enters the service to do the work of the tabernacle of meeting.
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"And g this is h what they must carry as all their service for the tabernacle of meeting: i the boards of the tabernacle, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,
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"and the pillars around the court with their sockets, pegs, and cords, with all their furnishings and all their service; and you shall j assign to each man by name the items he must carry.
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"This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, as all their service for the tabernacle of meeting, under the authority of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest."
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k And Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites by their families and by their fathers' house,
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from thirty l years old and above, even to fifty years old, everyone who entered the service for work in the tabernacle of meeting;
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and those who were numbered by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.
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These were the ones who were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all who might serve in the tabernacle of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
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And those who were numbered of the sons of Gershon, by their families and by their fathers' house,
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from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, everyone who entered the service for work in the tabernacle of meeting -
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those who were numbered by their families, by their fathers' house, were two thousand six hundred and thirty.
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m These are the ones who were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all who might serve in the tabernacle of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD.
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Those of the families of the sons of Merari who were numbered, by their families, by their fathers' house,
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from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, everyone who entered the service for work in the tabernacle of meeting -
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those who were numbered by their families were three thousand two hundred.
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These are the ones who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered n according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
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All who were o numbered of the Levites, whom Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel numbered, by their families and by their fathers' houses,
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p from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, everyone who came to do the work of service and the work of bearing burdens in the tabernacle of meeting -
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those who were numbered were eight thousand five hundred and eighty.
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According to the commandment of the LORD they were numbered by the hand of Moses, q each according to his service and according to his task; thus were they numbered by him, r as the LORD commanded Moses.
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Numbers 3:27 - 32
From Kohath came the family of the Amramites, the family of the Izharites, the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites; these were the families of the Kohathites.
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Numbers 4:23
From thirty years old and above, even to fifty ...
Numbers 4:30
From thirty years old and above, even to fifty ...
Numbers 4:35
From thirty years old and above, even to fifty ...
Numbers 8:24
This is what pertains to the Levites: From twen...
1 Chronicles 23:3
Now the Levites were numbered from the age of t...
1 Chronicles 23:24
These were the sons of Levi by their fathers' h...
1 Chronicles 27:1
And the children of Israel, according to their ...
Ezra 3:8
Now in the second month of the second year of t...
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Numbers 4:15
And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, when the camp is set to go, then the sons of Kohath shall come to carry them; but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These are the things in the tabernacle of meeting which the sons of Kohath are to carry.
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Numbers 4:19
But do this in regard to them, that they may live and not die when they approach the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint each of them to his service and his task.
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Exodus 26:31
You shall make a veil woven of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen. It shall be woven with an artistic design of cherubim.
Hebrews 9:3
And behind the second veil, the part of the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of All.
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Exodus 25:10
And they shall make an ark of acacia wood; two and a half cubits shall be its length, a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height.
Exodus 25:16
And you shall put into the ark the Testimony which I will give you.
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Exodus 39:1
Of the blue, purple, and scarlet thread they made garments of ministry, for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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Exodus 25:13
And you shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
1 Kings 8:7
For the cherubim spread their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles.
1 Kings 8:8
The poles extended so that the ends of the poles could be seen from the holy place, in front of the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside. And they are there to this day.
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Exodus 25:23
You shall also make a table of acacia wood; two cubits shall be its length, a cubit its width, and a cubit and a half its height.
Exodus 25:29
You shall make its dishes, its pans, its pitchers, and its bowls for pouring. You shall make them of pure gold.
Exodus 25:30
And you shall set the showbread on the table before Me always.
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Leviticus 24:5 - 9
And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it. Two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.
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Exodus 25:31
You shall also make a lampstand of pure gold; the lampstand shall be of hammered work. Its shaft, its branches, its bowls, its ornamental knobs, and flowers shall be of one piece.
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Exodus 25:37
You shall make seven lamps for it, and they shall arrange its lamps so that they give light in front of it.
Exodus 25:38
And its wick-trimmers and their trays shall be of pure gold.
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Exodus 30:1 - 5
You shall make an altar to burn incense on; you shall make it of acacia wood.
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Exodus 25:9
According to all that I show you, that is, the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings, just so you shall make it.
1 Chronicles 9:29
Some of them were appointed over the furnishings and over all the implements of the sanctuary, and over the fine flour and the wine and the oil and the incense and the spices.
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Numbers 7:9
But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because...
Numbers 10:21
Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy ...
Deuteronomy 31:9
So Moses wrote this law and delivered it to the...
Joshua 4:10
So the priests who bore the ark stood in the mi...
2 Samuel 6:13
And so it was, when those bearing the ark of th...
1 Chronicles 15:2
Then David said, "No one may carry the ark of G...
1 Chronicles 15:15
And the children of the Levites bore the ark of...
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2 Samuel 6:6
And when they came to Nachon's threshing floor, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled.
2 Samuel 6:7
Then the anger of the LORD was aroused against Uzzah, and God struck him there for his error; and he died there by the ark of God.
1 Chronicles 13:9
And when they came to Chidon's threshing floor, Uzza put out his hand to hold the ark, for the oxen stumbled.
1 Chronicles 13:10
Then the anger of the LORD was aroused against Uzza, and He struck him because he put his hand to the ark; and he died there before God.
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Numbers 3:31
Their duty included the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the utensils of the sanctuary with which they ministered, the screen, and all the work relating to them.
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Exodus 25:6
Oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense.
Leviticus 24:2
Command the children of Israel that they bring to you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to make the lamps burn continually.
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Exodus 30:34
And the LORD said to Moses: "Take sweet spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, and pure frankincense with these sweet spices; there shall be equal amounts of each.
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Exodus 29:38
Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs of the first year, day by day continually.
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Exodus 30:23 - 25
Also take for yourself quality spices - five hundred shekels of liquid myrrh, half as much sweet-smelling cinnamon (two hundred and fifty shekels ), two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet-smelling cane.
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Numbers 4:4
This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of meeting, relating to the most holy things:
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Exodus 19:21
And the LORD said to Moses, "Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to gaze at the LORD, and many of them perish.
1 Samuel 6:19
Then He struck the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD. He struck fifty thousand and seventy men of the people, and the people lamented because the LORD had struck the people with a great slaughter.
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Numbers 3:22
Those who were numbered, according to the number of all the males from a month old and above - of those who were numbered there were seven thousand five hundred.
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Numbers 4:3
From thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, all who enter the service to do the work in the tabernacle of meeting.
1 Chronicles 23:3
Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and above; and the number of individual males was thirty-eight thousand.
1 Chronicles 23:24
These were the sons of Levi by their fathers' houses - the heads of the fathers' houses as they were counted individually by the number of their names, who did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and above.
1 Chronicles 27:1
And the children of Israel, according to their number, the heads of fathers' houses, the captains of thousands and hundreds and their officers, served the king in every matter of the military divisions. These divisions came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, each division having twenty-four thousand.
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Numbers 7:7
Two carts and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, according to their service.
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Numbers 3:25
The duties of the children of Gershon in the tabernacle of meeting included the tabernacle, the tent with its covering, the screen for the door of the tabernacle of meeting.
Numbers 3:26
The screen for the door of the court, the hangings of the court which are around the tabernacle and the altar, and their cords, according to all the work relating to them.
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Exodus 36:8
Then all the gifted artisans among them who worked on the tabernacle made ten curtains woven of fine linen, and of blue, purple, and scarlet thread; with artistic designs of cherubim they made them.
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Exodus 26:14
You shall also make a covering of ram skins dyed red for the tent, and a covering of badger skins above that.
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Numbers 4:33
"This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, as all their service for the tabernacle of meeting, under the authority of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest."
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Numbers 3:33 - 37
From Merari came the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites; these were the families of Merari.
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Numbers 4:3
From thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, all who enter the service to do the work in the tabernacle of meeting.
Numbers 8:24 - 26
This is what pertains to the Levites: From twenty-five years old and above one may enter to perform service in the work of the tabernacle of meeting.
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Numbers 3:36
And the appointed duty of the children of Merari included the boards of the tabernacle, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, its utensils, all the work relating to them.
Numbers 3:37
And the pillars of the court all around, with their sockets, their pegs, and their cords.
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Numbers 7:8
And four carts and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the authority of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
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Exodus 26:15
And for the tabernacle you shall make the boards of acacia wood, standing upright.
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Exodus 25:9
According to all that I show you, that is, the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings, just so you shall make it.
Exodus 38:21
This is the inventory of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the Testimony, which was counted according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest.
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Numbers 4:2
Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the children of Levi, by their families, by their fathers' house.
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Numbers 4:47
From thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, everyone who came to do the work of service and the work of bearing burdens in the tabernacle of meeting -
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Numbers 4:22
Also take a census of the sons of Gershon, by their fathers' house, by their families.
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Numbers 4:29
As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families and by their fathers' house.
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Numbers 3:39
All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, by their families, all the males from a month old and above, were twenty-two thousand.
Numbers 26:57 - 62
And these are those who were numbered of the Levites according to their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.
1 Chronicles 23:3 - 23
Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and above; and the number of individual males was thirty-eight thousand.
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Numbers 4:3
From thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, all who enter the service to do the work in the tabernacle of meeting.
Numbers 4:23
From thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, you shall number them, all who enter to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of meeting.
Numbers 4:30
From thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, you shall number them, everyone who enters the service to do the work of the tabernacle of meeting.
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Numbers 4:15
And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, when the camp is set to go, then the sons of Kohath shall come to carry them; but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These are the things in the tabernacle of meeting which the sons of Kohath are to carry.
Numbers 4:24
This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and carrying:
Numbers 4:31
And this is what they must carry as all their service for the tabernacle of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle, its bars, its pillars, its sockets.
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Numbers 4:1
Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
Numbers 4:21
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
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