SEVERAL BIBLICAL REFERENCES TO THE LEVITES

-Exodus 6:25 Exodus 6 Exodus 6:24-26 And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.

 

-Exodus 38:21 Exodus 38 Exodus 38:20-22 This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.

 

-Leviticus 25:32 Leviticus 25 Leviticus 25:31-33 Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.

 

-Leviticus 25:33 Leviticus 25 Leviticus 25:32-34 And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

 

-Numbers 1:47 Numbers 1 Numbers 1:46-48 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

 

-Numbers 1:50 Numbers 1 Numbers 1:49-51 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.

 

-Numbers 1:51 Numbers 1 Numbers 1:50-52 And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

 

-Numbers 1:53 Numbers 1 Numbers 1:52-54 But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.

 

-Numbers 2:17 Numbers 2 Numbers 2:16-18 Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by their standards.

 

-Numbers 2:33 Numbers 2 Numbers 2:32-34 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.

 

-Numbers 3:9 Numbers 3 Numbers 3:8-10 And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel.

 

-Numbers 3:12 Numbers 3 Numbers 3:11-13 And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine;

 

-Numbers 3:20 Numbers 3 Numbers 3:19-21 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.

 

-Numbers 3:32 Numbers 3 Numbers 3:31-33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary.

 

-Numbers 3:39 Numbers 3 Numbers 3:38-40 All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand.

 

-Numbers 3:41 Numbers 3 Numbers 3:40-42 And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel.

 

-Numbers 3:45 Numbers 3 Numbers 3:44-46 Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the LORD.

 

-Numbers 3:46 Numbers 3 Numbers 3:45-47 And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of Israel, which are more than the Levites;

 

-Numbers 3:49 Numbers 3 Numbers 3:48-50 And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:

 

-Numbers 4:18 Numbers 4 Numbers 4:17-19 Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:

 

-Numbers 4:46 Numbers 4 Numbers 4:45-47 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,

-Numbers 7:5 Numbers 7 Numbers 7:4-6 Take it of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service.

 

-Numbers 7:6 Numbers 7 Numbers 7:5-7 And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the Levites.

 

-Numbers 8:6 Numbers 8 Numbers 8:5-7 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.

 

-Numbers 8:9 Numbers 8 Numbers 8:8-10 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together:

 

-Numbers 8:10 Numbers 8 Numbers 8:9-11 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites:

 

-Numbers 8:11 Numbers 8 Numbers 8:10-12 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.

 

-Numbers 8:12 Numbers 8 Numbers 8:11-13 And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to make an atonement for the Levites.

 

-Numbers 8:13 Numbers 8 Numbers 8:12-14 And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for an offering unto the LORD.

 

-Numbers 8:14 Numbers 8 Numbers 8:13-15 Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.

 

-Numbers 8:15 Numbers 8 Numbers 8:14-16 And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.

 

-Numbers 8:18 Numbers 8 Numbers 8:17-19 And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.

 

-Numbers 8:19 Numbers 8 Numbers 8:18-20 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.

 

-Numbers 8:20 Numbers 8 Numbers 8:19-21 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.

 

-Numbers 8:21 Numbers 8 Numbers 8:20-22 And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them as an offering before the LORD; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them.

 

-Numbers 8:22 Numbers 8 Numbers 8:21-23 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.

 

-Numbers 8:24 Numbers 8 Numbers 8:23-25 This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:

 

-Numbers 8:26 Numbers 8 Numbers 8:25-27 But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge.

 

-Numbers 18:6 Numbers 18 Numbers 18:5-7 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.

 

-Numbers 18:23 Numbers 18 Numbers 18:22-24 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.

 

-Numbers 18:24 Numbers 18 Numbers 18:23-25 But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

 

-Numbers 18:26 Numbers 18 Numbers 18:25-27 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe.

 

-Numbers 18:30 Numbers 18 Numbers 18:29-31 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.

 

-Numbers 26:57 Numbers 26 Numbers 26:56-58 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.

 

-Numbers 26:58 Numbers 26 Numbers 26:57-59 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.

 

-Numbers 31:30 Numbers 31 Numbers 31:29-31 And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.

 

-Numbers 31:47 Numbers 31 Numbers 31:46-48 Even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.

-Numbers 35:2 Numbers 35 Numbers 35:1-3 Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the...