Numbers Chapter 8

• Numbers 8:1
  Numbers.
• Numbers 8:2
  The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
• Numbers 8:3
  “Speak to Aaron, and tell him, ‘When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lamp stand.’”
• Numbers 8:4
  Aaron did so. He lit its lamps to light the area in front of the lamp stand, as the LORD commanded Moses.
• Numbers 8:5
  This was the workmanship of the lamp stand, beaten work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was beaten work. He made the lamp stand according to...
• Numbers 8:6
  The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
• Numbers 8:7
  “Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
• Numbers 8:8
  You shall do this to them to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of cleansing on them, let them shave their whole bodies with a razor, let them wash thei...
• Numbers 8:9
  Then let them take a young bull and its meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and another young bull you shall take for a sin offering.
• Numbers 8:10
  You shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel.
• Numbers 8:11
  You shall present the Levites before the LORD. The children of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites,
• Numbers 8:12
  and Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for a wave offering on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service...
• Numbers 8:13
  “The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to the...
• Numbers 8:14
  You shall set the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to the LORD.
• Numbers 8:15
  Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.
• Numbers 8:16
  “After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting. You shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.
• Numbers 8:17
  For they are wholly given to me from among the children of Israel; instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Israel,...
• Numbers 8:18
  For all the firstborn among the children of Israel are mine, both man and animal. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I s...
• Numbers 8:19
  I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
• Numbers 8:20
  I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the Tent...
• Numbers 8:21
  Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel did so to the Levites. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning ...
• Numbers 8:22
  The Levites purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them for a wave offering before the LORD and Aaron made ato...
• Numbers 8:23
  After that, the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before Aaron and before his sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concernin...
• Numbers 8:24
  The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
• Numbers 8:25
  “This is what is assigned to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Mee...
• Numbers 8:26
  and from the age of fifty years they shall retire from doing the work, and shall serve no more,
• Numbers 8:27
  but shall assist their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to perform the duty, and shall perform no service. This is how you shall have the Levites do t...