Num 3:45 "Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel and the cattle of the Levites. And the Levites shall be Mine; I am the LORD.
Num 3:46 "For the ransom of the 273 of the firstborn of the sons of Israel who are in excess beyond the Levites,
Num 3:47 you shall take five shekels apiece, per head; you shall take them in terms of the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs),
Num 3:49 So Moses took the ransom money from those who were in excess, beyond those ransomed by the Levites;
Num 3:50 from the firstborn of the sons of Israel he took the money in terms of the shekel of the sanctuary, 1,365.
Num 3:51 Then Moses gave the ransom money to Aaron and to his sons, at the command of the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Num 4:1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
Num 4:2 "Take a census of the descendants of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers' households,
Num 4:3 from thirty years and upward, even to fifty years old, all who enter the service to do the work in the tent of meeting.
Num 4:4 "This is the work of the descendants of Kohath in the tent of meeting, concerning the most holy things.
Num 4:5 ¶ "When the camp sets out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and they shall take down the veil of the screen and cover the ark of the testimony with it;
Num 4:6 and they shall lay a covering of porpoise skin on it, and shall spread over it a cloth of pure blue, and shall insert its poles.
Num 4:7 "Over the table of the bread of the Presence they shall also spread a cloth of blue and put on it the dishes and the pans and the sacrificial bowls and the jars for the drink offering, and the continual bread shall be on it.
Num 4:8 "They shall spread over them a cloth of scarlet material, and cover the same with a covering of porpoise skin, and they shall insert its poles.
Num 4:9 "Then they shall take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand for the light, along with its lamps and its snuffers, and its trays and all its oil vessels, by which they serve it;
Num 4:11 "Over the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth and cover it with a covering of porpoise skin, and shall insert its poles;
Num 4:12 and they shall take all the utensils of service, with which they serve in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth and cover them with a covering of porpoise skin, and put them on the carrying bars.
Num 4:13 "Then they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth over it.
Num 4:14 "They shall also put on it all its utensils by which they serve in connection with it: the firepans, the forks and shovels and the basins, all the utensils of the altar; and they shall spread a cover of porpoise skin over it and insert its poles.