Sefer haYashar — Medieval Midrash

Sefer HaYashar (midrash) — Book of Leviticus

[Sefer HaYashar (midrash) / Book of Leviticus / 1] And in the twelfth month, on the twenty-third day of the month Moses took Aaron and his ‎sons, and he dressed them in the official garments, and he anointed them, and he did unto ‎them according to the commandment of the Lord, and Moses brought up all the offerings, as ‎the Lord had commanded him on that day. And afterwards Moses took Aaron and his sons, ‎and he said unto them: Keep within the doors of the tabernacle for seven days for thus am I ‎commanded; and they did all as the Lord had commanded through Moses, and they remained ‎within the doors of the tabernacle for seven days. And on the eighth day, the first day of the ‎first month of the second year since the Israelites’ departure from Egypt, Moses erected the ‎tabernacle and all the furniture, and he did all as the Lord had commanded unto him. Then ‎called Moses, Aaron, and his sons, and they brought up the burnt offering and the sin offering ‎for themselves and the people, as the Lord had commanded unto Moses. And on that day, ‎Nadab and Abihu the two sons of Aaron offered strange fire before the Lord, which he ‎commanded them not, and there went out fire from the Lord and devoured them, and they ‎died before the Lord on that day. And the offerings, which each man brought in his day, were: ‎One silver charger, the weight whereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of ‎seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour, mingled with ‎oil for a meat offering. One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense. One young bullock, ‎one ram, one lamb of the first year. One kid of the goats for a sin offering. And for a sacrifice of ‎peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats and five lambs of the first year. Thus did ‎the princes of Israel bring their offerings day after day, each man on his day; and after this ‎Moses commanded the children of Israel to celebrate the Passover. And the children of Israel ‎observed the Passover in its season, on the fourteenth day of the month; as the Lord had ‎commanded unto Moses so did the children of Israel. And in the second month, on the first ‎day of the month, the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying: Number the heads of all the males ‎among the children of Israel from twenty years and upwards, thou and Aaron thy brother and ‎the twelve princes of Israel; and Moses did so, and Aaron came with the twelve princes of ‎Israel, and they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai, and the numbers of ‎the children of Israel, according to the houses of their fathers from twenty years and upwards ‎were six hundred and three thousand and five hundred and fifty. But the children of Levi were ‎not numbered amongst their brethren the children of Israel. And the number of all the first ‎born male children in Israel from one month and upwards was twenty-two thousand and two ‎hundred and seventy three, and the number of the children of Levi, from one month and ‎upwards, was twenty-two thousand. And Moses stationed the priests and Levites, every man ‎to his duties to serve in the sanctuary of the tabernacle, as the Lord had commanded unto ‎Moses.