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Bible Verses About The Levites

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And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the Lord, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.

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And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites according unto all that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.

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Their brethren also the Levites were appointed unto all manner of service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

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The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the children of Hodevah, seventy and four.

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But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

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Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.

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Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.

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And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel.

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Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him.

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And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites.

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And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.

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But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the Lord commanded Moses.

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The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.

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These are the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram.

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But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the Lord is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them.

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And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

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And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their suburbs.

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And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his sons: as the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.

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Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the Lord is his inheritance, according as the Lord thy God promised him.

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And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.

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And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for an offering unto the Lord.

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Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:

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But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance: the Lord God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said unto them.

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Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites.

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For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them.

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But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.

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And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.

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And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the Lord.

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And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.

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And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

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The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.

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Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.

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For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the Lord.

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Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:

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And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.

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All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after the house of their fathers,

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But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.

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And the residue of Israel, of the priests, and the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, every one in his inheritance.

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And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.

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And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the Lord for an offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the Lord.

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