Numbers - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 147

20 2 I 22 26 NUMBERS. 17 -19 Aaron upon the staff of the tribe of Levi. Thus there shall be a. staff from the head of each ancestral house; and place them in the Hall of Assembly with the Witnesses as an evidence for them there. And the staff of the man I may choose shall blossom. Thus I will exclude the complaints of the children of Israel from Me. Moses accordingly spoke to the chil-

drenof Israel, and each of the princes gave him their staff,··-each prince a staff,—-each prince of an ancestral house of the twelve tribes. But the staff of Aaron was placed in the middle of the other staves. Afterwards Moses presented the

staves before the presence of the Evz·:R·1,1v1N<;i¤ the Hall of Assembly. And when Moses came next day to the Tabernacle of the Witnesses, the staff of Aaron had budded and blos- somed for the House of Levi! Buds had also come out, and borne flowers, and ripened into almonds. Moses therefore brought out all the staves from the presence ofthe Even-LIVING to all the children of Israel, and they examined them, each man taking his own staff} Then the Evnn~L1vme said to

Return the staff of Aaron to the presence of the Witnesses, to keep it as an evidence to the Sons of Dis- obedience, and let them stop their complaints against Me, that they may Moses consequently did as the

lvmz-L1v1Ne commanded him. He gid it; GDI]: §i>¤_plz Dzcrzz @2nib in all lulyu 18 attzxnpt in enter il;2 Smzctuarg. ceive that we shallexpire; we shall we may not all expire. The children of Israel after that

We per- perish, all of us will perish. Let all who approach to the sanctuary of the Evan-Lxvrmo be killed, so that Then the Evan-Lrvmo com-

You and your sons, and the house of your father with you, shall carry the spirit of conse- cration; and you and your sons with you shall carry the spirit of the priesthood, and your brothers of the tribe of Levi,.of the standard of your father, shall also approach with you and attend upon you, and guard you, 18 -13

and your sons with you, before the Tabernacle of the Witnesses. And they shall guard you, and guard all the Hall, together with the sacred furniture. But they shall not ap- proach to the altar, for fear they, as well as you, should die; but they shall attend upon you and guard in watches the Hall of Assembly and all the services of the Hall, and a foreigner shall not approach with them. By them also the holy things shall be guarded, and the altar be guarded so that anger may never come upon the children of Israel. For I have taken to Myself your brothers of Levi from among the children of Israel, to give them as gifts to the EVER-LIVING, to perform the services of the Hall of Assembly. But you and your sons with you shall guard the priesthood, and all the matters of the altar, and of the House of the Veils, and perform the services prescribed for the priest- hood. And the stranger who ap- proaches shall die. Gundrmuiiun of Euhnlumzuiz fur the Qrizstlwuh. The Even-L1v1Nc also said to

And I, see, I have given to you the guardianship of My High Things, and of all the sacred things of the children of Israel ;--1 have given them to you and to your sons to consecrate, and to preserve for ever. l`hese shall be yours from the

sacred offerings ;——all the gifts offered by hre; all food·offerings, and sin~ offerings; and all the presents which they make to Me. They are conse- crated strictly to you, and to your sons. You shall eat them in the sanctuary. Every male may eat of them with you. They shall be sacred to you. You shall also take some- thing from all the wave·offerings of the children of Israel foryourself and your sons, and for your daughters with you, as a perpetual Institution. All the clean in your house may eat of them. ‘ All the melted fat, and the best of

the vintage, and the hrst of the corn which they present to the EVER- LIVING are given to you. The first fruits of all that their land produces which they bring to the Evmz·1.1vmG, shall be yours. All who arc clean in IO

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