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.
14. “And you will separate the Levites from the midst of the Israelites, and the Levites will be for me.
15. And 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.
16. For 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.
17. For 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,