Thematic Bible
Numbers 8:1 (show verse)
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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Numbers 8:2 (show verse)
"Speak to Aaron, and say to him: 'When you are setting up the lamps, the seven lamps will give light in front of the face of the lampstand.'"
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Numbers 8:3 (show verse)
And Aaron did so; he set up the lampstand in front of the face of its lamps, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Numbers 8:4 (show verse)
And this [is] {how the lampstand was made}, a hammered-work of gold; from its base up to its blossom, it [was] hammered-work according to the pattern that Yahweh showed Moses; so he made the lampstand.
Numbers 8:5 (show verse)
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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Numbers 8:6 (show verse)
"Take the Levites from the midst of the {Israelites} and purify them.
Numbers 8:7 (show verse)
So you will do to them, to purify them: sprinkle on them waters of purification, and {they will shave their whole body} and wash their garments.
Numbers 8:8 (show verse)
And they will take a {young bull} and its grain offering of finely milled flour mixed with oil, and you will take a second {young bull} as a sin offering.
Numbers 8:9 (show verse)
You will bring the Levites {before} the tent of assembly, and you will summon the entire community of the {Israelites}.
Numbers 8:10 (show verse)
And you will bring the Levites {before Yahweh}, and the {Israelites} will lay their hands on the Levites,
Numbers 8:11 (show verse)
and {Aaron will offer} the Levites [as] a wave offering {before Yahweh} from the {Israelites}, and they will do the work of Yahweh.
Numbers 8:12 (show verse)
And the Levites will lay their hands on the head of the one bull and offer [it] as a sin offering and the other one as a burnt offering to Yahweh, to make atonement for the Levites.
Numbers 8:13 (show verse)
And you will present the Levites {before} Aaron and {before} his sons, and he {will offer} them [as] a wave offering to Yahweh.
Numbers 8:14 (show verse)
"And you will separate the Levites from the midst of the {Israelites}, and the Levites will be for me.
Numbers 8:15 (show verse)
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.
Numbers 8:16 (show verse)
For they [are] given to me exclusively from the midst of the {Israelites}. I have taken them for myself in place of [the] firstborn of every womb, every firstborn from the {Israelites}.
Numbers 8:17 (show verse)
For every firstborn among the {Israelites} [is] mine, both humankind and animal. On the day I destroyed every firstborn in the land of Egypt I consecrated them to me,
Numbers 8:18 (show verse)
and I have taken the Levites in the place of every firstborn among the {Israelites}.
Numbers 8:19 (show verse)
And I have given the Levites; they are given to Aaron and his sons from the midst of the {Israelites} to do the work of the {Israelites} in the tent of the assembly and to make atonement for the {Israelites}, so a plague will not be among the {Israelites} when the {Israelites} come near the sanctuary."
Numbers 8:20 (show verse)
And Moses and Aaron and the entire community of the {Israelites} did to the Levites; everything that Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levites, the {Israelites} did to them.
Numbers 8:21 (show verse)
And the Levites purified themselves, and they washed their garments, and {Aaron offered them} [as] a wave offering {before Yahweh}; and Aaron made atonement for them to purify them.
Numbers 8:22 (show verse)
After this the Levites came to do their work in the tent of assembly before Aaron and his sons. Just as Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levities, so they did to them.
Numbers 8:23 (show verse)
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Numbers 8:24 (show verse)
"This [is] what is for the Levites: {those twenty-five years old} and above will come to help [with the] service in the work of the tent of assembly;
Numbers 8:25 (show verse)
and {those fifty years old} will return from the service of the work and will serve no longer.
Numbers 8:26 (show verse)
They can attend their brothers in the tent of assembly to keep [their] responsibilities, but they will not do work. This is what you will do concerning the Levities and their responsibilities."