Numbers 8
About Numbers Numbers follows Israel's forty years in the wilderness, from Sinai to the edge of the promised land.
1And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,SelectedNumbers 8:1Ask
2Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick.SelectedNumbers 8:2Ask
3And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses.SelectedNumbers 8:3Ask
4And 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 shewed Moses, so he made the candlestick.SelectedNumbers 8:4Ask
5And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,SelectedNumbers 8:5Ask
6Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.SelectedNumbers 8:6Ask
7And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean.SelectedNumbers 8:7Ask
8Then let them take a young bullock with his meat offering, even fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sin offering.SelectedNumbers 8:8Ask
9And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together:SelectedNumbers 8:9Ask
10And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites:SelectedNumbers 8:10Ask
11And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for an offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the LORD.SelectedNumbers 8:11Ask
12And 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.SelectedNumbers 8:12Ask
13And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for an offering unto the LORD.SelectedNumbers 8:13Ask
14Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.SelectedNumbers 8:14Ask
15And 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.SelectedNumbers 8:15Ask
16For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me.SelectedNumbers 8:16Ask
17For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.SelectedNumbers 8:17Ask
18And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.SelectedNumbers 8:18Ask
19And 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 tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.SelectedNumbers 8:19Ask
20And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites according unto all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.SelectedNumbers 8:20Ask
21And 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.SelectedNumbers 8:21Ask
22And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.SelectedNumbers 8:22Ask
23And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,SelectedNumbers 8:23Ask
24This 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:SelectedNumbers 8:24Ask
25And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:SelectedNumbers 8:25Ask
26But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge.SelectedNumbers 8:26Ask
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