1. Adonai spoke to Moses saying,
2. “Speak to Aaron and say to him: When you erect the lamps, the seven lamps are to illuminate the area in front of the menorah.”
3. Aaron did so. He erected the lamps facing forward so they illuminated the area in front of the menorah, just as Adonai had commanded Moses.
4. Now this is how the menorah was made: hammered gold from its base to its blossoms. Just as was the pattern that Adonai had shown to Moses, so he made the menorah.
5. Again Adonai spoke to Moses saying,
6. “Take the Levites from among Bnei-Yisrael and ceremonially cleanse them.
7. This is what you must do to them to make them clean: Sprinkle the purifying water on them, then have them shave their whole bodies and wash their clothes, thus purifying themselves.
8. “Then they are to take a young bull with its grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, plus a second young bull for a sin offering.
9. Bring the Levites before the Tent of Meeting, and gather the whole community of Bnei-Yisrael.
10. Bring the Levites before Adonai, Bnei-Yisrael will lay their hands on the Levites,