1. Yahweh 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.’ ”
3. And Aaron did so; he set up the lampstand in front of the face of its lamps, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.
4. And 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.
5. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
6. “Take the Levites from the midst of the Israelites and purify them.
7. So 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.
8. And 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.
9. You will bring the Levites before the tent of assembly, and you will summon the entire community of the Israelites.
10. And you will bring the Levites before Yahweh, and the Israelites will lay their hands on the Levites,
11. and Aaron will offer the Levites as a wave offering before Yahweh from the Israelites, and they will do the work of Yahweh.
12. And 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.
13. And you will present the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and he will offer them as a wave offering to Yahweh.