rsv Numbers:8:6-15
rsv@Numbers:8:6 @ "Take the Levites from among the people of Israel, and cleanse them.
rsv@Numbers:8:7 @ And thus you shall do to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of expiation upon them, and let them go with a razor over all their body, and wash their clothes and cleanse themselves.
rsv@Numbers:8:8 @ Then let them take a young bull and its cereal offering of fine flour mixed with oil, and you shall take another young bull for a sin offering.
rsv@Numbers:8:9 @ And you shall present the Levites before the tent of meeting, and assemble the whole congregation of the people of Israel.
rsv@Numbers:8:10 @ When you present the Levites before the LORD, the people of Israel shall lay their hands upon the Levites,
rsv@Numbers:8:11 @ and Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the people of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of the LORD.
rsv@Numbers:8:12 @ Then the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bulls; and you shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to the LORD, to make atonement for the Levites.
rsv@Numbers:8:13 @ And you shall cause the Levites to attend Aaron and his sons, and shall offer them as a wave offering to the LORD.
rsv@Numbers:8:14 @ "Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the people of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.
rsv@Numbers:8:15 @ And after that the Levites shall go in to do service at the tent of meeting, when you have cleansed them and offered them as a wave offering.