Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
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.
New American Standard Bible
Then after that the Levites may go in to serve the tent of meeting. But you shall cleanse them and
King James Version
And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.
Holman Bible
After that the Levites may come to serve at the tent of meeting, once you have ceremonially cleansed them and presented them as a presentation offering.
International Standard Version
"After this, the descendants of Levi are to come to serve at the appointed place of meeting, after you have purified them and presented them as wave offerings,
American Standard Version
And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tent of meeting: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for a wave-offering.
Amplified
Then after that the Levites may go in to serve the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle), but you shall cleanse them [first] and present them as a wave offering;
Bible in Basic English
After that, the Levites will go in to do whatever has to be done in the Tent of meeting; you are to make them clean and give them as a wave offering.
Darby Translation
And afterwards shall the Levites come in to do the service of the tent of meeting. And thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them as a wave-offering.
Julia Smith Translation
And after this the Levites shall go in to serve the tent of appointment: and cleanse them, and lift them up a lifting up.
King James 2000
And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of meeting: and you shall cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And after this the Levites will come to serve [at] the tent of assembly, and you will purify them, and you {will offer} them [as] a wave offering.
Modern King James verseion
And after that the Levites shall go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. And you shall purify them and offer them for a wave offering.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and after that, let them go and do the service of the tabernacle of witness. Cleanse them and wave them,
NET Bible
"After this, the Levites will go in to do the work of the tent of meeting. So you must cleanse them and offer them like a wave offering.
New Heart English Bible
"After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting: and you shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.
The Emphasized Bible
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,
Webster
And after that shall the Levites go in to perform the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.
World English Bible
"After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting: and you shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.
Youngs Literal Translation
and afterwards do the Levites come in to serve the tent of meeting, and thou hast cleansed them, and hast waved them -- a wave-offering.
Themes
the Levites » Ceremonies at consecration of » Presenting them to God as an offering for the people
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Numbers 8:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Moses Consecrates The Levites
14 Thus shall thou separate the Levites from among the sons of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine. 15 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. 16 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.
Cross References
Numbers 8:11
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.
Numbers 8:13
And thou shall set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for a wave-offering to LORD.
Exodus 29:24
and thou shall put the whole upon the hands of Aaron, and upon the hands of his sons, and shall wave them for a wave-offering before LORD.
Numbers 3:12
And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the sons of Israel instead of all the first-born who opens the womb among the sons of Israel. And the Levites shall be mine,
Numbers 3:23-37
The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.
Numbers 4:3-32
from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter upon the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting.
1 Chronicles 23:1-32
Now David was old and full of days, and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
1 Chronicles 25:1-26
Moreover David and the captains of the army set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals. And the number of those who did t