Parallel Verses
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.
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,
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.
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.
Themes
the Levites » Ceremonies at consecration of » Presenting them to God as an offering for the people
Topics
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Numbers 8:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Moses Consecrates The Levites
14 and thou hast separated the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel, and the Levites have become Mine; 15 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. 16 For they are certainly given to Me out of the midst of the sons of Israel, instead of him who openeth any womb -- the first-born of all -- from the sons of Israel I have taken them to Myself;
Cross References
Numbers 8:11
and Aaron hath waved the Levites -- a wave-offering before Jehovah, from the sons of Israel, and they have been -- for doing the service of Jehovah.
Numbers 8:13
and thou hast caused the Levites to stand before Aaron, and before his sons, and hast waved them -- a wave-offering to Jehovah;
Exodus 29:24
And thou hast set the whole on the hands of Aaron, and on the hands of his sons, and hast waved them -- a wave-offering before Jehovah;
Numbers 3:12
'And I, lo, I have taken the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel instead of every first-born opening a womb among the sons of Israel, and the Levites have been Mine;
Numbers 3:23-37
The families of the Gershonite, behind the tabernacle, do encamp westward.
Numbers 4:3-32
from a son of thirty years and upward, even till a son of fifty years, every one going in to the host, to do work in the tent of meeting.
1 Chronicles 23:1-32
And David is old, and satisfied with days, and causeth his son Solomon to reign over Israel,
1 Chronicles 25:1-26
And David and the heads of the host separate for service, of the sons of Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun, who are prophesying with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals, and the number of the workmen is according to their service.