Numbers:8:11-21
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And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for an offering of the children of Israel Yisra #
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that they may execute the service of the LORD .
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And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks :
and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering chatta #
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and the other for a burnt offering ,
unto the LORD ,
to make an atonement for the Levites .
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And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron ,
and before his sons ,
and offer them for an offering unto the LORD .
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Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel Yisra #
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and the Levites shall be mine .
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And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation mow #
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and thou shalt cleanse them ,
and offer them for an offering .
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For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel Yisra #
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instead of such as open every womb ,
even instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel Yisra #
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have I taken them unto me .
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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 .
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And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel Yisra #
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And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel Yisra #
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to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation mow #
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and to make an atonement for the children of Israel Yisra #
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that there be no plague among the children of Israel Yisra #
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when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary .
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And Moses ,
and Aaron ,
and all the congregation of the children of Israel Yisra #
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did to the Levites according unto all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites ,
so did the children of Israel unto them .
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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 .