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* And Yahweh spake unto Moses saying : * Speak unto Aaron , and thou shalt say unto him , When thou lightest up the lamps , over against the front of the lampstand , shall the seven lamps give light . * And Aaron did so , over against the front of the lampstand , lighted he up the lamps thereof , As Yahweh commanded Moses , * Now , this , was the work of the lampstandbeaten work of gold both in the shaft thereof and in the flowers thereof , was it beaten work , according to the appearance which Yahweh caused to appear unto Moses , so , made he the lampstand . * And Yahweh spake unto Moses , saying : * Take the Levites , out of the midst of the sons of Israel , and thou shalt purify them . * And , thus , shalt thou do unto them , to purify them , sprinkle upon them sin-cleansing water , then shall they , cause a razor to pass over all their flesh , and shall wash their clothes and so make themselves pure . * Then shall they take a choice young bullock , with the meal-offering thereof even fine meal overflowed with oil , and a second choice young bullock , shalt thou take . as a sin-bearer . * Then shalt thou bring the Levites near , before the tent of meeting , and shalt call together all the assembly of the sons of Israel ; * and shalt bring the Levites near before Yahweh , and the sons of Israel shall lean their hands upon the Levites ; * and Aaron shall offer the Levites as a wave-offering before Yahweh , from among the sons of Israel , so shall they be for performing the laborious work of Yahweh . * And , the Levites , shall lean their hands upon the head of the bullocks ; then make thou of the one a sin-bearer and of the other an ascending-sacrifice unto Yahweh , to put a propitiatory-covering over the Levites . * Thus shalt thou cause the Levites to stand before Aaron and before his sons , thus shalt thou offer them as a wave-offering unto Yahweh ; * thus shalt thou separate the Levites out of the midst of the sons of Israel , thus shall the Levites become mine . * And after that , shall the Levites enter to do the labour of the tent of meeting , so shalt thou purify them , and offer them as a wave-offering , * For , given , given , they are unto me , out of the midst of the sons of Israel , instead of every firstborn that a mother beareth from among the sons of Israel , have I taken them unto me . * For mine , is every firstborn among the sons of Israel , among men and among beasts , on the day when I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt , did I hallow them unto me . * Therefore have I taken the Levites , instead of every firstborn among the sons of Israel ; * therefore have I given the Levites as a gift unto Aaron and unto his sons , out of the midst of the sons of Israel , to do the laborious work of the sons of Israel in the tent of meeting , and to put a propitiatory-covering over the sons of Israel , so shall there be among the sons of Israel , no plague , by the coming nigh of the sons of Israel unto the sanctuary . * And Moses and Aaron and all the assembly of the sons of Israel did thus unto the Levites , according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses as touching the Levites , so , did the sons of Israel unto them . * And the Levites accepted the cleansing from sin and washed their clothes , and Aaron offered them as a wave-offering before Yahweh , and Aaron put a propitiatory-covering over them to make them pure . * And after that , went the Levites in to do their laborious work in the tent of meeting , before Aaron and before his sons , as Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levites , so , did they unto them . * And Yahweh spake unto Moses saying ; * This is what concerneth the Levites , from twenty-five years old and upwards , shall they enter to take rank in the host , for doing the laborious work of the tent of meeting ; * but from the age of fifty years , shall they retire from taking rank in the labour , and shall do laborious work no more ; * yet shall they wait upon their brethren in the tent of meeting , by keeping charge , but laborious work , shall they not perform , thus , shalt thou do unto the Levites , as touching their charges .

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