Numbers 8

¹And the Lord said to Moses,

²Say to Aaron, When you put the lights in their places, the seven lights will give light in front of the support.

³And Aaron did so; he put the lights in their places so that they gave light in front of the support, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

⁴The support for the lights was of hammered gold work, from its base to its flowers it was of hammered work; from the design which the Lord had given to Moses, he made the support for the lights.

⁵And the Lord said to Moses,

⁶Take the Levites out from among the children of Israel and make them clean.

⁷And this is how you are to make them clean: let the holy water which takes away sin be put on them, and let the hair all over their bodies be cut off with a sharp blade, and let their clothing be washed and their bodies made clean.

⁸Then let them take a young ox and its meal offering, crushed grain mixed with oil, and take another ox for a sin-offering.

⁹And make the Levites come forward in front of the Tent of meeting, and let all the children of Israel come together:

¹⁰And you are to take the Levites before the Lord: and the children of Israel are to put their hands on them:

¹¹And Aaron is to give the Levites to the Lord as a wave offering from the children of Israel, so that they may do the Lord's work.

¹²And the Levites are to put their hands on the heads of the oxen, and one of the oxen is to be offered for a sin-offering and the other for a burned offering to the Lord to take away the sin of the Levites.