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¶ Then spake the chiefe Butler vnto Pharaoh, saying, I doe remember my faults this day.

Pharaoh was wroth with his seruants, and put mee in warde, in the captaine of the guards house, both mee, and the chiefe Baker.

But hee shall not defile himselfe being a chiefe man among his people, to prophane himselfe.

1611 marginal noteOr, being an husband among his people hee shall not defile himselfe for his wife &c.

And the chiefe of the house of the father of the Gershonites, shall be Eliasaph the sonne of Lael.

And the chiefe of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shalbe Elizaphan the sonne of Uzziel.

And Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the Priest, shall be chiefe ouer the chiefe of the Leuites, and haue the ouersight of them that keepe the charge of the Sanctuary.

And the chiefe of the house of the father of the families of Merari, was Zuriel the sonne of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of the Tabernacle Northwards.

¶ And Moses and Aaron, and the chiefe of the Congregation, numbred the sonnes of the Kohathites, after their families, and after the house of their fathers;

All those that were numbred of the Leuites, whom Moses and Aaron, and the chiefe of Israel numbred, after their families, and after the house of their fathers:

Now the name of the Israelite that was slaine, euen that was slaine with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri the sonne of Salu, a Prince of a chiefe house among the Simeonites.

1611 marginal noteHeb. house of a father.