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* And Jehovah spoke to Moses , saying : * Speak to Aaron , and say to him , When you set up the lamps , the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand . * And Aaron did so ; he set up the lamps to face toward the front of the lampstand , as Jehovah had commanded Moses . * And the workmanship of the lampstand was hammered gold ; from its shaft to its flowers it was hammered work . According to the pattern which Jehovah had shown Moses , so he had made the lampstand . * And Jehovah spoke to Moses , saying : * Take the Levites from among the sons of Israel and cleanse them . * Thus you shall do to them to cleanse them : Sprinkle water of sin offering on them , and they shall pass a razor over all their flesh and wash their clothes , and thus purify themselves . * And let them take a young bull with its grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil , and you shall take another young bull as a sin offering . * And you shall bring the Levites before the tent of meeting , and you shall gather together the whole congregation of the children of Israel . * And you shall bring the Levites before Jehovah , and the sons of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites ; * and Aaron shall wave the Levites before Jehovah , as a wave offering from the sons of Israel , to serve in the service of Jehovah . * And the Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the young bulls , and you shall offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering unto Jehovah , to make atonement for the Levites . * And you shall have the Levites stand before Aaron and his sons , and offer them as a wave offering unto Jehovah . * Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the sons of Israel , and the Levites shall be Mine . * Afterward the Levites shall go in to serve the tent of meeting . Thus you shall cleanse them and wave them , a wave offering . * For they are wholly given to Me from among the sons of Israel ; I have taken them for Myself instead of all who open the womb , the firstborn of all the sons of Israel . * For every firstborn among the sons of Israel is Mine , both man and beast ; on the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I consecrated them to Myself . * I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the sons of Israel . * And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the sons of Israel , to serve in the service of the children of Israel in the tent of meeting , and to make atonement for the children of Israel , that there be no plague among the children of Israel by the children of Israel coming near the sanctuary . * Thus Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the sons of Israel did to the Levites ; according to all that Jehovah had commanded Moses concerning the Levites , thus the sons of Israel did to them . * And the Levites were purified and washed their clothes ; and Aaron waved them as a wave offering before Jehovah , and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them . * Afterward the Levites went in to do their service in the tent of meeting before Aaron and his sons ; as Jehovah had commanded Moses concerning the Levites , thus they did to them . * And Jehovah spoke to Moses , saying , * This is what applies to the Levites : From twenty-five years old and above one shall enter to go forth to serve in the service of the tent of meeting ; * and at the age of fifty years they shall return from going forth to this service , and shall serve no more . * They shall minister with their brethren in the tent of meeting , to keep the charge , but they shall not serve in any service . Thus you shall do to the Levites concerning their charge .

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