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1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
2“Speak to Aaron, and say to him: ‘When you are setting up the lamps, the seven lamps will give light in front of the face of the lampstand.’ ”
3And Aaron did so; he set up the lampstand in front of the face of its lamps, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.
4And this is how the lampstand was made, a hammered-work of gold; from its base up to its blossom, it was hammered-work according to the pattern that Yahweh showed Moses; so he made the lampstand.[#Literally “the work of the lampstand”; #Or “flower”]
5Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
6“Take the Levites from the midst of the Israelites and purify them.[#Literally “sons/children of Israel”]
7So you will do to them, to purify them: sprinkle on them waters of purification, and they will shave their whole body and wash their garments.[#Literally “they will send a razor on all their body”]
8And they will take a young bull and its grain offering of finely milled flour mixed with oil, and you will take a second young bull as a sin offering.[#Literally “a bull, a son of cattle”; #Literally “a bull, a son of cattle”]
9You will bring the Levites before the tent of assembly, and you will summon the entire community of the Israelites.[#Literally “in the presence of”; #Literally “sons/children of Israel”]
10And you will bring the Levites before Yahweh, and the Israelites will lay their hands on the Levites,[#Literally “in the presence of Yahweh”; #Literally “sons/children of Israel”]
11and Aaron will offer the Levites as a wave offering before Yahweh from the Israelites, and they will do the work of Yahweh.[#Literally “Aaron will wave”; #Literally “in the presence of Yahweh”; #Literally “sons/children of Israel”]
12And the Levites will lay their hands on the head of the one bull and offer it as a sin offering and the other one as a burnt offering to Yahweh, to make atonement for the Levites.
13And you will present the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and he will offer them as a wave offering to Yahweh.[#Literally “in the presence of”; #Literally “in the presence of”; #Literally “Aaron will wave”]
14“And you will separate the Levites from the midst of the Israelites, and the Levites will be for me.[#Literally “sons/children of Israel”]
15And after this the Levites will come to serve at the tent of assembly, and you will purify them, and you will offer them as a wave offering.[#Literally “Aaron will wave”]
16For they are given to me exclusively from the midst of the Israelites. I have taken them for myself in place of the firstborn of every womb, every firstborn from the Israelites.[#Literally “sons/children of Israel”; #Literally “sons/children of Israel”]
17For every firstborn among the Israelites is mine, both humankind and animal. On the day I destroyed every firstborn in the land of Egypt I consecrated them to me,[#Literally “sons/children of Israel”]
18and I have taken the Levites in the place of every firstborn among the Israelites.[#Literally “sons/children of Israel”]
19And I have given the Levites; they are given to Aaron and his sons from the midst of the Israelites to do the work of the Israelites in the tent of the assembly and to make atonement for the Israelites, so a plague will not be among the Israelites when the Israelites come near the sanctuary.”[#Literally “sons/children of Israel”; #Literally “sons/children of Israel”; #Literally “sons/children of Israel”; #Literally “sons/children of Israel”; #Literally “sons/children of Israel”]
20And Moses and Aaron and the entire community of the Israelites did to the Levites; everything that Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levites, the Israelites did to them.[#Literally “sons/children of Israel”; #Literally “sons/children of Israel”]
21And the Levites purified themselves, and they washed their garments, and Aaron offered them as a wave offering before Yahweh; and Aaron made atonement for them to purify them.[#Literally “Aaron waved them”; #Literally “in the presence of Yahweh”]
22After this the Levites came to do their work in the tent of assembly before Aaron and his sons. Just as Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levities, so they did to them.
23Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
24“This is what is for the Levites: those twenty-five years old and above will come to help with the service in the work of the tent of assembly;[#Literally “from a son of twenty-five years”; #Hebrew “and he will”]
25and those fifty years old will return from the service of the work and will serve no longer.[#Literally “from a son of fifty years”; #Hebrew “he will”]
26They can attend their brothers in the tent of assembly to keep their responsibilities, but they will not do work. This is what you will do concerning the Levities and their responsibilities.”[#Hebrew “he”; #Or “assist”; #Hebrew “he”]