1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2. Speak to Aaron and say to him: When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps will give light before the lampstand.
3. Aaron did so. He lit the lamps before the lampstand, as the Lord commanded Moses.
4. And this was the work of the lampstand: hammered gold, to its shaft, to its flowers was beaten work. According to the pattern which the Lord had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.
5. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
6. Take the Levites from among the children of Israel and cleanse them.
7. Thus you will do to them to cleanse them: Splash purifying water on them, and let them shave their whole body, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean.
8. Then let them take a young bull with its grain offering, also fine flour mixed with oil, and you will take another young bull as a sin offering.
9. You will bring the Levites before the tent of meeting. And you will gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together.
10. And you will bring the Levites before the Lord. And the children of Israel will put their hands on the Levites.
11. And Aaron will offer the Levites before the Lord as a wave offering of the children of Israel, that they may do the service of the Lord.
12. The Levites will lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you will offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to the Lord, to make an atonement for the Levites.
13. You will set the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to the Lord.
14. Thus will you separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites will be Mine.