Numbers Chapter 8
8:1 | And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
8:2 | Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick. |
8:3 | And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses. |
8:4 | And this work of the candlestick [was of] beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, [was] beaten work: according unto the pattern which the LORD had showed Moses, so he made the candlestick. |
8:5 | And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
8:6 | Take the Levites from among the children of ![]() |
8:7 | And thus shalt thou ![]() ![]() |
8:8 | Then let them take a young bullock with his ![]() |
8:9 | And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of ![]() |
8:10 | And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the children of ![]() |
8:11 | And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD [for] an offering of the children of ![]() |
8:12 | And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one [for] a sin offering, and the other [for] a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to make an atonement for the Levites. |
8:13 | And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them [for] an offering unto the LORD. |
8:14 | Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of ![]() |
8:15 | And after that shall the Levites go in to ![]() |
8:16 | For they [are] wholly given unto me from among the children of ![]() ![]() |
8:17 | For all the firstborn of the children of ![]() ![]() |
8:18 | And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of ![]() |
8:19 | And I have given the Levites [as] a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
8:20 | And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of ![]() ![]() |
8:21 | And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them [as] an offering before the LORD; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them. |
8:22 | And after that went the Levites in to ![]() |
8:23 | And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
8:24 | This [is it] that [belongeth] unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: |
8:25 | And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service [thereof], and shall serve no more: |
8:26 | But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall ![]() ![]() |