Numbers:8:9-26

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* And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation mow #ed #: and thou shalt gather # the whole assembly of the children of Israel together : * And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD : and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites : * And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for an offering of the children of Israel Yisra #el #, that they may execute the service of the LORD . * And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks : and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering chatta #ah #, and the other for a burnt offering , unto the LORD , to make an atonement for the Levites . * And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron , and before his sons , and offer them for an offering unto the LORD . * Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel Yisra #el #: and the Levites shall be mine . * And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation mow #ed #: and thou shalt cleanse them , and offer them for an offering . * For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel Yisra #el #; instead of such as open every womb , even instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel Yisra #el #, have I taken them unto me . * For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine , both man and beast : on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself . * And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel Yisra #el #. * And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel Yisra #el #, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation mow #ed #, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel Yisra #el #: that there be no plague among the children of Israel Yisra #el #, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary . * And Moses , and Aaron , and all the congregation of the children of Israel Yisra #el #, did to the Levites according unto all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites , so did the children of Israel unto them . * And the Levites were purified , and they washed their clothes ; and Aaron offered them as an offering before the LORD ; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them . * And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron , and before his sons : as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites , so did they unto them . * And the LORD spake unto Moses , saying , * This is it that belongeth unto the Levites : from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation mow #ed #: * And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof , and shall serve no more : * But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation mow #ed #, to keep the charge , and shall do no service . Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge .

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