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Because all the first borne are mine: for on the day that I smote all the first borne in the land of Egypt, I halowed vnto mee all the first borne in Israel, both man, and beast, mine they shall be: I am the LORD.

1611 marginal noteExod. 13.1. leuit. 27.26. chap. 8.16. luke. 2.23.

¶ And the LORD spake vnto Moses, in the wildernesse of Sinai, saying,

Number the children of Leui, after the house of their fathers, by their families: euery male from a moneth old and vpward shalt thou number them.

And Moses numbred them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.

1611 marginal noteHebr. mouth.

1611 marginal noteGene 46.11. exod 6.16. chap. 26.57. 1.Chro. 6.11.

And these were the sonnes of Leui, by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.

And these are the names of the sonnes of Gershon, by their families: Libni, and Shimei.

And the sonnes of Kohath by their families: Amram, and Izehar, Hebron and Uzziel.

And the sonnes of Merari by their families: Mahli, and Mushi: these are the families of the Leuites, according to the house of their fathers.

Of Gershon was the familie of the Libnites, and the familie of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites.

Those that were numbred of them, according to the number of all the males, from a moneth old and vpward, euen those that were numbred of them, were seuen thousand and fiue hundred.