8:1 1 The Lord spoke to Moses: 8:2 “Speak to Aaron and tell him, ‘When you set up 2 the lamps, the seven lamps are to give light 3 in front of the lampstand.’”
8:3 And Aaron did so; he set up the lamps to face toward the front of the lampstand, as the Lord commanded Moses. 8:4 This is how the lampstand was made: 4 It was beaten work in gold; 5 from its shaft to its flowers it was beaten work. According to the pattern which the Lord had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.
8:5 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 8:6 “Take the Levites from among the Israelites and purify 6 them. 8:7 And do this 7 to them to purify them: Sprinkle water of purification 8 on them; then have them shave 9 all their body 10 and wash 11 their clothes, and so purify themselves. 12 8:8 Then 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. 13 8:9 You are to bring the Levites before the tent of meeting and assemble the entire community of the Israelites. 8:10 Then you are to bring the Levites before the Lord, and the Israelites are to lay their hands on the Levites; 14 8:11 and Aaron is to offer 15 the Levites before the Lord as a wave offering from the Israelites, that they may do the work 16 of the Lord. 8:12 When 17 the Levites lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, offer 18 the one for a purification offering and the other for a whole burnt offering to the Lord, 19 to make atonement for the Levites. 8:13 You are to have the Levites stand before Aaron 20 and his sons, and then offer them as a wave offering to the Lord. 8:14 And so 21 you are to separate the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.
8:15 “After this, the Levites will go in 22 to do the work 23 of the tent of meeting. So you must cleanse them 24 and offer them like a wave offering. 25