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          DASV: Numbers 8    

1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2 "Speak to Aaron and tell him, 'When you set up the lamps
make sure the seven lamps will shine light in front of the
lampstand.'"
3 So Aaron did it. He set up the lamps to shine light in
front of the lampstand, as the LORD commanded Moses.
4 This was how the lampstand was made. It was made of hammered
gold from its base to its blossoms. So he made the lampstand
according to the pattern that the LORD had shown Moses.

5 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
6 "Take the Levites from among the Israelites and cleanse them.
7 Do this to them to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of
purification on them, have them shave their entire body,
and have them wash their clothes and so cleanse themselves.
8 Then let them take a young bull and its grain offering,
fine flour mixed with olive oil; and take another young bull
for a sin offering.
9 Present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting and assemble
the whole congregation of the Israelites.
10 When you present the Levites before the LORD, the Israelites
are to lay their hands on the Levites.
11 Aaron is to present the Levites before the LORD as a wave
offering on the behalf of Israelites, that they may do the
work of the LORD.
12 When the Levites lay their hands on the heads of the bulls,
offer one as a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering
to the LORD, to make atonement for the Levites.
13 Then stand the Levites before Aaron and his sons and offer
them as a wave offering to the LORD.
14 This is how you are to separate the Levites from among rest
of the Israelites. The Levites will be mine.

15 After that the Levites will begin to do the service of the
Tent of Meeting after you have cleansed them and offered them
as a wave offering.
16 For they are totally given to me from among the Israelites.
I have taken them for myself instead of the firstborn of the
Israelites that open the womb.
17 For all the firstborn among the Israelites are mine,
both human and animal; when I struck down all the firstborn
in the land of Egypt I consecrated them for myself.
18 I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn
among the Israelites.
19 I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons
from the Israelites, to do the service for the Israelites in
the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the Israelites
so that there will be no plague among the Israelites,
when the Israelites come near to the sanctuary."
20 So Moses, Aaron and all the congregation of the Israelites
did with the Levites according to everything the LORD
commanded Moses regarding the Levites, so the Israelites
did to them.
21 The Levites purified themselves from sin and washed their
clothes. Then Aaron presented them as a wave offering before
the LORD, and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.
22 After that the Levites went in to do their service
in the Tent of Meeting before Aaron, and his sons just
as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites,
so they did to them.

23 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
24 "This is what applies to the Levites: from twenty-five
years old and upward they shall enter the service in the
work of the Tent of Meeting,
25 and from the age of fifty years they must retire from
the work and serve no more.
26 They may assist their brothers in the Tent of Meeting
in carrying out their duties but they must not do any work.
This is how you are to assign the duties to the Levites."

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