Numbers:8

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* And LORD spoke to Moses , saying , * Speak to Aaron , and say to him , When thou light the lamps , the seven lamps shall give light in front of the candlestick . * And Aaron did so . He lit the lamps of it in front of the candlestick , as LORD commanded Moses . * And this was the work of the candlestick , beaten work of gold . To the base of it , [and ] to the flowers of it , it was beaten work . According to the pattern which LORD had shown Moses , so he made the candlestick . * And LORD spoke to Moses , saying , * Take the Levites from among the sons of Israel , and cleanse them . * And thus thou shall do to them to cleanse them : sprinkle the water of expiation upon them , and let them cause a razor to pass over all their flesh , and let them wash their clothes , and cleanse themselves . * Then let them take a young bullock , and its meal-offering--fine flour mingled with oil . And thou shall take another young bullock for a sin-offering . * And thou shall present the Levites before the tent of meeting . And thou shall assemble the whole congregation of the sons of Israel , * and thou shall present the Levites before LORD . And the sons of Israel shall lay their hands upon the Levites . * And Aaron shall offer the Levites before LORD for a wave-offering on the behalf of the sons of Israel , that it may be theirs to do the service of LORD . * And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks , and offer thou the one for a sin-offering , and the other for a burnt-offering , to LORD , to make atonement for the Levites . * And thou shall set the Levites before Aaron , and before his sons , and offer them for a wave-offering to LORD . * Thus shall thou separate the Levites from among the sons of Israel , and the Levites shall be mine . * And after that the Levites shall go in to do the service of the tent of meeting . And thou shall cleanse them , and offer them for a wave-offering . * For they are wholly given to me from among the sons of Israel ; instead of all who open the womb , even the first-born of all the sons of Israel , I have taken them to me . * For all the first-born among the sons of Israel are mine , both man and beast . On the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself . * And I have taken the Levites instead of all the first-born among the sons of Israel . * And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the sons of Israel , to do the service of the sons of Israel in the tent of meeting , and to make atonement for the sons of Israel , that there be no plague am * Thus did Moses , and Aaron , and all the congregation of the sons of Israel , to the Levites . According to all that LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites , so the sons of Israel did to them . * And the Levites purified themselves from sin , and they washed their clothes . And Aaron offered them for a wave-offering before LORD , and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them . * And after that the Levites went in to do their service in the tent of meeting before Aaron , and before his sons . As LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites , so they did to them . * And LORD spoke to Moses , saying , * This is that which belongs to the Levites : From twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service in the work of the tent of meeting . * And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the work , and shall serve no more , * but shall minister with their brothers in the tent of meeting , to keep the charge , and shall do no service . Thus shall thou do to the Levites concerning their charges .

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