8. and they have kept all the vessels of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the sons of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle;
9. and thou hast given the Levites to Aaron and to his sons; they are surely given to him out of the sons of Israel.
10. `And Aaron and his sons thou dost appoint, and they have kept their priesthood, and the stranger who cometh near is put to death.'
11. And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
12. `And I, lo, I have taken the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel instead of every first-born opening a womb among the sons of Israel, and the Levites have been Mine;
13. for Mine [is] every first-born, in the day of My smiting every first-born in the land of Egypt I have sanctified to Myself every first-born in Israel, from man unto beast; Mine they are; I [am] Jehovah.'
14. And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
15. `Number the sons of Levi by the house of their fathers, by their families; every male from a son of a month and upward thou dost number them.'
16. And Moses numbereth them according to the command of Jehovah, as he hath been commanded.
17. And these are sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
18. And these [are] the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.
19. And the sons of Kohath, by their families, [are] Amram and Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel.
20. And the sons of Merari by their families [are] Mahli and Mushi; these are the families of the Levites, by the house of their fathers.
21. Of Gershon [is] the family of the Libnite, and the family of the Shimite; these are the families of the Gershonite.
22. Their numbered ones, in number, every male from a son of a month and upward, their numbered ones [are] seven thousand and five hundred.
23. The families of the Gershonite, behind the tabernacle, do encamp westward.