Numbers 8 (NET)

Numbers 8:1¹The Lord spoke to Moses:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 8:2²“Speak to Aaron and tell him, ‘When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps are to give light in front of the lampstand.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 8:3³And Aaron did so; he set up the lamps to face toward the front of the lampstand, as the Lord commanded Moses.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 8:4⁴This is how the lampstand was made: It was beaten work in gold; from its shaft to its flowers it was beaten work. According to the pattern that the Lord had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 8:5⁵Then the Lord spoke to Moses:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 8:6⁶“Take the Levites from among the Israelites and purify them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 8:7⁷And do this to them to purify them: Sprinkle water of purification on them; then have them shave all their body and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 8:8⁸Then they are to take a young bull with its grain offering of fine flour mixed with olive oil; and you are to take a second young bull for a purification offering.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 8:9⁹You are to bring the Levites before the tent of meeting and assemble the entire community of the Israelites.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 8:10¹⁰Then you are to bring the Levites before the Lord, and the Israelites are to lay their hands on the Levites;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 8:11¹¹and Aaron is to offer the Levites before the Lord as a wave offering from the Israelites, that they may do the work of the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 8:12¹²When the Levites lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, offer the one for a purification offering and the other for a whole burnt offering to the Lord, to make atonement for the Levites.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 8:13¹³You are to have the Levites stand before Aaron and his sons, and then offer them as a wave offering to the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 8:14¹⁴And so you are to separate the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 8:15¹⁵“After this, the Levites will go in to do the work of the tent of meeting. So you must cleanse them and offer them like a wave offering.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 8:16¹⁶For they are entirely given to me from among the Israelites. I have taken them for myself instead of all who open the womb, the firstborn sons of all the Israelites.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 8:17¹⁷For all the firstborn males among the Israelites are mine, both humans and animals; when I destroyed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I set them apart for myself.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 8:18¹⁸So I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn sons among the Israelites.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 8:19¹⁹I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the Israelites, to do the work for the Israelites in the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the Israelites, so there will be no plague among the Israelites when the Israelites come near the sanctuary.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 8:20²⁰So Moses and Aaron and the entire community of the Israelites did this with the Levites. According to all that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites, this is what the Israelites did with them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 8:21²¹The Levites purified themselves and washed their clothing; then Aaron presented them like a wave offering before the Lord, and Aaron made atonement for them to purify them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 8:22²²After this, the Levites went in to do their work in the tent of meeting before Aaron and before his sons. As the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 8:23²³Then the Lord spoke to Moses:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 8:24²⁴“This is what pertains to the Levites: At the age of twenty-five years and upward one may begin to join the company in the work of the tent of meeting,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 8:25²⁵and at the age of fifty years they must retire from performing the work and may no longer work.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Numbers 8:26²⁶They may assist their colleagues in the tent of meeting to attend to needs, but they must do no work. This is the way you must establish the Levites regarding their duties.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s