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;
13for 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.`
14And 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.`
16And Moses numbereth them according to the command of Jehovah, as he hath been commanded.
17And these are sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
