1. And these are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Jehovah spoke with Moses on mount Sinai.
2. And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
3. These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, who were consecrated to exercise the priesthood.
4. And Nadab and Abihu died before Jehovah when they offered strange fire before Jehovah in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no sons; and Eleazar and Ithamar exercised the priesthood in the presence of Aaron their father.
5. And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
6. Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him;
7. and they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole assembly, before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.
8. And they shall keep all the utensils of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.
9. And thou shalt give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given to him out of the children of Israel.