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Numbers 8
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
Speak to Aaron, and thou shalt say to him: When thou
shalt place the seven lamps, let the candlestick be
set up on the south side. Give orders therefore that
the lamps look over against the north, towards the table
of the leaves of proposition, over against that part
shall they give light, towards which the candlestick
looketh.
And Aaron did so, and he put the lamps upon the candlestick,
as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Now this was the work of the candlestick, it was of
beaten gold, both the shaft in the middle, and all that
came out of both sides of the branches: according to
the pattern which the Lord had shewn to Moses, so he
made the candlestick.
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying :
Take the Levites out of the midst of the children of
Israel, and thou shalt purify them,
According to this rite: Let them be sprinkled with the
water of purification, and let them shave all the hairs
of their flesh. And when they shall have washed their
garments, and are cleansed,
They shall take an ox of the herd, and for the offering
thereof fine flour tempered with oil: and thou shalt
take another ox of the herd for a sin offering:
And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle
of the covenant, calling together all the multitude
of the children of Israel:
And when the Levites are before the Lord, the children
of Israel shall put their hands upon them:
And Aaron shall offer the Levites, as a gift in the
sight of the Lord from the children of Israel, that
they may serve in his ministry.
The Levites also shall put their hands upon the heads
of the oxen, of which thou shalt sacrifice one for sin,
and the other for a holocaust to the Lord, to pray for
them.
And thou shalt set the Levites in the sight of Aaron
and of his sons, and shalt consecrate them being offered
to the Lord,
And shalt separate them from the midst of the children
of Israel, to be mine.
And afterwards they shall enter into the tabernacle
of the covenant, to serve me. And thus shalt thou purify
and consecrate them for an oblation of the Lord: for
as a gift they were given me by the children of Israel.
I have taken them instead of the firstborn that open
every womb in Israel,
For all the firstborn of the children of Israel, both
of men and of beasts, are mine. From the day that I
slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, have I sanctified
them to myself:
And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of
the children of Israel:
And have delivered them for a gift to Aaron and his
sons out of the midst of the people, to serve me for
Israel in the tabernacle of the covenant, and to pray
for them, lest there should be a plague among the people,
if they should presume to approach unto my sanctuary.
And Moses and Aaron and all the multitude of the children
of Israel did with the Levites all that the Lord had
commanded Moses:
And they were purified, and washed their garments. And
Aaron lifted them up in the sight of the Lard, and prayed
for them,
That being purified they might go into the tabernacle
of the covenant to do their services before Aaron and
his sons. As the Lord had commanded Moses touching the
Levites, so was it done.
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
This is the law of the Levites: From twenty-five years
old and upwards, they shall go in to minister in the
tabernacle of the covenant.
And when they shall have accomplished the fiftieth year
of their age, they shall cease to serve:
And they shall be the ministers of their brethren in
the tabernacle of the covenant, to keep the things that
are committed to their care, but not to do the works.
Thus shalt thou order the Levites touching their charge.
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